What is the success rate for QB taken in the first ten? 50%. or less?
For high priced free agents in their first year...???
Include Robinson in the package and we really were gifted with some astute maneuvering. Brilliant even.
I'd say everyone but the injured Oliver exceeded expectations...and that's particularly rare in the first year when some guys back off to count the money or try too hard to justify it. Think of it...not just good players, 4 guys who can be mentioned among the very best at their positions..
All the howls.."you can't buy a defense"..probably is true as a generality, just makes JR's achievement stand out.
And the yowls when he overspsent for the Safety and CAnty in 2011...all that did was bring us a superbowl.
The Man doesn't get enough credit. Dignified, hard working, well spoken and classy individual who worked his way thru the system..Kudos.
My hunch...Ellison isn't getting much pub right now but he's gonna be very important.
OV was playing with a broken (some say shattered hand) for most of the season. Still compiled a respectable 8.5 sacks and killed in other deep metrics like pressure and QB hits. Not to mention helping anchor one of the best rush defenses in the NFL.
I for one am excited for a season when the best 4-3 DE tandem on the planet can use both hands :-)
Giants' Olivier Vernon has been playing with 'shattered hand' - ( New Window )
I don't follow Gang Green so if anyone does, please explain to me why he hit the open market.
I don't follow Gang Green so if anyone does, please explain to me why he hit the open market.
Believe in Rex Ryan
Think Mark Sanchez would be a franchise QB
Draft Geno Smith
Let Snacks walk etc
I know it's only preseason, but check out the level he was playing at before getting hurt vs. DAL. Preseason or not, it was an elite level of play you rarely see. Reminded me of Strahan the way he was using leverage to control blockers and playing run/pass.
I don't follow Gang Green so if anyone does, please explain to me why he hit the open market.
They spent a lot of money in 2015 to be short-term competitive, if I remember correctly. Didn't they get Marshall and Decker and a few others?
He was not though the demon pass rusher that I expect to see this year.
The greater point was how good and how unlikely the haul.
I note that now you can't compliment a man without a racial context...I have always supported JR and if someday I criticize him that, according to one poster here, will likely make me a bigot. Too bad...sad really.
Reese has also been criticized for the money given to Baas in 2011 and Beatty in 2013, and for throwing good money after bad on Chris Snee and Mathias Kiwanuka, among others. Martellus Bennett was a very good signing in 2012, and wound up droving his own price tag out of the Giants' range. Key 2013 gamble Jon Beason didn't pan out at all. Rodgers-Cromartie has been highly productive since arriving in 2014. The FA class of 2015 (Harris, Thomas, Vereen, Casillas) has been so-so, with Casillas being the one overachiever.
Then came 2016. I don't think Reese suddenly became brilliant. (He was always smart, and still is.) Maybe the pro-personnel evaluation process improved. There must be some luck involved as well, with good fits for a bunch of major needs, and all the new arrivals staying healthy. Mostly, I think the team had a truckload of cap space for the first time in forever, and spent it very well.
He also said that OV was the only player who did not EXCEED expectations which to me is true, and does not indicate any disappointment.
I don't know how this triggered you...
But clearly it did.
Seems to me, though, that you're the one who injected race into it with your "credit to his race" comment. What grizz wrote about Reese could be applied to any successful GM.
And, if Webb turns out to be the next franchise QB, Reese should have this job for as long as he wants it.
I. M. O.
And, if Webb turns out to be the next franchise QB, Reese should have this job for as long as he wants it.
I. M. O.
SHOULD, yes.
If the Giants lose week 1 somehow, the haters will be back. [DIDN'T ADDRESS THE OL RABBLE RABBLE]
I would kill for another RT like McKenzie ...