Big Blue Huddle

Quote from: kingm56 on April 09, 2024, 03:14:28 PMSounds like a veteran player trying to avoid camps, much like Strahan in 07. 

Strahan was good

Giants are being held hostage by an uninspired, overpaid 1/2 ass

All those picks and no ability to make sure the proper coaches were in place to develop them.

he was horrible when he wanted to play, I can't imagine his indecision will increase the caliber of his play

Missed the opening drop of the gloves

Tuned in 1/2 way through second and rangers were in the process of giving up 2 goals in 2 shots

Played a solid third, Kreider's goal was sweet

pulled it out, grabbed the  2 points

Not sure how first half of game played out though

A dud no doubt.  Crap effort, with too many turnovers to count, horrible breakouts, 1:1 battles had no intensity.....  too much to dwell on really

Laviolette puts a real premium on rebounding after 1 lose, some of his speeches are real solid.  The team tends to react to him as the Rangers have only failed to break a losing streak after a 1st loss on 6 occasions all season (4x 2 games, 1x 3 games in a row, 1x 4 games in arow)

Onto the Devils tomorrow, hoping for a big rebound game.

Quote from: MightyGiants on April 01, 2024, 03:30:23 PMImagine taking a time-based test.  Now imagine 45% of the time,, 2 seconds after you start to read each question, you can smacked in the back with a 2 by 4.  Do you think that might impact your test score?

Agreed, but Jones makes mistakes without the pressure, before the play even starts. Presnap mistakes, you can not blame that on the line, on pressure or anyone else.

Now imagine a football smart QB who doesn't process information correctly in the face of pressure as well as the absence of pressure, stop imagining because that is Daniel Jones.

Quote from: MightyGiants on April 01, 2024, 03:14:34 PMWhy I love Cosell is he is the epitome of intellectual honesty.  Had the tape shown that the Giants had dumbed things down for Daniel Jones, he would have been sure to add that qualifier.  Since he didn't, it's fair to assume the tape and what he heard wasn't at odds.

Greg Cosell said in 2022 Jones was spoon feed the offense.

To me spoon feed means, given the offense in increments as to reduce the need to think


What exactly do you think Cosell means by that?

Quote from: MightyGiants on April 01, 2024, 03:16:10 PMChris,

Let us be accurate here.  When Cosell says he hears how smart Jones is, he refers to football intelligence, not general intelligence.

Once again, avoiding the issue. 

But to you point and i will say it again, Jones is smart and as I have stated in this thread that includes Jones being football smart.  Jones is academic football smart though, white board smarts. Sitting talking shop, X's and O's with Gruden  he clearly knows his stuff. 

On the field, real time processing at the line pre snap and in the play smarts not so much.  They are not the same. 

If you produce anyone saying as much it will be the first time I have ever heard Jones's in game mental football processing is that of a smart QB. I would love to hear the reference if it is out there. The film does not show that nor has any film review I have ever heard of or heard refenced related to Jones.

It is crazy what happens when expectation and pressure change the reality for peoples thinking processes. With Jones there is clearly a difference.




 

Quote from: MightyGiants on April 01, 2024, 02:29:08 PMChris,

Why do you think Greg Cosell was hearing how smart Daniel Jones is?

You have failed to address much of anything I have said.  You have however responded with logical fallacy after logical fallacy.
You ignore direct questions.
I agree Jones is smart.  I have said it over and over, he is very smart Duke grad.  I simply elaborated that he makes very simple mistakes in key moments in the absence of pressure.
But you brought up Greg Cosell, Greg Cosell said of Jones after the 2022 season. 
I feel like the spoon feed him (jones), watching the film I feel like they told him if you see an opening run. I (Greg) feel like they wanted him running more and throwing....

spoon feed is defined by  provide (someone) with so much help or information that they do not need to think for themselves.

Greg's words based on his film review.

He goes on to say he watched tons of Buffalo film and Daboll has a vast intermediate and vertical attack in his offense he choose not to use with Jones.

I am glad you choose Greg Cosell as the approved expert.  His 43 years with NFL films would certainly support that. Without the benefit of getting to ask him any follow up questions he is supporting everything I have been saying.

 

Quote from: MightyGiants on April 01, 2024, 01:43:50 PMChris, when it comes to tape breakdown (particularly the Giants), I have absolute faith in only two outsiders.  This is due to my point earlier about the limitations of outsiders to be fully aware of the facts.


Carl Banks- because he can talk to the coaches, and when he breaks down tape before or does not speak to coaches, he discusses the limitations of his conclusions.

Greg Cosell-  The man is extremely careful in qualifying his opinions and clearly stating the limitations of his observations.  Speaking of the man back in July 2023 he had this to say about Jones, ""I've heard really good things about how smart he is"


Pat doesn't do tape breakdowns, but I enjoy listening to and watching Bobby and Nick. However, I don't take what either person says in blind faith because I know they don't have all the information they need to draw completely accurate conclusions (they will be right more than they are wrong, but they simply can't be perfect).

I'm not blindly listening to any individual and to remove them I specifically poised a question that exists in the absence of defensive pressure, absence of scheme  and analyst interpretation.

Presnap reads, this is as simple as simple gets; overhang pressure and empty protection.

How does a smart Duke graduate, 5th year starter make incorrect elementary pre snap reads ?

Maybe, just maybe Wonderlic Index doesn't account for all the intangibles associated with intellect and the situations it is applied...


The consensus idea was an extra , but fair enough. Maybe we can ask Patricia to ask Banks

Quote from: MightyGiants on April 01, 2024, 12:02:03 PMChris,

Did you see the post I made a week or two ago where Daboll was very critical of the people claiming Jones was missing WRs etc because the people doing the reviews (in Daboll's opinion) lacked all the information about the play.  The reviewer would point to a wide receiver (for example), but be unaware the receiver ran the wrong route and that the QB wouldn't be looking there.

When you listen to outsiders breaking down Giants "film" you have to appreciate they are doing so with maybe 80% of the information they need to be accurate

I did but lets stay on topic.


Empty protection is a basic pre snap read,  6>5 or 7>5.

Certainly simple enough for a smart Duke grad who is a student of the game of football (both comments I complete agree with).  Yet he failed to recognize it,  as such failed to even look in the direction of it; resulting in sack instead of throwing to the hot read.   

Maybe other intangibles exist within a QB's mental game that are not accounted for in a Wonderlic Test Score?

This is not assuming QB progressions or if a route was correct as was the case on your referenced topic. 

Overhang pressure is an extremely basic pre snap read, this also has nothing to do with the Daboll's  comment on wrong routes.


Ask Tricia, Nick Falato and Bobby Skinner if Daniel Jones is :
1- In buffalo how would you describe Daboll's offense on degrees of complexity ?
2- Are the Giants running the same system as Daboll ran in Buffalo?
3- In Daboll's first year did Jones run a simple or complicated offense?
4- In Daboll's year 2 was Jones asked to grow and take on more complexity and how did he handle it?

Get their answers and lets revisit the conversation.

Quote from: MightyGiants on April 01, 2024, 11:29:48 AMChris,

Seeing ghosts because the Giants are guilty of malpractice in terms of getting the living crap beat out of him is different than not being intelligent and capable of processing.  I think you and many fans really fail to appreciate just how terrible the blocking was for Jones.  Jones had the fastest time to pressure (both Taylor and DeVito enjoyed more time before pressure) due to a massive failure of the line to pick up stunts and blitzes, and he was the one without Thomas that allowed for the LT to completely whiff on his blind side blocks.

Also, in 2022, as the season wore on, Barkley was running less, and Jones was throwing more (something you didn't mention)

Between the factual evidence of what two coaches and GMs did and Wonderlic test, I see little reason to believe the claims of needing to dumb things down

I gave you two presnap reads he failed to process in 2023.  That came before any pressure was applied.  On a white board I am sure he explained that just fine, yet on the field he clearly chocked.  Completely failed to recognize to simple pre snap reads. So that exist outside of facts?  I agree he is smart but it still happened even in week 1 when his PTSD didn't set in.

Furthermore, in game 1 vs Dallas last year, Jones was responsible for 5 of the 11 sacks and had the 7th most time of the QB's who played that day. At least 3 of those were his fault before the ball was even snapped. That throws out the line and pressure argument related to those. 

Jones had the 2nd worst line in NFL history, no doubt!!!   and Jones found a way to make them worse with his decision making and poor play. 

Quote from: MightyGiants on April 01, 2024, 11:15:32 AM@babywhales

Rather than just talking about people's opinions, we do have some factual data in the form of the Wonderlic test score.  The Wonderlic measures the following:


Yes, the Wonderlic test measures processing speed. The Wonderlic Personnel Test (WPT), also known as the Wonderlic test, is a psychometric assessment that assesses the test-taker's problem-solving skills and aptitude. The WPT has 50 questions and a time limit of 12 minutes. It assesses verbal, numerical, and spatial skills, and how quickly and well you can think. The WPT has four categories: General Knowledge, Verbal Reasoning, Abstract Reasoning, and Numerical Reasoning


The 2019 Wonderlic scores were leaked for QBs:


Quarterbacks
Ryan Finley: 43
Gardner Minshew: 42
Daniel Jones: 37
Easton Stick: 32
Clayton Thorson: 32
Trace McSorley: 31
Will Grier: 30
Brett Rypien: 28
Jarrett Stidham: 27
Drew Lock: 26
Tyree Jackson: 25
Dwayne Haskins: 25
Sean McGuire: 22
Kyler Murray: 20


Again, it's very hard to believe the claims that Jones needed things "dumb down"

In all that I just provided I get a Wonderlic score?  well maybe if Jones was worried the test practitioner was going to blindside him while answering the test results would have been different.  

I suppose his inability to read and address empty protection and overhang coverage didn't happen either because he has a high wonderlic score?  

Or maybe a test index does not directly corelate to field play?

Quote from: MightyGiants on March 30, 2024, 10:04:22 AMWhat the people making the unsubstantiated claims about the Giants having to dumb down the play book for Daniel Jones never explain is this:

The mental aspect of the game is heavily scouted (and readily apparent) by teams.  Daniel Jones struggled to understand the NFL game according to some of his harshest critics but Shurmur and Gettleman went ahead and drafted him sixth overall (Lock was not a first-round pick)

Schoen and Daboll also learned that Jones is supposedly limited mentally, yet they signed him to a big-ticket contract (where the Broncos moved on from Lock).

The number of people I need to believe are below average in intelligence and/or judgment is just too much for me.

Unsubstantiated is a bit much.  The comments are steadily made in film reviews, and podcasts, pressers and in articles.  This off course happened over a year and half and you act like I need a cited report and references.  The more shocking thing is that this has been discussed here over the same time frame and you are just now commenting on it.
Jones, a Duke graduate, is obviously smart and several articles have been written to state how impressed Daboll and others have been when they talk football, the academic side of football. Unfortunately, the game is not played at a white board and is played in real-time and that is where Jones struggles. Poor pre-snap reads and poor in play mental processing.

In 2023, the Offense was built around the corner stone idea of not putting the ball in Jones' hands.  Spread out the offense, less players in the box and let Jones and Barkley run it.  Jones scramble more in 2023 then in the 4 years prior. Running unbalanced sets with both OT's on same side, 113 personal, pin and pull, etc . Passing out of a league high playaction still couldnt get the ball down field.  While only throwing 25-28 times over 20 yards, fewest in NFL. The run first and pass second worked and when Jones was asked to throw it was from league high Play action out of heavy formations.

Dan Dugan wrote an article in sept of 2023 calling the 2022 offense smoke and mirrors. Multiple others stating in the attempt to disguise what Jones does poorly the Giants are running an offense that doesn't have him do much, multiple references to a QB who does little QB stuff.  Using non traditional formations to keep defenses at bay, Barkley as a wildcat, Slayton as a TE and pitching to Bellinger on a run, Breda running jet sweeps.  the coaches did a great job in 2022 of letting the offense do enough to succeed without it hurting the team.  All of that had more to do with jones and Barkley running plays complementing each other and keeping defenses at bay and not Jones's the QB, not his play as a passer and dropping back.

The wealth of film reviews continually highlights and suggest, a simple yet camouflaged offense in 2022.  Just because they came into camp with complex ideas does not mean that is what they implemented.

Daboll said they implemented terminology and basic offense in year one.   

Year two they opened it up the offense, had more talent, more speed and the wheels feel off.  Skinner did a podcast in early 2023 season where he stated the Giants are opening up the offense and asking Jones to do more and he failed to raise his game.

"They realized, 'Let's not put Jones in situations where he might have a bunch of moving parts, where he might have to think faster than he's capable of,' " Orlovsky said. "That's when he feels like, 'I have to get the ball out of my hands' and make a quick decision in the midst of chaos or under pressure. That's kind of been the M.O. for him for three years."
"It's very noticeable how little they make him play like an NFL quarterback. He has the easiest reads and the easiest concepts, and still he does not throw the ball accurately. He doesn't throw to the correct leverage, doesn't throw the receivers open, just doesn't do it. I'm giving you zero opinions. This is all the tape shows."

Daboll in 2024 did an interview and was asked why Waller isn't getting more targets and he stated "the reads" indicating his quarterbacks vision and decisions.

The play, as you could guess, featured Jones staring down his receiver. That, in effect, dialed up the game-breaking defensive touchdown for Witherspoon (who also recorded seven tackles and two sacks). You simply can't let cornerbacks where you want to throw the ball if you want to succeed as a quarterback. It's one of the cardinal rules of succeeding as a signal caller at the professional level. It's something Jones still does five years into his NFL career.
After the game, on NFL Gameday Final, Witherspoon was asked about Seattle's tremendous defensive success and how it managed to turn Jones into a trademark pumpkin. Rather than offer the standard cannon fodder about appreciating his teammates and working hard, Witherspoon almost immediately said, "We knew he [Jones] liked to stare down his first target."
I agree why did they sign him to such a deal?  I felt going in to FA he was worth 25 mill per, I think they clearly paid too much at 92 mill on a 2year deal.  I suspect they felt the growth in year 1 would continue.  The combination of the poor Oline and Jones poor play led to a disastrous season for the GMEN overall and Jones as a QB.

Jones ran a 1 read offense at Duke (65% one reads for college career)

Jones excelled under Shurmer in his 1 read , quick pass offense . That too was a stripped down offense .  (To be fair he was a rookie)

Jones has done little to nothing since as a passer , including under Daboll 

Watching All22, what makes you think the comments are not untrue ???

Looking at the degrees of complexity 

On end you have Eli and Gilbride running one of, if not the most complex offenses ever and on the other you have jones and 4 coaches who keep it relatively and when it's not the wheels come off. In those cases jones isn't the only reason why and maybe not the biggest reason why but he is certainly part of the problem

Lesson learned , don't draft a qb who is slow to process info.  If they came from a 1 read offense don't assume they can simply transition to a multi read offense  

Looking at the film it's clear to me a change is coming at a qb, I just don't know if it's this year or next