New York Giants Notes: Antrel Rolle Ready For The Bright Lights
by cjmulrain on Jul 14, 2010 10:24 AM EDT
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PrintAntrel Rolle, the Giants biggest free-agent acquisition of the offseason, sat down for an interview with the Sporting News and talked about signing with the Giants and how he will approach this season. At the very least he's saying the right things. Back in the Shockey days I used to defend guys training in Miami instead of New York, but I really liked Rolle's answer to the last question and think he's setting a good example by training in New York, at least for his first season as a Giant. Hopefully, Rolle is the missing piece that can plug the massive hole the Giants had in the secondary last year.
It's been all over the place, but it wasn't mentioned on the front page here and has now been overshadowed a bit by George Steinbrenner's death yesterday, but long-time NY area P.A. announcer Bob Sheppard passed away on Sunday. He's most famous as the "Voice of God" at Yankee Stadium, but he also followed the Giants out to Giants Stadium and did P.A. work for the St. John's mens basketball team. Both teams paid their respects to a sports icon.
Lawrence Taylor has pled not-guilty to the rape charge he is facing. Good luck, LT.
Gerris Wilkinson is already planning for life after football.
Yahoo's! Jason Cole ranks the NFL linebacking units, and has the Giants as the 3rd worst in the NFL. Interesting to note that all of his top 5 and 8 of his top 10 are 3-4 defenses, where the linebackers more commonly get to do flashy things like sack the QB.
Finally, the Star Ledger has three new additions to its summer questionnaire series: Matthias Kiwanuka; Jim Sorgi; and my favorite draft pick, Jason Pierre-Paul. It's not exactly the most awe-inspiring interview, but like I said at the end of my draft critique - I thought it was the wrong pick, but I'm rooting like hell for the kid to prove me wrong.
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Antrel
Yeah, he is saying all the right thing’s. As far as expectations go, the very least a fan can hope for is that he’s a solid contributor. Anything greater than that would be great!
Though player’s from Miami do train together, it seemed like Antrel alluded to, or hinted that there may be a clause in his contract that makes him obligated to train with the Giants? I think it should be a non-issue as i think all players should be with their teams, but it’s refreshing to know that he’ll be with the team and not hanging around the wrong crowd! ;)
Alluded or hinted?????!!!! Hottman
he said:
“and it’s in my contract for me to be up here. If that’s what they want, that’s what they’re going to get.”
Thats pretty straight forward if you ask me
Peyton May Have The Wins!!
But Eli Will Have The Rings!!!
Like Rolle more and more.....
I liked the comment from the dude on the Cardinals who called out Kerry Rhodes for not being w/ the team…..I think the quote was something along the lines of “hope you ready….Antrel would make sure he’s here” or something like that
"Throw the damn ball to Kevin Boss" - Andiamo708
I guess you can't rate the Giants LB's higher then that.
especially a dork like Cole, who really doesn’t know who’s on the Giants as evidence by his previous rankings.
Doesn’t matter. If they’re a no name group, so be it. They’ll never be elite, and they don’t have to be…no where close to it either. Who cares about who makes the Pro Bowl? These guys gotta do their job, which is not suck. Its to clean up after the chaos the front 4 will create and the opportunites the secondary (cuz its gonna be good) allows them to make.
Mike Boley WILL make the aforementioned not cared about Pro Bowl, if he’s healthy. LB’s like him, in a D like Fewell will run that’s most likely gonna have lots of Tampa 2 in it…THRIVE.
Bye, Lee :(
"LBs like him...,) etc.
I’ve been thinking (hoping?) the same thing, FB.
Interesting point about training
SN: So many former University of Miami players still train there during the offseason. Why have you been training with the Giants?
AR: I usually do train in Miami, and I love training down there. I’ve never been with my team for a full offseason working out. But they’re expecting big things from me, and it’s in my contract for me to be up here. If that’s what they want, that’s what they’re going to get.
The Giants must be serious about having guys train with the team and not down in Miami if they would put it in the contract. Good for them.
I always thought that was a bit of a problem with the team not putting it together in past years
you had guys like Shockey and Burress practicing in Miami for whatever reason…and then we’d all wonder why Eli doesn’t seem to be on the same page as them during the season.
Bye, Lee :(
by FreeBradshaw on Jul 14, 2010 3:02 PM EDT up reply actions
Dare I say
I am like what I hear out of Rolle, I am expecting big things from him this season.
As far as Gerris, he better be prepairing for life after football becasue I doubt he is going to be on the roster after camp, and from what I have seen of him this should be his last year in the NFL.
As far as our linebackers go, I would say they ranked them spot on. I was really disappointed we did not go with a linebacker much earlier in the draft because I think we have huge problems at that position and even though Boley showed flashes, I am not convinced he is all that great either. Oh well gonna have to trust Jerry and the Giants Brain Trust on this one just like I had to last year with the Recievers hopefully they know somthing about that position I don’t
by Late for Dinner on Jul 14, 2010 1:09 PM EDT reply actions
rolle,i guess
not really about rolle even though i was very happy to get him at any price. i am just wondering about all the talk about not going after a lb sooner,who was worth moving up for?i dont think there was much talent at lb in this years draft last year a couple.i know none of ours have done much but i think fewell hopefully should be at least dc of the year.so far on this site there has not been much negitivity.but has anyone been to all the other sites?not one good thing to say about any one or or anything .i think the best i saw was us going 7 and 9 at best. i am sick of and thinking i was only fan.why dont they just go watch arena ball or usf or cfl and go away .
no problem with that spot
especially because Cole said in his preface that 3-4 teams were generally ranked higher because of the pass rushers.
I don’t think the LB’s are going to be good, but I think the Giant’s plan is obviously to be dangerous up front and complex behind them. We have Boley as (in my opinion) the only solid coverage LB on our roster, I guess Gerris… we’ll see… so I think other East teams will continue to attack those areas of the field.
But Fewell does cool stuff with mixing his coverages, and that’s gotten him more out of his secondary in Buffalo than most coaches would get from that talent, and he’ll do the same with us. I’m genuinely excited about how our secondary could look when we don’t drop into a 2/4 shell every snap, I really think Fewell is going to make a difference in that area, so the impact of having a weak LB corp will be somewhat diminished.
But then, I’ve been coaching secondary this summer, so I now have an inflated sense of the importance of DB coaches
As is the case with our secondary....
I think that the LB’s will be as good as the DLine will allow. My thinking….. if the DLine is back in top form, the LB’s will be solid. If the DLine faulters again, our LB’s will suck again, and on that note…..Captain Obvious has left the building!!
Just having Rolle and Grant
makes me almost cry with relief because I now know that CC Brown and Aaron Rouse wont be “playing” as safties for us.
The Cole stuff is just crap.
It is nothing better than refuse, and really not good for anything other than some bantering back and forth. Ooooh, this guy has a crystal ball, so he has the inside track on football knowledge.
Many of our LBs are unproven for the most part, so who knows how these guys will do?
They get a bad grade because they’re unproven? People hate things they know little about, and this shoe fits especially with this guy. I hope they’re the 3rd best so this guy can find some other entity to “represent”….probably named Yahoo after him.
We’ll be fine if everyone does their job. A mouthful.
We didn't even have a chance for the "perfect season", but we did have the perfect ending.
Wilkinson
If he doesn’t play better, life after football may be sooner than he thinks.
As for the dominance of 3-4 schemes in the linebacker ratings, why not? LBs are more important in the 3-4, so 3-4 teams will invest more in that position.
As for Cole’s ratings of the Giants’ LBs, how could he rate them any higher? The SAM is Sintim, who showed little last year, the Mike is a competition among players who also haven’t shown much, and maybe it’s just me, but I didn’t see all that much from Boley. “Unproven” is actually one of the better things you can say about the group.
I certainly hope, as I am sure we all do, that some of them step up and show they can make plays, but you can’t rate a group on hope.
My own feeling is that Sintim will show some growing pains but will improve as the year goes on, and that the DL will be good enough that whoever is the Mike won’t be exposed too badly (and will be a two-down player in any case). However, if players don’t step up, or if there are key injuries, the LBs could be like last year’s safeties – a black hole that opposing offenses can key on.
Mickey C
LB
I miss when Kiwanuka was a LB. I would like to see him back there. He couldn’t cover much but he can get after the QB and Osi wouldn’t have to worry about losing the starting job
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