As the New York Giants continue to get ready for the 2022 NFL season, let’s open up the Big Blue View Mailbag and see what questions we can answer.
Leo Daverde asks: Time for my second naive BBV query about football. Defensive coordinator Wink Martindale has assigned the task of relaying the defensive calls to safety Xavier McKinney (instead of a linebacker, Martinez or Crowder), so McKinney wears the “helmet with the green dot,” which has a radio transceiver. Nobody seems to assign any significance to this change in protocol, but it got me to wondering, what is the deeper tactical rational?