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Welcome, Uncle Mickey, glad to have you aboard the best Giants' message board on the net...where intelligent people gather to share their well-thought-out opinions

The artical just below the one you posted is also interesting. It's Daniel Jeremiah's top 150. His top of the draft:

1) QB Caleb Williams
2) WR Marvin Harrison
3) WR Rome Odunze
4) WR Malik Nabors
5) QB Drake Maye
6) QB Jayden Daniels
7) TE Brock Bowers
8) OT Joe Alt
9) CB Terrion Arnold
10) OT Taliese Fuaga

20) QB JJ McCarthy

I don't think I've ever seen 3 WRs, listed in the top 4 picks in the draft...not in my lifetime

If we go QB, DeVito will be cut. That includes taking Penix or Nix in the second, or Rattler in the third, or a flyer late. The order will be DJ starter, Lock backup, new QB (insert name here). They are not about to hand the keys to the Giants fortunes to a rookie. Furthermore, we have a shot at one of the three WRs who are the best in recent memory, and there's no chatter at all about upcoming classes in the college ranks. Unlike Harrison, who has been touted since he started college ball, and the other two who have been oft mentioned throughout their career as Uber-talented, "once in a lifetime" type WRs. We might not get a another shot at a no.1 WR for quite some time

Just thinking out loud as a fan and not a professional analyst working for a team. Heavy decisions await Schoen tomorrow. I will be sitting on the edge of the couch with bated breath...would be chewing my nails if I was a nail biter 

Quote from: Philosophers on Today at 01:29:08 PMThanks for your thoughts.  I am kost interested in seeing the voting between QB vs WR.  How interested is this board in these QBs versus these WRs?

My problem with Maye (and I know I could be completely out to lunch), is that I like that he is tall and cerebral. But he doesn't have a lot of "good tape" on him from all I've read, and he's not ever going to be a threat to run as he's not considered a mobile QB...hence, requires superb protection and precision route running by his receivers

I go back to have another Mohs surgery on my face in a couple of weeks...another scar, another life battle with Squamous...no biggie IMO

However, I am concerned about another spot that my dermatologist refused to biopsy and will leave that to the Mohs surgeon. The spot to be removed is on my right cheek, near where my short sideburns meets no other hair or whiskers. No problem - easy access, easy fix. The spot I'm worried about though is in the inside corner of my eye...not the eyeball, but in the corner of my eyelid. I will know more after my surgery for the other part. I just don't like knives around my eyeball, especially since Mohs surgery usually goes way beyond the spot to be removed in order to "get it all" 

My question: Has anyone ever tried "Image-Guided Superficial Radiation Therapy" (Gentle Cure) that has been advertised on TV lately. It claims to heal Basal and Squamous cell cancer without Mohs surgery with a 99+% of success. I was wondering if any of you guys who routinely go to skin specialists have heard of it...or better, tried it

https://www.gentlecure.com/about-ig-srt/

Personally, I don't want to take a QB. That's either next year's problem, or one down the road a few years. So it's WR all the way for me. I see Maye as DJ 2.0, and JJ as a top 15-20 QB in the NFL. None of the QBs "awe me"

So, it's a toss up between Nabors and Odunze. As a person who takes way to many risks, I'd give my nod to Nabors as he can break a game wide open at any given moment. But I'd be happy as heck with Odunze who is more of a technician...IMHO

What I take from that is "only 43% chance of success with a first round pick...a 57% chance of failure...unless you draft a center, which is ridiculously rare in first round"

there will be tears of joy

there will be tears of sorrow

         

or no tears, but celebrations or anger

       

Just read that the Lions gave WR Amon-Ra St. Brown a 4-yr/130 million dollar contract. Is this going to be the standard for upper level WRs??
Seems a little insane to me 

Researched it a bit. Don't find a relationship to LT. And on a down note, LT-3 signed a contract with rapper Lil Wayne...which is a bad sign. Another Toney???

Well, I read a bad story. Read it today and was surprised there was a relation to LT. Maybe he's not even LT's son  Grandson??? Unrelated??? 

I'm too tired and brain-dead to even research it    

Would the Giants go for the son of another Giants' player?

DT Leonard Taylor III is the son of Lawrence Taylor. He's 6'3"/305 LBs. Could the gene pool play a role here? He says he went to every game his father played in and patterned his life after him. But does he have the same instincts and tenacity of his dad? I don't know

If he does become a Giant, I suspect he will be called LT-3 or just "Jr"

The well-known ones will be gone by day 2, so I look at the ones that will linger onto day 3.

My hidden gem hope, is Myles Cole in round 6. He's never listed as a defensive lineman, and only as an edge rusher. Compared to all the other ERs, he's huge, standing at 6'5 and pushing 290 lbs. I'm not sure how he would transition to "hand on the ground" instead of freestanding, but he's big, athletic, and can create chaos behind the line. He's certainly built far more like a 3T than a typical ER

Another one who will fall, is Mekki Wingo. He's a tenacious 3T, but is tagged with the moniker, "too small". He's 6'¼" and 287 lbs. Does not fit the ideal prototypical 3T. I hate comparisons more than anyone I know because I believe every person/player is uniquely their own person who thinks differently and reads and reacts differently. But I'd be remiss to not mention that Aaron Donald is 6'1" / 285 lbs and has done well for himself as an undersized DT

Lastly, I was going crazy because the Giants could've drafted LB Ivan Pace Jr., last year and could've even attempted to sign him as an UDFA, as he wasn't drafted. Over and over I read that he was the best LB in the class, but was "too small". He ended up signing with the Vikings as an UDFA and was "Defensive Player of the Week" last year and made the 2023 PFWA ALL-ROOKIE TEAM at the end of the season. He is the epitome of the old saying, "it's the size of the heart, not the body"

What does all this mean??? Nothing

My brain can't take anymore. I've spent every day since the Super Bowl analyzing players, doing a thousand draft simulations, and the result: absolutely clueless how this draft will go or even who the Giants should target. I simply have to assume that Schoen and his inside crew know about so more than I do when it comes to building the team, that my efforts are nothing less than silly. I don't see Shoen as a "risk-taker", but brilliant and surrounded by "extremely informed 'gurus' beyond my comprehension", whose careers and lives depend on getting it right

While I have a 1 or 2-page dossier on about 100 players; they have 30-page dossiers on 500+ players that include personal lives, home lives since childhood, character traits, interviews with HS and college coaches, hours and hours of tape on each (critiqued by a room full of "real" experts), athletic profiles unavailable to us, strength and weaknesses, a measure of coachableness (sp?), even their love lives, and eating habits and their ability to gain or lessen weight based on their frame. And most of all, how each player taken fits into the team like pieces of a puzzle called "long term goals"

As I scratch my head and ponder all about the pre-draft mayhem, I wonder if AI could be used to identify and rank players  ...but I digress

Bottom line: It's been fun, but exhausting. Hopefully I'll know most of the players we draft and don't spend the next several days digging up information on players I've never heard of 

Quote from: LennG on April 23, 2024, 04:44:54 PMLove it. They should go with those helmets exactly, no face guard.

How did the 1933 team do? If they did good let's wear those darn things all year.