Giants' rookie mini-camp, Day 2

by Ed Valentine on May 10, 2009 7:00 AM EDT in New York Giants News

Here are some of the notable items from the reports on Saturday's pair of New York Giants' rookie mini-camp practices.

After the morning workout, Mike Garafolo says Tom Coughlin ran down a list of the undrafted guys he had noticed.
In MG's afternoon report, he noted that Ramses Barden had a good day until leaving with a possible hamstring injury. Oh, and 'NY17' will be unhappy to note that Micah Rucker missed the entire day because of a hamstring pull.
Ralph Vacchiano notes that undrafted free agent linebacker Kenny Ingram has caught the eye of linebacker coach Jim Herrmann.
Vacchiano also reported that the Giants signed six 'tryout' players.

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"Oh, and 'NY17' will be unhappy..."

UNHAPPY…?? UnHappy? (read like Herm Edwards yelling " PLAYOFFS??")

You’re lucky this a family oriented website or I’d tell you EXACTLY the words that came out my mouth!!!!!

by NY17NE14 on May 10, 2009 3:42 PM EDT reply actions

(correction: JIM MORA yelling... " PLAYOFFS??? " not Herm)

by NY17NE14 on May 10, 2009 4:12 PM EDT up reply actions

as Penn State Homer

Maurice Evans might be a huge find. This guy would have been at least a 3rd rounder if he came out last year

by queler on May 10, 2009 4:19 PM EDT reply actions

He's a player

If he’s got his act together, I’d love to see Evans make the team. I could easily see him supplanting Tollefson. He was a monster at PSU before he lost his focus.

by Tucker Fredrickson on May 10, 2009 4:59 PM EDT up reply actions

Evans

My guess is the best Evans could hope for with all the depth the Giants already have on the defensive line is practice squad. But, hey, if he is a player you never know.

by Ed Valentine on May 10, 2009 5:17 PM EDT up reply actions

Ed, You've hit on actually one of my "concerns"

If I remember correctly, the league now allows 7 guys on the practice squad (PS).

HOW in the world can we possibly protect all the talented players we’ve “picked up”?

Is a “first year” player protected on the PS where a player who’s been on a game roster is exposed? I’m not tryin to test you on your NFL rules skills here or I’d be asking ya to do the Salary Cap calculation for us free hand :-)

by NY17NE14 on May 10, 2009 9:46 PM EDT up reply actions

We can't

That, quite simply, is one of the things that happen when you have an upper echelon team. There is no way to avoid the fact that some of the players the Giants will be forced to let go will latch on elsewhere and be productive. I’d rather have it that way, and have great competition for spots, than be wondering why we didn’t have any decent players.

by Ed Valentine on May 10, 2009 10:00 PM EDT up reply actions

I'm cool with that problem...

as long as RUCKER isn’t a casualty of the " We can’t let a draft pick go, so we’ll have to save face and put the better player at risk" philosophy

by NY17NE14 on May 10, 2009 10:51 PM EDT up reply actions

yeah depending on how he comes along

He probably has a higher ceiling the Tollefson

by queler on May 10, 2009 8:47 PM EDT up reply actions

Who goes, who stays,

what moves JR makes all add up to more than usually interesting (and entertaining) days between now and the opening game. Not to mention all the opportunities for bloviating it will provide all BBVers

by blue gonz on May 10, 2009 10:15 PM EDT up reply actions

George strikes again

Bloviating! Gotta love it.

by Ed Valentine on May 10, 2009 11:10 PM EDT up reply actions

Bloviating??

and I just complimented him on his “thrust and parry” comment in another post…

NOW I’m gonna have to go out and buy a dictionary to keep up with him!!!

is THIS what you were doin in the boonies?? Thinkin up words to mess with your BBV friends’ heads???

by NY17NE14 on May 10, 2009 11:29 PM EDT up reply actions

Fact on Villanova Sports

by Hoyadestroya85 on May 10, 2009 7:03 PM EDT reply actions

Excursions to the boonies

are designed for R & R only, the timing dictated not by myself but my better half. I follow her whims as she does mine by refraining from scheduling them during the NFL season.

by blue gonz on May 11, 2009 1:54 AM EDT reply actions