I don’t have a clue what the Giants are thinking. You let a pro bowl safety walk away and then trade away the most popular player on the team and one of the top WRs in the league for a couple of draft picks and… a safety? To say I feel the Giants have gone full crazy would be a bit premature. I believe they have the appearance of insanity and are reinforcing what people said last year: The Barkley pick was a waste based on these hot QBs.
First of all, Barkley was an excellent pick. He is the kind of rare talent that OBJ is… that means do not trade him! I don’t believe they will. I feel like the OBJ trade was about coach feeling that Beckham hurt the locker room and had too much power in a space where a new QB needs to come in and gain ground quickly. It could also have been about the injuries. I think we will see Odell explode this year in that offense with that WR Coach.
But what happens to the Giants?
This is a team with a lot of draft capital, but not a team with a direction. Maybe the Rosen trade is a real thing and they can handle that while using early picks for transcendental players. Maybe they get N’Keal Harry and change their stars. Who knows? All I know is that there is a new factory of sadness and they call it Metlife Stadium.