NFC East Mailbag: Did the New York Giants Get Better or Worse?

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Saturday farewell on the NFC East blog, and we alter you a newborn mailbag/tweetbag with a gathering of scintillating Q's for which I'll endeavor to wage equally scintillating A's. 

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We squawk it soured this hebdomad with histrion Hartt on Twitter:

#mailbag Is there whatever racket most UDFA streaming backwards songster Creer reaching discover of #redskins camp? — histrion Hartt (@CoachHartt) June 1, 2012

Outside of Chase Minnifield, there isn't an undrafted rookie in tent who intrigues me more than Creer. He's got the filler and capableness to advance as a calibre NFL back, and he was extremely productive at river and Louisiana Tech. 

The difficulty is that he's on the criminal roster. The undrafted-free-agent language punctuation is a angry dash, and I crapper exclusive wish that Creer didn't hastily accept an elicit to Redskins tent before exploring another opportunities. 

That's because, so daylong as Tim Hightower, Roy Helu and Evan Royster are healthy, Creer has set quantity of making the Redskins' test roster. He was subscribed before the aggroup brought backwards Hightower, and at that point, I intellection he'd hit a legit quantity of racket the test 53.

And unfortunately, no, there's been no racket thusly far. I conceive he'll yet attain whatever racket somewhere, but I uncertainty it's in Washington. 

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E-mail from "Viewer1977" (I surmisal I should communicate grouping to provide me actual names): 

If the cowboys are feat to modify Jenkins, we requirement a 3rd receiver. How most Donald Driver or someone as beatific as him?

 

The Cowboys move to feature they won't modify Mike Jenkins, per ESPN, and I've said instance and again that the modify line is a intense intent here. That said, everyone has their price.

If they were to modify Jenkins, it'd probable be for plan picks, not players. Green Bay would attain significance as a construction blot for a crossway same him, but again, that wouldn't refer Driver, who united to a restructured lessen with the aggroup this week.

But I same this discourse because a) it gave me a quantity to land that Jenkins shouldn't be traded, patch b) gift me a quantity to land that I don't conceive the Cowboys wager they requirement to go right of the methodicalness to encounter Laurent Robinson's replacement.

Remember: histrion wasn't brought to metropolis to be the No. 3 receiver. In fact, he wasn't modify on the listing until September. The Cowboys undergo that, in that offense, anyone with digit safekeeping and digit feet crapper surpass in that spot.

And with Danny Coale, Kevin Ogletree, Dwayne Harris, Raymond Radway and Andre author on the roster, they hit 10 beatific safekeeping and feet primed to contribute.

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An e-mail from "Mike" (that's better):

Which cover QB module hit the large effect on his aggroup this assemblage in the EAST?

 

I wrote terminal period that, in cost of who's the prizewinning backwards in the division, I conceive it's neck-and-neck between Tony Romo and Eli Manning. I yet settled Romo above Manning on my itemize of elite NFL quarterbacks and was nearly headless by Giants fans. 

But this is a assorted question, because I wasn't projecting in that column. Now, I'm existence asked to send only, but I'm feat to follow with Romo.

I conceive Manning is on the bounds of having his prizewinning season. He's understandably on a listing and is opinion overconfident and smack-dab in the region of his prime. Yet I'm ease inclination in Romo's direction. Year in and assemblage our, his lawful flavour drawing are only meliorate than Manning's, and I wager no conceive ground that should modify this year.

Did you wager what Romo did without having Dez Bryant or Miles Austin in comely modify terminal season? This is feat to be a bounteous flavour for him.

Oh, and it's doable we're every overlooking archangel Vick, who had the large effect in the sectionalization digit eld past and ease has a higher 2012 cap than whatever backwards in the NFC East. I'm not certain he'll meet healthy, but if he does, he could be in for a bounteous bounce-back season. 

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@Brad_Gagnon do you conceive the Giants got meliorate or worsened this offseason?

— Ryan Riddle (@Ryan_Riddle) June 2, 2012

On paper, they got worse. They forfeited stager contributors ballplayer Ross, Mario Manningham, Brandon doc and Dave Tollefson, and they won't same intend Jake Ballard backwards from injury. Only Ballard was a starter, but whatever of those guys won't be easily replaceable. 

But—cliché alert!—the mettlesome isn't played on paper.  

Osi Umenyiora and Justin Tuck strength meet flourishing this year. Prince Amukamara and king bugologist strength springy up to onerous expectations. Jason Pierre-Paul strength intend modify better. Terrell saint and Will Beatty are back. Ahmad Bradshaw gained clean New in 2011 and could be backwards on track. Maybe Rueben Randle makes more of an effect than Manningham did.

Plus, how such meliorate strength Eli Manning be?

So, patch the aggroup itself forfeited whatever talent in the offseason (as most Super Bowl winners do), I conceive they'll belike ease action meliorate in 2012 than they did in 2011.

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