Land of the Giants: Giving Ed a break edition Part One

by Jim Schmiedeberg on Aug 8, 2009 9:31 AM EDT in New York Giants News

While Ed takes a few well deserved days off, cj and I will fill in as best we can. Here are a few stories for you to peruse on a beautiful Saturday morning:

Philly.com: Matthias Kiwanuka not performing like a second teamer.

NJ.com: Great new motto for the Giants: Even our ballboys are tough.

Sporting News: Eli's teammates are happy with his new deal

Daily News: Robbins is quick to predict return to field.

NY Post: Kehl out to turn strength into force.

NY Post: A short and sweet taste of a goal line play.

I will bump the open thread back up to the top, so you guys can chat the day away, and if anything else happens we will have it for you.

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if we get

good good performance out of some of our reserve D-Ends, it wouldn’t be a terrible idea to trade Kiwi at the end of the season.. his value has never been higher and his contract run out after 2010 and there is no way that the G-Men will be able to give him the kind of money that he wants.

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by Hoyadestroya85 on Aug 8, 2009 9:42 AM EDT reply actions

I feel like..

All of those guys are starters..Coughlin should make that pronouncement, where they are concerned…If they get told that (that already think that way of each other) by TC it would make it official…I also think they have the opportunity of causing fits with opposing teams if they changed the starting line week to week…how do you prepare for that?…with this group of guys I don’t think that strategy would cause any continuity issues, in fact they pretty much have done that already. Unfortunately, due to injuries…How does a team prepare an offense against all of them?..They would never know who they’d be facing and when throughout the course of a game.

by Bobbiblue on Aug 8, 2009 1:29 PM EDT reply actions

The thing about that is

the line will likely shifty through out a game, so the actual starting rotation is not going to matter a whole lot. The opposition will still see the run package line, the pass package line, and the “four aces” line, so they will trying to prep for groups rather than individuals.

by brisulph on Aug 8, 2009 2:17 PM EDT up reply actions

I understand..

Your point but, they have the talent to mix up those packages and really confuse opposing offenses.

by Bobbiblue on Aug 8, 2009 11:08 PM EDT up reply actions

I know they will be preparing...

For groups, but if they have no idea who that group will be during a game, then what do they do?..I would say lose.

by Bobbiblue on Aug 8, 2009 11:12 PM EDT up reply actions

Yes but they will have pretty set packages

maybe mixing in the odd person who is having a big game or something. The fact is they can not do much to confuse via single player changes in all honesty.

by brisulph on Aug 8, 2009 11:18 PM EDT up reply actions

Oh I agree with that..

I didn’t mean everyone..just stick an entire line in there..just throw in a change here and there to throw them off…and have TC make everyone of them know they are starters..Some positions will be cast in concrete, but then all of a sudden they line up and see some guys they thought were a run stuffers..ready to do both..The opposition would be calling audible after audible, but our guys on that unit can defend both.

by Bobbiblue on Aug 8, 2009 11:33 PM EDT up reply actions

Remember when..

Parcells had LT ( the one and only)..Rough up Jumbo Elliot, to prepare for Bruce Smith in the preps for the SB in 91?..What if all of a sudden somebody else lined up in front of you?

by Bobbiblue on Aug 8, 2009 11:19 PM EDT reply actions