The New York Giants have run their offense a bit differently for the last two seasons. Two years ago is when new head coach Ben McAdoo took over for Kevin Gilbride as the Giants offensive coordinator. Since then, New York's pa sing offense has featured a much steadier diet of shorter, quicker pa ses than before. Under Gilbride the Giants had Eli throw pa ses that were deeper on average than almost any quarterback in the league. Take a Jimmy Wynn Jersey look at this progre sion, starting from Gilbride's first season through last year ( Mike Scott Jersey aDOT = average depth of throw): YEAROCaDOT2007Gilbride9.42008Gilbride9.32009Gilbride9.32010Gilbride9.52011Gilbride10.62012Gilbride10.12013Gilbride10.12014McAdoo9.22015McAdoo8.1Manning never had an aDOT south of 9.3 yards under Gilbride, and was north of 10 in each of his former coordinator's final three seasons with the team. The first season under McAdoo saw Eli's aDOT take a steep drop of almost a full yard; and then it dropped 1.1 yards in his second season, to the lowest it's ever been. Why is this relevant? Well, Giants receiver Dwayne Harris that McAdoo wants to get Eli back to throwing the ball down the field a bit more again. "I think we're getting better just throwing the Houston Astros Jersey ball down the field more," Harris said. "We're definitely trying to work on throwing the ball down the field, throwing more deep pa ses."Only 11 percent of Manning's pa ses traveled more than 20 yards in the air last season, per Pro Football Focus. That was the 19th-highest figure among starting quarterbacks. While that may seem like a problem, it largely was not. Manning's efficiency as a pa ser has been far better under McAdoo than it ever was under Gilbride, and last year he set a career-high in pa ser Anthony Gose Jersey rating. Take a look at another chart, this time ranking Manning's best seasons since 2007 by pa ser rating. The parenthetical represents that year's rank in aDOT from the chart above. YEAR (aDOT rank)OCQB RTG2015 (9)McAdoo93.62009 (7)Gilbride93.12011 (1)Gilbride92.92014 (8)McAdoo92.12012 (2)Gilbride87.22008 (6)Gilbride86.42010 (4)Gilbride85.32007 (5)Gilbride73.92013 (3)Gilbride69.4So what does that all mean? Well, it mostly means that Manning has generally been a better pa ser when asked to throw pa ses, not longer ones. The Giants would do well to take selective shots down the field to Odell Beckham -- one of the best deep receivers in football -- but the rest of Manning's weapons are mostly the type that should be targeted on short-to-intermediate routes. And considering those ranges are most in line with how McAdoo runs his offense, it makes sense for the Giants to stick with what's been working rather than force Eli back into his Jose Cruz Jr. Jersey old ways simply for "diversity of the offense's" sake.
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