Giants Clips
Giants head coach John Harbaugh has settled on an offensive line coach.
Bob Brookover of NJ.com reports that the Giants will hire Mike Bloomgren to fill that role on Harbaugh’s staff.
Harbaugh saw Bloomgren at work twice last season when the Ravens faced the Browns. The 2025 season was Bloomgren’s only campaign with Cleveland and it was his first time working in the NFL since a four-year run with the Jets from 2007-2010.
Bloomgren was Rice’s head coach from 2018-2024 and went 24-52 during his time in that role. He also worked on David Shaw’s staff at Stanford from 2011-2017.
Greg Roman has spent most of his NFL coaching career on the staff of a Harbaugh and that’s set to continue despite his departure from the Chargers after their playoff loss to the Patriots.
Charlotte Carroll of TheAthletic.com reports that Roman is going to join John Harbaugh’s first staff with the Giants. Art Stapleton of NorthJersey.com reports that his title will be senior offensive assistant.
Roman spent the last two seasons as Jim Harbaugh’s offensive coordinator with the Chargers and he was John Harbaugh’s offensive coordinator in Baltimore from 2019-2022. He was on the Ravens’ staff in 2017 and 2018 as well and also worked for the 49ers and Stanford when Jim was the head coach in those spots.
Roman will work with offensive coordinator Matt Nagy in his Giants role and his history working with Lamar Jackson suggests that he should have a good deal to share with Giants quarterback Jaxson Dart.
The Cardinals hired Nathaniel Hackett as their new offensive coordinator. Their search for a defensive coordinator continues.
The team has requested to interview Giants outside linebackers coach Charlie Bullen and Aubrey Pleasant, the Rams assistant head coach and defensive pass game coordinator, NFL Media reports.
Pleasant was a candidate for the Chargers’ defensive coordinator job.
He has spent the past three seasons with the Rams, on the staff with new Cardinals’ head coach Mike LaFleur.
Pleasant has coached in the NFL for the past 13 seasons, also spending time in Washington, Cleveland, Detroit and Green Bay.
Bullen served as the Giants’ interim defensive coordinator last season after the team fired coordinator Shane Bowen. New coach John Harbaugh retained Bullen as the outside linebackers coach.
Bullen previously coached in Arizona from 2019-22. He was with the Dolphins from 2012-18.
The Giants are making another key hire as they revamp their organizational structure with John Harbaugh as head coach.
Dawn Aponte is departing the league office to join New York as senior vice president in football operations, according to a report from ESPN.
Aponte has served as the chief administrator of football operations since 2017. It was her second stint with the league office, having previously served as vice president of labor finance from 2006-2008.
Aponte also worked for the Dolphins from 2010-2016, first as senior vice president of football operations before being promoted to executive vice president of football administration. She also worked for the Browns as vice president of football administration from 2009-2010.
The Giants parted ways with the club’s senior vice president of football operations and strategy, Kevin Abrams, in January.
Matt Nagy has landed on his feet in New York.
The former Bears head coach returned to the Chiefs after his four-year run in Chicago ended. When his contract as the Chiefs offensive coordinator expired, Nagy began interviewing for head-coaching jobs.
He was a finalist for the Titans job, and some thought he would be getting it. When that didn’t transpire, the Chiefs brought back Eric Bieniemy to serve as offensive coordinator, leaving Nagy without a job.
Now, Nagy has a new gig. Via Ian Rapoport of NFL Media, Nagy will be the offensive coordinator of the Giants.
It makes Nagy arguably the most important member of John Harbaugh’s staff. Nagy will be charged with continuing the development of quarterback Jaxson Dart, and otherwise making the team’s offense go.
Nagy joined the Eagles the year that Harbaugh left to become head coach of the Ravens. While they’ve never worked together, they both share a strong connection to Chiefs coach Andy Reid — Harbaugh spent a decade with Reid in Philadelphia, and Nagy has 14 years with Reid, between Philly and Kansas City.
Commissioner Roger Goodell’s Super Bowl press conference included a pair of questions regarding the recent revelation that Giants co-owner Steve Tisch exchanged multiple emails with Jeffrey Epstein.
“I would say that absolutely, you know, we are going to look at all the facts,” Goodell said. “We’re going to look at the context of those, we’re going to try to understand that. And we’ll look at how that falls under the [Personal Conduct] Policy, but I think we take one step at a time. Let’s get the facts first.”
Goodell added that it would be premature to discuss at this point whether Tisch could be disciplined under the Personal Conduct Policy.
Later, Goodell was asked whether he’s concerned that other owners could be implicated by future disclosures of the so-called Epstein files.
“I don’t even know the status of all the release,” Goodell said. “I know that three million documents came out late this week. So, listen, we’ll continue to follow any of the facts that come up, and we’ll determine whether we open an investigation or not based on those facts.”
The overriding question is whether facts can be developed, by the NFL’s inherently limited investigative powers. It can require only league and team employees to cooperate. If people not connected to the league or any of the franchises may have relevant information, the NFL cannot force them to cooperate.
Regardless, it’s a problem for the league. Goodell essentially acknowledged that, when asked whether he’s concerned, given the scope of story, how it reflects on the league.
“Sure, but that’s why we have a personal conduct policy and that’s why we’ll look into the facts,” Goodell said.
So, yes, they’ll look into the facts. How effective or zealous or informative that will be remains to be seen.
With Commissioner Roger Goodell due to conduct his annual Super Bowl press conference in little more than an hour, the NFL has broken a weekend of silence regarding the most clear connection between an owner and Jeffrey Epstein.
On Friday, the latest release of Epstein files included emails apparently exchanged by Epstein and Giants co-owner Steve Tisch. The messages paint a picture of Tisch asking Epstein to arrange dates. On Friday night, Tisch issued a statement regarding the issue.
Said the NFL in a statement released on Monday: “The league is aware of the reports and Steve’s response. Our office will look into the matter to understand the facts.”
As one source put it earlier on Monday, the NFL would need facts in order to support any type of action against Tisch. The emails, standing alone, don’t provide that.
An investigation could. But who would the NFL interview? There’s no obvious victim or other witness. (Indeed, there’s no allegation of wrongdoing against Tisch.)
The most obvious starting point would be to interview Tisch. To show him each of the relevant emails and ask him questions about what the messages mean and what happened next.
The problem is that, beyond Tisch, the NFL may be unable to harvest anything. The league has no subpoena power, even if Tisch were to supply the names of the individuals to whom the emails refer.
So while the league will, and should, investigate the situation, chances are it will go nowhere. Especially if the NFL’s ultimate motivation is to check the box and move on.
Either way, Goodell will surely be asked about the situation. We’ll be writing about it when he does.
When we posted on Sunday an item on the report that the NFL fined the Seahawks $5 million for non-compliance with ownership requirements, the league promptly sent an email reiterating its position (as mentioned in the original blurb) that the Seahawks were not fined.
Twice over the weekend, we asked the NFL if there was any comment on the extensive presence of Giants co-owner Steve Tisch in the latest Jeffrey Epstein files Friday news dump. There has been no response to two separate inquiries.
They won’t be able to kick the can on Monday. Someone inevitably will ask Commissioner Roger Goodell about Tisch at Goodell’s annual Super Bowl press conference. They’ll surely have talking points ready for Goodell to use. It will be interesting to hear what they are.
Margaret Fleming of FrontOfficeSports.com has created a list of all sports figures mentioned in Friday’s release of Epstein emails and other documents. Only Tisch’s communications relate to Epstein’s apparent specialty of connecting men of means and influence with women. There is no suggestion or indication that the women to which the messages refer were minors.
Tisch issued a statement on Friday night.
“We had a brief association where we exchanged emails about adult women, and in addition, we discussed movies, philanthropy, and investments,” Tisch said. “I did not take him up on any of his invitations and never went to his island. As we all know now, he was a terrible person and someone I deeply regret associating with.”
There have been calls for more information, and for the league to take action against Tisch. Ian O’Connor of TheAthletic.com, whose extensive reporting on the hiring of coach John Harbaugh makes clear that O’Conner has contacts high in Giants organization, has written a column arguing that Tisch “should be fined, suspended and prohibited from participating in any team or league activities for some period of time.”
That’s the bare minimum. Other owners have sold their equity based on related behaviors. Jerry Richardson promptly sold the Panthers when a string of past settlements with team employees came to light. Daniel Snyder eventually was compelled by the league to sell the Commanders due to multiple examples of alleged workplace misconduct.
Writes O’Connor: “Tisch should really sit in front of a mirror and ask himself if he’s still fit to be the team’s chairman and executive vice president, or if it would be a better idea to step aside and turn over those titles to his siblings Jonathan and Laurie, who both sit on the board of directors.”
For years, the league has taken the position that “[o]wnership and club or league management have traditionally been held to a higher standard and will be subject to more significant discipline when violations of the Personal Conduct Policy occur.” A full section of Playmakers was dedicated to various situations from 2001 through 2021 during which owners apparently were not held to a higher standard — and possibly were held at times to a lower standard.
In 2023, revisions to the version of the Personal Conduct Policy specifically applicable to owners removed the language quoted above. The league’s position was that the sentence remains in the broader version of the policy. Still, the change came after word surfaced that Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson intended to highlight the double standard in the case arising from his 20-plus civil lawsuits alleging misconduct during massage-therapy sessions by pointing to the NFL’s treatment of multiple owners.
One of the owners, Jerry Jones of the Cowboys, chided the approach.
“It is a standard Players Association comeback,” Jones said at the time. ”That is the drill. That is the drill to go around to say you didn’t punish such and such. Anybody would know that every player case and every case that involves non-players in the NFL are dealing with dramatically different principal facts, which is all the difference in the world. . . .
“It would be like walking down to the courthouse and saying, ‘You didn’t give that guy that much,’ and not take into account what the action was or the circumstances behind it. That’s called shooting volleys. That’s just shooting stuff over your back. That’s the way I look at it when I see something like that.”
Now, the league has found itself dealing with a unique and unprecedented set of “principal facts.” How will the league deal with Tisch?
For now, the NFL has opted for radio silence. When Goodell speaks to reporters later today, ignoring the question repeatedly will not be an option.
New Giants head coach John Harbaugh is considering a couple of former NFL head coaches to be his offensive coordinator.
Brian Callahan and Kliff Kingsbury are among the candidates for the Giants job, according to Jeremy Fowler of ESPN.
Callahan was the head coach of the Titans for a year and a half before he was fired during the 2025 season. Before that he was offensive coordinator of the Bengals for five years.
Kingsbury was head coach of the Cardinals from 2019 to 2022. He was most recently offensive coordinator of the Commanders in 2024 and 2025.
The latest batch of Jeffrey Epstein files included an NFL connection.
Via TheAthletic.com, the documents reveal that Epstein connected Giants co-owner Steve Tisch Jeffrey with multiple women. Per the documents obtained by TheAthletic.com, Tisch received scouting reports on women from Epstein. They discussed whether certain women were “pro or civilian” or a “working girl.”
The emails were sent in 2013.
On Friday night, Tisch issued a statement confirming the past association with Epstein, who died by suicide in 2019.
“We had a brief association where we exchanged emails about adult women, and in addition, we discussed movies, philanthropy, and investments,” Tisch said, via Ralph Vacchiano of Fox Sports. “I did not take him up on any of his invitations and never went to his island. As we all know now, he was a terrible person and someone I deeply regret associating with.”
It’s unclear whether any of the emails will result in NFL scrutiny of Tisch, or whether the league will launch its own investigation. The Personal Conduct Policy applies to all NFL and team employees and representatives.
