Kim Jones: Almost Certain Giants Take a Defensive Player

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In comment 14357640 fredgbrown said:

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Hey, maybe we'll go all Al Davis and take a K

In comment 14357563 JohnB said:

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plus the Giants weakness is the defense and the strength of the draft is defense. So it might be a good guess that the Giants are going defense.

She should play Roulette

they draft 5 straight offensive players going by her insider expertise of late.

And then she will write a story about how nice those defensive players who didn't get drafted were to her.

Anyone who ever says "Giants don't usually use misdirection"... what the hell do you know? This regime is only in its 2nd year and last year we had the #2 overall pick. No need for misdirection when you're picking 2nd and the team ahead of you is 100% likely to take a QB (i.e. not Barkley). When picking #6 though there could be all sorts of misdirection at work. It would actually be silly and unprofessional to not be discrete/mis-directional.

In comment 14357591 mfsd said:

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In comment 14357489 Ten Ton Hammer said: Quote: In comment 14357436 mfsd said: Quote: In comment 14357398 UConn4523 said: Quote: 1 prediction she got wrong and its all you people seem to care about. Who's batting 1.000 these days? She's more plugged in than most, the Beckham thing doesn't change that. Yeah, but...her emotional investment in the OBJ story (and in OBJ in general) could reasonably be described as weird I don't think that's reasonable at all. Kim's been covering the team for years. The job of being a beat writer requires building relationships with people. That's how you actually get people to talk to you. She had a working relationship with the Yankees when she covered them too. And she has the same working relationship with Saquon Barkley given that she covered his career heavily. I don’t ever recall her (and really can’t think of any other writers/media people) tweeting emotional missives to a recently traded player for any NY team in any sport the way she did with OBJ

Is your issue with it that it happened so publicly?

Jay Glazer and Michael Strahan were best friends when he was an active player. Strahan certainly fed Glazer stories when he wrote for the Post. Glazer wrote Strahan's book with him and presented him at the hall of fame.

Media personalities and players are close all the time. When you're a regular beat writer you're essentially co-workers.

In comment 14357834 Ten Ton Hammer said:

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In comment 14357591 mfsd said: Quote: In comment 14357489 Ten Ton Hammer said: Quote: In comment 14357436 mfsd said: Quote: In comment 14357398 UConn4523 said: Quote: 1 prediction she got wrong and its all you people seem to care about. Who's batting 1.000 these days? She's more plugged in than most, the Beckham thing doesn't change that. Yeah, but...her emotional investment in the OBJ story (and in OBJ in general) could reasonably be described as weird I don't think that's reasonable at all. Kim's been covering the team for years. The job of being a beat writer requires building relationships with people. That's how you actually get people to talk to you. She had a working relationship with the Yankees when she covered them too. And she has the same working relationship with Saquon Barkley given that she covered his career heavily. I don’t ever recall her (and really can’t think of any other writers/media people) tweeting emotional missives to a recently traded player for any NY team in any sport the way she did with OBJ Is your issue with it that it happened so publicly? Jay Glazer and Michael Strahan were best friends when he was an active player. Strahan certainly fed Glazer stories when he wrote for the Post. Glazer wrote Strahan's book with him and presented him at the hall of fame. Media personalities and players are close all the time. When you're a regular beat writer you're essentially co-workers.

I’ve always been a Kim Jones fan. I really appreciated how emotional she was over the Paterno/Penn State issue, as a proud Penn State alum she loves the place, but didn’t blindly defend it either.

I just found the way she boldly guaranteed OBJ wouldn’t be traded, then got so emotional when it happened kinda weird, that’s all.

the quote from Kim Jones. What she actually said is not really arguable - that the 6th best available player in the draft will be a defensive player. She's suggesting that this will be the player that the Giants select only IF what Shurmur is saying right now holds up.

In comment 14357318 jeffro1 said:

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Odell is not getting traded...

Agree, means nothing.

I would love if they did. When is the last time in the top 10 they picked a defensive player? Was that Cedric Jones?

In comment 14358271 DavidinBMNY said:

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In comment 14357318 jeffro1 said: Quote: Odell is not getting traded... Agree, means nothing. I would love if they did. When is the last time in the top 10 they picked a defensive player? Was that Cedric Jones?

2016

In comment 14358137 eclipz928 said:

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the quote from Kim Jones. What she actually said is not really arguable - that the 6th best available player in the draft will be a defensive player. She's suggesting that this will be the player that the Giants select only IF what Shurmur is saying right now holds up.

No, that's also not really what she is really saying. She is saying that if the Giants use Mel Kiper's draft board to make their pick, it will be almost certainly be a defensive player they select.
p.s.--Kim Jones is not a scout and unlike her sources, she doesn't even play one on TV. So she is making a presumptuous (dare I say arrogant?) statement based on the opinions of people who are in it for clickbait, not in it to build an actual football team.

Is the quote from Pat Shurmur, who states that it would be ideal to take the best player available.

The majority of people you will find that have graded out the prospects of this draft have the top 6 players consisting of almost entirely defensive players.

There's really nothing to take away from this tweet - it wasn't meant to be a prediction.

and everything should be fine...

Good?