Giants to allegedly sign Joe Horn

If this happens it’s not because the Giants expect great things. Guys get hurt, there are two weeks left in the season and there aren’t exactly many quality players available off the street. You take what you can find.

and he’s actually a really good guy who got a bad rep b/c of the cell phone thing. I remember seeing an “Outside the Lines” type special about him and all the stuff he’s done for his community, which was dirt poor (I’m talking Depression-level poor, not inner city poor. His entire family of like 8 or 9 lived in a Jim Crowe-era one room house before he made the NFL).

he’s just asking for WAYYY too much money.. maybe the G-Men can afford it? This could be the Genius Jerry Reese knowing where to allocate his funds (but i might just be the dumb optimist.)

on that article said something I mentioned in a thread here the other day: how much do we wish we had pulled the trigger on that trade for Tony Gonzalez now? He’s having another excellent season for an awful Chiefs team, and would give Eli a #1 receiving threat in Plax’s absence. I like Boss a lot, and he’s been good this year, but he’s no Tony G. Hindsight is 20/20…

Why the sudden bulk purchase of WRs? Yes, Burress and Tyree are gone for the year. Some say Moss will go on IR next. Hixon may be getting a little banged up with all the playing time he’s getting and Toomer may just be running out of gas. Manningham hasn’t impressed anybody yet. But why not go to the practice squad first?

Here’s my hypothesis. Yes the receiving corps is depleted, but that’s not the real problem. I think Jacobs is hurt much worse than anyone is saying.

The Cowboy game showed that the Giants need either their runing game or their passing game to carry the day. They can’t survive if both are hurting. With Ward and Bradshaw, they don’t need any more RBs even with Droughns on IR. But they may not feel that they have a receiver who can step up to fill Burress’ cletes. Hixon’s drops have cost them two games. He’s young; he’ll improve, but not in the next couple of weeks. Smith is having a great year, but the tall, deep threat isn’t his role. Biddle and Rucker apparently aren’t ready to come up from the practice squad. So the Giants are desperate for a receiver who can attract some attention to take the pressure off the running game.