The Giants Last Night

After the first play from scrimmage, where but for a missed straight arm, Saquon would have taken it to the house, the Giants were awful last night.  Of course, OBJ didn't play a down,  Saquon only played a few and Cleveland was blitzing well into the 4th quarters against 4th stringers. Cleveland also drew 2 taunting penalties in the first 5 minutes and were playing with and instensity they never match in the regular season. Eli wasn't sharp, and looked particularly bad on a screen attempt, which is too bad since this years O should feature a lot of them. Btw, Jonathan Stewart looked absolutely cooked. Not good.

The new OL looked effenctive on play 1, but got jammed on both sides thereafter.  In general, all three versions of the line kept the QB's clean, but the Browns kept blitzing  and the backs and protections weren't always ready.

Davis Webb had the yips or something and was missing high all over the place. Lucky it didn't turn into picks. He did throw one nice ball that would have been a TD, had Kalif Raymond been able to locate it. Kyle Lauletta looked a hell of a lot smoother and more accurate, and though I won't overrate this first appearance, I think, and have thought, he's the next QB. We also have to remember Davis hadn't seen live game action since last year's preseason, and since then Kyle has played a full season and a memorable Senior Bowl.  We'll see what happens next.

WR's wer awful.  they dumped a few to Sterling Shepard, but OBJ didn't play and none of the 3rd receiver candidates had a good night or could muster a big play.

Galman was deent. but Jalen Simmons and Robert Martin both looked good. Again, that was against 2's and 3's.  Simmons scored our only TD.

The D was pretty decent, particularly against the run.  However; the DB's didn't seem to know when the ball was coming at all, so communication was severly lacking.  The DL looks deep, but the back seven needs to tighten up both coverage and ball awareness. But that should come with reps.

In general, the best play was the first play, and it's a really good thing that the Giants will have second dibs on all waived players until game 4 of the regular season.