Big Blue Huddle

With or without Kool-Aid, that's the way it should be for all Giants fans at this point whether or not we concur in all items. For example:

3. This season is a final referendum on Daniel Jones and no one else. His and the Giants immediate future- perhaps also that of current management- will require a lot more than just solid QB play for reasons all too obvious.

4. Blaming Ronnie Barnes for the Giants injury history is self-indulgent and vacuous nonsense.

Even assuming Ronnie Barnes won't have crippled their chances, as he has so often with DJ rather than with Eli, I think it's premature to predict a return to the Playoffs although I am always hopeful, and very much looking forward not backward.

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There were better ways for both sides to have handled it. In any case, no biggie! Except, apparently, for insurance salesman Kyle Lauletta, who 5 years ago, Gettleman wrongly guessed might be worth more than 5 pass attempts for 0 yards and a pick, and I don't just mean The Pick he wasted in the 4th Round. 

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Quote from: Ed Vette on May 17, 2024, 07:24:52 PMCall it as you wish, but I'm following this draft class that many pundits have crapped upon or hyped. It's the most interesting Draft class since 2004. You know where my chips are placed.

I know I must be missing something. But at this point, I can't see it being done except from the top of Mt. Everest in terms of any imputed relevance. Okay! I'll shut up.

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Quote from: Ed Vette on May 17, 2024, 10:23:09 AMThe article is. We can go back to the DJ Tug Of War.

Yeah, sure! Aside from the fact that at this point, and for who knows when it might be otherwise, all such speculation is bootless. Is that not something we might at least wish to acknowledge out of a sense of propriety? Are there not more sensible rabbit holes for us to go spelunking? Good gosh! 

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We are ready to make comparisons and draw conclusions based on a couple of days of Rookie Minicamp? Say it ain't so. Pleeease!

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Quote from: spiderblue43 on May 16, 2024, 02:22:46 PMIt isn't worse than the Packers or Steelers, anyway. It's the 100th anniversary and it's part of their history. Roll with it.

Golly!! You mean we have a choice? 'Cause if so, I'd prefer something more like the Canton Bulldogs.

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That ugly looking livery is before my time, which is remarkable in itself. But then, I'm kinda remarkable all by myself.   In any case, it's nothing like the red jersey I remember. Indeed, I wouldn't even call it a "red" uni.

And by the way, did someone make a mistake in including No.8 whatisname in that picture?

Quote from: uconnjack8 on May 14, 2024, 05:59:33 PMDo you see McFadden as a good fit for this system?

Given what we saw of his play last season, which was a breath of fresh air in a dyspnea of a Defense, I can't but think of him as a good fit. I quite clearly recall that even as rookie, he was one of the few Giants Defenders who seemed engaged and effective in those otherwise early debacles against the Cows and Niners.

Moreover, as he has previously been rated as an above average Pass Defender from the LB position, there is all the more reason to feel positive about his "fit" in Bowen's scheme. Quite frankly, as I saw it, the only thing that kept McFadden from greater appreciation was the excellent performance of Okereke in Wink's otherwise shitty Defense as it was even well before the Williams trade.

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Quote from: LennG on May 15, 2024, 08:46:49 PMNot to veer off the topic, but it still pisses me off to no end that those Cowpukes are always home on Thanksgiving. They wormed their way into this. I couldn't care less that they play on Thanksgiving, but they shouldn't always have a home game.

C'mon, Lenn. They're "America's Team". You know that gets them special treatment. It's not a matter of whether or not it's deserved; not when we see how the single worst sonofabitch in the country is still be pandered shamelessly.

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Fools rush in where...never mind... we dance to whomever plays the pipe. And not just in matters of "sport".

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As we seem to feel a need to impute some sort of message- although not at all subliminal given Pat Leonard's chain jerking addendum- re the Giants first ever game to be played in Deutschland, we might take consolation in that Daniel Jones's absence from the image pictured might be sufficient to satisfy the haters and baters amongst us. But then, who am I trying to kid?

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Quote from: Ed Vette on May 14, 2024, 12:32:45 PMI hope it doesn't take three games to get up to speed.

It shouldn't be much of a challenge for them to give up less than the 98 total points they did in their first 3 games last year. But then that may be just the optimist inside of me talking. 

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I agree with your disagrees, Ed.

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However true that may be, and, in any case, of no consolation, it can be said for at least half the teams in the League except perhaps Jerrah's Boys who through some twist of fate haven't played for a Conference Championship in what will be 29 years, or almost 2 1/2 times longer than Our Heroes. That gotta hurt! Then again, it's been even worse for Washington's NFC Least.

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Quote from: uconnjack8 on May 14, 2024, 11:19:48 AMEd,

I get your point, and I think Thibs and Burns are going to spend considerable more time trying to be get in the backfield then in coverage.  I could be wrong, but from what Daboll has said about being more of an "attacking" defense, I am guessing those guys will be deployed mostly as penetrators. 

Burns did not grade out as a good run defender which, for me, is why your question/point is a good one. 

I can't help but see another Buffalo similarity here.  Buffalo's DL likes to get up field and disrupt.  And they have mostly been good at it.  Seems like that's the direction Daboll wants this D to go.

Wink's approach was of little benefit to the Giants Rushing Defense whereas Bowen's has had a good history in that area. As for what Burns may or may not bring to the table, it's hard to imagine that Bowen played no role in the decision to trade for him. We shall see, I reckon.

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