Quote from: Trench on May 05, 2024, 12:21:30 PMHe needs to show he can produce in the 2 minute drill both before halftime and especially at the end of the games. He has been sporadic at best in that area.
Lastly, he must win a playoff game this year and he has to beat Dallas and Philadelphia at least once each.
Quote from: MightyGiants on May 05, 2024, 09:34:46 AMWhile bad decisions have certainly been made, I think the Giants have been arguably one of the unluckiest teams in the league.
Consider:
2010- In the third round, the Giants draft a promising safety and special teamer, Chad Jones. He has an off-season auto accident and never fully recovers. Plays some snaps but as a shadow of his former self.
2015- Giants star edge rusher JPP mangles hand in fireworks accident. Eventually returns, but isn't quite the player he had been
2020- Giants first-round cornerback Deandre Baker arrested for armed robbery. He is eventually found innocent, but not before the Giants cut him.
2014- Promising first-round running back David Wilson found to have stenosis in his neck and has to retire from football before his rookie contract is even finished
2016- a last-minute video pushes Laramy Tunsil off many draft boards. This left the Giants scrambling and they ended up drafting Eli Apple
2015- Legal questions kept La'el Collins (solid O-line prospect) from being drafted in round one. This pushes the Giants to take Ereck Flowers instead. Worse, Collins ends up signing as a free agent with Dallas essentially giving the Cowboys a free extra first-round pick.
Consider some of the drafted players with healthy college careers but became injury messes in the NFL
Saquon Barkley
Evan Neal
Daniel Jones
Joshua Ezeudu
Azeez Ojulari
Evan Engram
Weston Richburg
Justin Pugh
Shane Lemieux
Aaron Robinson
Guys whose careers were cut short by injury
Hakeem Nicks
Terrell Thomas
Jay Bromley
Owamagbe Odighizuwa (mental illness)
Sterling Shepard
Victor Cruz
Jake Ballard
Even OBJ suffered a major injury.
Have I missed any other bad luck issues the Giants have had the last decade or so?
EDIT TO ADD: McKinney's fluke hand injury in 2022
Quote from: DaveBrown74 on May 03, 2024, 07:46:03 PMIt's not even entirely clear to me why he should start at RT in week one over Eleumenor. You have two players who have played RT in this league. One has always been terrible. The other played at a solid level last year. Why would you go with the first guy in that situation?
Quote from: 4 Aces on May 05, 2024, 07:57:18 PMI hope I'm wrong, but Bobbie Johnson feels like a bit of a scapegoat.
Now - I'm not saying he's a good OL Coach. All evidence points to the contrary. His guys had no idea what they were doing.
But just like any business, sh#t rolls uphill. Just like it probably does at most of our jobs. The OL struggled from the opening bell last year. Where was the Offensive Coordinator Mike Kafka when it became clear Johnson was getting poor results? If he couldn't fix it, where was the Head Coach Brian Daboll? This was a problem that derailed the entire season and got their million dollar QB hurt. None of them could fix it.
Now Bobbie J's gone, and we're just hoping Bricillo waves a magic wand and they start playing better. I'm skeptical.
Quote from: MightyGiants on May 05, 2024, 09:43:11 AMThanks, I added them to the list
Quote from: miss86 on May 05, 2024, 05:08:43 PMPlaxico Burress. Shoots himself in the leg, and there went another shot at a superbowl.I still have nightmares about that.
Quote from: Fletch on May 05, 2024, 08:45:54 PMThey had Ernie A. as GM. And he had to drag Wellington kicking and screaming to draft a QB with the top3 pick in the 2004 draft.