The Giants today added to their available cap space by cutting oft injured OL's Will Beatty and Geoff Schwartz and oft injured LB Jon Beason. Both were good players, and not part of the "talent problem" but they rarely played. Each cut creates "dead money." So the cap savings isn't huge, but all cap room will help as they have needs all over the place. And of course, now, they have big needs on OL and at LB, again. Seems like they maybe starting to overcome their tendancy to plan on relying on guys like this, and are taking a really critical look at their roster.
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To me, Beason exemplifies the recent decline of the Giants. He was only available for a 7th round pick because he couldn't stay healthy and bcause he lost his starting job on a rising Panthers team. Yet because he was able to stay healthy for a very, very short time and made an impact when he was acquired, his absence was cited as the reason for their fall-off when he inevitably got hurt. Who could have known?!?!
He also exemplifies how awful they have been at drafting LBs. Yes, they may not have the same importance for the recent defensive scheme as schemes employed years ago, but you need a least one impact LB to have a great defense, unless your pass rush is overwhelming.
So it will be interesting to see if Kennard can truly be a very unique exception to this failure, and whether they can somehow find impact LBs again.
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