Giants Draft: The Quarterback
Seriously, since the sent many assets to go get Eli in 2004, the Giants have spent precious little on QB's. Over that same span, the Jets have spent pick after pick and pick chasing Franchise types all over the first rounds of drafts. That's quarterback hell. What Washington has is QB hell, too. What the Giants have is not quarterback hell, at all. In fact, they still have their 2004 Franchise Guy in Eli, they have their 2019 low cost replacemet, and then last year's fourth round gamble on goodness. They also have Alex Tanney, which really is the inexplicable one.
But the Giants are chill at QB, and what they'll get a load of this weekend is a much more athletic version of Eli, who can read defenses, run surprisingly fast and had the quickness to post a 7 flat 3-cone at 6'5" and 225. That's sick for a QB.
So, hopefully everyone has calmed down and realize it's time to raise another Franchise Guy.
posted by Kalel9 @ 4:57 PM
12 Comments:
How can you legitimately say we have no reason to worry about QB? We've been in QB hell for 3+ years now -- we've been hamstrung by an allegiance to Eli when he's been a below avg QB.
Furthermore, everything about Daniel Jones is a HUGE if. How many college QBs were poor in college and then improved in the NFL?
We've been in OL hell, not QB hell. Fix the OL and you fix the QB.
Jones was by far the best player on a bad team in college and dragged them to three bowl games.
The OL has not been great but to say that's the reason why Eli has been below avg is a cop out.
Using bowl games to validate Jones is grasping at straws. The ACC conf he played in is terrible, regardless of how bad his team was, he should have put up SEMI-decent stats.
I hope I'm wrong but I don't have blidn faith in Gettleman or this poorly run organization when they still believe Eli is a good QB.
Eli accuracy is POOR, he has zero mobility and he's been saved by having Odell for many years. Watch how dominant OBJ is this year when he has a QB who can throw it deep and actually hit him in stride on those slants. How many times did Odell have to make ridiculous acrobatic catches when he was wide open.
I think Eli is on the downside of his career, but the GIants wasted the entire second half of his prime and career but not replacing the Super Bowl OL's. He hasn't been able to step up or deploy play action on a regular basis ever since. They've done a lot to fix it and still need a Right Tackle.
I don't think the organization is well run or poorly run right now, and nobody else does either. And using the way they treat Eli as a litmus test is a fool's errand as we saw what happened two year's ago when the coach and GM got fired and a national firestorm was ignited by benching Eli.
I think it's Reese's fault that Eli was not supported.
Btw, I love Odell, but before his only Giant playoff game the threw a boat party then went out the next day and had the worst game of his career.
I didn't want to trade him, but they scored more down the stretch when he didn't play
We'll see what happens this year, but OBJ hasn't finished a complete season in a few years. We'll see if he can still play 16.
Scored more down the stretch without Odell? You seriously think they have a better offense without him??!!! Phil, comeon man what kool-aid are you drinking? They beat up on the HORRIFIC Redskins, got SHUTOUT by the Titans, put up 28 against Indianapolis and then put together points against the backups of Dallas..
This team is fooling itself if they think they are going to be better than 500 this year. Do they not realize almost half their wins came against backup QBs?
Zero shot they win more than 6 games this year.
I didn't say they were better, I only said they scored more after OBJ was out.
That said, let's see what they do this coming Tuesday when they can sign veteran FA's without having it count against their compensation formula for extra picks.
And btw, they have 100 M in cap room after this season.
I still think the most fixable weakness is the head coach.
The other thing is whatever Jones turns out to be I hate the Manning comparisons. If he really believes in his talent he should aim higher.
So it seems very likely that they drafted Slayton so that Jones would always play with horrible players.......
Glad to hear he finish strong
Jones had a much better first day than Eli did. Some receiver drops, but no sheds hit.
More of that today.
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