For the first time in 18 years, John Harbaugh changed schools. And today was the first day.

The New York Giants reported to the Quest Diagnostics Training Center on Tuesday for the start of the offseason workout program. Over the next two months, the team will ramp up from strength and conditioning to walk-throughs to eventually non-contact practices, known as organized team activities (OTAs).

They will break on June 10 and return for training camp in West Virginia in late July.

But first, there was a team meeting with full introductions.

Harbaugh started with the coaches and worked around to the whole team. Instead of saying their name and college, each person had to share their identity and purpose.

"Those are the things when you're a little bit vulnerable, that way you open up a little bit more," Harbaugh said. "You start to get to know each other more, bond a little bit with each other."

Harbaugh added: "It's just a bunch of people coming together to build something together that is a team, plays like a team, plays like a team better than any other team," Harbaugh said. "If you do that, then you have a chance to be the best team because the best team is the team that plays the best. I might have said that in the meeting today.

"It was fun to be around the guys. It was fun to stand in front of the New York Giants today. It was an honor. I told them that. It was an honor to stand before the New York Giants, have them communicate back. We had a fun time. We had a great meeting."

Here's what else you need to know from Day 1, which also included all three coordinators meeting with the media:

📰 Will running back Cam Skattebo and wide receiver Malik Nabers be able to do anything this spring? "Not too much," Harbaugh said. Skattebo is ahead of Nabers in terms of returning, but it wouldn't be fair to attach any specific dates.

"Malik is going to be more into training camp and closer to the season," Harbaugh said. "That's more Malik's timeline."

Nabers, however, is still in the classroom, lifting weights, and rehabbing. He also got up and spoke to the team, like everybody did.

"He was in great spirits," Harbaugh said. "It was fun being around him."

📰 Harbaugh was asked about defensive lineman Dexter Lawrence: "We'll find out. I think the prospects are going to be high. The Giants, speaking for the Giants, we want Dexter here. I believe Dexter wants to be here. That's a good formula. But there's business involved. It's a business proposition. We know it's pro football. These things happen every year pretty much on every team. Not surprised by it. Saw it coming a few weeks back probably."

📰 Harbaugh added that "the business part of it is the business part" and swirls around the outside while they are locked into football. He also noted that "everybody's tradeable" if they can get something in return. "It's not really what you focus on. You focus on the fact that we're having a day, we're talking ball, we're getting our team coming together as a team."

📰 Outside linebacker Kayvon Thibodeaux is in "great shape" and Harbaugh is thinking about how to get him plugged in and rolling.

📰 Defensive coordinator Dennard Wilson laid out four pillars that will be the foundation for his side of the ball: Unpredictable, dynamic, decisive, and unapologetic.

"We're going to play nasty," he said. "We're going to play physical. We're going to play violent. We're going to live on the edge and play on the edge, but we're not going to hurt the team. We're going to be suffocating to the point that we impose our wills on people, and the players are going to buy into that mindset. And it all starts from a mindset. We're going to play the New York brand of football, and that's violent defense."

📰 Before he took over as head coach of the Seattle Seahawks and won a Super Bowl in his second season, Mike Macdonald was defensive coordinator in Baltimore. Wilson served under him for one year as a defensive backs coach but took "a lot of things" from that experience.

"Mike had a collaborative approach," Wilson said. "I was fortunate enough to go to Baltimore for a year. Mike, his superpower is listening. He listens to his coaches but he has a direction in which he wants to go."

📰 Wilson is from the school of thought that you need to have an elite middle linebacker to excel on defense. That's where newly-signed Tremaine Edmunds comes in.

"First of all he's a 6-4 guy with length," Wilson said. "When he comes downhill, he presses and separates. He makes a lot of plays at the line of scrimmage. He's an athletic guy that can run the ball down sideline to sideline. He plays with a high motor. He can defend in the middle of the defense, especially in the pass game, especially with what we do the Mike linebacker plays between the hashes a lot. Then he can get in windows. He has the right temperament. He's in a position and he's in a mindset of proving himself and reproving himself again. He's hungry. He's ready to go out there and fight for his teammates."

📰 Naturally, the topic of Ohio State linebacker Sonny Styles, one of the top prospects in the draft, followed suit.

"I'll just say this about the draft: I like good players, period," Wilson said. "I don't care where they at. I'm not going to say no to any good player."

📰 Matt Nagy had a prior relationship with Harbaugh and gladly took the call when he was searching for an offensive coordinator. "Obviously, him being in the (Chiefs head coach) Andy Reid tree from back in Philadelphia, there's a connection there," Nagy said. "And I've had a ton of respect for him as a person and as a coach, the success he's had. So, when he called initially, it was just great to talk to him. Then you start getting into the football side of it and what we have going on here."

📰 When you have Patrick Mahomes, as Nagy did in Kansas City, you don't often scout quarterbacks coming out of the draft. But Nagy did watch a decent amount of Jaxson Dart.

"Every year I will watch just to kind of see the top guys that are there," Nagy said. "I remember coming away really impressed with Jaxson and his accuracy. Back then, a year ago or two years ago, I didn't know how tough he was and how good of a runner he was. He was a really good, sneaky good runner, tough, physical, played the quarterback position well, accurate. You could see he was a competitor.

"I remember then at the combine, us not really being in the quarterback market, watching him, just kind of observing how he handled himself in that group of guys at the combine. You could see this moxie that he had, and he had this 'it' factor.

"When I got here to New York and got to meet him and started talking to him, you could tell right away that everything was true. This kid is different that way. My initial conversation with Coach Harbs was, hey, excited, really looking forward to being able to help out in many ways and building that relationship and that trust. I know he had a great year last year, but we want to make it even better and continue to have him grow, and I want to be there to help him."

📰 Assistant head coach/special teams coordinator Chris Horton said All-Pro punter Jordan Stout gives the Giants a chance to flip the field every time with his leg strength.

"When you talk about how the game has changed a little bit now that the drive starts starting a little bit further down the field from a kickoff return standpoint, Jordan has the ability to pin people down inside the 10, inside the 5," Horton said. "All those things come together. Not only that, he's a great holder."

And he will be holding for Jason Sanders, who signed with the Giants this offseason.

"You kind of sit back, you watch the tape, and you figure out who is out there," Horton said of the process. "We come here, look at the tape, and it's like, oh, Jason didn't play last year, but you watch that tape from the year before, and it was outstanding. So there was a kicker out there, a veteran kicker. Just felt like it was an opportunity to bring him in and let's see what he can do."

📰 Horton, who played three seasons in Washington, recalled his brief stint with the Giants in 2012 before his playing days came to an end.

"When I got this opportunity, I had been out 2011. Giants called me. Dave Merritt called me on draft day back in 2008, and the Commanders ended up drafting me at the time. I kind of missed that opportunity early, but once I got here in 2012, I was just coming into a place. Giants were coming off a Super Bowl win. It was different. I was walking into a building where I just wanted an opportunity to play. I remember going up to Albany (for training camp). It was hot. You know, it was hot. Just being here having a great time, just sitting in [Tom Coughlin's] meetings and just understanding, okay, everybody says you got a hard-nosed coach and kind of what that was like. Then being under Tom Quinn, just kind of working through it. Obviously I dealt with injuries, so it didn't last very long, but I was excited to be here. At that point this had been really a great organization to come into. You hear all the stories. It's the Giants, you know? You're going to the Giants, and it proved everything to be. I'm excited to be back."