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I don't see the problem. It was well reported that the Giants tried to trade up for the QB of the future.

With that being said, does anyone think Jones is the "face of the franchise"?

I don't see the issue here.

Quote from: H-Town G-Fan on Today at 10:41:29 AMSchedule is released.

Rough stretch early on with Cleveland, Dallas, Seattle, Cincinnati, and Philly over a five-week span. Need to start strong against Minnesota and Washington then carve out 2-3 wins from that difficult portion to have a realistic shot down the stretch.

If this is true, it's about as good as it gets.

It's hardly going to make the Giants much worse.

Will be interesting to see it. I'm all for it.

Quote from: SlotCorner on Today at 08:06:17 AMNot a shock after they got marketing rights and announced a draft pick from there.

We went to London in 2022 and it was one of our favorite trips. Everyone we met who wasn't American or British was German. This is going to be crazy.

We are going to try and get tickets.  Tickets for London in 2022 went on sale in late June.

Yup, same here

The Giants will play the Panthers in Germany this November: https://x.com/RapSheet/status/1790707638142931108

Quote from: Ed Vette on May 14, 2024, 07:47:22 PMLet's see how he does this year in the pocket.

I think this is extremely important this year. One has to assume that his rushing production will take a hit post-ACL unless he has an Adrian Peterson-like recovery.

I really can't see any realistic scenario where lock beats out a healthy Jones for week 1. 

Agree on the worst period of hockey all year. But it's much better to suffer that now rather than in game 7.

Leadership and coaching now needs to come to the fore - remind them what they did in games 1-3. Bread needs to be more involved, as does Kreider.

They need one out of two, I'd have taken that at the start of the series but they really need to shake last night off. Hopefully the extra day off helps.

Just brutal.

Dallas starts against the Browns per Fox Sports, so it won't be them.

"The Detroit Lions and quarterback Jared Goff have agreed to a four-year contract extension worth up to $212 million with $170 million guaranteed, per a league source."

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5443054/2024/05/13/jared-goff-lions-extension/?source=user_shared_article

Quote from: jgrangers2 on May 12, 2024, 10:31:22 AMThe series has been chippy since game 1. Rempe won't change that and the idea of a deterrent is an old school hockey trope that needs to die. He also can't skate with this team and would be a liability when on the ice. There's a reason he played just 4 minutes of a game that went over 80.

I'd argue that yesterday might have been their best game at evens in this series. If not for some bad early turnovers and a bad penalty late, this series might be over. Also, the Trouba discussion has to happen sooner rather than later. He's been on the ice for something like the last 7 goals against. We could legitimately see a guy get handed the cup by Bettman and bought out a month later.

In game 4, yes he played around 5 mins, but his average ice time throughout the post season is 6.21. Brodzniski played 8.41 last night - you're not scrapping around finding large minutes to replace either one.

However, I do think Carolina have attempted to take more liberties without him in the line-up, there were a number of boarderline incidences last night he could he have kept in check, plus you had Vesey dropping the gloves in Game 3. I don't think that crap occurs with him in the line-up. Furthermore, he's taken 8 PIMs in the post season, again not a disproportionate amount in my view.

My final point to starting him, over Brodzniski only, is the buzz he brings to the home ice crowd - I think that's worth it.

Of course, just my two pennies.

With or without him - I firmly expect them to close tomorrow night.

Edit - Agree on Trouba. Absolutely a liability when he's not in the box for errant penalties. It's certainly the rangers biggest question mark right now but I don't see a change happening.

Quote from: MightyGiants on May 12, 2024, 09:28:42 AMYeah, he took fewer targets in camp, but he didn't step up when Waller got hurt and he had a chance to shine

True, and it's not a Jones issue - nor am I intimating that - he played with all 3 QBs.

Quote from: MightyGiants on May 12, 2024, 09:26:00 AMBellinger needs to focus less on his biceps and more on making an NFL body

Maybe so.

I suspect (but don't have the stats) that he took far fewer targets in camp, and the season generally, with addition of Waller.

Bellinger reminds me of Kevin Boss and to a lesser degree, Jake Ballard. I think he just needs the ball. Hopefully Johnson is on that ilk too.

If Bellinger returns to rookie year production and Johnson can replicate that, I'd be very happy and more weapons for the QB is useful.

However, if both replicate last year's version of Bellinger, that's not massively useful.