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Giants fans who were hoping for McClain at 15 were crying and cursing Al Davis when the Raiders took McClain at number 8. We watched the Eagles jump ahead of us to grab the DE they need.

And we still saw a lot of familiar names around at 15. Dan Williams, Sean Witherspoon, Derrick Morgan, Jason Pierre-Paul, Mike Iupati… I had a feeling it would be Morgan (seems like the BPA) or none of the above and a total shock.

Jason Pierre-Paul was a bit of a surprise. Maybe there’s something we don’t know about Morgan? At 6′5″ and 270 he has protypical DE size and since Kiwi hasn’t proven to be much of a pass rusher (yet) and since Osi has to prove himself (again) DE could be considered a position of need I guess. You’d have to think though that if they had Dan Williams graded equally they’d have taken him – Without Robbins, there’s an obvious roster spot for a DT…

And I as I write this, Derrick Morgan goes tot he Tians at #16. Something tells me we’ll be trying to compare these guys for a long time.

Osi coming back was supposed to make the Giants defense even batter than last year despite the new defensive coordinator. That didn’t happen and Bill Sheridan has been taking some heat. At least now he’s doing something. Fred Robbins is also joining the second team. If only we had someone to take over the linebacker and safety spots now…

He writes on his blog that he had microfracture surgery on his knee. Ralph Vacchiano says that a full recovery is not guaranteed and that it may take a while. No wonder the Giants went out and signed Canty and Bernard.

Dude!

Michael Boley, Rocky Bernard, and Chris Canty? Pretty awesome!

Osi Umenyiora, Justin Tuck, Chris Canty, Fred Robbins, Barry Cofield, Rocky Bernard, and Matthia Kiwanuka is pretty awesome because all 7 of those guys are good enough to start somewhere in the NFL.

Canty is the only guy I haven’t blogged about yet. Good ESPN article here (how often does that happen?) on the signing. They say he’ll play DT for the Giants, probably replacing Robbins as a starter.

But I don’t see why he would replace Robbins, the Giants best DT. If anyone cares, Pter King made Haynesworth and Cofield his 2 all-pro defensive tackles this year. Wouldn’t we better off demoting Cofield?

I have to think Canty willl see some time at DE as well because we have 3 guys who play only DT (Robbins, Cofield, Bernard) and 4 full time DTs seems like one too many.

6 years and 42 million makes him the Giants most expensive acqusition yet. Clearly they expect big things from the guy.

Nice video here. Says the Giants have the best offensive line + the best defensive line. That means we’re gonna win some games!

First we have Cofield and Robbins both getting knee scopes. They should be fine for the season as long as nothing unexpected comes up.

We also have Coughlin confirming that Kiwanuka will remain at deensive end.

The defense dominated even without Fred Robbins. The offense took care of business even thought he refs let the Redskins defenders get away with much more than the Giants. In fact, if it were not for a penalty on Corey Webster on the play where he had an interception, the Giants could have had a shutout. It seemed like Webster’s hand may have come close to or grazed the receiver’s facemask. However the refs let the Redskins get away with a more obvious hands to he face…

The Giants receivers had little trouble getting open against the Redskins secondary. That might be because the Redskins were trying hard to stop the run. They had some success there as they managed to slow the Giants’ running game down. They certainly didn’t stop us from running the ball, however.

But certainly the best part of the game was watching our defense have their way with the Redskins. A close second was watching Hixon turn into a star.

This year it seems injuires have hit the Cowboys harder than the Giants. Here’s the latest injury report. I think it’s worth noting that Osi doesn’t show up on injury reporsts but the Gaints are still playing without one of the better defensive ends in the league.

I’m not sure what the deal is with Fred Robbins. He said there are “bruises here and there” on his hands. Antonio Pierce said, “I have a D-tackle playing with two broken hands so that is no excuse.”