A few words from the Giants assistants

Once every season the Giants’ assistant coaches come up out of their offices and check to see whether they can see their shadows … and they get to talk to the media while they’re out. It’s always the most informative day of the year, because the most honest and detailed assessment of a team and its parts always comes from them. There are too many of them talking in too short a period of time to ask all the questions we’d want to ask. And there’s not enough room (or time) for me to details all their answers. But here are a few snippets from “Assistants Day” and some of the answers I found most interesting … and, in some cases, puzzling: • Offensive coordinator Kevin Gilbride on why the Giants didn’t throw the ball into the end zone on the second-to-last drive of the Chargers game: “They were smart and they stayed back and dropped everybody in. If we had thrown it into the end zone, it would have been a good ...