According to the draft value chart if we traded our 2nd and 3rd rd pick we could possibly get back up to pick 25 or so in the first. Of course a team would have to be willing to do the trade but would you if we had the chance? Who would you target at 9 and 25? I would take the BPA at 9 such as Cooper/White/Shelton and then get the best Offensive Lineman available with the late first.
I'd rather keep the picks.
Exactly. This team is not one or two players away. We have weaknesses at multiple positions. We need all the picks we can get and these players have to perform.
I'd hold 'em.
The Giants are zero players away from contending for a Super Bowl. They could do it with the roster they have now if they just have the same kind of luck they had in 2007 and 2011. And if they have the same kind of luck they had in 2013 and 2014, it won't matter how many players they add.
I'm not saying there isn't plenty of room for improvement across the roster, but that's true of every team in the NFL. The better your roster, the less good luck you need. But there are no great teams which don't need any luck and only four or five teams in which all the luck in the world isn't going to get them to the Super Bowl. And the Giants aren't one of those four or five teams.
Milton, I think you're one of 6 people who think that if the Giants were healthy last year they would have been a good playoff team. I'm not one of the other 5, btw
The roster they have now, has no JPP, Rolle, Kiwi, etc. There is not one starting safety on this team....there is no depth on this roster to handle injuries....one of the worst linebacking groups in the NFL.....one starter in the DL.....
Zero players away from contending for a Super Bowl?
Imagine a four WR set, short pass game, with a healthy & effective Cruz, OBJ, Randle and Cooper? 3 steps and fire?
In today's NFL, you need playmakers at the wideout position. Get two UFA lineman and draft a lineman in round 2. Hope that our young players develop as well.
I mean, if Cooper is the goods we are really set for 2016 with OBJ and Cooper. Randle could walk and Cruz, if not 100%, could be asked to take a paycut to stay. I mean, we need a great pick at #9 and another one at #40. I know, no-brainer but I can dream BIG cause it is pre-draft season.
If someone approached us, and we saw a guy near the end of the first round that shouldn't be there, yeah, you jump on it.....it's not the number of bodies, it's the talent in them....
Manningham.......pretty good player........winning super bowl play, etc.
Off the top of my head
If someone approached us, and we saw a guy near the end of the first round that shouldn't be there, yeah, you jump on it.....it's not the number of bodies, it's the talent in them....
Exactly!
Also, how could anyone watch this team the past two seasons and come away with the notion that we are close to being a superbowl team that has had "bad luck"? There is more wrong than injuries and little hope we will be healthy next year..its not luck.