David Diehl Retires

And speaking of core:  the Giants longtime Guard and Tackle, David Diehl retired today.   We speculated about this ten days or so ago, and now it has come to pass.   First of all, if you could get a David Diehl quality player in the 5th round of every draft, your team would never be out of contention.  Diehl came right in and started as a rookie, he had played under one of Mouse McNally's disciples at Illinois and scooted right in at right guard.  That was when Richie Seubert was looking like a future pro-bowler at left guard.  Tiki was through the roof because both guards could pull.  Dave would move around from there, but always gave it all he had, often playing through injuries during his 120 straight starts.   Eventually he ended up at left tackle for two Superbowls, cause no one else could do the job and cause Beatty got injured in `11.  

Dave was not only great on the field, but his selflessness on the business side of things helped the Giants field better teams.   That's another thing about core, they should want to be there, and prove it at some point of points.   Dave took a catch deal that would pay him one rate at tackle and another rate at guard.  And they could always call him for a re-do.  

He even drove Eli around.   David Diehl was just everything you want a Giant today and the Giants as an organization as well as the fans were lucky to get to cheer for him for all of these years and through two titles.  May the sun always shine on David Diehl.