The Giants are listening to their voice inside.
That is what you do when it comes from a 6-foot-4, 340-pound Pro Bowler.
Dexter Lawrence, one of the premier interior defensive linemen in the NFL, has been helping the Giants' talented group of edge rushers in more ways than one. In addition to eating up double teams with his physical presence, Lawrence has been a sounding board for players like Brian Burns, an established veteran, and rookie Abdul Carter, the third overall pick in the draft.
"I'm just trying to take my game to a level it's never been," Burns said following Wednesday's joint practice with the Jets. "That requires me doing things I never did. I've been working with Dex quite a bit, talking to Dex a lot just how to manipulate body positions and try to use my length and power more and not just my speed and finesse. That's been good to me so far, so I'm going to keep working on that."
Lawrence has already seen results from Burns, who joined the Giants last season as a free agent after first making a name for himself with the Carolina Panthers.
"I think his game is unlimited, honestly," Lawrence said. "He can speed rush you. He can power you. He can finesse you. He's not a little guy either, so he's got a lot to his game. He's tapped into it more this training camp, and that's good to see."
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Burns, who made the Pro Bowl in 2021 and 2022 with Carolina, led the team with 17 tackles for loss in his debut campaign for the Giants. The next closest players were Lawrence, Micah McFadden and Kayvon Thibodeaux, with eight apiece.
Burns also became the eighth player in NFL history with at least 7.5 sacks in each of his first six seasons, joining Reggie White, Derrick Thomas, Jared Allen, DeMarcus Ware, Ryan Kerrigan, Aaron Donald and Yannick Ngakoue.
Still, Burns is perfecting his craft.
"It's always been an uphill battle with me trying to add that into my game, but Dex is one of the best to do it and the way he does it – I mean, obviously he has brute strength but he's so much smarter than that," Burns said. "He's such a master at manipulating body positions, and of course, it takes strength to do that, but it also takes length and technique and that's something that he works constantly. But when I see him working and when he expressed that he wanted to help me in that area, shoot, why not? Everybody is trying to get better, so why not?"
The same goes for Carter.
The All-American out of Penn State has Lawrence breathing down his neck – literally.
"He sits right behind me in the meeting room," Carter said. "So I'm always talking with him trying to get better. He helps me a lot."
Carter's addition to the room was the catalyst for much of the offseason hype, something Lawrence cautioned against in a speech to the defense on the eve of training camp.
"It's all cool, but you can't get into it too much," Carter said of being praised before he plays a regular-season game. "I feel like once you start to drown yourself in that, you can get distracted. So, I feel like what those guys are saying in terms of us not proving it yet is real. We got to get to the season and show that dominance before we can call ourselves anything."
And then Carter can finally sit down for a haircut. The rookie posted Wednesday morning that he won't get one until he notches his first NFL sack.
"That's why I got the hood on right now," Carter said when speaking to the media post-practice.
Is it the longest it has been in a while?
"Yeah, for sure," he said. "But it won't be like this for long."
