00:05the Giants grinded out a 12-7 win over the Titans in the rain at MetLife Stadium and it was
00:12ugly
00:12it was physical it was exactly the kind of game a defense has to win and that week one rookie
00:21made
00:21sure it did and that's Arvell Reese the number five overall pick and he takes this week's New
00:29York Post sports game ball the stat line 14 total tackles that ties the most by Giants rookie since
00:36the team started officially tracking the stat back in 1994 PFF gave him the highest performance on the
00:44team with an 84.6 grade out that was also the second highest grade within rookie linebackers
00:50doubled his own season total in one afternoon through two starts on the season he had 12 tackles
00:56combined Sunday he matched that plus some in a single game so let's break down how the young
01:02rookie had fun playing in the rain like it was backyard football out in his hometown of Cleveland
01:09Ohio and this week three Blue Rush game ball
01:17Arvell Reese my man you were all over the field I mean it takes me back to the days when
01:22we were
01:22kids and we played outside play backyard football in the rain let's call this man a compass because
01:29he was north south east west he did it all uh let's start here by seeing watch let's watch the
01:36first play
01:38and watch him record one of his many tackles in space wrap up get down to the ground
01:47violence ran to the football the entire day it was fun to watch Arvell Reese kind of take that step
01:55into being the future when it comes to the Giants second level uh in fact both he and Tremaine Edmonds
02:03both had double digit sacks I thought you know they this interior backer squad had their best game
02:08of this early season so let's watch it here it's playing a little zone coverage bumps over because of
02:14the Jets motion but look at the eyes look at the eyes in the in the in the play recognition
02:19here
02:20but this is what we talked about when I broke down his tape during the draft process about his ability
02:32to close in space and tackle in space so he's about what let's say five almost eight to nine yards
02:42away from I believe that's Taji Taji Spears here uh with Cam Ward about to throw this football
02:48watch how he closes on the ball carrier to where all he has to do when the ball carrier catches
02:56the
02:56football he has no space or wiggle room to make him miss he's right there and again watch the explosion
03:03and him close on this football no chance anything it's almost like he lost a yard from where he
03:11caught it so Spears catches it right he catches it right here uh at the 46 yard line Arvell Reese
03:23is at
03:23the 49 so three yards away when this ball is coming into the bread basket but again he continues to
03:30close
03:31and he's right there before Tony Pollard my bad I got the running back's name wrong Tony Pollard
03:37could catch it and have any wiggle room to break this tackle and get this for you you're going to
03:43get this first down if you break this tackle because of how much space that's here makes the tackle here
03:49hops up celebrates with his teammates this kid was all over the football field
03:56all right here he's playing on the other side this time last time he was to the right side this
04:02time
04:02he's to the left last time he dropped in coverage and drove on the football to make a tackle now
04:08drives on the football for a pass breakup on the day against a wide receiver let's watch it
04:17it's wandale robinson
04:21incomplete that's that's a that's a way to be there that's a way that's have some collision
04:27that's to have some contact at the point of contact at the point of catch to make a wide receiver
04:33drop
04:34this football all right you all right you know it's zone here he's got some sort of I believe maybe
04:40it's maybe a slant I was going to say choice route I can't see what's on the outside here
04:45but wandale robinson puts his foot into the ground tries to get arvel reese to to bite it so he
04:52can
04:52create get all this space as wide receivers we want to get you know not calling this guy a neanderthal
04:59but we call the linebackers neanderthals they just want to run and hit stuff we want to get them to
05:05overreact to this this hard breaking this hard breaking step right here thinking we're about
05:13to make an out breaking route this is usually where we get them but no arvel reese eyes on the
05:18quarterback using his peripheral to size up and eye up wandale robinson doesn't bite doesn't take the
05:27cheese and as soon as cam war it looks like he's ready to throw this football and he sees wandale
05:33robinson trying to cross face here to get in position to make this catch drives on the football
05:40he now drives closes on the football and gets his hand in there like he's some sort of safety or
05:47db
05:47plus at 240 something pounds hitting wandale robinson who ain't the biggest dude in the world
05:54he tough but he ain't the biggest dude in the world that collision right there at the point of the
05:59point of
05:59contact at the point of the catch that's going to help break up that football and that's exactly
06:04what he did everybody sees it bam so let's watch it one more time just one more time because i
06:10mean
06:10here's a kid that just continues to learn you see him you see him kind of shuffle his feet put
06:15his right
06:16foot into the ground and now he's driving on that football like he's a db absolutely love it you love
06:22to see it jason pinnock sees it kvon thibodeau saw it darius alexander saw it big play on the day
06:33all right we've watched him play off the ball twice here now we see defensive coordinator denaro
06:41wilson line him up on the edge and now rush the passer you've got chauncey goldston you've got a this
06:49is
06:49that version of a nascar package and no defensive tackles and no interior d lineman and you've got
06:56kvon lined up head up on this on the uh center shermaine etmonds on the line looks like some
07:02there looks like they're pressuring with one two three four five six it looks like six on five right
07:08here six you obviously with the tight end in the split like this brian burns could be chipped and
07:13you've got the back in there so it's really six on six with a potential chip let's watch the
07:19play though and let's watch how arville reese still shows up in the play on the play
07:27get there get there get there they force the pressure they they force the incomplete pass now
07:34it's more chermaine etmonds on the play but again arville reese coming for that coming from that
07:40back side they lined him up a couple of times i believe it's four times he lined up on the
07:45edge
07:45and now with the unfortunate injury acl injury to brian burns you wonder how creative denard wilson
07:52is going to be with using his rookie linebacker who remember was a pretty much an edge rusher or
08:01played a lot on the edge in a matt patricia defense at ohio state or excuse me the ohio state
08:08so
08:08i mean he doesn't won't get credit with the pressure here but it just goes to show that he
08:16is comfortable coming off that edge getting skinny not getting pushed out wide and then here after he
08:23beats jc latham the right tackle
08:28who collapsed to help out with abdul carter watch him watch the rip gets through
08:36now you saw the rip now watch the run watch him close space here
08:43and get there or get around it i mean if you think about it if it wasn't quarterback throwing that
08:48football away let's say that was some sort of running back or receiver on the jet sweep
08:52he'd be in on that tackle he'd be in he'd get there late or he'd be one of the last
08:57ones to hit that
08:58ball carrier but but best believe if this was a running back or a receiver on the jet sweep they
09:04would feel 52 at some point they would feel the violence of 52 running to the football this man
09:12close close close close and he had to pull up because he saw this guy his guy about to get
09:17the uh the hit
09:18there forcing the pressure forcing the throwaway last but not least this one was early in the
09:25football game i just threw this one on as a treat because giants fans love to see their linebackers
09:33play with violence i mean the entire ring of honor is full of linebackers or former giants legends that
09:40played the linebacker position that loved the violence that brought the wood that had what was it
09:46was a lunch pail and a hard hat that's how they played back in the 80s and 90s when we
09:51talk about
09:52giants linebackers watch them blitz now watch them blitz and watch taji spears feel it here he goes
10:04blitzes from about five yards in depth hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey someone called 9-1-1
10:17that's making a back feel it so now when you blitz for the entire game that back is going to
10:25when he
10:26makes his count when he check protection and remakes his count oh i've got the linebacker
10:32i've got a heat seeking missile that's coming through my chest that's going to run through my
10:37chest to get to the quarterback now he didn't get the sack everybody's gonna oh well he did his job
10:41he
10:41made the block didn't get the sack but at the end of the day that's going to force some guys
10:45to make
10:46business decisions and the arizona cardinals this is jeremiah love now watching he's got him on blitz
10:52protection jeremiah not love now knows he's going to have to button up his chin straps because there's
10:58going to be violence at the point of contact let's just watch it again that's what you call launching
11:05through someone lowest man wins in football but not on this one now he gets i mean tajay spears gets
11:10lower and i gotta give him i give him his his respect because hey he didn't he didn't shy away
11:17from
11:17contact but you just see arville reese oh my look at the power look at the power to put somebody
11:27on
11:27their back and that's what this kid brings to this defense you see it just by the way he hit
11:35the he hit
11:36tajay spears the titans running back it wasn't just the volume of plays that he put on film it was
11:42the
11:42violence that he put on film a man was flying around sideline to sideline all throughout the day
11:48and not just around the ball but he arrived to the ball with bad intentions every single snap
11:55but here's what doesn't show up in the box score what they don't talk about on espn or whatnot the
12:03titans did get a first down in the entire first half and they didn't convert a third down until
12:09late in the third quarter that's a defense set in the tone and arville reese was the engine on that
12:15defense and he said it himself post game he came out with the chip on his shoulder after a tough
12:21week
12:22two in la he put in the week of work and it showed up on tape you just saw the
12:27plays three games in
12:30his pro career and this was the one where it all clicked the traits the recognition the aggression
12:37it all came all at once his best game as a pro no question fifth overall pick rookie linebacker
12:47and now showing signs early that this is the start of something special it's only a matter of time
12:54till this man forces his first turnover arville reese you get the week three game ball
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