Does any other NFL team carry 11? Regardless of results, we've started the same 5 all season. 3 of our 7 inactive inactive players each and every weekend are OL, and that is before the return of Schwartz.
If the OL is terrible why not try some of the guys not playing? If the problem is that the reserves suck even more than the starters, why not cut them and get some backs, LBs, etc. that could help on special teams?
We're not keeping a 30-some year old scrub like Snyder around for "develoomental" purposes, are we?
It's another example of grotesque roster mismanagement. Either play guys like Brewer and Mosley or cut them if they really are worse than Jerry and Brown. Jerry, Brown, Reynolds, Brewer, and Snyder will all probably be gone at the end of the year. But some or none frankly should have ever been on the roster this year. I wish some reporter would ask Coughlin why he's carrying so many OL.
[quote] they're all so talented we can't part with any of them.
It's another example of grotesque roster mismanagement. Either play guys like Brewer and Mosley or cut them if they really are worse than Jerry and Brown.
Mosley started the first 3 or 4 preseason games, until he hurt his back, and didn't do any worse the Jerry or Brown. He still could have potential. We knew what the other two could do before we signed them. It's not like out offense line coach can coach them up!
Correct. Even with ten of these guys, they'd still suck.
Every offensive lineman the Giants are carrying would probably find a job somewhere in the league, if Jamon Meredith and Guy Whimper could hang on for years, most of these players could too...unfortunately the Giants have to start several of them at one time...without a couple of established veteran quality linemen to build around. New Orleans even survived Brown for several weeks before he was benched because they had quality overall.
The problem with the Giants is there are no linchpins, a in his prime Chris Snee to start along Justin Pugh on the right side, a veteran center alongside a Richburg or a confident left tackle starting alongside Richburg.
Ultimately like Pope at TE, even if Coughlin stays, Flaherty may be the one that goes, easier to make that move claiming he didn't develop Brewer, Mosley, Pugh, and Richburg...then to blame it on the GM.
If they can't help us this year and won't be on the roster next year, what's the point?
Keeps us from using starters on ST, and if one gets injured, would we say, 'Damn!?'
The first step to solving this problem is getting rid of Reese and Ross.
Someone may give a guy like Brewer a shot, but he won't make it through cuts for them.
John Gruden