it took me a while to figure out who #34 was playing deep safety (nat berhe, not Derrick ward) after that play. I guess TC and Fewell had seen enough of Brown getting beat!
would love to have Cooper Taylor right now. Guy just can't stay healthy.
Cutting Will Hill was absolutely the right move. Tons and tons of chances. The Giants did everything they could to help him, and he kept getting suspended.
He was never a really quick guy.. but since he's been back from the ACL, he's been really slow. There is no recovery speed at all. If he makes a bad cut or read, it's over.. he's beat.
We are not in good shape at S this year unless Berhe winds up being a find. Rolle is really all we have.
Running 3 safety sets last year with Rolle, Hill and Mundy were very effective last year. It sucks we can't do it this year because we don't even have 2 legit safeties let alone 3.
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IMO it wasn't miscommunication, it was Brown biting on the run fake and not being fast enough to recover
I thought the same thing. Brown was fixed the defensive right side way too long. When he he glanced back you could see the oh shit reaction. IMHO
Will Hill sat in meetings with John Mara and Jerry Reese and TC and told them unto their fucking faces he would never fail a drug test again, and he did. Know if you are some kind of schmuck employer that after your employee fucks up multiple times, and came to you as a known fuck up when he was hired and you made it fuckign crystal clear he was on his last leg and out of chances and he screwed up again in the exact same way you warned him about, and a nartionally visible warning at that, one that was printed in the newspapers you're telling me you would give him another chance? at that point you're a chump, and if the guy were to embezzle you and ruin your business, destroy your credibility, company morale or spread fucking plague in the office you deserve it. Noone with an ounce of self respect or integrity keeps a guy after that. period. ever. nowhere.Unless he likes it up the ass.In which case he practically asked for it when he showed his warnings were empty and he was in fact toothless, and the employee in fact was in charge.
Will Hill sat in meetings with John Mara and Jerry Reese and TC and told them unto their fucking faces he would never fail a drug test again, and he did. Know if you are some kind of schmuck employer that after your employee fucks up multiple times, and came to you as a known fuck up when he was hired and you made it fuckign crystal clear he was on his last leg and out of chances and he screwed up again in the exact same way you warned him about, and a nartionally visible warning at that, one that was printed in the newspapers you're telling me you would give him another chance? at that point you're a chump, and if the guy were to embezzle you and ruin your business, destroy your credibility, company morale or spread fucking plague in the office you deserve it. Noone with an ounce of self respect or integrity keeps a guy after that. period. ever. nowhere.Unless he likes it up the ass.In which case he practically asked for it when he showed his warnings were empty and he was in fact toothless, and the employee in fact was in charge.
Before we get into anything here, you need to use some better spacing and you need to calm down. No need to swear big boy.
That's a shitty analogy you made for a number of reasons. Namely, Hill is not a bad person and never did anything to harm anyone other than himself. If JR and co really wanted to take a moral stand, they should have cut him before finding the result of his appeal. If they're going to wait for the appeal, they may as well just lived with the measly four games and then have a better secondary.
and not to be a know-it-all dick, but once Beason and Hill were stalwarts in the D last year, the Giants (around week 7) did not run nearly as many 3 safety sets as past seasons.
In fact, Mundy's snaps drastically reduced once Beason and Hill were inserted into the lineup and acclimated.
which made me think many of the three safety formations maybe were because of a lack of LB talent. I don't know, but the stats are the stats. Could also be the string of backup QB's the Giants played they didn't feel passing was a major threat.
Other than the Detroit game where all three, Hill, Rolle, Mundy played every snap.
rarely have such a litany of problems. Players like Hill eventually screw up, and then are gone for a long time.
I can't really think of too many people given as many chances as he has to flourish afterwards. Maybe Randy Moss, but even his issues pale in comparison to Hill.
Brown's problem is more related to his vision, not speed. He has tunnel vision a lot and only sees the underneath routes instead of the entire field and the potential deeper routes from across the other side of the field.
On that deep TD, if Fitzpatrick had gone to the underneath route (I think Andre Johnson), Brown would have been in good position for an INT.
That was the problem two years ago, QBs were making poor decisions, and Brown was being rewarded for his constantly being out of position.
rarely have such a litany of problems. Players like Hill eventually screw up, and then are gone for a long time.
I can't really think of too many people given as many chances as he has to flourish afterwards. Maybe Randy Moss, but even his issues pale in comparison to Hill.
rarely have such a litany of problems. Players like Hill eventually screw up, and then are gone for a long time.
I can't really think of too many people given as many chances as he has to flourish afterwards. Maybe Randy Moss, but even his issues pale in comparison to Hill.
So once he screws up and is gone for a long time they can get rid of him. A 4 game suspension for second hand smoke is not a major offense.
is an asshole. He could have been a big star in the biggest media market. He was too fucking selfish, irresponsible, and stupid to take advantage of it.
I'm not sure what I'm looking at on that chart.. are the snap counts the snap counts where we had 3 safeties on the field?
that's just Mundy's snap counts. Hill and Rolle played practically every down of every game they were active.
When the Giants ran 3 safety with Grant, Rolle, and KP in 2011 it was almost every down.
Rolle, KP, and Grant were all in the top 5 on the D in # of snaps.
Just saying I don't think they ran a lot of 3 safety looks last year and the evidence is Mundy wasn't on the field a lot (comparatively speaking) with Hill.
Well that's what he claimed. Even if he smoked a little weed I dont really care.
I care if he's on the list to get suspended for doing it. Keep your fucking nose clean and don't be a stupid shithead and be a star. Too much to ask. Fuck him.
Pretty soon smoking weed will be legalized Nation wide and he'll be an All Pro in Baltimore.....and we'll have Steve Brown limping around in center field.
I'm not sure what I'm looking at on that chart.. are the snap counts the snap counts where we had 3 safeties on the field?
that's just Mundy's snap counts. Hill and Rolle played practically every down of every game they were active.
When the Giants ran 3 safety with Grant, Rolle, and KP in 2011 it was almost every down.
Rolle, KP, and Grant were all in the top 5 on the D in # of snaps.
Just saying I don't think they ran a lot of 3 safety looks last year and the evidence is Mundy wasn't on the field a lot (comparatively speaking) with Hill.
Got it.
I guess since we ran 3 safeties on every down against DET in the last game, I thought they had been doing it more than they were. That coupled with him having done it in 2011 with Rolle, Phillips and Grant and I think he did it a bit in 2010 as well.
I guess it's not something we've used as much as I had thought but it seemed to be something we've gone to in certain situations/games and we just don't even have that freedom at all this year because we're so thin at S. Going into the year it felt like we had plenty of depth there but we really only have one guy we can rely on (Rolle)
I guess part of it depends on the personnel available to fewell, if Hill were on the team who knows, maybe Rolle, Hill and Brown would be out there every snap.
I just remember noticing Mundy's disappearance last year coincided with Hill's return and the Beason trade.
remains that Hill was not malicious, he had a bit of a drug problem, and because we cut him, we're relying on a rookie 5th rounder instead of an established NFL caliber safety.
Bad player. Hill, pretty decent player, but an addict and not the sort of guy you want getting away with things involving the coach too many times. He used up his chances with the Giants. Had to go.
The people hand-wringing over Will Hill do realize
He also didn't pay child support, was hanging out with some bad characters, and trashed his apartment. That's just what we KNOW. There very well could be more. He clearly has a lot of growing up to do. I hope it works out for him.
It taught no one a lesson, especially when the player was picked up by another organization so quickly.
I don't agree with the people who act like Brown was never any good. However, he wasn't a terrific athlete to begin with and he has absolutely no speed, agility, or range right now. The Giants were absolutely right to bench him... there's nowhere to "hide" him on defense. The lack of range kills him at FS and he would need to cover people at SS.
in the minority, but a 4 game suspension is not reason to cut a young potential cornerstone of your defense.
Well, this time the suspension was 6 games not 4. Had they kept Hill, his total missed games would be 14 of 48 due to suspensions. Missing 14 games really hurts the team.
I really disagree that cutting Hill was idiotic. The coaching staff demonstrated support for him over the years. They reportedly arranged for treatment. Knowing the Giant's organization, I believe they grappled with how to handle him, and tolerated it as much as they could, to a breaking point. The Giants org were also concerned with the message it was sending to other players, particularly younger ones, by tolerating Hill time and time again.
Rather than an idiotic decision, I believe the Giants org put plenty of thought and deliberation into the pros and cons of keeping or canning him, and then concluded what their best course of action was.
He also didn't pay child support, was hanging out with some bad characters, and trashed his apartment. That's just what we KNOW. There very well could be more. He clearly has a lot of growing up to do. I hope it works out for him.
Being away from new jersey is probably the best thing for him. Baltimore might still be too close to home.
...I was glad to see Berhe replace him. The straight depth-chart move would have been to insert Demps, who is a known quantity, and not in a good way. Seeing Brown get such a quick hook - for a rookie, no less - suggests that Berhe has shown Coach Merritt a lot on he practice field. Otherwise, the staff would have stuck with the vets until there was no choice.
Maybe a lighter workload will help Brown. He's had a fair amount of time to rehab that ACL, but still appears to have a ways to go, and was never the smoothest safety before the injury. He might do better in the #3 safety role, which is where he'd be anyway if Will Hill's Giant career hadn't gone up in smoke.
Big shame about Cooper Taylor. The kid has some skills.
He wasn't much more than a lottery ticket going into 2014. Still, with Hill gone, Demps and Brown sucking and Berhe even more of a mystery than Taylor, it would be nice to have that extra lottery ticket at the safety position.
I didn't know Brown got benched but not surprised.
There were a few astute posters on this site this off-season that were projecting problems again with the deep secondary if Stevie Brown returned as a starter.
Fans remember the picks, but he was as much responsible for many long pass plays/tds 2 seasons ago than anyone.
You can bet the rest of the NFC East is licking their chops at exposing him deep.
I don't think anyone will argue that Stevie Brown is a large
drop off from Will Hill. But had the Giants not cut Will Hill, Stevie Brown still would have been on the field yesterday because Mr. Hill is suspended the first six games of the season (and is one mis-step away from a year-long suspension). Will Hill is gone because they need players they can count on, There was nothing idiotic about cutting him.
he makes mistakes on coverage assignments. Of course, as fans we cannot know what coverage assignments are but it seems Brown keeps making mistakes, particularly in the Lions game and yesterday.
Frequently guesses wrong, takes poor angles of pursuit, etc. I've pointed this out since 2012, and it's no coincidence the issues in the backend returned when he did.
Frequently guesses wrong, takes poor angles of pursuit, etc. I've pointed this out since 2012, and it's no coincidence the issues in the backend returned when he did.
100% spot on.
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he makes mistakes on coverage assignments. Of course, as fans we cannot know what coverage assignments are but it seems Brown keeps making mistakes, particularly in the Lions game and yesterday.
Players don't know until the meeting after the coaches go over the tape. I can tell ya now, that him being pulled for a rookie speaks volumes.
reading his keys and looking into the backfield for where the ball is, and ensuring he is the deepest player on the field.
If he is guessing, he doesn't know what he is doing and worthless to us.
I was always fine with re-signing him, but never understood how he was worth $2.75 million (of which $1 mill was guaranteed). Half of that would have been fair, especially off of a bad knee injury.
Stevie Brown is not the answer at safety.
just an FYI...I wouldn't have known him by number either.
Outstanding.
The guy has had so many chances in the pros and in college and has yet to learn or change his ways.
He needs a wake-up call.
Guys like him might have one more good year, and then - BOOM - they are gone for good.
I'd settle for him being in the right place.
Cutting Will Hill was absolutely the right move. Tons and tons of chances. The Giants did everything they could to help him, and he kept getting suspended.
Being too slow is, sadly, uncorrectable...but there is no excuse for a safety to bite like that on a run fake with a 14 point 2nd half lead. Cripes
We are not in good shape at S this year unless Berhe winds up being a find. Rolle is really all we have.
Running 3 safety sets last year with Rolle, Hill and Mundy were very effective last year. It sucks we can't do it this year because we don't even have 2 legit safeties let alone 3.
how many chances and benefits of the doubt are you going to give a guy? He had multiple chances to right the ship. He is a bum
RE: On the Johnson TD
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IMO it wasn't miscommunication, it was Brown biting on the run fake and not being fast enough to recover
I thought the same thing. Brown was fixed the defensive right side way too long. When he he glanced back you could see the oh shit reaction. IMHO
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Will Hill was an idiotic move.
Will Hill sat in meetings with John Mara and Jerry Reese and TC and told them unto their fucking faces he would never fail a drug test again, and he did. Know if you are some kind of schmuck employer that after your employee fucks up multiple times, and came to you as a known fuck up when he was hired and you made it fuckign crystal clear he was on his last leg and out of chances and he screwed up again in the exact same way you warned him about, and a nartionally visible warning at that, one that was printed in the newspapers you're telling me you would give him another chance? at that point you're a chump, and if the guy were to embezzle you and ruin your business, destroy your credibility, company morale or spread fucking plague in the office you deserve it. Noone with an ounce of self respect or integrity keeps a guy after that. period. ever. nowhere.Unless he likes it up the ass.In which case he practically asked for it when he showed his warnings were empty and he was in fact toothless, and the employee in fact was in charge.
Before we get into anything here, you need to use some better spacing and you need to calm down. No need to swear big boy.
That's a shitty analogy you made for a number of reasons. Namely, Hill is not a bad person and never did anything to harm anyone other than himself. If JR and co really wanted to take a moral stand, they should have cut him before finding the result of his appeal. If they're going to wait for the appeal, they may as well just lived with the measly four games and then have a better secondary.
It wasn't the reason, so, there's that.
It was just the last straw
In fact, Mundy's snaps drastically reduced once Beason and Hill were inserted into the lineup and acclimated.
which made me think many of the three safety formations maybe were because of a lack of LB talent. I don't know, but the stats are the stats. Could also be the string of backup QB's the Giants played they didn't feel passing was a major threat.
Other than the Detroit game where all three, Hill, Rolle, Mundy played every snap.
I can't really think of too many people given as many chances as he has to flourish afterwards. Maybe Randy Moss, but even his issues pale in comparison to Hill.
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in the minority, but a 4 game suspension is not reason to cut a young potential cornerstone of your defense.
It wasn't the reason, so, there's that.
It was just the last straw
So they took an arbitrary moral stand which hurt themselves on the football field? Pass.
On that deep TD, if Fitzpatrick had gone to the underneath route (I think Andre Johnson), Brown would have been in good position for an INT.
That was the problem two years ago, QBs were making poor decisions, and Brown was being rewarded for his constantly being out of position.
I can't really think of too many people given as many chances as he has to flourish afterwards. Maybe Randy Moss, but even his issues pale in comparison to Hill.
I can't really think of too many people given as many chances as he has to flourish afterwards. Maybe Randy Moss, but even his issues pale in comparison to Hill.
So once he screws up and is gone for a long time they can get rid of him. A 4 game suspension for second hand smoke is not a major offense.
Well that's what he claimed. Even if he smoked a little weed I dont really care.
Demps sucks
that's just Mundy's snap counts. Hill and Rolle played practically every down of every game they were active.
When the Giants ran 3 safety with Grant, Rolle, and KP in 2011 it was almost every down.
Rolle, KP, and Grant were all in the top 5 on the D in # of snaps.
Just saying I don't think they ran a lot of 3 safety looks last year and the evidence is Mundy wasn't on the field a lot (comparatively speaking) with Hill.
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Bahahaha.
Well that's what he claimed. Even if he smoked a little weed I dont really care.
I care if he's on the list to get suspended for doing it. Keep your fucking nose clean and don't be a stupid shithead and be a star. Too much to ask. Fuck him.
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Bahahaha.
Well that's what he claimed. Even if he smoked a little weed I dont really care.
Even though he sat across the table from ownership, looked them in the eyes and told them that he wouldn't?
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I'm not sure what I'm looking at on that chart.. are the snap counts the snap counts where we had 3 safeties on the field?
that's just Mundy's snap counts. Hill and Rolle played practically every down of every game they were active.
When the Giants ran 3 safety with Grant, Rolle, and KP in 2011 it was almost every down.
Rolle, KP, and Grant were all in the top 5 on the D in # of snaps.
Just saying I don't think they ran a lot of 3 safety looks last year and the evidence is Mundy wasn't on the field a lot (comparatively speaking) with Hill.
Got it.
I guess since we ran 3 safeties on every down against DET in the last game, I thought they had been doing it more than they were. That coupled with him having done it in 2011 with Rolle, Phillips and Grant and I think he did it a bit in 2010 as well.
I guess it's not something we've used as much as I had thought but it seemed to be something we've gone to in certain situations/games and we just don't even have that freedom at all this year because we're so thin at S. Going into the year it felt like we had plenty of depth there but we really only have one guy we can rely on (Rolle)
I guess part of it depends on the personnel available to fewell, if Hill were on the team who knows, maybe Rolle, Hill and Brown would be out there every snap.
I just remember noticing Mundy's disappearance last year coincided with Hill's return and the Beason trade.
Hill wouldn't be out there right now anyway, but if Hill hadn't screwed up, Brown might have been on the PUP or IR list this year.
He's a stand up guy!
Will Hill trashes NJ rental home - ( New Window )
You know what makes me chuckle? Michigan football.
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Chuckles.
You know what makes me chuckle? Michigan football.
Are you sweating? You sound like you're sweating.
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Chuckles.
You know what makes me chuckle? Michigan football.
Are you sweating? You sound like you're sweating.
What does that even mean?
He is going to get suspended for a year. It's a matter of when, not if.
I don't agree with the people who act like Brown was never any good. However, he wasn't a terrific athlete to begin with and he has absolutely no speed, agility, or range right now. The Giants were absolutely right to bench him... there's nowhere to "hide" him on defense. The lack of range kills him at FS and he would need to cover people at SS.
Well, this time the suspension was 6 games not 4. Had they kept Hill, his total missed games would be 14 of 48 due to suspensions. Missing 14 games really hurts the team.
I really disagree that cutting Hill was idiotic. The coaching staff demonstrated support for him over the years. They reportedly arranged for treatment. Knowing the Giant's organization, I believe they grappled with how to handle him, and tolerated it as much as they could, to a breaking point. The Giants org were also concerned with the message it was sending to other players, particularly younger ones, by tolerating Hill time and time again.
Rather than an idiotic decision, I believe the Giants org put plenty of thought and deliberation into the pros and cons of keeping or canning him, and then concluded what their best course of action was.
Being away from new jersey is probably the best thing for him. Baltimore might still be too close to home.
Maybe a lighter workload will help Brown. He's had a fair amount of time to rehab that ACL, but still appears to have a ways to go, and was never the smoothest safety before the injury. He might do better in the #3 safety role, which is where he'd be anyway if Will Hill's Giant career hadn't gone up in smoke.
Big shame about Cooper Taylor. The kid has some skills.
Brown is much better suited to being a "small LB/big safety" at this point. Let's hope Berhe is the nuts.
Fans remember the picks, but he was as much responsible for many long pass plays/tds 2 seasons ago than anyone.
You can bet the rest of the NFC East is licking their chops at exposing him deep.
For the same reason.
That is all.
100% spot on.
Players don't know until the meeting after the coaches go over the tape. I can tell ya now, that him being pulled for a rookie speaks volumes.
If he is guessing, he doesn't know what he is doing and worthless to us.
I was always fine with re-signing him, but never understood how he was worth $2.75 million (of which $1 mill was guaranteed). Half of that would have been fair, especially off of a bad knee injury.