The New York Giants hired offensive line coach Carmen Bricillo after the Las Vegas Raiders “didn’t exactly put up a fight” to keep him, according to ESPN’s Jordan Raanan.

Several sources told Raanan that Bricillo “wasn’t a favorite of players in Las Vegas.”

“There were questions about his coaching techniques,” Raanan wrote.

Bricillo arrived in Las Vegas in 2022 from the New England Patriots alongside former head coach Josh McDaniels, whose firing was announced Nov. 1.

The Athletic’s Jeff Howe in November wrote that a rival NFL coach “predicted an offseason purge of former New England Patriots with ties to McDaniels,” so Bricillo’s exit from the Raiders makes sense.

So does his arrival in New York, where the front office is hoping the team’s seventh OL coach in 12 years can turn around a historically bad year for the Giants offense.

The Giants allowed 85 sacks in 2023, a total marking the second most ever recorded in NFL history and leading to the exit of former OL coach Bobby Johnson.

That’s more than what the Raiders allowed under Bricillo’s two seasons combined. In two seasons Bricillo’s offense gave up 75 sacks, including 35 during his first season with the team in 2022, which was tied for the ninth fewest in the league.

Whatever Bricillo’s coaching techniques, they might be worth it for the Giants if the new OL coach can help Brian Daboll and Daniel Jones turn around what was one of the worst offenses in the NFL last season.