T-Rock's Take on the Giants

Well, yeah, since someone has to. Most of the action has taken place off the field today, this first day of minicamp, but there were two workouts for the team. I'll give you a few words on them here:

We touched on it earlier, but here is the injury report complete with injuries -- Danny Clark (sports hernia, post op), Zak DeOssie (back), D.J. Hall (back), Sam Madison (sports hernia, post op), Michael Matthews (shoulder), Jeremy Shockey (ankle), David Tyree (knee and wrist), Corey Webster (quad), Gerris Wilkinson (knee).

The starting defense in the morning had Tuck, Robbins, Cofield and Umenyiora across the front, Kiwanuka, Pierce and Blackburn at LBs, Ross and McQuarters (with a heavy dose of Dockery) at the corners and Butler and Johnson at safeties. In the afternoon, however, Tuck, Umenyiora and Pierce hardly participated.

Kiwanuka continued to work with the linebackers, but his position will be somewhat fluid with the retirement of Michael Strahan. "As we have done all along, when it gets to a certain down and distance then Kiwi is going to rush the passer as well. That's the way it is right now."

Alex Morrow had his helmet ripped off during a punt coverage drill in the morning. Didn;t catch who forced the tip of the hat, but it was one of the few "physical" moments during this non-contact event.

DE Dave Tollefson did a nice job of sniffing out an end around to Steve Smith in 11-on-11s.

David Carr isn't looking very comfortable. You'll be able to see below that he's fourth or fifth on the depth chart, assuming that the team takes snaps in order of their standing. He's overthrowing a lot of receivers, looks uncertain in the pocket, and hasn;t thrown a nice tight sprial that I've seen yet.

Manningham is looking pretty good at WR. He made a couple of nice grabs this afternoon but had one broken up from behind by McQuarters. He'll have to learn to use his body a little more to keep those CBs boxed out.

Sinorice Moss dropped a bread-basket pass from Manning in the afternoon practice during an 11-on-11 drill. It looked like he tried to jump for a ball that he didn't really have to get into the air for. Not good for a guy who might be playing for his job this summer.

OK, click below for a chart of all of the 11-on-11 plays that the Giants ran in both practices today. I took the time to write them all out, the least you can do is read 'em!