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Geoffrey "Geoff" J. Block is a former Wall Street executive who has served as manager of the holding company RLB Squared, LLC, since 2013. Although he resides in South Carolina, Geoff Block is still a fan of New York professional sports teams, including the New York Giants of the National Football League (NFL).
It has been a difficult season in 2019 for the Giants as the team had a win-loss record of 2-11 through 12 games. However, one player who has performed well is punter Riley Dixon, and on December 8 he was rewarded with a three-year, $8.7 million contract extension. Selected by the Denver Broncos in the seventh round of the 2016 NFL Draft, Dixon was acquired by the Giants in April 2018 in exchange for a conditional seventh-round pick in the 2019 NFL Draft.
In his second full season with the Giants, Dixon averaged a career-best 47 yards per punt, which was sixth among all punters in the NFL. He had punted 55 times through 13 games for a total of 2,577 yards, while his longest punt of 62 yards. The Syracuse University alumnus is particularly adept at directional punting and has often helped the Giants' defense by preventing touchbacks.
