NFL-Giants: NY Giants football news

Reports are coming in that the Giants have signed former Colts backup QB Jim Sorgi to a one-year deal. Since Carr is gone the Giants had to do something and if Sorgi is healthy this seems as good as any other move the Giants could have made. You have to think he’ll either beat out Rhett Bomar (or be cut cause his health is an issue)

The Giants have a real safety in addition to Kenny Phillips. In a sweet move, the Giants eliminated their biggest need by getting a safety who can cover. Rolle, a 27 year-old, 5 year vet is actually a converted CB. He played in his first pro bowl last season.

He seems like a good guy. Rolle basically says that the Cardinals would have matched any offer but he felt home when he met with Giants’ coaches.

Aaron Rouse is gone. The Giants could still draft a safety – the guys on our roster after Phillips and Rolle seem pretty replaceable – it’s just no longer a huge need.

I assume the Giants no longer have any interest in Darren Sharper (unrestricted free agent, New Orleans Saints), Antoine Bethea (restricted free agent, Indianapolis Colts), and Oshiomogho Atogwe (restricted free agent, St. Louis Rams).

He’s a good QB, no doubt about that. He’s gotten into the big game twice and he’s in his 30s. I’d guess he has at least 5 good years left.

In the regular season. The question is do you trust him to come up big over and over again in the post season? Some would say that Peyton is still looking for his first good post season run from start to finish because of that pick he threw (and the almost pick a little earlier).

So is Peyton clutch and will he get another chance to show it?

Safety, linebacker, defensive tackle are the Giants biggest needs heading into 2010. At defensive tackle the Giants have a solid player in Barry Cofield. We can hope Canty starts to make an impact. I suppose we can hope Rocky Bernard does something but there’s no reason to think he will as far as I can see. We can assume Fred Robbins is done. We need at least one body. A real player who can collapse the pocket would be dandy.

At linebacker things are pretty sad. We can hope Boley will stay healthy the whole year (even missing significant time he had more tackles than any other Giants LB). AP is serviceable at this point in his career and Goff did show signs he might be a good replacement for Antonio Pierce. Danny Clark is a joke and the fact that no one could take his job blows me away. Clearly we need a SLB at the very least.

At safety, we can hope that Kenny Phillips makes a full recovery. He is our only safety who can cover. Michael Johnson does not belong on an NFL roster. CC Brown is fine for run support but he can’t cover (not that the Giants didn’t try to make him). Aaron Rouse seems similar to CC Brown in terms of strengths and weaknesses. The Giants desperately need a safety who can cover.

I’m glad I didn’t take time out of sightseeing in Paris to watch the Giants get clobbered by the Vikings.

I won’t be reviewing the game since I didn’t see it but from what I’ve read, the defense was not making anyone proud. I don’t expect a playoff appearance every season (though it would be nice) but I do expect a proud defense. Reese had better get to work.

I’m in Paris and I’m not trying real hard to find a sports bar to watch the final game of a disappointing Giants football season. Is anyone else having trouble getting up for the game?

Who knows at this point if the defense shows up (hopefully in a big way like last week) or goes into another “slump”. All I know is I hope everyone had a merry Christmas, has a kick ass Sunday today watching the Giants kick butt, and will have a happy New Year in a few days.

The Giants secondary has been bad. Sure we lost Kenny Phillips for the season but that doesn’t explain how lost our guys look out there. If Corey Webster and Aaron Ross don’t play I don’t think there’s much chance of our defense looking good against the Redskins.

The only thing that might save us is the Redskins offense – they have certainly had their share of issues… Having said that, the Washington offense has been improving the past 5 weeks and considering the state of our defense, they are entirely capable of smashing us. The gaints defense is going to have to toughen up and smarten up. No more getting blown up by blockers. No more missed tackles. No more missed assignments.

I do think the Giants will put up some points. manning has had a few good games recently and we have to expect that from our franchise QB so assume he has another good game. The Giants will move the ball. They’ll need to protect it better than they did vs. the Eagles of course…

Coming in to the season I expected us to win most games. Today I was expecting us to compete and maybe get a win. Looks like to be realistic, Giants fans need to expect Big Blue to play like crap and get destroyed. It pains me to say it but that’s what I have to expect to happen next week against Dallas.

The Broncos don’t have a very good offense. Our defense is even worse. We couldn’t even run the ball when pretty much everyone else manages to do something with the ground game against Denver.

An a more positive note: Happy Thanksgiving!

Now let’s beat Denver. Time for the Giants defense to get the job done on 3rd down and in the red zone.