🔹 Winston said he "always admired Brian Daboll back when he was with the Patriots" but "really got more familiar with him when I saw the league's reigning MVP, Josh Allen, have a tremendous jump from year one to year two."
🔹 During Daboll's time in Buffalo, the Giants' newest quarterback said he "saw a coordinator or play-caller that was very creative that found ways to cater to his quarterback's strengths, to find ways to get his position players involved, and found ways to take off a lot of excess work from our offensive linemen by getting the ball out quickly and finding ways to establish the running game. That is something I have always admired about him."
🔹 More than his abilities on the sideline, Winston also connected with his new head coach on a personal level. "When I got to really understand his upbringing, where he comes from and what he was about, coming from Buffalo, New York, hard nosed, gritty, raised by his grandparents, that's something I was definitely familiar with because I was raised by my grandmother as well. So that similarity brought me even closer to him as the man that he is, and I also respected the coach that he was. Obviously he's won a lot of Super Bowls and made a lot of athletes and quarterbacks a lot of money and had a lot of success."
🔹 Similar to what we saw during Russell Wilson's introductory press conference last week, it was evident that Winston had gotten himself up to speed with the Giants' playmakers. "Well, you have a young super star, two young super stars, three young superstars from the tape that I've seen when I watched Malik (Nabers), Wan'Dale (Robinson) and Theo (Johnson), and an emerging superstar in Jalin Hyatt. You have a crafty veteran who has always showed up and done the right thing at the right time and always finds a way to get behind the defense in Darius Slayton. I think that was a key get-back for this organization and team in getting Darius back."
🔹 It wasn't just his pass-catchers Winston studied up on, as he also gave a shoutout to the rest of the offense. "You got a veteran running back in Devin Singletary, and a young running back that can do things in the backfield in (Tyrone) Tracy. So I'm excited what this offense has to offer. You got a left tackle (Andrew Thomas) that is coming back from injury, but playing in the offensive line when you're in the trenches, you're going to get banged up sometimes. Injuries are very tough. I loved getting a chance to spend some time with GVR (Greg Van Roten). Knowing his veteran background and how much impact he has on this offensive line in general."
🔹 Having been in the league for a decade now, Winston had already established a relationship with his new teammate in the quarterback room, Russell Wilson. "My relationship with Russ is good, man. Russ. A lot of people don't know this, he was one of the quarterbacks that allowed me to take a look into how he ran -- Russ ran his enterprise, ran his businesses, how he took care of his body and how he trained and what did he do to go into his mental approach."
🔹 The two veterans had a close friend in common that unfortunately passed away a couple of years ago in Trevor Moawad, a mental conditioning coach that worked with both quarterbacks. "Trevor instilled a lot of great traits into both of us, and we continue to use those traits, express those traits in our leadership and our commitment to football. So that's where we have a similar background. Our mental approach can be very similar because one of our mental coaches was definitely life changing for him and very influential with me as well."