is the best QB in the drat.. he’s an intelligent guy, Stafford is very boom or bust.. and i really like the Shonn greene pick for the jets.

Peter King heaped praise on the Giants all of las season

I think like most analysts, they are going by what they THINK the fans want, and that’s an immediate replacement for Plax and Toomer.

But as a Giants fan, and looking at many Giants fans responses on this site, I’ll say that most of us know that trading for one of these WR wasn’t the only option and that with one its doesn’t automatically make the Giants the best team in the league.

I know that the only true reason no trade went down was cuz the Cards and Browns each required that Kiwinuka was included in any deal, so that’s dead right there.

I know the thing with rookie WR, but Steve Smith helped out a lot in his rookie season? Hixon in that year was a rook too.

I don’t think you can underestimate what Reese thinks of Smith and Hixon. Yea rookie WR don’t do much, but Hixon and Smith are 3rd year guys, and they usually break out.

I usually don’t like it when all except one analyst agrees with the Giants, cuz that’s usually bad, but I personally love the draft so i could care less what they think good or bad.

sportswriters are supposed to try to maintain neutrality, but King’s clearly a Giants fan

I don’t know why he said that. Hakeem Nicks was obviously going to be a Giant if he fell to #29. This is the primary Reason Reese never wanted to trade the first round pick. Nicks was the highest player on the board. THe Giants have liked him for months.

He also would have been off the board with the #30 pick to the TItans, cuz they saw what the Giants saw. Im sure Kenny Britt was up there too, but obviously Nicks is better according to Reese an the Titans brass, obviously 2 of the best talent evaluating teams in the league, so F Prisco and Peter King.

#1Kiwinuka had to be in any deal

#2t Reese wanted to keep #29 to draft Nicks which meant he wanted to pair him with Braylon or Boldin.

1. Contract. Edwards doesn’t want one now, but he will soon and you may only get a one year rental guy if he is merely as good as he’s been in his career (average player…) And why are the Browns trading him anyway?
                 And Boldin wants a huge contract too, that’s why is being talked of being moved.

if Reese’s strategy was to try to trade after the draft when everybody knows what they have. He’s got WRs, LBs, and DBs to trade, but he’s got to do it soon before everybody gets to camp. If he doesn’t, we’ll lose the guys to cuts.

I laughed when I read that in his article. He’s reading us!

Once we kept the 29th pick I was fine with Nicks, but I would have traded a 1 and 3 for Edwards.

Afterall the team blossomed once he was gone

ugh, stupid Monday

in which case, Kiper >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> McShay

Also, I irrationally hate McShay b/c he didn’t like Flacco at all last year.

I mean sometimes you can tell a little sooner if the guys’ gonna be a player, but there’s always sophmore slumps or breakouts.

That draft in 05 was my favorite even at the time. I had no idea Tuck was a future All-Pro, Jacobs if he could stay healthy has All-Pro talent, and Webster is one of te most underrated corners in the league (and probably a prime example of a guy who broke out even after looking like a bust).

But I loved the Jacobs pick, I noticed him on Auburn and after that on SIU I saw a few highlights. On ESPN I saw a few games where the analysts were in awe of a 6"4" 255 Lbs RB.

And Tuck, Notre Dame of course is always on TV and forces people to watch them, but Tuck was the best player on that defense.

Travis Beckum reminds me of Justin Tuck, I know they are on different sides of the ball. But Tuck fell for some reason in the draft, I don’t remember (maybe injury…), but that’s why Beckum dropped, but like Tuck if you watched any college game where he played in he was the #1 option on offense, and when he played UW was very good.

The only thing you can do now when looking at the draft is just notice what they are and what you think they can do.

To me not a single one of the picks is a reach, in fact guys like Brown, Beckum and Beatty are absolute steals considering who was taken above them and how may other teams could have used them.

The draft on paper give Eli 2 weapons hopefully right now, and then a situational guy for now in Barden and who knows what else. Sintim could be the starter at SAM, but who knows.

Beatty is a future startng LT. He has time to develop, but I think he could’ve played right away if needed.

Andre Brown if anyone was looking at my posts during draft day saw that I thought the Giants would draft him, and that’s cuz he’s exactly a Derrick Ward type player. He’s faster and obviously younger.

I would NOT be surprised if Andre Brown was the backup to Jacobs this year.

the biggest issue I have with their draft isn’t just that they took Heyward-Bey (though I think he’s gonna be a bust) but that they took him with the 7th pick. He likely wasn’t gonna get drafted until the late teens/early 20’s of the draft, so why didn’t the Raiders try to move down a few slots and pick up some extra picks? Then they go and choose a DB in the 2nd round who most people didn’t even think was gonna get drafted. Those are just dumb, dumb moves.

I think his hands were in question even when he got drafted too.

Nicks, Barden and Beckum all are praised for their hands. Nicks and Beckum Im sure about that they have great hands so that helps their development right there.

None of the Giants receivers in the past have had great hands. Steve Smith is probably the best on the team so far, but even he drops easy balls, and never catches the deep ball even when its right on the money.

If the new guys have as good hands as they are said too, they will be fine in the offense and be better early.