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Ugh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kj3jTUyZUKI Show me where in this video Maye is a 1st round talent. When he's throwing the ball into the ground or 5 feet over the heads of WRs?

I'm really going to be dismayed if the pick is Maye. Wink... In all seriousness though, I will be because I think he's a bust. Too slow to process and get through progressions, not great under pressure, late on throws, etc.

Hot take, wild (unlikely) prediction: We trade up to #4 and take Harrison Jr. Say we flip them our #1, #3, and 2025 #2. Would anyone be opposed to this move?

If we trade with MN, we could get Penix at #11, and take a WR at #23. I don't think AZ should move out of #4 and pass on Harrison, and if I'm Harbaugh at #5 how can I pass on Nabers or Alt to trade down with MN?

What I want to happen? Ideally, somehow Jayden Daniels falls to us, or we somehow trade to get him. Realistic chance of this happening? One in a million. More realistically what I want? 1) Nabers or Odunze at 6...then trade up to the back of the 1st or early 2nd to get Nix or Penix, if they fall that far. OR 2) Trade down and grab Nix or Penix, and draft a WR later on, such as in the 2nd, or if we somehow get MN #11 and #23 in a trade do a QB/WR combo. Later rounds of the draft, rounds 3-7, after WR, priorities for me are S, CB, DT depth. Possibly TE too, since Waller is dithering.

Another thing about the Giants drafts of the last few years. Any Giants CB taken in rounds 5 or later, the beat writers really really pump up as if they're the next freaking Darell Revis or something. I remember major hype around: Tre Hawkins Rodarius Williams Corey Ballentine Not to mention Sam fucking Beal. Ohhh man the writers really hyped the shit out of that guy.

Yep Chad Jones.

Plus then Shaun Alexander went on to put up over 9,000 rushing yards lol

I hesitated to put Will Hernandez in that camp because his post Giants career has been decent, and unlike Flowers and Neal wasn't a top 10 pick. But yeah, I totally thought at the time we had our next Chris Snee!

Big 10 RB's never work out for us. Granted Barkley put up nice stats, but was the wrong pick at the wrong time for us.

Here are the top 5 Giants draft picks of the last ~20 years that I thought were definitely going to be great players 1: Evan Neal, 2022: Granted, the jury is still out. I'll give him another year, but still he's been a disaster thus far, and we all thought he'd be at least an improvement. 2: Ereck Flowers, 2015: Thought we had finally found a solid LT...turns out he should have been moved to Guard, which he was later in his career where he had modest success. 3: Clint Sintim, 2009: He was a beast LB in college, and I thought maybe we had the next great pass rushing LB. 4: Azeez Ojulari, 2021: I really thought we had a steal when this guy fell to the 2nd round pick 50 after some mocks had him in the top 20.... and after his rookie year with 8 sacks we thought we did have a steal. But he's been injury prone and mediocre ever since that rookie year, and gets bounced around in the run game. 5: William Joseph, 2003: Another guy who I thought was a steal at #25, after being projected much higher, plus after he was a beast at Miami and was a big DT. He struggled to crack the starting lineup and was a backup/lineman at best. When we eventually replaced him with Barry Cofield and Fred Robbins, that really solidified the interior line. Honorable mentions: Ramses Barden, Gerris Wilkinson, Sinorice Moss, Travis Beckum, Jerrel Jernigan, Damontre Moore, RJ McIntosh

The main thing I appreciate about minor league/frontier league games besides the cost is it's much less stressful in terms of watching the actual game. If I'm at a Yankee game, I feel compelled to watch every single second so I don't miss anything, a) because they're my team, and b) because I'm paying like $400 bucks for this entire day (tickets, parking, gas, tolls, concessions). But if I'm at Boulders game, it's much more relaxed, casual, and flexible. Can walk around more with the kids, no worry about hurrying back to our seats, don't really care if I miss half an inning. Overall just much more relaxed environment.

The game itself wasn't entertaining, but he was just loving the atmosphere, the music, food, plus he entertained himself by constantly calling the balls/strikes/outs (he loves numbers) on the big billboard. He was annoyed at the traffic on the way home trying to get to I-95, but eventually fell asleep, lol. We haven't gone to a minor league game, but every year we go to a few Rockland Boulders games (Frontier League, loosely associated with MLB), which are like like 20 minutes away from us. It's a great deal, and they have a playground for the kids as well. Much easier to get in and out of, and the tickets are like $15-20, and on Saturdays after the games they do fireworks which the kids love. Much less stressful with young kids (especially our 2 soon to be 3 year old, who does not sit still for these).

So I was at this game yesterday. Took our 5 year old son to his first Yankees game. That Ump was ridiculous. Then they couldn't get a run all game, and lost on a 2 run HR to the A's in the top of the 9th. We still had fun though.

Not at all...Quinn Ewers will be starting at Texas, and he's expected to be a top 10 QB next draft. Manning isn't draft eligible till the 2026 draft.

Wilson and a few others who are projected 2nd rounders (Pearsall, Franklin, McConkey) might end up with more productive careers than the top 10 or top 20 WRs in this draft. Any of those guys would be great in the 2nd if available. Wouldn't mind a trade down to 11-15 for Bowers in the 1st then taking a WR in the 2nd, assuming we can't get Jayden Daniels. I'd love to see us get Denver's 1st this year and 1st next year in this trade scenario, setting us up for a high QB draft pick next year.

I wouldn't be surprised if Williams turns out to be average or bust. I believe Jayden Daniels is the best QB in this draft.

I will say, I thought Anthony Richardson on this last year, but in the little time he played he looked like the real deal so what do I know about evaluating QBs lol

Maye and McCarthy for sure. Also while I think Bowers will be a good TE, I don't think he's worth a top 10 pick as some mocks have him at. Chop Robinson is a guy you're drafting mainly on athletic ability with upside potential, but these comparisons to Micah Parsons are silly. Chop should be a 2nd rounder.

Isn't this clown making like $8M this year for 50 catches and like 700 yards? lol. He's a fringe #2 WR and wants a long term deal? Get bent dude. Be happy we're not cutting you and signing Tyler Boyd to fill in the gap, let alone whatever we draft next week.

Cam Cameron...now that's a blast from the past. He left the Chargers and subsequently went to Miami and sabotaged his own career with a 1-15 head coaching record, getting fired after just one year. He then went onto to become the Raven's OC for a few years...got canned from that...and the very next year, the Ravens won the super bowl, lol. He then went to become a mere position coach in college and hasn't been back in the NFL since.

Give it like two weeks and he'll still find something to complain about on his new team.

I'm calling it here. MMW: Nix and Penix are going in the top 15 in this draft. McCarthy too.

He's not averaging 12+ sacks per season. 4/5ths of the time he's been below 10.

That's another factor too. If Thibs himself puts up 14-17 sacks with Burns on the other end, we may all be perfectly happy with Burns at like 8-9 sacks.