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Ben McAdoo honors Giants greats with practice names

Teams have various ways of honoring their former greats. They retire numbers, have Rings of Honor, and sometimes even name streets after the legends who helped shape the history of each franchise.

Ben McAdoo is putting his own twist on that reverence by naming portions of his practices after some of the best to ever wear a Giants uniform. On Monday, for example, the team participated in “the LT period” as part of their first OTA of the offseason, named after Lawrence Taylor.

“The game is about the ball, the game is about blocking and tackling,” McAdoo said Monday.