I don’t know how that got type ad 1…..but I meant that the Lions picked at #20 would be a good spot to trade to considering they had a bunch of needs and could use the trade down.

You don’t think Sheridan is going to call the guy out, do you? AP still has something left, but he can really be taken advantage of in coverage.

Pierce’s job isn’t to be matched up one on one with guys like Westbrook. Pierce will probably be the first to tell you that he can’t cover or catch Westbrook. But where was the secondary and other LB’s on those plays?

Pierce to me is the same player he’s been since he got here. He’s always been slow and the occasional mental lapse in aggressiveness.

Yea, Id say one more year is it, but its been nice having him here. he wasn’t as good as the Giants last great LB, Jesse Armstead, but Pierce has been great as the QB of the defense. I’ll always remember him for shifting the D-Line over when he audibled then one of them ended up in the backfield.

AP is smart tho, so to me finding a replacement isn’t necessary right now. Id focus on making the backups as capable as Pierce so they could just spell him and keep him fresh.

1. overall and a second rounder?? Plus a bunch of backups?

The Giants coughed up the 4th overall, a third and the next year’s first rounder for their franchise QB trade, AND THEY ONLY MOVED UP 3 SPOTS!!! Plus they could have said F it and stuck with Rivers (could have worked out OK I guess, River is good).

Browns are inept. It just shows you, all the inept teams did stupid things over the weekend. Yea all the good teams get praised, and who knows, but it just seems to work out that the bad teams stay that way.

ANd look at the Rams. New regime with Spags, and he has seemed to get praised all around for doing a great job. Must of learned something from the Gints and Eagles

Other than both having tremendous speed and both being return men(although Maclin returns kickoffs and Jackson does not), there’s not a ton of comparisons between Jackson and Maclin. They played in completely different college offenses, Maclin has played in the slot, in the backfield, and split out on either side, whereas Desean has always been an outside WR. Jackson is fantastic at the intermediate routes, whereas Maclin has little experience with those coming from a spread offense, where he went deep or caught screens.

Plus Maclin is a lot bigger at 6-1.

Either way, considering how well Jackson played in his rookie year, I’d be ecstatic if Maclin were “another Jackson.”

In South Florida, I’m sure gobs will attest

I am damned cute

they’re weak in that area in a 4-3, let alone a 3-4. I think what’s most likely happening is the Giants are on their way to inventing the next big defense, the 6-1-4.

I think the Giants like to have player’s that have positional flexibility for the type of defense’s they want to employ. It’s also creates healthy depth should a player go down. How many teams could have lost two starting Ends in one year and still not miss a beat (even though they slowed down by years end)? I think it was their goal this offseason to ensure that this won’t happen again.

I agree w/Hootman. They simply like flexibility. The ability to move players around confuses the defense, and allows you to find physical matchups that are in your favor. I think that is what they really like.

If they eventually get a big fat for the middle then they would be set.

But yea, the ILB’s aren’t exactly there either, tho Id say Pierce Goff and Kiehl would be OK in there, they all are decent size.

I don;t think its a reality tho. They will probably just have a bunch of formations. They like verstility.

The Giants run the Jim Johnson style defense and this is exactly what they do with their d-line personnel. They use guys that could be 3-4 OLBs as DEs, they put DEs as pass rushers in the middle… The Eagles are all about positional flexibility up front so it makes sense that the Giants would look to do that as well if they’re going to run a similar system.