EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- The question was posed last year on "Hard Knocks" about the New York Giants.
"What's our identity going to be?" director of player personnel Tim McDonnell said aloud in a free agency meeting.
McDonnell was talking specifically about the offense at the time knowing the team was about to let running back Saquon Barkley walk. But he could have easily been talking about the Giants' defense or their program as a whole. The team had no identity last year on the way to a 3-14 season.
That appears to have changed this offseason, punctuated by a defensive-line-heavy draft.