{"id":747119,"date":"2026-04-23T07:07:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T07:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/747119\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T07:07:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T07:07:19","slug":"will-the-ny-giants-throw-positional-value-out-the-window","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/747119\/","title":{"rendered":"Will the NY Giants throw positional value out the window?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Will the NY Giants throw positional value out the window? They should and here&#8217;s why.<\/p>\n<p class=\"caas-show-transcript\">View More<\/p>\n<p>Video Transcript<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re gonna look to upgrade the defensive secondary, and you&#8217;re not wild about the cornerbacks, and you don&#8217;t think you could get a top-notch one in this one, and you have a potential gold jacket guy that you have identified as a gold jacket guy, it just makes too much sense not to go with Caleb Downs.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re gonna look to upgrade the defensive secondary, and you&#8217;re not wild about the cornerbacks, and you don&#8217;t think you could get a top-notch one in this one, and you have a potential gold jacket guy that you have identified as a gold jacket guy, it just makes too much sense not to go with Caleb Downs.<\/p>\n<p>Now , remember, the positional value argument.<\/p>\n<p>Now , remember, the positional value argument.<\/p>\n<p>Now this is something that Joe Shane in the past has been.<\/p>\n<p>Now this is something that Joe Shane in the past has been.<\/p>\n<p>You know, very much a stickler about, but Shane in his draft preview presser talked about this is the type of draft that you throw positional value out the window.<\/p>\n<p>You know, very much a stickler about, but Shane in his draft preview presser talked about this is the type of draft that you throw positional value out the window.<\/p>\n<p>Harbaugh has done that in Baltimore, if you remember, took a safety in Kyle Hamilton in the first round.<\/p>\n<p>Harbaugh has done that in Baltimore, if you remember, took a safety in Kyle Hamilton in the first round.<\/p>\n<p>And how did that work out for him?<\/p>\n<p>And how did that work out for him?<\/p>\n<p>Pretty good as I recall, right?<\/p>\n<p>Pretty good as I recall, right?<\/p>\n<p>So, you know, anybody who&#8217;s sitting there who&#8217;s saying there&#8217;s no way the Giants are going to take a safety in the first round and that high.<\/p>\n<p>So, you know, anybody who&#8217;s sitting there who&#8217;s saying there&#8217;s no way the Giants are going to take a safety in the first round and that high.<\/p>\n<p>You can&#8217;t say that<\/p>\n<p>You can&#8217;t say that<\/p>\n<p class=\"caas-hide-transcript\">Close<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Will the NY Giants throw positional value out the window? They should and here&#8217;s why. View More Video&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":747120,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,40676,68973,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-747119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-caleb-downs","tag-kyle-hamilton","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116452763024739581","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=747119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/747120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=747119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}