CrazedDogs

Guys like him, as in guys that are supposedly better than Kuhn.

we'll see about that one. I don't think the team cuts guys like Kendrick Ellis if Kuhn isn't holding his own as a space eater on the interior. To my eyes he does one thing well, and that is take on double teams. And that is enough.

he has very good straight line speed for a huge man, but he will never be confused with a pass rusher. That isn't what Kuhn does, any sacks he gets are likely to be pure luck.

Rex is the man.

Yeah, me too. But one constant with TC has been that guys aren't necessarily put into positions to succeed in the preseason. It seems like more often, they're putting guys in a spot to see what they do when outside of their comfort zone. So I'm not too alarmed by poor preseason performance.

I'm slightly optimistic about his play. He looked bad in preseason, but during the regular season he's going to play more of a NT role. It looked to me like he was getting work in the preseason at areas that were not necessarily his strength, but when asked to play two gaps he was eating space and not giving much ground.

This is an intel signing. He'll probably be cut next week, after the Dallas game.

Tyler. Fucking. Sash. Too young.

I'd rather stop the run with defensive linemen and linebackers. If we're stopping the run with safeties, thats 5 ypc easy.

The warm up routine used by the Giants is positively archaic. Static stretching a cold body is known to cause injuries, but thats what they do. But most teams do that, and have for almost as long as there's been an NFL.... so I don't think that is the only reason the Giant suffer more than their fair share of injuries.

when I went to the joint practice with the Bengals, the Giants spent a LOT more time stretching and warming up. Although the Bengals could have been doing stuff before they hit the field. Giants were on the field long before the Bengals were doing organized activities.

Well said.

You're dead to me, joe.

....lots of college experience at a high level, that's a good predictor for NFL offensive linemen. And if he's stacking up physically, I have to say, I see their point. As far as making no signings goes, I think that if they weren't content or encouraged by what they see in practice, that they'd be going for more veteran players. I can only assume/hope....

fuck you

Yeah, he showed really good vision on Friday.

Given the completely new system on defense, which is likely missing its most notable player for the beginning of the season, and an offensive line whose lineup we don't even know yet?.... I think its more than a concern, its more like a probability. At least Beckham is fun to watch.

well that isn't really my argument... I'm just saying that we don't know. Random crap happens in preseason games all the time. It doesn't really mean anything.

No, he just fucking sucks.

Being prepared for a game? Its preseason.... they don't game plan for that shit!

I haven't been following Buffalo, but Cincinnati's D is no joke either. Yesterday was no surprise.

I made it to practice yesterday. Wish I'd gone the day before, when they were in full pads. Just in shells yesterday, so not much hitting. A few things stood out to me. For one, Brett Jones looks like they let a peewee kid on the field.... no effing way is he anywhere near his listed height, because most of the other OL were almost a full head taller than him. To his credit, he does have the biggest calves I've ever seen. Pugh also looks surprisingly small in person. Flowers and Pugh both very clearly have the best feet on the OL, and it isn't close. Most of those guys are plodders. I don't expect much out of Bamiro or Donnelly in particular; two biggest guys on the OL, both dwarf Flowers, but they didn't move well at all. Starting NFL defensive linemen will eat them for lunch. Beckham is a phenom. You can't appreciate just how good his feet are on TV. I've really never seen anybody move like that, effortless change of direction with just a toe tap. He stands out in individual drills, compared to the other WRs. And in drills against the Bengals he was making everybody look stupid. Adam Jones was losing his shit out there, LOL. Cruz looked good too. I don't think he's playing on Friday though. Eli is much bigger in person, and definitely the best pure athlete of our group of QBs. I got close to Andy Dalton too, and there is no chance he's anywhere near his listed height... he's no more than 6', probably just 5'11". Eli clearly had the best arm on the field yesterday, which may be faint praise given his teammates and the feeble competition from the Red Water Pistol. I don't think I saw a bad pass from Eli all day, but there were a couple nasty drops, including one from Cruz in individual drills. Oh, and Eli's work habits.... he stood out in that when warming up, he varied his drops, as if he were taking mental reps at the same time. The other QBs were really just tossing it around, but Eli was different on every rep. Sometimes he would take a two step drop, sometimes four steps, sometimes none. Sometimes his drop was angled left or right, as if he were in shotgun with a moving pocket. I watched a lot of special teams drills, in particular gunner v blockers.... Giants didn't show too well on that. Seemed like the Bengals were pretty consistently getting the better of the match up. Unfortunately I was too far away to gather who the individuals were, with one exception.... Corey Washington did well as a gunner the one time I was able to pick him out. So we have that going for us at least. If I think of anything else of note I'll drop back in....

LOL, I'm sure Rex has wanted to punch Gino too.

This clearly belongs in general discussion. The Jets are not truly an NFL team.

Yeah, not sure if they should be concerned at all on Peat. He looks like he is still growing.