Giants Report: Random thoughts on the two-week anniversary of the draft … Pretty much every year since we started doing this back in the late 1990s we have joked that pretty much every year there were 32 NFL GMs claiming the morning after that they ‘couldn’t believe’ that the guy they got in the opening round of the draft that year was still on the board when they got on the clock! And its almost always hyperbole! But not so much this year for the Giants. John Harbaugh, for example, called getting former Ohio State LB Arvell Reese with the 5th pick this year a ‘pipe-dream’ and something they hadn’t even mocked on the first episode of the Giants Life draft videos. It was also pretty clear from Harbaugh’s musing when Arizona was on the clock that if the Cardinals did pass on Jeremiyah Love the Giants were guaranteed a shot at one of their two top-rated players that Reese was either 1, 1a or 2 on the their board. Of course, the Giants did need some help from their friends: in particular, the Jets taking David Bailey over Reese with the 2nd pick, as well Tennessee shocking the world by taking Carnel Tate over his more highly-rated teammate with the 4th pick, but hey the Giants were due a little help from the draft gods. Read more
