Giants’ assistant GM Brandon Brown on ‘building the bully’ John Harbaugh wants

Brandon Brown | Photo by Ed Valentine The best thing about annual post-NFL Draft chats with New York Giants assistant general manager Brandon Brown is Brown’s willingness to go into depth on how and why the team makes certain decisions. From individual player decisions to adjusting to working with coach John Harbaugh, Brown did not disappoint when he met with the media on Saturday at the team’s rookie minicamp. ‘Mission over men’ Brown said the Giants have been a “unified operation” since Harbaugh became head coach.

“It’s been really a great environment to be a part of,” Brown said. “When I say unified operation, Coach said something in one of his first meetings that has stuck with me, and he called it mission over men. “And the mission for us is winning football games.

” Brown said the Giants have operated on a “low ego, put your pride aside” basis. “It’s a vision alignment. It’s what’s our identity going to be, what we’re going to do from year one to year two, how are we going to build it.

And there have been multiple perspectives on it, and Coach has been great in terms of the platform between everyone involved, low and high, of if you feel some way, bring forth evidence and show me where you see him doing it. And what does it lend to the identity that we want to be? And there’s been ultimate clarity with that, and it’s been a great collaborative environment.