just to be clear, Reese has addressed the secondary with high draft choices…Phillips and Ross are first-rounders, Thomas and Webster are second-rounders….

Why did they pay Jacobs all that money if he was going to spend most of the day on the sideline against a team like Philly, with a decimated Giants secondary, where the Giants needed to play keep away.

And why even have A FB the caliber of Hedgecock – who a fairly good receiver and great after the catch – and did I mention is built like a LB – if their going to spend most of the time in singleback and gun?

Also remember that Eli was the face of the team in 2007. But it’s that Power I that dominated other teams. There was a balance there. And why would Gilbride lose a whole season experimenting with what the receivers can do? I’m glad they emerged but they should have emerged around the true core of this team – the running game.

In the entire storied history of this franchise the face of the team was shared by the Defense, Running Backs and the Quarterbacks. In that order. This is the first time we had a QB that could be the face of the franchise and defense and running backs would have to take a back seat.

Eli is shaping the identity of this team more and more. And he wants to run out of the single-back and gun – even though the Giants have a FB that looks like a LB. Even though B Jake and the running game is what took the Giants to the playoffs.

But if anything I think Eli may have to be reighned in a little. Scheming the game toward Eli is part of the reason that Gilbride has forsaken the i-form, the power running game, and Brandon Jacobs – as Marshall is better in the passing game. Although the offense is very effective, the offense has done a horrendous job of keeping the ball out of other offense’s hands. And teams like the Eagles that had our secondary totally outgunned should have had the ball out of their hands.

What they could do is a modified 4-3 where you let guys like Tuck, Osi and Kiwanuka free lance on where they are going to attack form the line. Let them choose outside, inside, left or right. WIth their ability and speed it could cause havok with offenses trying to game plan. Right now they are in set postions, except when they drop into coverage, and offenses know where they are coming from. One of te Hallmarks of that 80′s defense was that no one knew where LT and Co. where going to line up. I believe that with the tallent the three of them have it would work.

-Gilbride is disturbing because he seems to have totally lost track of the i-form and the power running game.

-Sheridan also scares me because it seems like Spags had the perfect system in place. As his disciple, all Sheridan had to do was keep that system in place and he blew.

-Lets remember though, how the slew of injuries has affected this team, basically the entire defensive backfield – and it was on the offense to scheme toward those weeknesses. And they didn’t. And that’s on Gilbride and Coughlin.

-Can Romeo or Ryan run the 4-3? I’m not dow with changing the defense.