Giants Draft Review: A Cluster of Corners
Having secured Baker, the Giants turned around an grabbed Notre Dame CB Julian Love. Another great football player who most believed would be drafted in the second round. This is what happens when you have a vast red chip area in a draft. There are "second rounders" available into round 4! It's really true and we saw it yesterday.
What was interesting about this year was the two best players coming into the draft Alabama's Quinnen Williams and Ohio States Nick Bosa went 3 and 2 respectively. And as far as I am concerned, they were the 2 blue chip players. Everyone else was red chip. To wit, Kyler Murray is short, and Josh Allen lacks secondary pass rush moves and can get wired to blockers. They could both turn out to be stars - and any of these red chip players can - but I wouldn't be surprised if they don't. I will be surprised if the two blue chippers fails.
Finally, the Giants wrapped up their cluster of corners by taking Washburn CB Corey Ballentine. Corey was tragically shot last night and lost a friend in the incident. So my sympathies go out to the families and the Washburn Community. Corey is supposed recover fully. And that's great news. He's the best athlete of the CB's the Giants took, but also a big time player who did everything, including returning kicks for Washburn.
So the Giants went back to cluster drafting a troubled area - this time CB. This is exactly what George Young would do when he was at his pre-cap peak. Now, between last year's Supplemental Draft and this year's NFL Draft the Giants have added 4 young corners, Beal, Baker, Love and Ballentine. This could set them up for years. Let's see if it does.
posted by Kalel9 @ 12:42 PM
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I think Getting had a horrible draft John Mara is forcing him to do it with a dual mandate, but the statement is disgusting and marginally racist:
“Listen, you can have an off-field incident with any draft pick any time,” Francesa said, in audio courtesy @BackAftaThis. “But when you finish your draft and stress how you went out of your way to take the right kind of guys, guys that you want on the team, guys that are going to be great character guys and you stress that as strongly as the Giants did, it looks pretty bad when one of them gets shot on a Saturday night. It does not look good. It’s just more of the same for the Giants, who just can’t get out of their own way, no matter what they say.”
@FieldYates
Some movement on the Giants personnel staff, as area scout Mike Murphy won’t be returning, while area scout Steve Devine is retiring. A busy time of the year for front office reshuffling.
Raanan
Giants draft pick Corey Ballentine was hit by a single shot in the glute in Sunday’s shooting that took the life of teammate Dwane Simmons. Ballentine remains hospitalized but hope is he’ll be released within next day or so. Washburn plans to hold Tuesday night vigil for Simmons.
Gettleman is a joke.
Seriously, how can we have any confidence in his ability to scout a QB when he keeps saying our Manning is still good when everything from the tape to his stats says he's a bottom 10 QB.
Guy has never traded down in 7 years either, he has no idea what value is at all. It's not like Jones is this can't miss prospect.
If we take Allen or Oliver @ 6 and then miss out on Jones, it's not the end of the world. THis team isn't going to win anything this year.
Yup, and even from his point of view, you have an aging, declining quarterback and a young quarterback who will need help even if he turns out to be good, you leverage the offensive line to support them. and he didn’t do it.
Good for him:
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he reached out 2 rookie teammate
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after his draft night shooting tragedy. "Just a really tough situation for him... Wanted to let him know I was thinking about him and I was here if he needed anything"
This isn’t changing my mind, but one thing law school teaches you, don’t be a hack, look at all sides:
https://twitter.com/BaldyNFL/status/1123225876265459712?s=20
Jones is going to be good if they do this right,
"I've got to think short term, and I've got to think long term. That's the box I'm in. That's the position I'm in. Coaches have to win now, and I ask myself -- I've told you guys a million times, I ask myself that question, am I giving Pat and the guys enough players to win with, OK? And really, you know, it's tough," Gettleman said.
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So obviously this is John Mara’s directive, and it’s what is screwing this team. I said the same thing about the Yankees until they became sellers a couple years ago and it paid big dividends. Only an idiot tries to do both at the same time, and really calling John Mara an idiot is a compliment.
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