Giants Malik Nabers on why he wants to be involved early in games: bodys not ready

The first pass that the Giants throw Thursday might already be telegraphed as targeted for Malik Nabers.You can bet the Cowboys defensive backs are waiting to jump a route.Two days after Nabers griped that he doesn’t have enough opportunities to make plays early in games and one day after head coach/play-caller Brian Daboll took the blame for it, the rookie receiver explained why he needs to get off to a fast start.“If you start later on in a game, it’s like your body’s not ready,” Nabers said.“You come into the game prepared, right? If you take one quarter off, two quarters off, your body just starts lacking.“It’s like you don’t even want to play no more.

I’m not saying that’s how I feel.I’m just saying that’s your body.

You’re not getting involved early, then you’re not getting the feel of the ball, you’re not getting hit.After football plays as an offense, after you get hit, you’re like, ‘All right, I’m ready to go.’ ”Nabers has two total first-half catches in the last three games combined.

He wasn’t targeted until the first play of the third quarter in Sunday’s loss to the Buccaneers, which caused him to say that he “can’t do nothing [if I] start getting the ball when it’s 30-0” and “talk to Dabes about that” game plan.“I get in the third quarter and I’m not as energetic as I was before.That’s all I was saying,” Nabers clarified.

“I need to get the ball early so I can make a change on the game early on instead of just later on in the game.”The Giants only ran 15 offensive plays in the first half.Nabers uncharacteristically used Coachspeak to point to “a lack of technique” and “a lack of communication” for the offense’s failures.“When I look at it,” Nabers said, “we tried to give me the ball a couple times in the first half.”None of this should surprise the Giants, who grilled Nabers before the draft about scouting evaluations that he reacted “hard” to not being invo...