You can count me in the apparent minorty that wanted nothing to do with these veteran WR.

You forgot Braylon Edwards tho..he was “candidate #1” for the most part.

I’m glad they passed them all up. Housh and Boldin are on the downslide.

Marshall’s great, but he’s a headache like Plax, not worth it. And of course Braylon Edwards sucks.

Either way, you can count the emergence of Steve Smith as Eli’s go to WR and Manningham as a electric WR with the ball in his hands as an excellent example of why JR made the right move.

Any Giants fan who saw the games last year can tell that Hakeem has all the talent in the world, and may be the best of all of them.

Braylon Edwards completely slipped my mind. Also glad the Giants did not sign him, with the winter winds in the Meadowlands he may have had more dropped passes than recepetions.

And I laugh at people who say that Smith is not a #1 WR because he can’t stretch the field, he had a better YPC than Marshall!

I remember some mock drafts had him falling down to 45 to us, because of him ganing weight, lack of speed, and all that crap. Thus, taking laurinaitis. Well we’ll never know what would have happened, but im damn happy with nicks.

i went to a lot of his college games and actually wanted the birds to get him, but im happy with maclin

I think Nicks will have a great career, I watched a lot of his college games and I was praying that the Giants would draft him. With that said I must admit I was on the Boldin bandwagon, but that just goes to show you why we are the fans and why Jerry Reese is a top notch GM. I hope we see some more of Ramses next year, he is raw but his potential is immense.

look @ Torry’s rookie #s 52 catches 788 receiving yards 6 TDs 15.2 yds per catch…the similarities are scary…and I dont think anyone would mind Nicks having a career like Holt

Hakeem is definetly the dream as his nickname states, this guy put up those #’s while missing a few games after london fletcher wrenched his ankle, he also didnt start until Ham kept running out of bounds on routes……with all this going on he still matched percy harvins receiving stats (shouldve shared rookie of the year) but harvin is a return specialist as well. Hakeem is the future and Ham will step up, its going to be interesting to see nxt yr because he will be starting from game one.

I was never interested in mortgaging our future for any of those WR’s but I definetly wouldve given up a 3rd & 4th for boldin in a heart beat tho. that guy is special.

How bad can Ramses Barden be that he couldn’t get on the field even in the Red-Green zone? Steve Smith is a great possession receiver but not a game breaker. Nicks has that kind of speed but needs to get better separation early. His YAC is great. Moss is a bust, if he can’t be turned into a return man then time for an adios. Manningham has a great upside but Hixon too many wide open drops. All & all reason to be optimistic.

I thinks Nicks has #1 WR potential. He runs good routes, is great w/the ball in his hands. Maybe Butch Davis was right when he compared him to a young Michael Irvin?

Yeah, WRs worked out for Giants

But two guys we all screamed for – Sintim and Barden – did not get a chance to show anything…Beckum(sp) as well. Really looking forward to seeing what those guys do in their second season and then we will see if all the acolades for JR are deserved.

If they play well and the injured FAs come back ( Canty et al) then JR wil be back to near genius status. I sure hope so.

When I saw Britt sitting there I thought The Giants were going to draft him, but I’m glad we drafted Nicks instead. I think he is going to have a great career. I think he will have over a thousand yards receiving next season.

I was never sold on any of the receivers that were being bandied about last year. If they were all so good their teams would have done everything to keep them. Marshall is a head case. Boldin is a crybaby. Not only did Houshmandzadeh have a so so year, he didn’t exactly endear himself to the fans in Seattle (I live in WA). And lest we forget Braylon Edwards still had problems catching the ball with the Jets.

smith is awesome. i love the idea of him in the slot as long as it doesnt loose him any snaps..

nicks is great too. enough said there..

i like barden a lot, and i think him and nicks can be 2 very dangerous outside recievers with smith in the slot.

im not that high on manningham personally.. i like him, i just think nicks and barden are better.

and whats with hixon? i liked him but its upsetting that he drops SOO many passes.. i thought he would be good.

and hagan is a good role guy. that could come in once in a while and make a play.

He really hasn’t been on the field at all. So its kinda hard for anyone to say if they really like or dislike this guy. Manningham on the other hand, is proven to be a scoring threat already. I agree that I think the greater potential lies in Barden, but Manningham is the perfect 3rd reciever that we need right now. Shifty-fast-playmaking. I see the balls he drops. But dont worry. Coughlin was good enough to make Tiki not fumble. I’m sure he can get Manningham to catch the ball.

look at his growth from yr 1 to 2, excellent! i expect it to continue

Barden is going to be ok for those who say he has to have a strong camp remember even Eli said out of all his receivers last year Barden was the most impressive in camp. However there’s no way Nick wasn’t getting on the field considering his talent and where we picked him. Ham was MosDef getting a shot too because he was hurt the year before and they felt as though he was a steal when we drafted him as a rookie on top of his talent. Steve Smith turned into Steve Smith to the 3rd power last year. There was essentially no way Barden could get on the field the way they were playing and Vets Hixon and Hagan in front of him. I believe the ST play they said he didn’t display was an excuse I personally do not want my 6’6 WO 3rd rnd pick playing special teams at all that’s not why we traded up and gave picks to the the Eagles for him to prove himself on ST. Coughling should have just been upfront and said we had other receivers who really step up this year and made it hard for a rookie with alot of upside to get on the field. I do not want to see that happen this year. Give him a shot!