Loading ...According to Jim Sorgi‘s agent, Matt Brei, the quarterback is schedule to meet with the New York Giants for a workout sometime today.
The six-year NFL veteran and long-time Manning family friend seems like an ideal candidate for the backup job now that David Carr has officially signed with the San Fransisco 49ers. After six seasons of observing the best quarterback the NFL has to offer, there’s no doubt Sorgi would bring a mental value to the Giants.
In his six seasons with Indianapolis, the former sixth-round pick appeared in 16 games and completed 99 of 156 passes for 929 yards, six touchdowns and one interception.
In addition to Sorgi, Ralph Vacchiano of The Blue Screen, the Giants are also expected to take looks a both Jeff Garcia and Mark Brunell.
On a non-quarterback-related note, Vacchiano also reports that New York is expected to host kick-off specialist Rhys Lloyd on Tuesday.
Scheduled to be a restricted free agent, Lloyd wasn’t tendered by Carolina which means if the Giants do sign him, they won’t owe the Panthers any compensation. However, this is all based on the assumption that he even makes it to New York in the first place, as he’s scheduled to meet with the Minnesota Vikings today.
Lloyd recorded 21 touchbacks on 72 kickoffs last season. In comparison, Lawrence Tynes had only six on 86 kickoffs.
2:00 UPDATE – Jim Sorgi has been sent for a physical; a good sign he’s on the verge of signing with Big Blue.
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If Haden is there at #15, you can’t blame Reese for getting him, Ross and Thomas have “only” 2 years left on their contracts (correct me if im wrong here). Ross really has yet to live up to his potential and is too injury prone. TT has also been injury prone, especially going back to his days at USC.
Tomorrow will be big day for McClain, its Alabama’s Pro Day.
Thomas will be going into his 3rd season with us while Aaron Ross will be entering his 4th season. Not sure what their contact situation is though.
Would not mind another cornner, however, this D needs to be more physical and nasty in coverage situations. Linebacker and safety are my main concerns.
The only way I would take a DB with number 15 would be if that DB’s name was either Berry or Mays. Mays because you can use him two ways. LB and SS.
If Fewell has an imagination, Mays could be some kind of player for him. Other than that, give me McClain, or Spoon. And look for Johnson in the 4th round.
McClain or Spoon. Even if you want to believe Goff will be ok, we still need someone behind him in case he goes down, or we are in for more chase blackburn.
agreed.
Kujo- I agree we need to upgrade our DT position and I actually loved the Goff pick and expect him to improve a lot. If Spikes, whom I love, is around in 2RD we’d BETTER take him though. That being said, I’m leaning towards taking an OL or DT in the 1RD. I believe in building with the big fat guys. However, it kinda kills your 1RDers need to start argument when a DT would already be behind Canty with his huge contract and Cofield who is very good and a multi-year starter. I understand what you mean but its not like DT has any more opportunities to play immediately than CB does. In fact its almost the same exact thing if you say CWeb and Cofield are returning starters, Canty and Thomas are starting caliber guys that still have to show and prove (even though TT showed more as a Giant anyway) and that Ross and Cofield are returning from injuries. To me, the CB and DT positions have a lot more similarities to their current roster makeups.
Good points; however, if you are a defensive tackle and your last name is anything other than Suh or McCoy, you are going to have a steep learning curve. I never said that your 1RD pick should start; rather, I believe that, unless they blow everyone else at their position out of the water during training camp, they ought to be receiving exponentially increasing playing time as the season increases. Take, for instance, two contrasting examples from this year’s draft. Clint Sintim was touted as a potential 1RD pick, but somehow slipped to us in the 2RD. We take him because he’s big, physical and fast. He lead the country in sacks, so you know he can bring the pressure. But he can also be a solid OLB, certainly a better one than the incumbent of that position, Danny Clark. Yet, Tom Coughlin and Bill Sheridan refuse to give him anything resembling meaningful snaps, an atrocious decision which was only surpassed in stupidity by the identical decision to keep Danny Clark out there during the Vikings game. Now, we’ve got no idea whether Sintim could be an OLB. We can speculate, but we don’t know. On the other hand, we draft Hakeem Nicks who is solid in camp but doesn’t do much to oust Smith or Manningham (or Hixon, apparently) from their respective slots on the depth charts. He shows flashes in the early part of the season, so we see more of him. Then he really starts playing well, and he gets more snaps. Finally he’s named a starter about 3/4 of the way through the season. His increased workload gave him more experience and more opportunities to excel. It didn’t mean he didn’t screw up (e.g.- dropped passes against the Eagles and Cowboys). But he was coached up and allowed to learn from those mistakes.
My point here is that the players you select in the 1RD and 2RD ought to be making significant contributions to your team by halfway or 3/4 of the way through their first season. And, barring injury (an ever present eventuality with Ross thus far in his career), Haden and Morgan probably wouldn’t be able to do that. I could be wrong, but I really don’t think that I am. I’m not opposed to the players, and I know they’d be huge. But I just don’t think they’d be wise uses of our 1RD pick.
You gotta think its a MLB or OL in round 1. We have Bernard, Cofield, and Canty at DL, so I really think you can add depth at that position in rounds 2 and 3, but we also drafted Kiwi when we had the HOF Strahan and the Pro Bowler Osi so who knows. I think we have to go for a stud LB early, I really want a nasty SOB as our linebacker for years to come.
First round pick should be a DT. Price/Williams…
And my guess here – GOFF starts at MLB.
Goff actually should be fine if we can get more push upfront, drafting a DT for that, and better S play…Rolle.
Just curious, why has there been so little talk around the NFL about Morrison? Hes only a 3rd tender right? For a starting MLB that gets 100 tackles a year, on a terrible raider team….I would think he would be talked about more.
UPDATE UP TOP
So after all of this, how many of us feel that it would be fair to criticize a Reese draft selection? We can see that is an art, not a science. And it becomes even more complicated when you are a team that while young is still looking to win right now.
For my money, the best argument of them all for drafting McClain or Weatherspoon is that if Goff washes out there isn’t much behind him and that there probably aren’t any particularly great MLBs coming out next year either. So the Giants, who want to win now, and then win multiple times over the next five years, are taking a big chance if they stay with just Goff and possibly Wilkinson (I’m not counting Blackburn…love the guy but he doesn’t fit a Cover 2 at all). I think Goff will be fine, but do I want to risk two seasons on that assessment when he hasn’t shown enough yet upon which to build confidence?
I really like Price, but I’m not at all sure he is enough better than guys who will be available in the second round to justify using the #15 pick on him. And guess what? Defensive tackles are very risky picks. It is impossible to know how excellent college players will react to the very different inside game in the trenches at the NFL level. There have been a lot of busts at that position.
So any decision is fraught with risk. That’s why reese gets paid, and why the Giants spend a lot of money on scouting. They have far better information, and a far better assessment, of each of these players than any of us can hope to approach. We have our draft junkies, but Reese has data that makes whatever Samard, and Krow and others have look like it’s trivial. We will just have to trust in Reese. It has worked out pretty well so far.
I don’t know anything about the college kids, all my info leading up to the draft comes from here.
That being said, even with our glaring need at DT and MLB…if this Haden kid has a real chance to be a “shutdown” corner, I’d take him if he dropped.
MLB and DT are easier to fill with “stopgap” players (and from the sounds of it there will certainly be serviceable starters available at least at LB later in the draft – not to mention our own Goff may very well be just fine as a starter after a full offseason in that role at least for a little while as we look for an upgrade). Top tier CBs are up there with QBs and DEs as far as difficulty acquiring one.
Webster, TT, and Ross isn’t a long term solution anyway…decisions on both Webster and Ross will likely be coming soon. We certainly can use another starter prospect on our roster.