JERSEY CITY - The first nine seasons of Giants long snapper Zak DeOssie's career had been under the Tom Coughlin regime. It was all he'd known as a professional.

Until now.

DeOssie, the Giants second-longest tenured player on the roster, and his teammates are adapting to LPC, life post Coughlin.

Even in the spring, it's massively different with Ben McAdoo as the head coach. What has really stood out to DeOssie is that players are constantly on the move.

"It has been busy," DeOssie said Monday prior to hosting the Newark Mentoring Movement Golf Outing at Liberty National Golf Course. "For me, it's a little different. Embrace the change.

"There is a new buzz going around the locker room. Coach McAdoo has a new regime going and we're kind of sticking and moving a lot more. We're not in our seats going through meeting material all day; sort of meetings on the field, back to the weight room, back to the meeting room, back to practice."

This is a trademark of McAdoo, a coach known to shake up his routine regularly so it doesn't become stale. He's a proponent of having his players constantly on the move.

The Giants are more than halfway through their first offseason program under McAdoo. They're practicing on the field as offensive and defensive units. Organized team activities (OTAs) begin on Monday. The team's mandatory minicamp is next month.

Even though it was McAdoo's offense the past two years, it was still Coughlin's team. McAdoo's quickly put his stamp on the organization. He's overhauled the strength and conditioning program, altered the daily schedule and brought new, fresh ideas to the field and classroom.

"There's going to be new drills," quarterback Eli Manning said during minicamp last month. "There's going to be a new type of schedule with what's going on with the new coach. We're learning and adjusting."

DeOssie, 31, has noticed. Even the sound of a Giants workout is different. Music doesn't appear to be limited to stretching and drill periods.

The 38-year-old coach is bringing in more of a new-age approach.

"It's different and it's enjoyable to see all the young guys embrace the music at practice non-stop," DeOssie said. "It's interesting. We're enjoying ourselves."

It's all groundwork for the summer and upcoming season. McAdoo is acclimating players to his program week by week, phase by phase.

"So we really just got out here and knocked the rust off a little bit, getting the guys orientated to the way we're going to go about the business and we'll build on it each day," McAdoo said during the team's first minicamp of his regime last month. "We'll do a little bit more tomorrow, a little bit more on Thursday and off we go."

It's not quite the same as Coughlin's routine. Even the order in which drills are run is different.

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"He's installing his sort of format. Setting a precedent for training camp," DeOssie said. "Training camp will obviously be a little bit different than it is now, but the sort of structure of practice - when special teams is, focus on the offense, focus on the defense, etc. - it's interesting. It's different and I think guys are responding really well."



Only time will tell if the changed approach is ultimately successful. But after three straight losing seasons and four consecutive playoff-less years, it seemed necessary and welcomed.

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