The Giants were welcomed Thursday to what many testosterone-fueled predators around the league regard as a necessary evil — a lesson from NFL officials on the new helmet rule passed in March because of the league’s belated obsession with player safety.
The message: Use your head when you make a tackle — by not using your head.
And so the Giants, visited by a four-man NFL officiating crew that worked training camp practice Thursday as part of a three-day visit, will now be trying to come to grips with the basics of tackling in a world where they must restrain instincts and habits learned at an early age, and wonder whether the officials will be able to make the right calls in the heat of battle.