The Giants had a wild three year span where they led the league in games missed to injury by a significant margin. I actually mathed it out at one point and was shocked to see how bad it was. Mathematically speaking... it shouldn't have happened. It's hard to not suck when THAT many guys are injured. It ultimately got Tom Coughlin fired (he was well past his prime at this point so I am not complaining about that) and wasted the end of Eli's "prime" years. Perhaps more infuriatingly as a Giants fan the Eagles were the healthiest team in the league by a wide margin during this same window... But even after that the Giants have struggled to stay relatively healthy. Multiple coaches, GM's, philosophies, S&T coaches, none of it seems to have mattered. They switched out the field surface this offseason due to so many player complaints the last couple of years so we shall see if that helps.
So Torgo, Matt, Will, maybe Gid by the like, I can guilt RT to do it when he's not busy with work. Anyone else? 2 or 3 start time and a pick every hour or so unless people are ready sooner.
The sheer number of busts in that top 10 is just astonishing. Troy Williamson was particularly epic. If one wanted to be argumentative i bet they could say there were a lot of productive careers in there, but in fact id wager a lot of what success there was happened either on secondary teams or in flash in the pan seasons. Neither gets them out of bust territory for the teams that drafted them. Alex Smith leaps off the page obvs, but there's failures everywhere. Really only Antrel Rolle escapes i think, he was very good for the Cardinals. Ronnie Brown, of OG wildcat fame, never put up big numbers but was a good player, he had some crushing injuries as i recall.
Yup fans have been hollering about this for years. The real problems began when they built the new training center back in 2009 and used a different surface in there. They have been using RealGrass for years now switching to "FieldTurf" synthetic grass. I hope they are switching out the surface in the training facility as well but I haven't heard anything about that.
This hits why I tried to develop methods that were based purely on games played, starts, and original team vs new team. Having to decide what was "productive" enough to declare a player a hit or miss as a draft pick is something I don't want to do subjectively. I remember Alex Smith being an interesting question though when I was working out the formulas the first time around as far as deciding 5 years vs 4 and what percentage of starts to use. Smith had lots of injury issues and ended up with EXACTLY 50% starts (40 games out of 80) in his first five years, and less than 50% in his first four years. He was clearly the starter when healthy, but more often than not he wasn't healthy.
This pick wraps up Round 5, and we're a few picks into Round 6 already. We're in the home stretch. Reminder: time slots are now 15 minutes instead of 20 minutes. (That's how we're getting through 82 picks and two UDFA rounds in less than two days.)
I'll be back closer to my pick.If people want to sign up to the 1st round vote thing then please let it be known. If there isn't enough by 2pm we might just scrap it.
When you get a chance, give us an idea of how this thing works. Votes? So a collaborative effort on every pick rather than specific teams?
@RTTRUTH = OTC @Quew777 = on deck @Joe McDonnell = in the hole @SportsFanatic / @Campbell = pick whenever you can (for pick #181 - Haener was #179)
