Protect Eli Manning
New Orleans Saints safety scoffed at the Giants' offseason moves, saying quarterback Eli Manning took a beating in 2013 and is poised for a repeat in 2014 because the team hasn't done enough to keep him protected.
"I think the problem is he was sacked 39 times, a career high last year. If that continues, Eli’s best days are behind him. If they can protect him, then maybe, but it doesn’t look like it," Jenkins said.
I sure don't and I do not believe they have done enough at center either.
BDP? Monroe? Mack? Oher?
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Eli's got a really tall task at hand, when it comes to bouncing back, and the probable roster that's going to be around him isn't remotely likely to do anything but make it taller.
MJ is spot on. If the line doesnt improve, Eli will continue to suffer.
He is absolutely right. Walton and Schwartz are not significant upgrades over Booth and Baas (sorry but it's the truth). Snee is a year older and his insurance policy is a less than impressive John Jerry. Beatty was abysmal in 2013.
Hard to expect the Giants offense to be much better than a year before but there is still the draft and at least we improved on defense and special teams.
OK but maybe he knows how bad Charles Brown suxity?
Care to qualify that "truth" as you put it regarding Walton and Schwartz? My dead grandmother is an upgrade over Baas, and Booth was VERY average or slightly below, whereas Schwartz was a highly-regarded FA.
Snee is what he is; who would you have replaced him with in FA? Jerry et al are cheap rental depth. Beatty was above average in 2011/12.
Finally, there will be lots of opportunity after the draft to pick up some reasonable quality OL as teams cast off vets for recently-drafted rookies.
So, what do you say there, Slick?
I would love for them all to eat crow and I think Eli will be poised to do just that.
Anybody who played Carolina saw that tape. Damn.
Apparently neither you or Jenkins know there is a draft or grasp the moves made to the OL already. Whine
IF the Giants are confident that Beatty can and will rebound, and also that Charles Brown is at least an adequate swing OT reserve...
The Giants might very well be able to shore up their OL with players from the board at their 2nd and 3rd round slots...
Guys like Bitonio (sp?) or Jackson or Richburg or, whomever, like I said I don't know enough about the individual players. But I'm willing to lay an even money bet that in today's NFL a shitload of WRs are gonna be drafted before our 3rd round pick, likely a fair # of them even before our 2nd round pick, and that should push quality OL - especially quality OGs and OCs, back to where we can land one that's capable of starting as a rookie even in the 3rd round.
So I think Jenkins is reaching at this point.
Also, and I've said it before, I think the Giants are very, very likely to hold off on the WR pool this year until a later round, because I think they like RR's chance of being a very solid X for them this year.
I would say we made some headway here.
Lastly we are likely going with one OL in the top 3 rounds (likely round 2 is my guess) in a very,very deep draft for lineman. Chances are we are going to get a near immediate starter from the draft too.
It's half of what he said and neither he nor you apparently understand the moves made already and the upcoming draft. Even heads of lettuce know it's only April.