http://www.nflgridirongab.com/2009/07/21/espn-giants-wrs-are-nfc%e2%80%99s-second-best-training-camp-battle/ Are you ready for some football? Fri, 19 Mar 2010 01:56:29 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://www.nflgridirongab.com/2009/07/21/espn-giants-wrs-are-nfc%e2%80%99s-second-best-training-camp-battle/comment-page-1/#comment-268868 buljos Sun, 26 Jul 2009 14:52:56 +0000 http://www.nflgridirongab.com/?p=10029#comment-268868 Sure, the Giants will miss the presence of Plax on the field. He is a top tier WR, and defenses shaded toward him in coverage, opening up Smith and Toomer for catches they might not have otherwise had. Plax also kept that 8th man out of the box, so the running game was all the more effective. What Plax did against Harris in the 2007 NFC Championship won't be repeated by any of the WRs on the roster today. So, Gilbride and Coughlin will conspire to feature no top tier go-to WR, but instead rely on Eli to progress through his reads and spread the ball around to his young talent. His O-line will provide him the time, so the stable of good, young, talented WRs with speed, who can create separation, and play making tight ends/H-back, and maybe a little more of what we saw when Tiki was on the field will present a different offensive scheme in 2009. Plax took himself out, but Toomer didn't. He just won't fit the new scheme. Hixon, Smith, Moss, Manningham, Tyree, Nicks, Barden, with pass catching talents Boss and Beckum, and Bradshaw, Ware and Brown out of the backfield. Lots of competition at WR, with pass catching talent at TE and RB. Jacobs and Bradshaw will apply pressure to bring that 8th man up into the box to stop the run, telling Gilbride and Coughlin they'll have to beat 'em in the air. They will. BTW, while I have little faith in Gilbride as a cerebral OC, the coaching ace in the hole is Coughlin, who has spent many years as a WR coach. Sure, the Giants will miss the presence of Plax on the field. He is a top tier WR, and defenses shaded toward him in coverage, opening up Smith and Toomer for catches they might not have otherwise had. Plax also kept that 8th man out of the box, so the running game was all the more effective. What Plax did against Harris in the 2007 NFC Championship won’t be repeated by any of the WRs on the roster today. So, Gilbride and Coughlin will conspire to feature no top tier go-to WR, but instead rely on Eli to progress through his reads and spread the ball around to his young talent. His O-line will provide him the time, so the stable of good, young, talented WRs with speed, who can create separation, and play making tight ends/H-back, and maybe a little more of what we saw when Tiki was on the field will present a different offensive scheme in 2009. Plax took himself out, but Toomer didn’t. He just won’t fit the new scheme. Hixon, Smith, Moss, Manningham, Tyree, Nicks, Barden, with pass catching talents Boss and Beckum, and Bradshaw, Ware and Brown out of the backfield. Lots of competition at WR, with pass catching talent at TE and RB. Jacobs and Bradshaw will apply pressure to bring that 8th man up into the box to stop the run, telling Gilbride and Coughlin they’ll have to beat ‘em in the air. They will. BTW, while I have little faith in Gilbride as a cerebral OC, the coaching ace in the hole is Coughlin, who has spent many years as a WR coach.

]]> http://www.nflgridirongab.com/2009/07/21/espn-giants-wrs-are-nfc%e2%80%99s-second-best-training-camp-battle/comment-page-1/#comment-268798 Gridiron Fanatic Wed, 22 Jul 2009 10:05:40 +0000 http://www.nflgridirongab.com/?p=10029#comment-268798 It sounds like the NY Giants are really going to be missing Plaxico Burress this season. Manningham was a great WR in college and would have become a household name had he and Lloyd Carr stayed at the University of Michigan. If he steps in a picks up some of the slack left from Burress suspension I think the Giants will be alright at receiver. It sounds like the NY Giants are really going to be missing Plaxico Burress this season. Manningham was a great WR in college and would have become a household name had he and Lloyd Carr stayed at the University of Michigan. If he steps in a picks up some of the slack left from Burress suspension I think the Giants will be alright at receiver.

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