The Giants officially announced head coach Ben McAdoo's staff on Tuesday, confirming the returning assistants and new hires that had been reported over the past month.

There are 21 coaches on the staff, including McAdoo. Thirteen of them were also with the Giants last season under former coach Tom Coughlin. But McAdoo, in comments released by the team, wanted to make it clear he sees this as a new coaching staff, despite the considerable continuity.

"This is a new staff," McAdoo said in a release. "Nobody was retained, there were no holdovers; everyone was hired. When I sat down with everybody on the staff, that was one thing I wanted to make clear. No one was retained, no one was a holdover. Everyone was hired here as part of a new staff. ... We talked a lot about putting a staff together that fits, number one, that has great diversity, great personality, and great character, a staff of people who can teach the game. We feel we've done that."

McAdoo feels it "takes a little while" for a staff to jel.

"It's a marriage in a lot of different ways for a lot of different guys, a lot of different positions," he said. "The most important thing is we have to get everyone in here and get everyone speaking the same language. It helps that we do have some guys who have been around, and the systems are staying the same on offense, defense and special teams.

"At the end of the day, that's not what drives any of the decisions. Systems are systems. You can go to K-Mart and get a good system. It's more about the leadership, the character, and the fundamentals that are being taught. We like what we see there. We like what we have there. We felt that going forward in that direction was the way to go. We just have to train everyone to speak the same language, and teach the same from a fundamentals standpoint. That should give us a head start."

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