On Thursday the NFL released the 2023 schedule. A few miscellaneous thoughts.. 1. At the end of the day, does the schedule itself really matter? As a test of that, does any team look back more than a single year and say- “well, the results that year reflected a hard (/soft) schedule”.. ? No. When we are in 2026, none of us will really care about what the schedule was in … [Read more...] about 2023 Schedule comments
Post Picks Potpourri
It has been a week since the 2023 NFL Draft. Let’s review where the NY Giants are right now. Am I wrong on the WR model? I believe that a team should have a mix of tall/big WRs plus smaller slot/possession WRs. Schoen and Daboll are moving toward a model where WRs simply need to get “separation.” We saw this bluntly with the 3.73 pick of Jalin Hyatt by the Giants and the … [Read more...] about Post Picks Potpourri
Review of the 2023 NFL Draft
The 2023 NY Giants draft can be distilled for me in 3 words. John Michael Schmitz. The older I get, the more I believe that the game of professional football is all about the Offensive Line. So I watch the Jets pick up Tippmann and Warren and I see what Douglas is doing for Rodgers. I listen to these meathead analysts yap about having skill players and I laugh. Skill players … [Read more...] about Review of the 2023 NFL Draft
Schmitz and Hyatt added on Day 2
The story of the NY Giants 2023 Draft is how GM Joe Schoen addressed team needs in sequential descending order. The Giants most acute need was CB. The Giants traded a R5 and R7 pick to get the certainty of moving up from 1.25 to 1.24 and took CB Deonte Banks. The Giants second most acute need was C. The Giants watched Tippmann get taken by the Jets earlier in the … [Read more...] about Schmitz and Hyatt added on Day 2
Deonte Banks taken 1.24
Let’s go straight to the pre-draft comment on Banks….“CB Deonte Banks Round 2 value. Might be R1 this year but not last year. COMP: Jason Sehorn.” In the 2023 Draft, Banks is going Round 1, so not an overdraft this year. Considering that Banks, Branch and Porter were all available when Jacksonville was on the clock at 1.24 made the move to trade up (costing a R5 and R7) a … [Read more...] about Deonte Banks taken 1.24