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The Lead

The Secret To Brian Daboll's Magic

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3.92.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

New York Giants head coach Brian Daboll has pulled a few rabbits out of his hat this year. For one thing, he’s taken a team that finished 4-13 last season and, without significant roster changes, started out this season 7-3. And it turns out, Daboll literally has quite a few tricks up his sleeve. The Athletic’s Dan Pompei recently spent time with Daboll (and got a first hand look at his sleight of hand), and today Dan breaks the magician’s code and reveals the secret to Brian Daboll’s football magic. But is the Giants’ success really just an illusion?

Read Dan Pompei's profile of Brian Daboll:

https://theathletic.com/3894690/2022/11/17/brian-daboll-giants-turnaround-magic/

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0:21.0

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0:26.0

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0:42.0

Dan Papet, can you describe what happened when you were hanging out with Brian Debel in his office recently?

0:49.0

So Brian Debel goes to his desk. He opens one of his drawers and he pulls out a deck of cards.

0:57.0

Brings a deck of cards to his table and puts the deck of cards down and asks me to cut the deck.

1:05.0

I cut the deck, it takes the two top cards from the deck and puts them in front of the two piles.

1:12.0

And he asks me to cut the two piles, I do it again. So now we've got four piles and we've got four cards in front of them.

1:21.0

Now we asked me to flip each of the four cards. I flip them.

1:27.0

Every one of them is in Ace.

1:32.0

And what is your reaction, Dan?

1:34.0

You know, John opened, he's pretty good. He's got some magic going without a doubt.

1:39.0

And I think that magic has been evident not only on that table with the deck of cards but also with the job that he's done with the New York Giants in this season.

1:50.0

His first season has had coach.

1:56.0

Many fans of the New York Giants would agree that Brian Debel has pulled quite a few rabbits out of his hat so far this season.

2:02.0

He's taken a team that finished 4 and 13 last season and without many significant roster changes has started out this season, 7 and 3.

2:11.0

The Athletics Dan Pompey recently wrote an in-depth profile of Debel.

2:15.0

And today, Dan breaks the magician's code and reveals to us the secret to Brian Debel's magic.

2:22.0

And he explains why the Giants' success might really be more than just an illusion.

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