I’m doing it early folks. I’m doing it sporadically at best, because we are deep into the off season and there is little news to arrive out of the free agency stream. Still, this gem from Gettleman has me interested. Some of it reflects what I’ve been saying about Eli all along, but we can file that one under cognitive reinforcement. I thought the part about getting more pieces for 1 piece was really telling. He’s not wrong. I think OBJ is a top 5 receiver in the league. I also think he is off the field nearly as much as he is on it. That leaves me thinking that he would benefit from an offense that didn’t rely so much on him to move the rock and that an offense that did rely on him would benefit from having a lot more weapons.
Now, what will the Giants do with all that draft capital? I honestly do not know. They could go get Josh Rosen in a trade (they picked up a 3rd rounder they could send to AZ for that QB) and let him learn behind Eli, but I don’t believe that is what is going down. I get the sense that they have a guy in mind and they feel they can get him at 17 vs 6. This means they could use 6 for other things. I personally made that mistake in Madden. Apples to oranges, I suppose, but in both instances it was a matter of not having the understanding of what other teams really wanted to do in the draft and not recognizing how weak the draft class actually was.
Now I don’t agree with the pundits about the weakness of the QB class. They base their opinion on film, but the film fails to indicate how these QBs will perform in an NFL offense with the right pieces around them. Football outsiders has an algorithm that statistically beats the NFL and the media in predicting QB success (yes, they are the media, but I am speaking about the media outside of this stats based group). This group also agrees that Sam Darnold was trash. That matters because most pundits are still saying the Giants should’ve taken him at #2.
The overall point is that the Giants are not DOA. in fact they have life after supposed death and a chance to put together a defense like the DC wants and an O built around the concepts of the OC. This could be good.
I can hope, at least.