/>Skip to main contentclockmenumore-arrownoyesBig Blue View homepageHorizontal - WhiteBig Blue Viewa New York Giants communityFollow Big Blue View online:Follow Big Blue View on TwitterFollow Big Blue View on FacebookLog in or sign upLog InSign UpSite searchSearchSearchBig Blue View main menuFanpostsFanshotsSectionsLibraryGiantsOddsAboutMastheadCommunity GuidelinesStubHubMoreAll 321 blogs on Horizontal - WhiteFanposts Fanshots Sections New York Giants NewsGiants Training Camp 2016Giants vs. Eagles 2015 White Harry Carson Jerseys , Week 17The Giants do have defensive linemen not named Dexter LawrenceNew,44commentsLet’s take a look at how they are doing in training campEDTAll of the focus on Tuesday was on Dexter Lawrence, and what impact the 17th overall pick can have on the New York Giants’ defensive line. Even though Lawrence is “not everybody else” no one can play 1 on 5 against opposing offensive lines.Let’s look at the rest of the defensive linemen, what kind of camps they are having thus far, and what impact they might be expected to have in 2019.Dalvin Tomlinson Entering his third year, it’s readily apparent what the Giants think Tomlinson is. After a year in which he didn’t have so much as a quarterback hit, it’s easy to see the Giants believe he is a two-down run stuffer. They will use him at nose tackle with Lawrence at the 5-technique when they are on the field together. Tomlinson will come off the field in obvious passing situations.B.J. HillHill came out of North Carolina State as a run-stuffing nose tackle. The biggest question about him was whether or not he could provide any pass rush help, a little bit like the situation with Lawrence this time around. Then, the Giants surprisingly moved Hill to an outside position in their 3-4 and he responded with a 5.5-sack season.Was that a mirage? Can the 311-pounder really be a pass rusher in the NFL while lined up over a guard or tackle?Teammate Markus Golden, owner of a 12.5-sack 2016 season, thinks he can.“His get off is amazing. The way he gets off the ball and the way he uses his hands,” Golden told me. “The power. He can finesse. He’s got a bright future.”Hill is emerging as a player not afraid to give a little trash talk to the offense, even directing some toward Saquon Barkley in a recent practice.RJ McIntoshThe 2018 fifth-round pick missed all of the spring, all of training camp and the preseason, and more than half the regular season due to an illness that remains undisclosed. He played in six games at the end of the season with five tackles and a quarterback hit, but there is no way what he showed was representative of what he might be with a full opportunity to train.McIntosh has had that this time around, and he looks like a player who will be a useful part of the Giants’ defensive line rotation.“Any time you have a chance to have a whole offseason, it helps you take a leap forward, so yes he has improved,” Emanuel said. “Just overall, his footwork, his technique Harry Carson Jerseys 2019 , his hand and his eyes and feet, just things you look for in a defensive lineman.”Olsen PierreThe Giants signed the former Arizona Cardinal to provide depth along the front line. The 27-year-old had 5.5 sacks, the only ones of his career, playing for James Bettcher in 2017. Pierre didn’t work on the field in the spring, but has practiced throughout training camp.“Olsen Pierre obviously has some experience in the defense, in the scheme he played out there with Bettch (James Bettcher) in Arizona for four years, so he has a lot of knowledge of the defense,” Emanuel said. “He has a skillset that gives a lot of versatility where he can play anywhere on the line the scrimmage. He does well against the run and he has some pass rush abilities, so we’re expecting some really good things out of OP.”Chris SlaytonThe seventh-round pick is kind of a ghost. He has not really been noticed on the field. He isn’t a guy who is is demand from media members. He’s just a young interior linemen trying to figure out the NFL and earn a roster spot, which is no guarantee since he was the 245th player selected.“We think Chris is, as all the young players are, they’re looking to improve and work their technique and continue to get better week in and week out and day in and day out,” Emanuel said. “Chris has the ability and has some skill, so he can do some good things and hopefully we’re expecting some good things out of Chris.”Other guysTo be honest, it was a bit of a surprise when the Giants re-signed veteran nose tackle John Jenkins. I have a hard time seeing him on the 53-man roster, unless there are injuries. He is probably an insurance policy.Jake Ceresna has made a couple of plays working with the third group, but is probably a practice squad candidate, at best.I haven’t really got anything for you on Freedom Akinmoladum or Alex Jenkins. Neither has really been noticeable in any of the practices I have seen.<hr class="p-entry-hr" id="LO1aKi">Versatile linemenOne of the things that is apparent is that the Giants are trying to find players who can fit in all three spots when they are in their base 3-4, as well as ones versatile enough to also function when they are using four down linemen in sub packages.“I think as a defensive line coach and as a coach in general, you want guys to have the versatility to play a number of positions and these guys are certainly able to do that,” Emanuel said. “We really like that a lot. Sometimes they can line up and play nose tackle, they can play the 3-technique Infant Corey Ballentine Jersey , they can play defensive end within this series or for a series. So that gives them a great opportunity to exploit some matchups that we might have and it just helps them where offenses can’t say this guy’s only playing this. It creates some problems for the offense.” He is aggressively trying to transform a losing franchise into a winning one"Angry. Confused. Disappointed. Anguished. Frustrated. Resigned. Bitter. Disillusioned. Whatever word or words you want to use to describe them, I have been thinking a lot about the emotional state of many New York Giants fans recently, especially in the wake of the organization’s decision to send Odell Beckham Jr. to the Cleveland Browns.Many in the media haven’t helped, with their poison pens turned menacingly in the direction of Dave Gettleman, who some might think of as the crazy old man in charge of making personnel decisions for the Giants.My stance has been much more “wait and see” than it has been visceral, leaving me to sort of feel like Grandpa Ed trying to play peacemaker in the middle of a nasty family argument. Anyway, some thoughts s we wait to see what will happen when the Giants come out the other side of whatever it is you want to call what Gettleman is putting them through. I’m not calling it a rebuild, or a build, or a re-construction, revamping or whatever.As I type this on a windy, gray, miserable un-spring like Friday afternoon it occurs to me perhaps the best word is “transformation.” Like winter transforms to spring.The Giants have been in winter for a long time now. Except for a brief 2016 interlude, the Giants have been in winter since they last slayed the New England Patriots in the 2011 Super Bowl.Will spring — and eventually summer — ever come again?“Trust the process”On the ‘Valentine’s Views’ podcast the other day, Carl Banks said the Beckham trade — and to a slightly lesser extent the loss of Landon Collins in free agency — had brought the Giants’ fan base to its “trust the process moment.”Gettleman’s “process” has been hard for many to understand. Signing Beckham to a mega-contract, then trading him away. Perhaps, and I’m not at all sure this was the case, not initially realizing the enormity of the task the blunders of Jerry Reese and Ben McAdoo had left him with. Sticking with an aging quarterback and stubbornly pushing back against a narrative that insists that quarterback can’t play anymore — in fact, hasn’t been able to play for a while. Zigging when many think he should be zagging, and zagging when they think he should be zigging.The incredulous reactions make me laugh.Remember the outcry — and the fear — when the Giants hired Gettleman to replace Reese? The fact that Gettleman had a long history in the Giants personnel department had many thinking the Giants were sticking with the status quo, just re-arranging the deck chairs. It was basically “same old Giants, turning to one of their own. Nothing is going to change.”Well, everything — with the obvious exception of the current starting quarterback — has changed. The way the Giants grade draft prospects Corey Ballentine Jersey Draft , the coaching staff, almost the entire roster, a renewed emphasis on line play, the GM’s willingness to admit mistakes and quickly move on rather than stubbornly sticking with something in a vain effort to prove he was right. It’s all new. And unfamiliar. And it makes people uncomfortable because it’s different, it’s unpredictable and what comes next is the unknown. And nobody is entirely comfortable with the unknown.What, though, did anyone expect? Something I have been saying recently that seems to resonate is that Gettleman is not dismantling the New England Patriots. He wasn’t hired to maintain the status quo, to rubber stamp the losing path the Giants were on. He was hired to try and fix the Giants because they were broken. He was hired to put Humpty Dumpty back together again, to clean up Reese’s mess. He was hired for his own vision of what the Giants should be. He was hired to try and set them back on the path George Young, Ernie Accorsi and Reese in the early days of his time as GM had put them on — one where they were competitive more often than not and when the stars aligned could win championships.We knew from his time as GM in Carolina that he was not afraid to ruffle feathers, to do things that weren’t popular. That sometimes his decisions would be hard to understand.If Gettleman wasn’t making changes, wasn’t trying to do something different to get the Giants out of the dark winter they have been in, he and the Giants would be getting crucified for stubbornly refusing to change.Instead, Gettleman is getting crucified for making changes many don’t agree with or see the reason for. And for refusing — so far — to make the change at quarterback that so many have been demanding.Something I want to mention about the Beckham trade. Some are hammering Gettleman for not necessarily calling around to see if he could get a better offer than Cleveland’s. He may not have made phone calls, but I think it’s naive if you believe he didn’t know what other teams were willing to pony up. The Giants had been taking phone calls on and off for a year before dealing Beckham. Gettleman knew who the suitors were and how aggressive they were willing to be. It’s silly to think he only talked seriously to the Browns.I said in Saturday’s mailbag that I don’t know if Gettleman will succeed or fail. I truly don’t. I haven’t understood or agreed with every decision he has made. That, though, would be the case no matter who the GM was. Where the Giants are today doesn’t really matter. It’s the middle of March. The AAF is playing games, not the NFL. Let’s see what Gettleman does with all that draft capital he has accumulated, and the cap space he has cleared for next offseason. What will matter in the end is whether or not Gettleman and the Giants can identify and acquire the right long-term quarterback, and whether or not they can put a winning roster around that quarterback.If he can do those things, spring and maybe even summer will return to Giants football. If he can’t, the long winter will continue Corey Ballentine NFL Jersey , Gettleman will end up hanging out on Cape Cod in a forced retirement, and someone else will try to fix the Giants.Tweet of the weekWhen ex-Giant safety Curtis Riley signed with the Oakland Raiders, our Dan Pizzuta recycled an old tweet that made me laugh.Quarterback tea leavesThe recent Pro Days for Dwayne Haskins, Drew Lock and Will Grier — and the fact that the Giants were well-represented at those events — heightened speculation about the Giants and finding their quarterback of the future. Pat Shurmur’s dinner with Haskins, of course, turned up the volume on the buzz.Remember, though, this is the time of year when all is not exactly what it seems to be.Even though Gettleman said recently that quarterback was “probably” in the team’s Round 1 plan I continue to believe quarterback will not be in play at No. 6. Haskins and Lock may each have their supporters, but I still don’t believe either has the unanimous backing of the team’s decision-makers or that the Giants think either guy is an absolute must have.That being the case, I still believe the Giants go after the highest-impact defensive player on their board at No. 6, with offensive tackle being an outside possibility should they not find a veteran right tackle.Quarterback? The 17th pick — maybe — if Lock somehow slides to that spot or the Giants like Jones enough. The 37th pick — maybe — if Jones, Will Grier or someone else is there and intrigues them enough.Let’s see if that changes between now and draft day.Podcast-paloozaI wanted to take a minute to thank everyone who has been listening to the shows on BBV Radio. So far this month, the amount of downloaded shows is more than double any other month since the shows debuted last fall. Thanks to all of you, and we hope the shows continue to grow and get better. Of course, maybe I should be thanking Gettleman and Beckham for this month’s explosion, as well.You can find and subscribe to Big Blue View radio from the show’s home page.You can find all the shows on our Big Blue View Radio Hub Page.You can also find the shows and subscribe on all your favorite podcast apps:Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Pocket Casts | Spotify | Stitcher | RSSFinally, be sure to check out the home page for all of the shows across the expanding Vox Media Podcast Network.