Saturday’s Giants News: Wynn Provides Experience
NFL.com created the ‘2008 Player rankings: Top 100′ for Fantasy Football. Like I’ve said before, I don’t know anything about Fantasy Football. I know that Eli never does really well when it comes to stats and power rankings so I wanted to see where the Super Bowl MVP would end up on this list about four months after winning Super Bowl XLII. Eli is 72nd on the list. Well, at least he has two new massive rings to rock while the 71 guys ahead of him can put up better stats in ‘08. Surprisingly, Jacobs is the first Giant to appear on the list and he is 27th. Plaxico is 39th. Much further down is Shockey who is 91st, and that is it for the Champs.
Experience Factor - Michael Eisen pointed out that the newly signed Defensive End, Renaldo Wynn, brings experience and depth to the D-Line. Wynn signed with the Saints last year which was a season after New Orleans went to the NFC Championship game. When asked about the vibe last year in the Bayou, Renaldo said,
Some of the players might have got a little comfortable, some of the young guys. Sometimes that is a hard thing; you have a lot of young guys who might not know how to take success as much. Obviously, with the Saints they have not had a long tradition of winning. How do you accept the success? I think that some of the young guys probably had a hard time accepting that and looking at it like, ‘Hey, you aren’t going to sneak up on anybody, people are going to be aiming for you.’
This concept is what fears me the most as we head into the ’08 season. The history of the Super Bowl hangover is real. I just want to watch Big Blue play competitive football. As long as they are trying to win the Super Bowl again, I will be satisfied if they don’t achieve their goal. I don’t want to watch them flat out suck because they won the Super Bowl last year.
After being here only a week, Wynn feels like this Giants group is different than the Saints because,
Even though they won the Super Bowl last year, they are still hungry to win it again. There is a lot of veteran leadership and it’s obvious they’re hungry for this season.
The first meeting I went to with Coach Spags (defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo) one of his key points was, ‘Last year is over, we’re 0-0 now, last year means nothing. If anything, we are going to be aimed at more than ever, people are going to know who we are and people are going to be shooting for us. So we have to make sure we start from square one.
His comments are somewhat relieving, but Wynn has only been here for a week. He may just be saying the politically correct thing because he’s new and doesn’t want to step on anybody’s shoes. Go Giants!
OTA Report: Secondary (Video) - Giants.com takes a closer look at the Giants secondary during OTA’s.
