Before Thursday’s game, as he was making the rounds in the visitors’ locker room at Paul Brown Stadium, Dave Gettleman stopped by the locker occupied by Oshane Ximines, a rookie outside linebacker the Giants general manager deemed worthy of the 95th-overall pick in the 2019 NFL Draft.
The message imparted was short and succinct: Worry about the little things and the sacks will come.
“That’s something I really pay attention to,’’ Ximines said. “That’s all I did.’’
What Ximines did was put together his first breakout spurt of the preseason with two sacks in the second quarter of a 25-23 victory over the Bengals.