Acknowledging:
1) Hard Knocks is about getting viewers, particularly non-Giants fans, so editing is about making the footage they captured the most interesting / dramatic it can be.
2) The Giants reportedly have some kind of final editorial / ability to delete or "fuzz" information.
How likely is it that the Giants reported interest in selecting a QB, likely involving a trade up, was mostly / entirely a smoke screen to increase the chance that MHJ or Nabers would be available to the Giants at 6th overall without a trade up?
In the scene where Schoen is going over possible draft outcomes on the screen in front of Mara and Tisch (pretty cool by the way), Schoen displayed the "Giants intel on other teams" (obviously intel not uniquely known by the Giants) and how important is was in prediction who would be available at 6th overall.
If the Giants had ignored or done minimal interviews with the QBs and had focused even more strongly on "offensive weapons", how likely is that another team would have traded up to get Nabers?
Given how "loose lipped" the Giants had been in years past, with teams jumping ahead of the Giants multiple times, could the Giants have gone overboard in laying a thick QB interest smoke screen?
Obviously Atlanta stayed very tight lipped about any interest in Penix. Was the Giants QB interest sufficient to keep other teams guessing so that Nabers would fall to them?
I'm saying did the Giants "lay the QB interest on thick" to keep other teams guessing at the Giants moves more so than the Giants have done recently.
I'm saying did the Giants "lay the QB interest on thick" to keep other teams guessing at the Giants moves more so than the Giants have done recently.
I mean that is every team though. It is easy to hide your intentions when you have so many needs. I think this regime throws more smoke than any other regime we have had. I think when news first breaks, that is usually something they don't want getting out and then they follow that up with smoke sort of like the JJM interest. Look at Burns. We didn't hear all that much. Some did. I think Eric got wind but kept it close, but in terms of beats or guys like Garafolo, news didn't really get out until it was agreed to.
They wanted to draw interest for a team to trade up for a quarterback (McCarthy) if a team was going to trade up.
They literally spelled it out in graphics on the show.
The voice of reason. Well said.
I'm saying did the Giants "lay the QB interest on thick" to keep other teams guessing at the Giants moves more so than the Giants have done recently.
So you think they told their QB they might draft a QB, and risked creating bad blood, because they were trying to deceive other teams? Or Schoen called the Pats and made an offer hoping they would say no?
Fans should understand that most teams know exactly what other teams need and are likely to do in the draft. Teams know which teams are trying to trade up or are willing to trade down.
All these complaints in the past about leaks that 'recealed' who the Giants wanted were pretty silly, especially when the same fans had been talking for months about who the Giants needed. Teams know what other teams need.
Occasionally, there is a curveball (Penix), but wouldn't it be nice to know if other teams were as surprised by that as fans were?
You don't think they would have tried to trade up for Daniels if the Commanders had taken Maye?
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You don't think they would have tried to trade up for Daniels if the Commanders had taken Maye?
I think they knew Daniels was going to Wash.
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