Giants assistant blasts Deonte Banks effort against Cowboys CeeDee Lamb: He failed

Deonte Banks didn’t like what he saw from himself on tape any more than the well-respected coach who criticized his effort. Longtime Giants defensive backs coach Jerome Henderson — a former NFL cornerback who interviewed in January to be Brian Daboll’s defensive coordinator — revealed Friday that he let Banks know his hustle to tackle CeeDee Lamb after the Cowboys star caught a pass on him last game was less than acceptable.Lamb turned it into a 55-yard touchdown. “Didn’t like it,” Henderson said.

“Liked nothing about it.” Lamb caught the ball on the sideline at the 37-yard line, cut back toward the middle of the field after rookie safety Tyler Nubin took a bad angle and then coasted the last 20 yards as he noticed Banks slowed down in pursuit. Lamb turned his head back toward Banks as he finished the touchdown and then flipped the ball in Banks’ direction, which resulted in an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty. “It’s a bad finish by me,” Banks said a few hours later, after Henderson’s bi-weekly interview.“I didn’t really feel it in the game.

I could’ve definitely finished more.I maybe could’ve even tackled him.” Film doesn’t lie, the NFL cliché says.

And Lamb and Banks were “talking a little bit” of trash back and forth. “In the game, I thought it was an angle thing.I didn’t think it was effort until I saw the film,” Banks said.

“It looked like, ‘Ah, I could’ve done more.’ You feel me?” The catch gained 33 yards over expected, according to NextGenStats. “When your man catches a ball, you have to break your legs — not literally, but figuratively — to get him on the ground,” Henderson said.“I thought there was room to do more.

We expect it from him and he expects it from himself, but in that moment he failed.” Learning from mistakes on the job is to be expected to some degree from the NFL’s youngest secondary.Effort is another matter. Henderson said he is “certain” that his ...