The new assistant clasped his hands behind his back and addressed them in measured tones.
Everett Withers was patient. He took each question in for a moment before giving a response.
And he stood like a professor in mid-lecture — just one who wears blue warmups instead of a sport coat — when he spoke to reporters last week at the Giants indoor practice facility.
How appropriate.
Withers will have to teach as much as coach in his first season as their defensive backs coach.
He simply has no other choice.
He inherits a secondary as young as any in the NFL.