New York Giants notes: Don't look at that picture!

I’d have those two making plays on balls in the air all day long. Maybe some lifting, but I’d have them out on the practice field covering Barden, Hagan, and Beckham. Making plays on the ball in the air was a huge weakness last year, and all the conditioning in the world won’t help with that…

Mosley on ESPN really does suck, just a Cowboy fan parading as a blogger.
He had the Giants taking Spikes, raise your hands, if you think that’s happening?

Yeah he probably leans toward the cowboys, but I think he does a great job. He also has a good sense of the division-
when asked during a fanchat who will have the best draft this year in the beast? he answered “give me reese and the giants”. gotta count for something right? ha

but Gates, personally I’d be ok with Best in the second (doubt he’ll be there though). You might be right about some of the guys here, but I think a lot of us are just recognizing that we don’t have a guy who can catch out of the backfield consistently, which limits our options in pass-pro and attacking linebackers in coverage

I’m a proponent of taking a lot of guys ahead of spiller. just saying i get the spiller fans, even if i’m not in their camp entirely

actually it’s useful to have a gap filling safety in the red zone d-package. If someone goes jumbo set or w/e a guy like brown can play contain or rush C gap and be in charge of covering first back out of backfield.. i think his real problems were in cover 2, he shouldnt be taking a half (or third), he’s not that type of player

but I also think at the #15 pick the Giants are going to have a chance to get another real talent, i.e. McClain or Morgan for the defensive side and are more likely to go that way. We need a MLB and Osi needs to “put up and shut up” and has done neither over the past year. I don’t think Spiller is the likely pick for the Giants at #15, but I DO think we need to pick up a running back somewhere in the draft. Jabobs is coming off a subpar year/injury, Bradshaw off of a gutty, but injured campaign, Brown is a bigger question mark coming off the torn Achilles than either of the other two, Ware has been injured and ineffective and Johnson came over on waivers and hardly played. If everyone is healthy and returns to form, the backfield is a strength, if they’re all dogged by injuries or play as they did last year, we have problems. I suspect the Giants can find someone to their liking somewhere in the first five rounds, but I think Fewell and his side of the ball are likely to get the first pick, given the way the draft is likely to fall in my opinion. Add to that, that the odds are about the same for Spiller being gone BEFORE the Giants pick as McClain and/or Morgan and I don’t put Spiller in a Giants uniform as a high probability, though if he were, it wouldn’t be the end of the world. No, he wouldn’t help the Giants defense, but he sure would create problems for any defensive coordinator trying to shut down the Giant offense. The combo of Manning, Nicks, Manningham, Smith, Boss, Jabobs, Bradshaw, Spiller and Co. is just too many weapons to be comfortable going against. That said, it would be a departure from the recent Giants tradition of DEFENSE first, and I’m not an advocate of that, but in the end, if we win 17-7 or 35-28, as long as we’re overpowering on one side of the ball enough to WIN, I’ll learn to like it.

   But it was required that it be declined, which made no sense. I believe the rules committee or some such group revisited that problem in the last two weeks or so to change the situation to something that made sense.