Loading ...Our good friends over at Nationalfootballpost.com pass along news that Cincinnati Wide Receiver Vidal Hazelton visited the New York Giants. Quick! Everyone! Put him on your draft boards!
Not so much. Hazelton is a local kid, growing up on The Rock (that's Staten Island, for those of you not from the area). Teams are allowed to visit with an unlimited number of players who went to high school or college locally, so it's no surprise the other two teams mentioned in the NFP report are the Cincinnati Bengals and New York Jets.
The Giants are likely getting to know a kid who NFP points out the kid is coming off an ACL surgery, which suggests to us he will be a mid– to late–round pick. At 6–2, 218 lbs., Hazelton is a bigger WR who ran a respectable (for his size) 4.57 n the 40.
Given his local status, the fact that the other team mentioned in the report also get to look at him for free because of his local status, and the fact that the Giants — who generally swear the agents of kids who visit or workout to secrecy — we'd say this is much more of a look–see than something to read into.
Besides, the Giants shouldn't have much interest in wide receivers…we've got Victor Cruz!
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I just looked at the 2011 schedule
Assuming there is a season at all, the schedule really sets us fans up for a quintessential 1st half 2d half dichotomy
looking at the 1st 7 games – and based solely on previous year’s performance – it looks like the Giants should race out to at least a 6-1 start. But the final 9 games hold 7 tough battles (assuming Dallas is tough) and the Giants could easily go 2-7 over that stretch — more likely 3-6, with wins only over the lowly 9r’s, Skins and a cowboy split.
Don’t worry, the Lions will win their division
Hey man! I laid it all out in the previous thread: we go 6-1, lose to the Pats, rebound against the 49ers, lose to the Saints, Philly and Packers, beat the Cowboys twice, the Redskins again, but lose to the Jets. 10-6.
Ah, Kujo: Allow me to apologize for wounding your delicate sensibilities with my light-hearted jab at those 2011 predictions yesterday.
On a related note, I know that you’re a big fan of my player-by-player roster evaluation… so you’ll be thrilled to know that I’m sending Part II to Dan later today!
I’m so excited that I just messed me shorts. Was it the front? Or the back? Who knows?!
The schedule is actually kind of merciful in that the traditional ‘end of season’ folderoo will be in November. It’s a month early, and gets the pain out of the way for the holidays. The worst span starts with the Nov. 20th primetime home humiliation by the Eagles followed by a Monday night spanking at New Orleans on the 28th. Can you imagine how many times we’re going to see the highlights of that meltdown from last year? Anyway, that 8 day stretch should pretty much wrap up 2011.
The other mini-low comes Sept. 19th, as Spags’ Rams rub our noses in it… also in front of a national MNF audience. Yeah, there’s nothing like public humiliation if you’re a Giants fan.
In between we’ll feast on our usual diet of scrubs and bums.
The schlacking that the Jets will lay on us on Christmas Eve will be pretty awful.
We should be out of it by then, but yes… it will be bad.
I’m still nagged by what I perceive as a lack of leadership and creativity… and a shortage of mental toughness.
On the field the team lacks the enforcer… the ‘go to’ guy. There’s no one who demands performance and leads them ‘into battle’. No inspiration. So you get those annoying foldups… those amazing upsets… the bone-head plays. Because there’s a lack of focus… a vacuum of intensity.
The coaching staff … I think they do fine with the overall season preparation. But there’s not a lot of ‘wow’ in them, especially on offense. They don’t really adapt well… or suffer adversity well. There’s no spark. No genius. Very little deception.
I don’t know what a team can do to fix any of this. They have talent. That’s for sure. But they don’t have swagger… they don’t scare anyone. And by the end of the season they always look befuddled and confused. They hang their heads and take the beating. Ugh…
Krow: I think that’s a pretty good analysis. An enforcer/leader on defense definitely seems to be missing. There’s no Armstead or Strahan or Pierce, to name just some recent players who served in that role. (Rolle tried at times.) Let’s hope one materializes this season….
Yep. I don’t know how you fix that. There’s no one in this years free agent crop… and it’s hard to draft a player like that. You have to get lucky. The other way is for the coaches to instill it across the team… like Pittsburgh.. or the Ravens. We had it for a while in that Superbowl run. Strahan… Jacobs… Spags. A few others did their bit too. But that rare chemistry is gone now. And it’s so hard to find it again. Neither Gramps nor Gilbride are that type of coach. We’re not a tough, nasty, killer team. I’m just stumped how we change that.
Yeah, some of it is definitely luck. Even ONE player like that would really make a difference. The only guy who I see on the roster with that potential is Rolle, but he’d need to make some big plays first. I like him, and he had a good season overall, but didn’t live up to his reputation as a big-play guy. Maybe this season….
Rolle’s a good example. He had a pretty decent year. And I think he even tried to be ‘that guy’. It’s tough… especially with a new team. Even Strahan wasn’t up to the task till late in his career. There’s just no formula.
Oh… and this is why the Ravens hang on to Ray Lewis. He’s not the player he was… but he’s still pretty good… and he IS ‘that guy’.