Am I the only one mystified by some of our personnel decisions?
The OL wasn’t effective, and has been suspect all season. They didn’t open any running lanes. Zeitler should have been inactive. His shoulder is obviously hurt, and it's clearly affecting his play. I would have started Gates. Remmers and Solder also can't handle any kind of edge rush. We should have occasionally helped them by using a sixth OL. I also would have considered benching Remmers, and using Slade and Smith instead.
Hilliman should have been benched for Penny, a better blocker, and Walter, who is hopefully quicker. Repeatedly running Hilliman into the line when it was clearly ineffective was mindless.
K. Smith instead of Ellison. Ellison looks like he can barely move. Smith might have been able to “stretch the seam” a little.
On defense, I would have deactivated Stupar. I also would have benched Bethea and Haley for Love and Ballentine. Haley has been scorched in coverage by every team. Love was a fourth round pick. Ballentine looked great in preseason. Why aren’t they playing?
As for Love I also agree that he should be getting time over Bethea. Bethea has been an awful signing and he belongs on the bench.
Had you gotten your wish, we would have never witnessed an NFL-first: A punt blocker who gets pushed exactly into a position where the punt goes off his helmet.
Come on, now... that's gotta be worth something.
While they could have been more creative with the run game you can't abandon it totally against a defense like that or you will get your QB killed.
So did Hilliman. Now people are ready to run him out of town.
In fact, weren't several posters upset he was cut but liked that he was on the practice squad?
He's a good tackler and good around the line of scrimmage, but the second he has to cover, things go south.
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Ballentine looked great in preseason
So did Hilliman. Now people are ready to run him out of town.
In fact, weren't several posters upset he was cut but liked that he was on the practice squad?
Hilliman was running through big holes in preseason and not adding anything to the play. This guy sucks so hard. Ballentine was showing great coverage albeit 2nd stringers. But there is a difference in their performance.
Hilliman should never see another touch for the team. You can't have a RB turn the ball over in critical situations especially when they offer nothing as a runner/receiver.
Defense was awesome last night. The guys who played did so well enough to win and then some.
Stupar- Not sure what he adds. I don't know why the coach is doing this to himself.
Exactly right. I appreciate his tackling, but he couldn't cover a parked car.
A screen pass to Penny is moronic. We should see Slayton on a jet sweep. Frigging unagile system weenie Shemur.
RPOs weren't there because NE was not going to bite on a run to Hilliman and largely playing prevent Tampa 2 soft Cover2.
Why you're not an NFL head coach is amazing.
Answer: he's not
Arguing about which JAG should get more snaps is drinking the koolaid.
As for Love I also agree that he should be getting time over Bethea. Bethea has been an awful signing and he belongs on the bench.
Maybe the practice squad one.
But your #3 rb is a mid round need sadly.
As for the bottom of the D roster , it's the almost all D draft maybe ...do..
Why you're not an NFL head coach is amazing.
Running with your fullback? Maybe once in awhile but ..... geez it that is your answer to this current RB situation? This is really so typical of the Giants front office to just get rid of players but never bother to replace them with decent talent...Collins ; Odell , Perkins I can go and on
vet signing . A healthy Gallman is never a threat to break
any big plays as well . He does get nicked up .
236 touches four plays 20 plus yards longest 24 yards .
might be the worst backup RB in the NFL.
Bethea old man in the sea is our leading tackler 20 yards
down the field . Why not put Peppers back there and
Put whomever at SS . Maybe Buckannon con't even get me started on Stupar questionable personal decisions ..
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He's a good tackler and good around the line of scrimmage, but the second he has to cover, things go south.
Exactly right. I appreciate his tackling, but he couldn't cover a parked car.
vet signing . A healthy Gallman is never a threat to break
any big plays as well . He does get nicked up .
236 touches four plays 20 plus yards longest 24 yards .
might be the worst backup RB in the NFL.
Bethea old man in the sea is our leading tackler 20 yards
down the field . Why not put Peppers back there and
Put whomever at SS . Maybe Buckannon con't even get me started on Stupar questionable personal decisions ..
In fact, weren't several posters upset he was cut but liked that he was on the practice squad?
Probably Rutgers fans...
The team is banged up right now, and even when not they aren't all that good. Giants will win a few more games this year but that's about it.
Some of the younger guys are showing some good stuff and some of the other players and vets are showing that they need to move on.
Roster building will continue...
He's got his flaws, for sure, but it's unfortunate that he's been saddled with the Browns and now Dave "Dead Money" Gettleman.
Not favorable conditions for any coach.
And I hate the blame game some on BBI engage in. When Shurmur has a decent roster we’ll see whether he’s capable of not. But all the BBI couch potatoes think that they have insights he doesn’t. Somehow I find that a bit egotistical.
Unless DG plans on jettisoning Shurmur and making him a scapegoat(which imo is highly unlikely) your post while 'factual' doesn't paint an accurate picture of the GM or the managements teams vision for this roster long term imo.
Unless DG plans on jettisoning Shurmur and making him a scapegoat(which imo is highly unlikely) your post while 'factual' doesn't paint an accurate picture of the GM or the managements teams vision for this roster long term imo.
If you think we'll only have $500K in dead money next year, I have a bridge to sell you. The only reason why we only have that amount on the books for next year is because we simply haven't started ringing up new charges on that freshly paid off credit card just yet.
The way that Abrams structures contracts combined with Gettleman's less than stellar record in free agency will perpetually keep this team from being top quartile in cap efficiency.
I'll believe otherwise when I see it for myself. Anyone who puts faith in Gettleman and Abrams to all of a sudden turn the cap from a major disadvantage into anything but a neutral factor is doing so purely out of wishful thinking, IMO.
Gettleman needs to get a lot better (and more consistently so) at free agency and Abrams needs to stop structuring contracts designed specifically with a premature ripcord in mind, and then maybe we'll stop ringing up the dead money. Like I said, I'll believe it when I see it.
For example if the Giants were to cut Ogletree, Jenkins and Ellison after this season our 'dead money' for 2020 would be about $10M. Nowhere near the $36M we incurred with the rebuild. I also doubt this happens but you never know.
Dead money can be spread over two years, depending on the timing of the release/trade. And yes, I understand exactly how its accrued, which is why it's silly when people point out that we *only* have $500K in dead money for next season. Of course that's all we have... now.
But the way Abrams structures contracts combined with the mediocre track record for Gettleman in free agency (along with his willingness to cut bait quickly on his signings when they don't work out) suggest to me that dead money will continue to be a hinderance for this franchise.
The fact that they restructured Solder in the manner that they did, which borrowed cap space from 2020 and 2021 just to free up some space for in-season operations this year (when the dead money handcuffs this year were already self-imposed) makes me concerned that as a general rule they're too willing to borrow from tomorrow for cap space today.
This is not an otherwise sound cap management front office that has simply weathered the storm of roster turnover; they're middling at best when it comes to the cap and the roster turnover has merely cast a light on some of their suboptimal tendencies (a roster bonus, workout bonus and partially guaranteed salary for Tanney, for example, was simply asking for potential dead money for a player that had no leverage to begin with and by definition was always going to be a candidate for churn at the bottom of the roster).
Frankly after reading your arguments over multiple posts on this subject I'm inclined to put you in the 'Chicken Little' category. Plenty of bluster and hyperbole but scant substance. The sky is falling, the sky is falling but the current numbers don't support your position.
We can revisit when next seasons roster takes shape but I for one am confident the dead money will be drastically reduced and we'll be in position to delve deeply into the markets to bolster our talent level.
Frankly after reading your arguments over multiple posts on this subject I'm inclined to put you in the 'Chicken Little' category. Plenty of bluster and hyperbole but scant substance. The sky is falling, the sky is falling but the current numbers don't support your position.
We can revisit when next seasons roster takes shape but I for one am confident the dead money will be drastically reduced and we'll be in position to delve deeply into the markets to bolster our talent level.
Not sure where you're getting your numbers but more than half of the dead money this year was accrued via contracts that Gettleman handed out, not Reese.
The numbers absolutely support my position. Your fiction just doesn't.