Big Blue View
There’s renewed life around the New York Giants.
The emergence of Jaxson Dart and Cam Skattebo, as well as the Giants’ win over the Philadelphia Eagles on Thursday Night Football has energized everything around the franchise.
Fans are excited and the media ecosystem suddenly wants to talk about the Giants. Former players, analysts, pundits, and reporters are all saying that the Giants are suddenly fun, likeable, and a team the want to watch. They might not necessarily think the Giants are good or a force yet, but they’re at least interested.
That probably has something to do with the conversation around the Giants and the trade market shifting. We’re seeing fewer think pieces and listicles that involve taking the Giants roster to the chop shop and distributing their good players to other teams. Instead, there’s actual conversation about using the trade market — and rapidly approaching trade deadline — as an avenue to build the team going forward.
So with that in mind we asked the Big Blue View community what you want to see the Giants do on the trade market over the next couple weeks.
The answer was, overwhelmingly, “wheel and deal”.
I suspect that if we only included a binary choice, either buy or sell, the survey would have been split pretty evenly. But the results clearly show that fans want the team to be active.
The Giants have a couple clear weaknesses on their roster, with wide receiver and off-ball linebacker standing out in particular. The only way for the Giants to address those positions with an impact player before free agency and the draft is through the trade market.
We’ve brought up names like Chris Olave, Rashid Shaheed, Jakobi Meyers, Jerry Jeudy, and Jaylen Waddle as potential players who could be impact pieces the Giants could add through a trade.
On the flip side of that, there may also be opportunities to flip some players for future draft capital, or use them as trade chips.
Some outlets are still trying to pry Kayvon Thibodeaux loose from the Giants’ defense. That’s understandable from a surface perspective, considering he’s a good player but viewed as a third wheel behind Brian Burns and Abdul Carter. However, I suspect those pieces are written looking at a roster and not the Giants’ game tape. Thibodeaux’s stats might not compare well to Burns’ at this point, but he’s a vital member of the Giants’ defense and has become a very good all-around edge defender.
Quarterback Russell Wilson is also frequently brought up and we’ve heard that the Giants are willing to listen to offers for Wilson. That said, I suspect their price might be higher than expected on the outside, considering his dual role as a back-up and as a mentor for Jaxson Dart. Multiple players have remarked about Wilson’s value as a coach in the locker room, and the Giants have gone to pretty significant lengths in building an incubator for Dart.
I’m not sure the Giants would...
