This will be quick and nasty because I have to be at work shortly.

Yeah, 44 years. I figured it out last weekend. I’m getting up there.

To The Team!

The Rookies:

-It was one hell of a draft, folks. Either that or the talent level is so poor that these young guys are shining. The 1st rounder, cb Banks is starting. Second rounder Schmitz, a highly ranked center, was the starter 35 seconds into camp. Third rounder wr Jalin Hyatt is a speedster that most likely will be starting later in the season. If the team scores on a few bombs they’ll be landing in his hands. The huge surprise is 6th rounder Tre Hawkins who will be a boundary cb when Adoree Jackson plays the slot. That’s good draftin’!

The O-Line:

-STILL A SOURCE OF EXTREME CONCERN

-Hopefully Evan Neal takes a huge step forward the way that Andrew Thomas did in his second year.

The O:

-Daboll/Kafka have been fairly vanilla during the preseason but there were all sorts of shenanigans in camp-Waller lining up in the backfield, Hyatt behind center, etc. It’s going to be very interesting.

-Saquon is going to be Saquon. (hopefully the uninjured one)

-Dimes should show some improvement. He was extremely accurate in camp while being asked to expand his skillset and to throw longer passes.

-Waller looks fantastic and should stop that nasty habit of teams last year putting as many guys as possible near the line of scrimmage.

Wink’s D:

-He’s definitely got more talent on the field than he did last year. Athleticism/speed at linebacker and corner has increased immensely. The d-line rotation looks a lot better.

-As for his blitz-heavy approach-I think he used extra pressure to compensate for the lack of talent on the field and the Giants were burned in the run game consistently. If run D can improve by 8 spots or so that would be great/expected.

Predictions:

-The schedule-maker put this together before he had his morning coffee. Five of the first six games are against last year’s playoff teams. Also, the sked is road-heavy early in the season. The NFC East isn’t the laughingstock it was just two(three?) years ago-.500 in the division might be too big a task.

-I don’t know, 9-8? 8-9?

[reaches for that sweet, sweet Kool-Aid yet again]