Loading ...Last week, New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning and wide receiver Victor Cruz were ranked the 31st and 39th best players in the NFL, respectively. Although there was much debate about whether the dynamic Manning/Cruz passing duo should have gone higher, the one thing everybody took from the rankings was that the team's defensive end Jason Pierre-Paul had cracked the top-30 on the NFL Top 100 Players of 2012 list.
Last night, it was finally revealed that JPP had been voted the 24th best player in the league by his peers. Pierre-Paul was ranked ahead of players such as Julius Peppers, Clay Mathews, Tamba Hali, and Ndamukong Suh.
In typical Giants fashion, JPP took the ranking in stride and acknowledged that although it is an honor to be considered among the elite players in the league, being put on a list of great players will not help him in defending the team's Super Bowl XLVI victory. In a statement released via twitter, the third year player out of South Florida stated the following:
"I'm just happy I'm on the list now I put it past me and keep doing me and stay humble and focus that's what I do best."
In just his second season last year, Pierre-Paul recorded 16.5 sacks and 86 tackles while playing in all 16 games. However, JPP himself recently stated that he has improved every single year he has ever played football. Perhaps the scariest aspect of this ranking is that JPP is only entering his third year in the league. His rare combination of size and speed enable him to overpower his opponents.
That being said, Pierre-Paul still a ways to go in mastering the technique associated with the defensive end position; which leaves open endless possibilities in terms of just how great he can be. If all goes well, look for Jason Pierre-Paul to be an even more dominant force in 2012.
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You go boy
I was catching up from the last post
first of all JPP got it exactly right -thank you , Im honored , lets move on .
I can see that the postings are going to start to get testy as the Giants start to evaluate talent and decide on the final 53 and all our knowledgeable fans chime in . I look at this from the point of view that thank the lord and the management of the Giants that they are as good as anyone in evaluating and picking talent . The results speak for themselves 2 SBs in the last 5 years .
So , am I happy that Ballard got picked up ? No but if he was a CLEAR CUT ABOVE all the other TEs then the Giants would have kept him . But the talent and upside on the team is there and the person who criticized Bennett in the last post , well Im thinking the Giants staff had a good view from playing against him and knew what they had when they signed him . Also there is a very good rookie looking to make his mark .
The fact that the Giants are going to have to cut players that make it on to another team makes a lot of people on here moan that the Giants dont know what they are doing etc etc . Have there been players that have left the Giants to play elsewhere .of course , have any of them played reasonably well – I dont know but I guess so – have any of them played at a level WAY ABOVE how they played for the Giants – I dont think so . I know my comments seem simplistic and obvious to most readers but whenever I want to get on here and post about why I disagree with something the Giants do , I ask myself what is not being written on by the Giants that affect these decisions .Whether letting Ballard go on waivers had a lot to do with the severity of his injury and Im guessing that the Giants knew a lor more about that then the Patriots . So is Ballard a good TE – serviceable , playing with a good QB (Eli and whatshisname in NE I suppose qualify ) . Will he play this year – No – will he play next year or ever ? Who knows but after what happened to Steve Smith , Im going to trust the Giants judgement that recovery time is going to be longer rather than shorter
I was also thinking about the Steve Smith injury the last day or so. Also Ballard did not have blazing speed to begin with, who knows how this injury will slow him down. It took Kenny Phillips over 2 years to regain his explosiveness, which still isn’t where it was before his microfracture surgery.
I’d much rather keep a promising LB’er like Massau than and injured TE with an unknown future.
Warren Sapp was commenting on the top DE’s in the league prior to the release of 21-30 on the top 100. He had Jared Allen at 1, JPP at 2, but said the thrown is waiting for JPP this year.
The Samoan stays !!! Deal with it.
If there is a single stat from last year that shows how good JPP is, it’s the tackles. If you go to the NFL sack leaders board for last season and skim down the total tackles column, JPP leads with 87 and it isn’t even close. The nearest is Suggs with 70- and he’s a LB. I know stats aren’t the whole story, but managing to place top 5 in the league in sacks while not just beating, but demolishing the competition in that category, is very impressive IMO.
I’m all for the Samoan