Big Blue Huddle

Really well done, and spot on as usual.

Many thanks.

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Ceri, I share your views on RBs so closely, I need not comment except in regard to "trading out" of 32. Two things would be required for it to even be a consideration: 1. Someone would have to make them a really good offer. 2. It would not cost them a shot at a player they really wanted.     

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I figured that might be your reasoning, Ceri.  Actually, it's what makes your board so good. It's realistic.
Teams with needs may overvalue to address those needs, most particularly when the need is for a starting (franchise?) QB. Both the Browns and 'phins may see Tannehill as their only realistic opportunity. A decision reached to pass on Richardson, Blackmon, and Floyd may depend on whether either can imagine Brandon Weeden as an Andy Dalton.

As for Cousins, I agree that 43-52 is way too high for a guy who projects as a backup on a WCO team.

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Well done, Ceri. No room to even quibble. Maybe just a little uncertainty as to whether Tannehill with only 19 starts at QB is full value in the Top 10. Of course, that's where he may go given the needs of teams like the Browns and Dolphins. But that is franchise QB territory.

Great job, my friend.

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Big Red always will be one of my all-time favorite Giants. I had the pleasure of having a few pops with him in Gallagher's on more than one occasion. Just a really nice man.

May he rest in peace with all the great Giants who have gone before him.

His false steps will result in more big plays for the offense than it ever did in college, so he's going to have to get  better with anticipation and route recognition. I suppose you think that's an Amukamara reference. The fact is it's someone's notion of a chink in the glistening armor of one Patrick Peterson. If you are of a mind, you can find a negative to cherry-pick for every player in the Draft, or already in the NFL for that matter.

I share Todge's view; I think what he has said is accurate and appropriate. The Giants got themselves a player at 19 who was ranked among the Top 10 in the Draft irrespective of position, and for good reason. Is that a problem?

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Nice analysis, Ceri I don't think the Giants would hurt themselves if they took any of the five at 19. Personally, I rate Costanzo and Solder higher than you do. I think if the Giants do take an OT at 19, it will be either one of them.

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I think Ceri's reasoning is sound, Rich. And the fact that Boothe was offered only an original (6th round) tender rather than a "we want to keep him", 2nd Rounder also may be indicative.

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Rich's descriptions are quite adequate in characterizing the nature , roles, and responsibilties of those two LB positions. It may also be worth emphasis that the reason the "Mike" linebacker is so often referred to as the Quarterback of the defense is because normally he is the one who receives defensive playcalls from the sideline and relays them to the rest of the team. He has to correctly identify the offensive formation and adjust the defense accordingly. As such, he has to be a pretty savvy guy with more than a little leadership skill. 

As Rich has indicated, the Will LB provides backside support on runs as well as outside contain.  He also is the one most often deployed in coverage especially against backs in the left flat and against WR screens.

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I might, Eli. I sure would be tempted.  But I don't think the Giants will for the reasons I've given.

If McClain is there, I think they'll take him. If not, I suspect that they'll go for a Dlineman (Dan Williams, Derrick Morgan) at 15, a LB at 46, and an Olineman at 76

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Great write-up, Ceri; accurate and well-presented. Spiller is the most explosive RB in the draft by far. I'd love the Giants to have a home run hitter like him, but I doubt that they'll go that route. I don't think they'll feel the "need"

The Giants running game declined last year from top to the middle of the pack, but that was with both RBs playing with injury for most of the season. Both now report feeling great after surgeries. And even with the lesser production from the running game, the Giants offense finished in the top 10 in both yards and scoring. And they really liked Andre Brown before he tore his Achille's in camp, last year. He's reported to be running at full-speed, and feeling good. I think the Giants will go back to their 3 RB: 1a, 1b, 2 rotation as they did before they let Ward go assuming they all are healthy and stay that way.

It was defense that won a Super Bowl in '07 not Tiki- as much as we loved watching him dart for big gainers in the years before. And it was defense which made a mockery of the season just two years later. That's something which Reese & Co. can not allow to happen again. I expect the first three picks to focus on LB and Lines, D and O, not necessarily in that order. I also expect that both Spiller and McClain will be off the board before the Giant pick at 15.

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I don't know why I didn't see it. Here I was watching wide-eyed at the Giants performance tonight, and then suddenly I felt all the air go out of me as if punched in the gut.  I'm heartsick by the news, and by thoughts of his family's agony. May God bless Evan, and give him rest. My deepest sympathy to his loved ones. 

What do you mean by departed and RIP, Rich.  Good Lord!

Around 1989, the League began reducing offseason roster size while also cracking down on the stashing of players on what was by then known as the "developmental squad"- practice squad, today. Players who are declared to be injured either go through PUP status which provides a window of opportunity for a return during the season, or are placed on Injured Reserve and become ineligible to play or practice for the duration of the season. And, of course, players on the ps are not shielded against loss; they can be signed by any other team willing to place them on their regular 53 man roster.

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It may be hard to be certain in advance whether there will be any risk of the BBH standards being compromised, but no one has a greater investment in its future than Rich and his Merry Mods. If they are for it, I'm for it.

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