What breaking giants news shocked you the most?

but here's one nobody's mentioned.

Bavaro signing with the Eagles. That guy hated that team. It made my stomach churn seeing him in green.

When Reggie Nelson didn't accept an invite for a workout.

In comment 13780540 Slade said:

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When Reggie Nelson didn't accept an invite for a workout.

I am impressed! Awesome of you to go with the flow there. I remember how much shit you took over the eraser.

could do something that stupid.

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Of all the dumb crap I expected to see from a player, I didn't expect that. Same with JPP.

ahh the USFL. We drafted Gary Zimmerman traded to Denver which resulted in us drafting Mark Collins and Pepper Johnson in 1986. That draft also got us Sean Landetta.
Reggie White with LT however, just imagine that D.

for three bums and a couple of draft choices that we promptly wasted. Good times

That would have been the most dominant defense in history. '85 Bears, '00 Ravens, whoever, I don't care who you pick - prime White and LT on the same defense would have been supernatural.

In comment 13780275 Go Terps said:

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I was sure he'd be catching passes from Eli for a decade. Goes to show I didn't know the extent of his injury. Smith, Cruz, and Nicks were lessons I'll never forget. As for JPP and Plax, stupid people do stupid things. There were rumors about Plax and guns (remember the gunshots from the car rented in his name shortly after he signed with us) prior to that.

My memory is bad, but wasn't Steve Smith pretty much a shell of himself at that point? I don't recall him doing much of anything with the Eagles. Did he even finish the season, or was he released, or injured?

as well as the news that BOTH Mac and Reese were fired next day. Maybe Tiki retiring is up there too.

I wasn't so much "shocked" for the Eli benching because didn't McAdoo hint at it in the presser after the Rams game this season? I wasn't surprised McAdoo went with the decision, because he's just an arrogant dope.

Another underrated one was promoting McAdoo to the head coach position. I, for some reason became a kid again and while I was not pleased about Coughlin leaving the way he did, I still developed eagerness about who the next coach was going to be. I had these never-gonna-happen big names in my head (forget who honestly), because the next guy had to be a big name, right? He’s replacing Tom Coughlin to replace the New York Giants! Right?

…and dud.

I think I first found out he was named head coach by way of License Plate Guy’s Facebook page. I thought LPG had jumped the gun, just made his pick for fun because no way this could be real, and I read it again. I felt like a little kid who didn’t get what he wanted for Christmas or his birthday and just sat there in silence. I was left bored and rolled my eyes.

I even thought: why did this boring answer take as long as it did? I waited all that time for that?

Plax.. Oh shit.

I remember that day. Talk about bad timing. I was planning a Thanksgiving get-together with all my friends from high school and I was out way late the night before, slept in until 5. The way I found out about it was I got an insincere message from a Cowboy fan I knew on myspace when I woke up. He was saying how it sucks what happened to Plaxico. I instantly woke myself up and I think I came here (as a lurker) to really read what happened. I dreaded that party, but everyone was kind of cool and kept saying how Hixon was better than Burress lol

It wasn't just Plaxico shooting himself and costing us the Giants a chance at the Super Bowl two years in a row that bugs me, it’s that everyone was back to ripping on the Giants immediately and had a good reason to. It was then I didn’t even realize how good it was for the past year or so. The Giants were defending champions, they were 11-1 at that point. No one could say anything (I guess except for that Browns loss on MNF) and thanks to that idiot, he gave people a reason to come out in multitudes because it was quiet on this end since the Giants dominating football for all of the 2008 season (without Osi because of injury and Strahan recently retiring, mind you).

Being a football fan will never be the same for me. Those were some fun years where I was on top of any piece of Giants news.

Plaxico did himself in that night. You cannot even mention his name or finish a sentence on his Super Bowl 42 game winner without someone recapping the shooting incident and throwing it in your face.

I remember saying wtf when the Giants took the QB from Duke in the supplemental draft years ago.

Parcells leaving

In comment 13780663 BlueinRoch said:

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I remember saying wtf when the Giants took the QB from Duke in the supplemental draft years ago.

I'm with you - I wasn't paying any attention to the supplemental draft, so when I got the news that they used a 1 on Brown I was absolutely shocked. I didn't know who he was, and was completely unprepared for the news.

In comment 13780260 FatMan in Charlotte said:

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I was hanging out with a lot of Panthers and he wasn't well liked and the times I got to meet him he was hammered and a jerkoff. After one of my baseball games, the team is out having a few pitchers and they put Collins head shot on the screen at being signed and I literally said, "What team is stupid enough to sign Collins". Then ESPN changed the picture or put an overlay of a Giants hat on it. My jaw dropped.

I went to PSU when Collins was there, had the same impression of him, as did a significant number of his teammates. Only Brady seemed to spend much time around him.

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two moves that really shocked me were the Plax signing in 2005 (didn't seem to be in our dna to ever sign a big name wr) and H@*&^#^ starting Hostetler over Simms. Although truth be told, I was in favor of that move as Hoss had just won the super bowl and Simms looked to me to be done, particularly against the blitz.

Getting arrested.

Hands down. Only time I saw my dad throw anything at the TV.

Monday night vs the 49ers during the 86 regular season. I went to bed at halftime (still had a bedtime on school nights then) with the Giants down 17-0, bummed out we were losing to the 49ers, especially as I went to school with a few annoying bandwagon 49er fans.

My old man woke me up the next morning to tell me Giants won 21-17, and all about the Bavaro and Stacey Robinson catches. That was a nice surprise!!

As for the rest, Plax stands alone. Still remember getting a text from a buddy on my old flip phone saying “dude...did you hear about Plax?”

But picked an OL that never played.....from USFL.

I am shocked at how badly the Giants screwed that up.

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Nice to have a DE who was BLIND in one eye... Young made some bad picks.