Not to over-estimate the significance of that great feeling victory yesterday, but the Giants look as if they may slowly be evolving into a solid NFL team. But there are still lots of needs to be dealt with in building and developing personnel. Based primarily just on yesterday’s performance, a few that jumped out at me are:
1. Can the Giants possibly pay both Williams and Tomlinson? If not, which? Either?
2. Is Lemieux more effective at LG than Hernandez? Felt some echoes of The Suburbanites yesterday. Can Hernandez be effective at RG? Should he?
3. Much better game from Jones. He doesn’t look entirely comfortable doing it, but when he is more decisive and gets the ball out of his hands quickly, he is very effective. Similarly, can he be taught when a play just isn’t going to happen to take off, throw it out of bounds or just take the sack? He’s fast but not hyper athletic like Jackson, Murray or Wilson, and his attempts to extend busted plays at the NFL level do more to hurt the chance of winning than help.
4. Would the Giants win more games as a result if they could trade Barkley straight up for a top-quality #1 WR?
Yup, saw it! And you may well be right. But the coaches are also moving guys around on line to see what the best combination is, and Lemieux looked very comfortable at LG, I thought sometimes even more effective than Hernandez has been.
Why?
I'm sure JJ and DG get together and discuss it. BJ Hill has looked pretty good in the middle. Austin Johnson has played well, at DT/DE also.
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as LG and moves Lemieux to RG. I think that tells you how they rate the players. Hernandez is the LG, and Lemieux will back up both sides.
Then why wasn't Hernandez starting over Lemieux in the first place? The switcharoo when Zeitler got hurt could simply mean that Hernandez was unprepared to play right guard, so Lemieux (who had practiced at the position) was moved to the right side so Hernandez could play the position at which he was comfortable.
Wasn’t Lemieux steamrolled on several plays after the switch?
Seems pressure increased from RG after the switch..