This Week on The Blog
Rangers: The Rangers got off to a strong start, but have now been in the tank for about a month. This shouldn't happen to elite teams. What's more, their cap situation is so currently screwed up, they couldn't keep Skjei up once Ranta got hurt because of cap issues -- not play issues. That's ridiculous,, and they should have traded a D in the offseason to relieve them of those sorts of decisions. Injuries to Stepan, especially, have also been damaging. And of course now that some of the guys are coming back, Etem and McIlrath will sit -- even though they were establishing themselves and far from the problems.
Knicks: Fisher is not a good coach. His decisions cost games. And so far, it's looking like Phil Jackson made a bad call here. By now we should see a guy with better control of his team and with a winning formula. Fisher doesn't have that. In fact, it just occured to him recently that the team should look to Porzingis more. Yikes. And yest, I think Luke Walton is probably a better answer for where they are now. Also, the Knicks will have cap room again this year - though no picks so far - an having a good coach will probably be more attractive than having Fisher.
Giants: What a gut wrenching season. But the Giants have to be really careful going forward. You can look at them at 6-10 or 7-9 or whatever they finish up at and think -- they're a million miles away, let's blow it up. Or you could look at the fact that they were about 4 minutes away from going into last night's debacle as a 12-2 team. They'll be heading into the offseason picking about where they did last year and with a ton of cap room. If handled correctly this could be a really quick turnaround,
Yanks: So far we haven't seen any of the other moves that have been alluded to by Cashman and Girardi. I'm fine with that. And as soon as I get one or two more things taken care of, I will write something about the farm.
I hope you all have great last weeks of `15 and absolutely rockin' New Years!
posted by Kalel9 @ 9:21 AM
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There will be a fierce bidders war for Walton. Is the allure of the Lakers/LA too strong,
The NYG can turn it around quickly but there is no evidence that Reese can.
2007.
Fisher is losing my patience and you all know I have a lot of it.... I think the major issue plaguing the team is not having a floor general. Calderon is absolute shit and Grant is still only a rookie. I love the O'Quinn is finally back in the rotation but I would like to see them try and get an actual PG this off-season, specifically Conley.
Giants, lol. This team has very little talent outside of Eli and Odell -- we can fool ourselves into saying we were a few mins away from being 12-2 but our defense is not good at ANYTHING, we can't run the ball and outside of Odell, have no other offensive weapons. It's time to clean house here, starting with Reese.
I view 2007 as evidence that Reese's work as a very good scout was still driving their draft process, and the time since then as evidence that he is a horrible administrator.
He won a second SB as a GM. And would have won one or two more but for the Plax meltdown/imprisonment in 2008 which set them back.
With most of the players from his time as a scout.
The current talent is abysmal and that is on him.
And a lot of it is also injured.
That's football.
There is no drafted TE in the roster. His multiple misses on OL in the mid to late rounds has forced them to draft OL high. He failed to make adequate moves to prepare for the decline of the last good OL and that put his QB at risk. Besides Beckham there is no good drafted WR on roster. If Kennard lives up to his potential he will be the only good LB he ever drafted. He has been unable to draft a CB beyond Prince.
He isn't an average GM, he is a bad one.
But even if one wants to view every ambiguous move or event in the light most favorable to Reese, it is simply impossible to think he can be a great GM.
Shouldn't that be the test?
Bad GM's don't win two Superbowls. He's had bad injury luck and as I've demonstrated only missed on one Giant type OL that he should have taken during the decline of the old OL. It's a copy cat league and teams started taking all of the Giant type OL's before we could.
Meanwhile, undrafted TE Will Tye is leading all rookie TE's in receptions and yards, and LaCosse looked interesting in the preseason and last night, as well as on tape from college. We won our last SB with an undrafted TE.
He won with the majority of players being acquired while he wasn't the GM.
There can be no Giant type when your QB's health is at risk.
Tye has receptions because every other non Beckham target sucks.
This roster sucks and he is the reason.
Shockingly, I agree with LINJ.
Eli makes any TE look good, imagine if he was finally given one that wasn't undrafted?
Injuries are apart of the game and yes the giants have been decimated by them more than any other team but there lack of depth from drafting + good FA signings has left them unable to fill in these voids.
I don't have the time or I'd go through it but when has Reese made a good FA signing? David Baas was terrible, DRC is not locking anyone down, Schwartz has never played..... I mean shit he guaranteed Dwayne Harris $5mil!!!! A god damn special teams player. This is the biggest issue. We should be able to fill these roster spots with drafted players or undrafted players yet we don't and then are left to spend cap space on shit.
I apologize to Billy. ;)
Yanks close to getting Chapman?
Curry says done deal
Domestic violence issue? If so, horrible.
Rookie Davis is in the deal for Chapman.
Wonder who the other 3 players are
Jagielo. Headley keeps sucking more.
.@Yankees acquire four-time All-Star LHP Aroldis Chapman from @Reds for RHPs Caleb Cotham & Rookie Davis, INFs Eric Jagielo and Tony Renda
Done deal --- Rookie Davis & Eric Jagielo are the headliners then followed by Cotham and Renda.
I'm assuming the Yanks did their due diligence regarding the DV issue and felt it was okay to proceed.
The return is interesting -- I am not a Jagielo fan but I do like Davis a lot. I'll judge the trade once the rest of the dominoes fall as it seems to me there's more coming after this.
Refs or Castro will have to play 3B.
Caleb Cotham, Rookie Davis, Eric Jagielo and Tony Renda.
I wonder what they will do if this is peak Headley.
I expect Headley to rebound defensively -- a lot of his errors were throwing related, which was definitely an outlier for his career.
And having seen Jagielo on 4 different occasions, when he actually was healthy, he makes Headley look like Mike Schmidt. He was 100% destined to move to 1B, which clearly is occupied by the Bird.
I agree with Billy. What I like is that the Yanks did not give up any of their very top prospects, so far. But let's see where they end up.
But there is the chance he won't. I want Castro at 3B and Refs at 2B. Refs grinds. That's what this offense should be about.
The only player that hurts is Davis.
Miller and/or Gardner are going for starters. Book it.
Jennings
It seems possible if not likely Chapman will have to serve some sort of suspension this season, and obviously the Yankees are taking on some risk and some controversy
50 game suspension would mean Chapman wont be a FA until after 2017.
If he is guilty, then he deserves it. But if he did it, I'm just very disappointed that they would want him. Some things are more important than baseball.
New thread.
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