July 9th, 2012 
Jeremy Fuchs 
Posted in Good Monday morning, Musers. Let’s do this.
-Just itching for camp to start. This is the dead period and it sucks.
-In the meantime, I’m super excited about Olympics. I love it. Especially excited for basketball and swimming.
-Speaking of swimming, I’ve started swimming. Much harder than it looks.
-I think Linval Joseph and Chris Canty are going to have big years. They get lost among Tuck, JPP and Osi but they’re really, really good. This is their year to get noticed.
-I think that Chase Blackburn is the incumbent, but look for Mark Herzlich to make a strong push to start. He has the physical tools that Blackburn doesn’t.
-That said, Blackburn is a tremendous influence on the team. Do they win the Super Bowl without him? Maybe. But he came up time and again with big plays.
-He’s one of those glue guys you need to win. So underrated.
-I think that special teams coverage should improve this year. Blackburn leading it, Jaicquan Williams. Should be better. Guys like Tyler Sash, Greg Jones. Lots of “heart and soul” type guys.
-Any crazy camp predictions out there? Which surprise player is going to make the team?
-Let’s not crown RG3 yet. Remember, he hasn’t played a snap in the NFL. He faces a transition from the spread. For every Cam Newton there’s an Alex Smith. Smith took a long time to get used to get to the NFL and has still not lived up to expectations.
-Eli is better than Romo. ‘Nuff said
-Not sure what Amani Toomer’s angle is here, but he’s flat out wrong. There’s one thing Romo is better at than Eli: scrambling. But everything else, give to Eli. Plus he’s just so clutch. Two rings? Yeah, that settles it.
-The Giants play a lot of Cover 2–two deep safeties–and I don’t like it. Why? Maybe I’m old school, but I prefer bump and run press man. You could do Cover 2 Man, which has the safety help up top, but aggressive corner play down below. I think zones are just beatable, plain and simple.
-Or, at least makes zones more confusing. I love the zone blitz concept. Rush five, drop six. But you swap a linebacker and an end and the QB doesn’t know where the rush is coming from. It’s a “safe” blitz, because you have six deep–3 deep, 3 under–and the pressure can come from many different angles.
-But we can’t complain too much about the Giants pass rush. That JPP is pretty good. Sky’s the limit.
-Any good movies out there? Looking for some new stuff.
My crazy camp surprise is not about making it, it’s about not making it. Bennett gets cut before sept 5th.
I’ve been thinking about cover 2 and all the hate. Seriously if press was the miracle to stop passing offenses, all DC would dump the zone. Obviously there’s more than that. Personnel for once. Was Ross physical enough to bump and run ?
You can’t play man 2 man accross the board with Grant, Rolle, Ross and Webster.
Will it change in 2012 ? Can Amukamara and Thomas press ?
Another thing is “be different”. You can’t always bump and run because offenses will adapt. You have to mix things up.
Yeah not sure we have the physical corners for press.
Will Hill is my prediction to make the team. The kid has all the athletic talent in the world and a few college kid mistakes held him back. I want to get up to Albany just to see how he does.
Janzen Jackson? another guy with a massive amount of talent in college, but again, mistakes held him back. Should be interesting to see these two kids battle it out in camp.
While I like fire zone/zone blitzs, I don’t like them for this Giants team. You would be down grading the pass rush most of the time, you are talking about dropping Tuck and JPP into coverage while rushing guys like Kiwi (whom I actually love) and someone like Rivers or Boley or whomever. Your trading your best pass rushers for linebackers. Its would be misusing talent, with the Giants DEs as talented as they are, you are better off letting them go after the QB, and letting the LBs drop back, just straight up, instead of worrying about trying to confuse the other teams offensive line, just let your pro bowl DEs go after them.
Zone blitzes work better when you have the right kind of talent and without the drop off or trade off, but its designed to outsmart the other team, but if you have this kind of talent, there is no point in trying to outsmart the other guys, your better off just out executing them.
Well the zone blitz is useful in certain situations. If you have a rookie QB and/or inexperienced offensive linemen, bringing the rush from other angles can really disrupt their rhythm. Having Rivers, Boley and Kiwi, actually make it easier to do this as well. Think about it, JTuck backs into short flat coverage while Kiwi and Boley rush at the same point, the QB will most likely throw in that direction, JTuck is right there to pick it off. It works against an inexperienced team, now are you going to try it against Tom Brady? Probably not.
I think it depends more on the personal that you have, JPP and Tuck (and Osi) can do a better job going after the QB, straight up, no games, then Rivers, Boley or Kiwi could even with confused linemen, and going the other way, Rivers, Boley and Kiwi can and would do much better in coverage then Tuck, JPP or Osi could or would do.
If you have pass rushing LBs and hog DEs, it makes more sense, but with pass rushing demon ends like the Giants have, its better to cut them loose and let them after the QB every single time on their own, they’ll do a better job beating tackles who know that they are coming then the LBs would with the linemen confused, and that said, if the QB decides to dump it or pass it, who would be better in coverage, someone like Tuck or someone like Rivers or Boley ?
Against an inexperience team, its even better, now your looking at possible big days from your ends, there is no point taking them away from their plays and putting guys in there who are not as good at it.
The best metaphor I can think of, its like having the best QB in all of football, and wanting to do more HB pass plays instead (a play I only agree with if the QB isn’t an elite QB).
Well sure, you’re not going to use it often, we have such great passrushers on the line that we hardly need to get crafty to get to the QB. But, a young QB is going to throw to (or run away from) where the blitz is coming from, 90% of the time, and if you put Osi or JTuck there when he doesn’t expect them to be, it will almost be like he doesn’t see them. JPP on the other hand is too good at deflecting balls at the LOS to ever take him off the line, so I’m with you there.
The key is, you use it to stop a QB from getting a rhythm, something that happens from time to time against us.
Movies— Savages is crazy, Ted is funny, Spiderman is very good.
If you like Basketball and you like swimming you should watch waterpolo. Perfect combination of skill/precision/strength and the emminent threat of someone being drowned.
Good T&M Jeremy, you hit it across the board (not bad for being the slow time of the year) Canty i believe is already great, just a little under-appreciated, but Joseph is going to turn some heads this year.
I agree with SonGod about just letting our DE’s rush and let the linebackers drop into coverage. I’m interested in how Rivers is going to do, former first round pick that had good production before getting bit by the injury bug.
And “Ted” is funny if you’re going to the theater
I HIGHLY recommend watching “Goon” on netflix if you’re looking into a comedy/sports movie that you can watch from home. Its about a hockey thug from Mass, played by Sean William Scott (Stifler from american pie)
What got us turned around last season was primarily Cover 2 man under….and Coach Fewell brought the Safeties in about 3-5 yards…..before they were like centerfielders, playing 20-25 yards deep.