Simple exercise, looking back at prospects who sucked up a lot of bandwidth on BBI in the lead up to their draft. In most cases we talk about these players for months, then the Giants make their pick and the players who weren’t taken are essentially forgotten about. The NFL is unique in the most players, even good to very good players, are lost in the crowd. There are so many players fans really only closely follow the guys on their own team and a few scattered stars around the league. This is especially true for anyone who doesn’t play an offensive skill position (fantasy football players).
Obviously someone on this board is interested in every prospect but there are some who stand out. I’ll start:
Player: Sean Weatherspoon, LB, Missouri
Why?: “Spooooooooooooooooooooooon”
Draft: 2010, 1.19 (Atlanta)
Giants Pick: Jason Pierre-Paul, 1.15
Career: Spent seven seasons with the Falcons, with one season in Arizona in the middle. Missed a season due to injury. Last season played was 2017, now out of the league age 31.
86 career tackles, 8 sacks, 4 takeaways. 67 career games played. No individual honors.
Verdict: Giants made the right decision passing on Spoon and taking JPP.
That is why we are fans, we fall in love with prospects and get pissed when the Giants don't take them.
Obviously, drafting JPP turned into be a great pick with another Super Bowl trophy in the case as a result.
2008 - "Raymell" Rice - wasn't enough to call him Ray. We had to call him RAYMELL.
2010 - Spoon
2011 - Anthony Castonzo
2012 - Coby Fleener
2014 - Aaron Donald
2013 -
Matt Jones - ( New Window )
They are the experts....with unlimited resources ....
We have youtube.
Brian Leonard, Ray Rice, Kenny Britt, Anthony Davis, McCourty Brothers & Mohammed Sanu.
I also joined KWALL in his love for Brian Leonard. Big mistake.
demeco ryans the year we took Kiwanuka annoyed me.
I was pissed when they took Eli. I wanted to keep Kerry Collins and rebuild him an o-line starting with Gallery
Good thing I'm not the GM either lol
2013 pro bowler. Just retired with over 1200 tackles, 16 sacks, 8 FF and 3 FR, 15 INTs. Was a captain for both the Bills and Jags. We could have done worse.
Those tackle numbers are way off. He had 86 solo tackles in 2011 and 339 total combined tackles for his career.
That said, I wanted Dan Williams in that draft, so my preference was even worse than the Spoon devotees.
Same I was pushing for gallery I thought Collins could still sling it we just needed to revamp that line with a can’t miss all pro tackle.
He is a dupe that is currently on here now. The nowturnyourheadandcoughlin
He can't help himself.