Shurmur said the following:
“At that time last year, the best decision—what we felt was best for the Giants—was Daniel Jones. I will say this: we had a very, very high opinion of Drew Lock. We liked him a great deal. There are a lot of similarities between the two players,” Shurmur explained. “They can throw the ball well. They can move around well. You saw flashes of really good football from both of them this year as they played as rookies, so I’m very, very excited to be able to work with Drew Lock and really all the offensive players.”
Could be lip service of course, but let's say it was true for argument's sake. How would you feel about the future of the team if the following happened:
6) ER Josh Allen (Kentucky)
17) Dexter Lawrence
Second rounder) Drew Lock
And kept the 132nd and 142nd picks. We all love DJ and we think he has a bright future, but would we have better been better off if we did the above instead of taking DJ at 6 and trading up for Deandre Baker?
IE, when you change even just one pick early in the draft (or for that matter at any point), you can possibly affect every single subsequent pick.
It doesn't work as you are trying to lay it out. Certainly not necessarily so.
It's very highly unlikely to have worked out as you proposed above.
(1) Nobody thought Lock would be available in the second round. He might not have been available at #17. I was surprised that someone didn't trade back up into the first round to get Lock like Ozzie Newsome did to get Lamar Jackson, since by doing so they would get the fifth year option on him.
(2) Countless teams that needed a QB passed on him.
(3) Denver passed on him three times, first at #10, then at #20 (Fant), and then at #41 (Risner).
I think the concerns about Lock were whether the spread offense he came from would inhibit his ability to dissect NFL defenses. Jones was clearly more highly coveted.
He missed a lot of time his rookie season, but played well at the end.
Shurmur pushed for Jones. Then DG did his homework. Saying he was dead set on Jones is a mischaracterization.
But yes, they liked Lock more than Haskins
They obviously liked Jones much better (just like the Broncos did), which is why they pulled the trigger at 6.
There us no way to know what the impact of selecting Allen would have been
There is no way to speculate selections beyond the second pick
It is possible that Lock would not have been available when the Giants picked in the second round
Then you would be in the position of not having your future QB
Trading up for Baker was only "bad" in retrospect. At the time of the deal and his selection, he was considered a steal by some draft analysts. Particularly by Cythia Frelund, NFL Netwoks Analytics' guru, who viewed Baker where he was taken as one of the two best "probabilities" values of the entire draft.
Initially her analytics work on Baker's collegiate production led her to mock him second overall to the 49ers, where Joey Bosa was selected!
Hindsight is of course better, but a false premise.
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Was trading up for Baker. That should’ve been an OT or kept the picks and snagged an OT w the 2nd rounder.
Trading up for Baker was only "bad" in retrospect. At the time of the deal and his selection, he was considered a steal by some draft analysts. Particularly by Cythia Frelund, NFL Netwoks Analytics' guru, who viewed Baker where he was taken as one of the two best "probabilities" values of the entire draft.
Initially her analytics work on Baker's collegiate production led her to mock him second overall to the 49ers, where Joey Bosa was selected!
Hindsight is of course better, but a false premise.
I didn’t like the pick when it was made so not hindsight on my part.
Plenty of others here loved it, so not surprised there’s a similar push for Okudah.
The Giants went into the draft with a gaping hole at RT and did nothing in the draft to address it. Cody Ford, who many mocked to the Giants at 17, would’ve been available at the Baker pick or in 2nd if they didn’t trade up at all.
Cody Ford in Rd 2
Could have still pursued Leonard Williams and then maybe draft the DT from Auburn at #4 this year or the CB from Ohio St.
Now that would have been a nice set of circumstances from a GM.
Markus Golden equaled or exceeded Josh Allen's sacks, so what would have been gained by drafting him.
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Was trading up for Baker. That should’ve been an OT or kept the picks and snagged an OT w the 2nd rounder.
Trading up for Baker was only "bad" in retrospect. At the time of the deal and his selection, he was considered a steal by some draft analysts. Particularly by Cythia Frelund, NFL Netwoks Analytics' guru, who viewed Baker where he was taken as one of the two best "probabilities" values of the entire draft.
Initially her analytics work on Baker's collegiate production led her to mock him second overall to the 49ers, where Joey Bosa was selected!
Hindsight is of course better, but a false premise.
I didn’t like the pick when it was made so not hindsight on my part.
Plenty of others here loved it, so not surprised there’s a similar push for Okudah.
The Giants went into the draft with a gaping hole at RT and did nothing in the draft to address it. Cody Ford, who many mocked to the Giants at 17, would’ve been available at the Baker pick or in 2nd if they didn’t trade up at all.
Fair enough if you didn't like Baker there but Cody Ford had a pretty rough starting rookie year so far as I know. I don't follow the Bills, so I'm just gonna throw some PFF grades out there:
Cody Ford (PFF 52.4) < Will Hernandez (58.6, a drop-off of almost 10 points from 2018) < Mike Remmers (64.3) < Solder (64.7) < Zeitler (76.4)
So unless Ford played center perhaps, the Giants OL would have been even worse with him playing...
Yes Baker was even worse by PFF grade (48.4) but, OTOH with Beal's oft injured status who else was gonna start at CB????
I know PFF grades are hardly gospel, but that's what we got. Baker improved over the year, and one sees traits in him that he can play.
I'd give him at least another year before declaring him a bad pick, no?
And a fair amount of the Giants' OL looking bad was DJ's holding the ball too long and insensitivity towards the pass rush. His lack of decision making and internal clock - which is normal for a rookie QB.
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Was trading up for Baker. That should’ve been an OT or kept the picks and snagged an OT w the 2nd rounder.
Trading up for Baker was only "bad" in retrospect. At the time of the deal and his selection, he was considered a steal by some draft analysts. Particularly by Cythia Frelund, NFL Netwoks Analytics' guru, who viewed Baker where he was taken as one of the two best "probabilities" values of the entire draft.
Initially her analytics work on Baker's collegiate production led her to mock him second overall to the 49ers, where Joey Bosa was selected!
Hindsight is of course better, but a false premise.
I didn’t like the pick when it was made so not hindsight on my part.
Plenty of others here loved it, so not surprised there’s a similar push for Okudah.
The Giants went into the draft with a gaping hole at RT and did nothing in the draft to address it. Cody Ford, who many mocked to the Giants at 17, would’ve been available at the Baker pick or in 2nd if they didn’t trade up at all.
Fair enough if you didn't like Baker there but Cody Ford had a pretty rough starting rookie year so far as I know. I don't follow the Bills, so I'm just gonna throw some PFF grades out there:
Cody Ford (PFF 52.4) < Will Hernandez (58.6, a drop-off of almost 10 points from 2018) < Mike Remmers (64.3) < Solder (64.7) < Zeitler (76.4)
So unless Ford played center perhaps, the Giants OL would have been even worse with him playing...
Yes Baker was even worse by PFF grade (48.4) but, OTOH with Beal's oft injured status who else was gonna start at CB????
I know PFF grades are hardly gospel, but that's what we got. Baker improved over the year, and one sees traits in him that he can play.
I'd give him at least another year before declaring him a bad pick, no?
And a fair amount of the Giants' OL looking bad was DJ's holding the ball too long and insensitivity towards the pass rush. His lack of decision making and internal clock - which is normal for a rookie QB.
I think Baker will be a good player in a system more conducive to his skill set. Scrutinizing the pick isn’t about Baker’s ability, it’s about Gettleman not prioritizing OL in the draft when Value met need.
Ford is a good player. He handled Watt fine in the playoffs and looked solid all around in the games I saw.
Greg Little would’ve also been available without a trade up and Jawaan Taylor would’ve been available after a trade up. All 3 would’ve been upgrades at the RT position this year over the corpse of Remmers.
My larger concern is that the Giants scouts may simply be terrible at evaluating OL. The picks under Reese were terrible and so far under Gettleman it doesn’t seem they’re stacking their board correctly to accurately value the OL available.
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Ford is a good player. He handled Watt fine in the playoffs and looked solid all around in the games I saw.
Greg Little would’ve also been available without a trade up and Jawaan Taylor would’ve been available after a trade up. All 3 would’ve been upgrades at the RT position this year over the corpse of Remmers.
My larger concern is that the Giants scouts may simply be terrible at evaluating OL. The picks under Reese were terrible and so far under Gettleman it doesn’t seem they’re stacking their board correctly to accurately value the OL available.
I agree one has to question the Giants' ability to scout OL. But it's hard to say how bad their scouting (of OL) is when from 2005 - 2013 they allocated so few even moderately high draft picks to the OL. By the time they selected Pugh and Richburg and Flowers, they were picking OL out of desperation instead of "filling the pipeline." Hernandez to my eyes is a very fine OG, with lots of potential to improve. He's got it all, and he's a nasty finisher to boot.
Let's see what the do for OL this year. I think at least one of our first two selection will be an OL player...