New York Giants' Notes: The Silly Season Is Here

I had the same though after reading these articles- Diehl’s situation is pretty cut and dry, however I’d love to think that Seubert is competing and motivated in regards to his position.
All in all a painfully slow month as a reader, however that ususally translates into good seasons (thanks, also, to the 7-9 predictions)

Good. Continue to not know who Terrell Thomas is.

If Ross gets back to 2007 form, he’ll be a great nickel corner/safety that will allow the Giants a ton of versatility on the field. But he ain’t the 2nd key cog on the defense, let alone the whole team.

Fewell is probably #2, maybe #1. Eli will get his, probably more so this year with the youngins a year less young. No one wins anything without a good defense and especially don’t win with one as bad as last year.

But please, keep doubting the Giants. They have questions of course. But at least they know the questions..unlike other teams who’re being penciled in for the SB already ( **coughDallasCOUGH*dallassHACK)

Did they use Madden for that simulation? Or perhaps the World Cup predicting octopus?

-How will Linval spell Robbins when he’s not on the team?
-When did Sintim switch to #52?
-How is pointing out that Brown and Rouse are gone supposed to be anything but a good thing?

The Gmen will go 16-0 in regular season, shut-out every team in the playoffs, go onto to face the Colts in the SB. During the SB, Eli throws for 550 yards, 7 TDs, 0 Ints, 125 yards rushing, 3 rushing TDs, and spells Osi on defense, coming up with 4 sacks, Peyton sulks. Eli then brings peace to the Middle East and Congress votes to change Memorial Day to Eli Manning Day and he will go on to become president in 2032. That is my July prediction. Any nay-sayers?

another couple of weeks….sigh

I’m glad to see him listed in the impact players even if it is a complete BS list. I think this guy has the biggest impact on a team of any rookie this year.

Last year it was a glarring weakness when Feagles would break out the Sandwedge on a par 5 and leave our already weak Defense with only about 35 yards to defend and 3 points on the board before they got to 1st down.

Dodge could cut us some slack when we sputter 3 and out, deep in our own end. The kid can at least give our D a fighting chance to keep an opponent out of our end and gain a little field position.

If he lives up to his college averages, I think we are a better overall team coming into the season.

It was OK. Sandra “The Nazette” Bullocks was pretty good in it. As was the lead who played M. Oher (he was better than Bullock). The rest of the actors were TERRIBLE though. The husband was terrible, the little kid brother was the most annoying little sh*t imaginable – not cute at all (which he and the directors were trying wayyyy too hard for), and the supporting teachers and school board members were horrible. The investigator woman was average, not horrible, and the project gangstas were ok too, not horrible.

Anyway, I was immediately pleased when the film began with footage of 8:49:10 AM blowin’ up Joe Theisman. I wasn’t expecting that. It was well done – they gave it good coverage and screen time including a replay and a good angle, and a clean shot of the leg break. Not that I’m celebrating Theisman’s terrible career-ending injury but it’s important history and powerful drama to show the break to show the degree of injury. Bulluck then went on to explain how this play was a driving factor for why left tackles indeed are so important and well paid as this original post notes — because it’s that important to protect the QB’s “blind side” in order to prevent a devastating Theisman-like injury to the QB.

This also makes me nervous about just removing Diehl. He’s protected Eli well thus far. Maybe don’t mess with it? Maybe make an open competition at RT instead and have Beatty possibly push McKenzie instead and let “the best man win” everywhere else? I dunno, just don’t want to give away LT so quickly to a untested guy without being sure. I guess they’ll know if he’s ready.

But, Jimmy, you ignored the key fact that Diehl may not even be the starting left tackle for the Giants in 2010.

Hey Ed, thanks for the linky love (I think), haha. For the record, I’m aware of the possibility of Beatty starting this season at LT. I did another piece back a few months ago about the ages of every O Lineman in the NFL, which was sort of meant to show how old the Cowboys OL is in comparison to the rest of the league. At the time, I asked SB Nation site who they thought their starting 5 at OL was going to be. I even did it here to remove all doubt, despite my familiarity of the Giants, living in North Jersey and all. Anyway, the consensus was that Diehl would be the starting LT.

I didn’t include Beatty in this latest piece for one simple reason – I don’t buy it, so much so that I didn’t even bother including it in this latest piece…

Kudos to the Giants coaching staff for making Diehl compete for the LT job, but I’m personally not really taking that “competition” seriously. There’s no way in hell the Giants are going to replace a guy who played in the Pro Bowl last year at LT and throw an untested first year starter to the wolves to face the following list of pass rushers – DeMarcus Ware (twice), Jared Allen, Trent Cole (twice), Brian Orakpo (twice), Dwight Freeney, Julius Peppers, Mario Williams, Osi Umenyiora, Aaron Kampman, Clay Matthews, Kyle Vanden Bosch, etc etc. Beatty would have to absolutely destroy Diehl in camp/preseason for the Giants to be comfortable enough to make that change. Anything short of that, and Diehl isn’t going anywhere.

The Giants had a terrible season last year (for the Giants). This is what happens after seasons like 2009 – Players lose the right to be comfortable with their jobs. That’s all this is.

We all know he is a converted fullback – any thoughts that he could be good enough to play center and replace O’Hara in a few years.

If Diehl moves inside and Seubert becomes the back up at OG and Center, than Petrus can be the second backup at the interior positions as I assume Diehl would be the backup OT and would slide to the open position.

the article about the 10 impact players was actually over at Bleacher Report as well.

It’s the exact same article….so i simply pointed out Fred Robbins was no longer part of the team and dude lost it. accused me of being negative and looking to start a fight….all I did was say that Robbins was no longer on the team?!?!

So let me get this straight, if he would have predicted that Tiki Barber would be our #1 Breakout Player should we all stand by and agree with it?

Or how about Antonio Pierce to be our starting MIKE?

Maybe Hixon at Punt Returner too?

I just don’t get it….had i thrown a fan post up over here and made a mistake I would certainly want one of you guys to point it out.

“Get better than I was last year, get bigger, faster, stronger, know the game more,” said Manningham, who played in the Warren G. Harding alumni basketball game Monday.

http://www.tribtoday.com/page/content.detail/id/539647.html?nav=5024

I’ve been working on my “I told you so” delivery all off-season. I have to get it right for the season.