{"id":433117,"date":"2023-08-17T18:26:19","date_gmt":"2023-08-17T18:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/?p=433117"},"modified":"2023-08-28T01:17:38","modified_gmt":"2023-08-28T01:17:38","slug":"giants-coach-jeff-nixon-is-a-saquon-barkley-fan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/giants-coach-jeff-nixon-is-a-saquon-barkley-fan\/","title":{"rendered":"Giants&#8217; Coach Jeff Nixon Is A Saquon Barkley Fan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Throughout his NFL career, Jeff Nixon has worked with several outstanding running backs, including Reggie Bush and Christian McCaffrey. This offseason, he joined the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.giants.com\">Giants<\/a> where he expects to work with Saquon Barkley.<\/p>\n<h2>Giants&#8217; Coach Jeff Nixon Is A Saquon Barkley Fan<\/h2>\n<p>Nixon, a native of State College, Pennsylvania, played running back at West Virginia for two seasons before completing his undergraduate studies in 1996 at Penn State. A year later, he began working with the Nittany Lions as a graduate assistant coach. Since joining the Giants, Nixon has reconnected with a number of his old teammates.<\/p>\n<p>Naturally, Saquon Barkley was watched and analyzed by the new running backs coach.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">What does Giants\u2019 new running backs coach Jeff Nixon think about depth behind Saquon Barkley?  <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uhSxineWCR\">https:\/\/t.co\/uhSxineWCR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Bob Brookover (@brookob) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brookob\/status\/1671160855642394624?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 20, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The two-time Pro Bowler was in the midst of contract talks when Nixon first answered questions about him, and he was on the verge of holding out of training camp. He and Nixon hadn&#8217;t even collaborated yet.<\/p>\n<p>Nixon spoke about how he is immensely impressed with Barkley&#8217;s professionalism.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;That guy is 1 of 1, it don&#39;t get no better than him&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Xavier McKinney on Saquon Barkley <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RX8ckm0nOI\">pic.twitter.com\/RX8ckm0nOI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Giants Videos (@SNYGiants) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SNYGiants\/status\/1691122194686922757?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 14, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s been great,\u201d Jeff said when asked about Barkley\u2019s demeanour despite not getting the deal he probably wanted. \u201cHe\u2019s one of the leaders on the team. He\u2019s working his butt off. There hasn\u2019t been anything alarming or anything else since he signed. He\u2019s been back here. I know his teammates are excited.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s been awesome to work with,\u201d Nixon said. \u201cReally good kid. Obviously, a great player, a real leader for us on our football team. Him, along with a lot of the other running backs, they\u2019re working their butts off and getting ready for the season.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nixon and head coach Brian Daboll both expressed their appreciation for Barkley&#8217;s perseverance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s football,\u201d Nixon said. \u201cSo it\u2019s good to know he\u2019s getting some contact in training camp, getting ready for the season here in a couple of weeks. Football is football, man,\u201d Nixon said. \u201cSometimes you\u2019re going to get tackled in practice when you got 22 guys flying all over the field. It\u2019s going to happen. He\u2019s ready to go.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud835\udc13\ud835\udc11\ud835\udc14\ud835\udc04 \ud835\udc0e\ud835\udc11 \ud835\udc05\ud835\udc00\ud835\udc0b\ud835\udc12\ud835\udc04: <\/p>\n<p>Saquon Barkley is a top 3 running back <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jIbTx4YNhH\">pic.twitter.com\/jIbTx4YNhH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; evin (@KayvonOjulari) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KayvonOjulari\/status\/1690760023956230145?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 13, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE-\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Wander Franco Is Being Investigated Minors &amp; Gender Violence Unit, Will This Put An End To His Career?\" href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wander-franco-is-being-investigated-minors-gender-violence-unit-will-this-put-an-end-to-his-career\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Wander Franco Is Being Investigated Minors &amp; Gender Violence Unit, Will This Put An End To His Career?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Throughout his NFL career, Jeff Nixon has worked with several outstanding running backs, including Reggie Bush and Christian McCaffrey. This offseason, he joined the Giants where he expects to work with Saquon Barkley. Giants&#8217; Coach Jeff Nixon Is A Saquon Barkley Fan Nixon, a native of State College, Pennsylvania, played running back at West Virginia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":402699,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,48],"tags":[13451,8371,13449,5187,2211,987,13450],"class_list":["post-433117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-york-giants","category-nfl","tag-coach-jeff-nixon","tag-giants-news","tag-giants-saquon-barkley","tag-nfl-2023","tag-nfl-news","tag-saquon-barkley","tag-saquon-barkley-jeff-nixon"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}