The Giants added two defensive assistants to their coaching staff, announcing on Monday the hiring of Mike Dawson as outside linebackers coach and Henry Baker as assistant defensive backs coach.
Dawson will be charged with improving the Giants’ outside pass rush the way he did in his one season at Nebraska last year when the Cornhuskers totaled 25 sacks in 2018, 11 more than the previous season. He has coached mostly at the college level but was with the Eagles from 2013 to 2015 when Giants head coach Pat Shurmur was there. Giants linebackers coach Bill McGovern also was on that Eagles staff, and the two worked together at Boston College from 2009 to 2011 as well.