Giants already seeing payoff from demanding John Harbaugh training camp

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla.— So, you mean all the hard work might actually pay off?Sometimes when these old-school head coaches keep their team on the field as long as possible and run practices that are more demanding and grueling than most, it is construed as some sort of ego trip for the guy in charge.

Or some sort of power play — I run the team, not you.Or a my-way-or-the-highway challenge to the players — if you cannot handle this you are not cut out for this roster.

Get texts from Paul Schwartz with all the latest Giants news and insights, exclusive to Sports+ subscribers.John Harbaugh is as influential a head coach as there is in the NFL, as far as having a firm grip on the job he was hired to do.

He spent 18 years growing and evolving but mostly doing things in Baltimore that shaped his reputation as a leader not to be trifled with.There is a John Harbaugh way of doing things and the Ravens usually believed they had an advantage because of how hard their head coach drove them.

It was never easy and often wore on the players but they came out of it with far more wins than losses.There was no “W” or “L” this week when the Giants traveled for a joint practice with the Dolphins amid intense heat and humidity that even the South Florida locals called oppressive.The Giants have more talent than the Dolphins and it showed in the two-hour morning session.

What was more revealing was how the Giants endured the harsh conditions.They were crisper and sharper the longer it went on and there is little doubt what Harbaugh put his team through in White Sulphur Springs, W.Va., and then back at the New Jersey facility provided the callouses to harden this group.“For sure.

I ain’t gonna lie, if we didn’t practice as hard as we do, I don’t know if we would have made it through this heat,’’ outside linebacker Brian Burns said.“And the level of competition that we practiced with.

I feel like us practicing as hard as we do definitely prepared us for ...