If the New York Giants are going to be successful defensively this season, Kayvon Thibodeaux will need to play a key role. His coach let him — and everyone else on the defense — know it.
If that sounded like a negative, Thibodeaux didn’t take it as such.
“I mean, it wasn’t anything negative,” he said Wednesday about Wink Martindale’s message to him in a team meeting. “It wasn’t necessarily in a sense like ‘oh’ but I mean it’s understanding that people; for a coach talking to for example, a great player and a coach talking to a player that he sees potential in, it’s going to be different.