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Reading this stuff make me love this pick even more and more.
http://www.nypost.com/p/sports/giants/big_blue_brass_miss_bad_lee_hUBivUNWwowVnRbLxMibKO
OK, I get this drafting for value thing. I happen to believe GM Jerry Reese and Marc Ross, the Giants’ director of college scouting, know what the hell they’re doing inside the Big Blue war room.
Now will somebody . . . Reese, Ross, Tom Coughlin, John Mara, Steve Tisch, Pat Hanlon . . . please get us a middle linebacker?
Because when Giants fans awakened today, there was still a hole in the middle of their once-proud defense.
2010 SCHEDULE
The 75th NFL Draft doesn’t have to usher in a Sam Huff, a merchant of violence who relished his blood-splattering collisions. It doesn’t have to usher in a Harry Carson, the Hall of Fame master of brute force trauma at the point of attack.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
LB FOOLISH: Safety Chad Jones adds to the Giants’ depth at defensive back, but does nothing to address their needs at linebacker.A young Jessie Armstead, or a young Antonio Pierce, would do the trick.
Someone like Sean Lee, Penn State, old Linebacker U., 6-foot-2 and 236 pounds of instincts and desire, for example. The kid from Upper St. Clair, Pa., whose dreams and ACL in his right knee were torn two years ago.
The kid who would cry after losses.
“I remember throwing temper tantrums, kicking chairs when I’d lose a basketball game in our rec league,” Lee once said.
The kid whose nickname in high school was The General. The kid whose high school football coach once said of him: “He’s a kid whose will to succeed is at least as great as his athleticism. Plus, he lifts up people around him.”
It made Sean Lee the perfect choice for a defense, and a team, that is starving for a leader.
The Giants were picking 46th overall, 14th in the second round. Pick after pick came off the board, including Texas outside linebacker Sergio Kindle at 43 to the Ravens.
Now only the Raiders and Broncos stood between the Giants and Sean Lee. The Raiders select: DT Lamarr Houston.
Now only the Broncos stood between the Giants and Sean Lee. Floyd Little, making the pick for the Broncos: guard Zane Beadles.
Giants on the clock.
No Sean Lee.
East Carolina DT Linval Joseph, all 315 pounds of him, instead.
Best player on the board, of course.
GM Jerry Reese: “Gigantic man.”
“Push the pocket back to the quarterback.”
“A powerful point-of-attack player.”
Only nine picks later, the Cowboys traded up four spots with the Eagles and surrendered a fourth-round pick to draft Sean Lee.
“I was hoping that I would be able to play for them,” Lee said.
At the end of the round, linebackers Brandon Spikes went to the Patriots and Patrick Angerer went to the Colts.
The attempted resurrection of Big Blue as a feared defense began with the firing of defensive coordinator and the hiring of Perry Fewell. Then the signing of safety Antrel Rolle. Then the drafting of DE Jason Pierre-Paul, The Freak II.
But if the 2010 season started today, a second-year novice named Jonathan Goff would be the starter, with Bryan Kehl, Gerris Wilkerson and Chase Blackburn behind him.
It is no way to scare Donovan McNabb and Mike Shanahan. Or Tony Romo and Felix Jones.
Apparently Big Blue’s theory (see Ray Lewis) is that whoever ends up being the middle linebacker will flourish behind the mountains standing in front of him.
Reese: “If you have some big space-eaters and block-eaters up front, the linebackers can make a lot more plays.”
I asked Ross whether Joseph was that much more highly rated than Lee.
“It was a discussion, but Joseph was a lot higher,” he said.
The second round has been kind to the Giants. Michael Strahan . . . Tiki Barber . . . Amani Toomer . . . Jumbo Elliott . . . Osi Umenyiora . . . Chris Snee . . . Steve Smith . . .
Linval Joseph last night.
“First one in the weight room, shuts the lights out,” Coughlin said.
Best available energy saver.
In the third round came Chad Jones, a safety from LSU.
Still a giant hole in the middle of the Big Blue doughnut.
steve.serby@nypost.com
Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/sports/gian..._bad_lee_hUBivUNWwowVnRbLxMibKO#ixzz0m1YmFeIS
http://www.nypost.com/p/sports/giants/big_blue_brass_miss_bad_lee_hUBivUNWwowVnRbLxMibKO
OK, I get this drafting for value thing. I happen to believe GM Jerry Reese and Marc Ross, the Giants’ director of college scouting, know what the hell they’re doing inside the Big Blue war room.
Now will somebody . . . Reese, Ross, Tom Coughlin, John Mara, Steve Tisch, Pat Hanlon . . . please get us a middle linebacker?
Because when Giants fans awakened today, there was still a hole in the middle of their once-proud defense.
2010 SCHEDULE
The 75th NFL Draft doesn’t have to usher in a Sam Huff, a merchant of violence who relished his blood-splattering collisions. It doesn’t have to usher in a Harry Carson, the Hall of Fame master of brute force trauma at the point of attack.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
LB FOOLISH: Safety Chad Jones adds to the Giants’ depth at defensive back, but does nothing to address their needs at linebacker.A young Jessie Armstead, or a young Antonio Pierce, would do the trick.
Someone like Sean Lee, Penn State, old Linebacker U., 6-foot-2 and 236 pounds of instincts and desire, for example. The kid from Upper St. Clair, Pa., whose dreams and ACL in his right knee were torn two years ago.
The kid who would cry after losses.
“I remember throwing temper tantrums, kicking chairs when I’d lose a basketball game in our rec league,” Lee once said.
The kid whose nickname in high school was The General. The kid whose high school football coach once said of him: “He’s a kid whose will to succeed is at least as great as his athleticism. Plus, he lifts up people around him.”
It made Sean Lee the perfect choice for a defense, and a team, that is starving for a leader.
The Giants were picking 46th overall, 14th in the second round. Pick after pick came off the board, including Texas outside linebacker Sergio Kindle at 43 to the Ravens.
Now only the Raiders and Broncos stood between the Giants and Sean Lee. The Raiders select: DT Lamarr Houston.
Now only the Broncos stood between the Giants and Sean Lee. Floyd Little, making the pick for the Broncos: guard Zane Beadles.
Giants on the clock.
No Sean Lee.
East Carolina DT Linval Joseph, all 315 pounds of him, instead.
Best player on the board, of course.
GM Jerry Reese: “Gigantic man.”
“Push the pocket back to the quarterback.”
“A powerful point-of-attack player.”
Only nine picks later, the Cowboys traded up four spots with the Eagles and surrendered a fourth-round pick to draft Sean Lee.
“I was hoping that I would be able to play for them,” Lee said.
At the end of the round, linebackers Brandon Spikes went to the Patriots and Patrick Angerer went to the Colts.
The attempted resurrection of Big Blue as a feared defense began with the firing of defensive coordinator and the hiring of Perry Fewell. Then the signing of safety Antrel Rolle. Then the drafting of DE Jason Pierre-Paul, The Freak II.
But if the 2010 season started today, a second-year novice named Jonathan Goff would be the starter, with Bryan Kehl, Gerris Wilkerson and Chase Blackburn behind him.
It is no way to scare Donovan McNabb and Mike Shanahan. Or Tony Romo and Felix Jones.
Apparently Big Blue’s theory (see Ray Lewis) is that whoever ends up being the middle linebacker will flourish behind the mountains standing in front of him.
Reese: “If you have some big space-eaters and block-eaters up front, the linebackers can make a lot more plays.”
I asked Ross whether Joseph was that much more highly rated than Lee.
“It was a discussion, but Joseph was a lot higher,” he said.
The second round has been kind to the Giants. Michael Strahan . . . Tiki Barber . . . Amani Toomer . . . Jumbo Elliott . . . Osi Umenyiora . . . Chris Snee . . . Steve Smith . . .
Linval Joseph last night.
“First one in the weight room, shuts the lights out,” Coughlin said.
Best available energy saver.
In the third round came Chad Jones, a safety from LSU.
Still a giant hole in the middle of the Big Blue doughnut.
steve.serby@nypost.com
Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/sports/gian..._bad_lee_hUBivUNWwowVnRbLxMibKO#ixzz0m1YmFeIS
Best available energy saver.
