Your NY Giants Team Preview/Monday Night Open Thread

[wipes spittle off monitor]

Okay, where do I even start? Well, I think the team has a coach that won’t have an 11 minute meltdown in a press conference as though he was a high-schooler that got caught skipping. So there’s that.I’ve paid quite a bit more attention to the Bills since they drafted Josh Allen and you can see some of the stuff they were doing during the Giants preseason. Quick hitters, slants, quick passes to the flat, trying to get speedy guys in space, etc. That stuff I like.

Which is all good and fine but injuries (there it is again!) are going to be a problem with respect to continuity-checking the list, there’s 11 guys listed as questionable over the last two days. Five of those listed are on the offensive line, a unit that is paper thin in quality outside the two building blocks that are Evan Neal and Andrew Thomas. There’s huge concern at center especially.

Which brings us to Dimes. This guy has caught so many bad breaks-he just never stood a chance of developing into a half-decent QB. Going all the way back to Duke, he’s never played behind a competent o-line. Different offensive systems and injuries also contributed to his lack of progress. Gettleman’s ham-handed attempts at addressing the line were handcuffed by an inability to properly identify talent. So many swings and misses. I would point out that with respect to analytics I think he was having fun with reporters and playing ‘the out of touch old man’, which he was but not for that reason. He, like Judge, wanted to play 80’s football and that just doesn’t fly anymore.

So he left the team in Salary Cap Hell which I kind of like because  new GM Shoen is precluded from making a splashy signing as a way of introducing his arrival. It’s a fookin’ rebuild, folks. Something Gettleman ignored for four years. What I’d like to see are a few surprises on Cutdown Day, whether it’s letting a certain guy go or keeping an odd guy that wasn’t supposed to make the roster because that will mean to me that existing talent is finally being assessed in a different manner.

I’ll be astounded if overall team speed isn’t a determining factor in getting down to the final 53. I also think that there will be plenty of scouring of the waiver wire for o-linemen and cb’s. Both Robinson and Flott, rookie secondary players, have struggled mightily in the preseason.

I’m looking forward to seeing rook tight end Daniel Bellinger. He didn’t drop a single pass during his senior year. After five years of Evan “Butterfingers” Engram, this will be a welcome relief.

I think the Vegas over/under is 7.5 and a whole bunch of things will have to fall into place in order for them to hit 8 wins.

Now get out there and entertain yourselves.