Hondo Carpenter on Carmen Bricillo
Raiders Today publisher Hondo Carpenter provides some background on new Giants offensive line coach Carmen Bricillo.
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00:00 Honda, from what I understand, Carmen worked for a year with Dante Scarnett.
00:06 Yeah, who, of course, was the great offensive line coach for the Patriots for a number of
00:11 years.
00:12 I know when Carmen was with the Patriots, he wasn't officially an offensive line coach.
00:17 I think he was a coaching assistant was his title.
00:20 But based on what you know about his background, how much did he work with with Dante?
00:26 What has he picked up from Dante because I mean, that caught my eye when I was doing
00:29 some research on him.
00:31 First of all, he did.
00:33 And so here is what Carmen brings.
00:37 I've done several long interviews with him, both videos that you can go find on YouTube
00:42 if you go to Las Vegas Raiders Insider podcast with Hondo Carpenter.
00:47 There's two very long interviews with him, like half hour each that your listeners can
00:52 go grasp.
00:54 But also being his friend and having done a very long article on him that he was Josh
01:00 McDaniels in the Raiders secret weapon.
01:04 He did got a couple of things.
01:06 There are a lot of guys who can tell players what to do.
01:12 But at the NFL level, you have to these are grown men.
01:17 And so you have to be a leader of men to be the best coach.
01:22 So here's one of the things that he does.
01:25 He is very open with his players.
01:29 And for example, there was a game that the Raiders lost that he felt like his game plan
01:34 was not good.
01:35 And he walked in in the entire film session was showing them where he was wrong.
01:42 And they stopped and it stunned the players.
01:46 And he goes, listen, I'm not holding you to any standard.
01:49 I don't hold me.
01:51 Now one of his philosophies is if one of you is screwing up, that's on you.
01:56 But if two or more of you are, I'm not teaching it.
01:59 And so one kid, one young player explained it.
02:03 You don't play for carm, you play with carm.
02:06 He's in there.
02:08 He's in the trenches.
02:09 He's very detail oriented.
02:10 You constantly find him with his guys.
02:14 They're going to be out to eat together.
02:15 They're going to be each other's birthday parties for their kids.
02:18 He builds relationship.
02:22 One of the things that I noticed watching the Giants this year was how terrible your
02:26 offensive line play was.
02:28 But it did not seem to be commonality.
02:31 Now Patricia, you know this because you're a pro and you've been around a long time like
02:34 I have, even though you're only 29.
02:39 But the best offensive lines are families.
02:45 And the best offensive line, nobody cares what color you are.
02:48 Nobody cares if you're a center or a left tackle.
02:50 Nobody cares if you're the $25 million left tackle or you're the UDFA right guard.
02:58 They're a family.
02:59 They eat together.
03:01 They spend time together.
03:02 They go on vacation together.
03:04 They hunt and fish together.
03:05 Their wives are friends.
03:06 Their kids are friends.
03:08 That is the best offensive line because it's five grown men that have to operate in unanimity.
03:15 And Carmen has a way of reaching those guys, creating a family atmosphere, going over.
03:25 All of a sudden they're opening up their iPads and looking at stuff and sending them an instant
03:30 message at 1030 at night and he's answering back.
03:33 It's when they call the house and his wife doesn't mind that they called because she
03:37 loves them, their family.
03:40 You can't fake that.
03:42 You've seen a lot of coaches try it.
03:43 And if you fake it, players just push you away.
03:47 I've had several players tell me, and you can see this in the interviews that I've done
03:52 and wrote, he made me a better husband.
03:56 He made me a better man.
03:58 I'll give you a quick one.
04:00 A guy who didn't have a strong family background taught me I didn't know how to be a dad.
04:05 I didn't have one.
04:08 He would help me and explain things.
04:11 He was raised by a single mom.
04:13 And so to him, to Carmen, being a dad is the most valuable thing in the world.
04:18 And he tells his players, we spend more time together than you're going to with the people
04:22 that you love.
04:24 So when you leave the building tonight, make sure they get your best.
04:28 Make sure you're loving your wives and showing your kids how to love their wives.
04:33 Make sure you're loving your kids, guys.
04:35 Don't give your family.
04:37 When you get home, give them your best.
04:39 He always tells them, when you're in this building, I need all of your attention because
04:43 when you leave, I don't want to bug you.
04:46 I want you to be able to go give the people that you love everything you've got.
04:52 And he has had wives and family members come back and say, man, I don't know what you did,
04:58 but my husband or my son, they value family like they never have before.
05:03 He makes them from kids into men.
05:06 He rounds them into every area.
05:08 And not because that's his intention.
05:10 It's who he is.
05:12 It's his character.
05:15 He raised by a single mom.
05:18 And so he knows what it's like.
05:21 And he doesn't know what it's like to have dad there all the time.
05:24 So when he walks out of that building, he wants his children to know, you're special
05:30 to me.
05:31 He wants his wife to know you matter.
05:32 And yeah, I work a lot during the season, but it doesn't mean I don't value you.
05:36 To me, when you think of the Giants, and you think of, of course, your ownership, which
05:43 is widely respected, some of the best owners in all of football, they built the Giants
05:50 as a family.
05:52 They built the Giants around values.
05:55 They built the Giants.
05:57 I've had friends, Carl Banks and Devin Thomas and other friends, Antonio Pierce, who played
06:03 for the Giants, and others, friends of mine, Teeqo Duckett, many, many others, who told
06:11 me the thing they liked about the Giants, as you looked over, and there's the Mara family,
06:16 and they're there, and they're part of it, and you knew them, and that the Giants were
06:21 a family.
06:23 The Giants, it was more about football.
06:24 Well, you could not have picked a better coach to fit.
06:29 This is a guy that I believe one day will be a head coach in the National Football League.
06:36 He's a leader of men, and I just, again, the Raiders, this hurt the Raiders, and luckily
06:44 that if they hire Antonio Pierce, which they should, and I think they will, he's gonna
06:48 be able to get a really good offensive line coach, 'cause there's a lot of coaches that
06:51 wanna coach for him, but this is a great pickup by you guys, and he is going to bring those
06:58 values.
07:00 It's gonna take a while, because in this league, a lot of guys are jaded, and they're gonna
07:04 have to learn that he's sincere, but I will make this promise, and I want you to keep
07:08 the tape, and bring me back on your podcast.
07:11 You will have a better offensive line the last four weeks of next year than you do the
07:17 first four weeks.