Report: Giants Moving On From Possible Edwards Deal

The game of chess/chicken continues between the Browns and the Giants. The Browns desperately have been trying to create a market for receiver Braylon Edwards, floating vague rumors that at least one team has offered a first-round pick and specific rumors that the Giants are close to acquiring the third overall pick in the 2005 draft. But the Giants, as ESPN’s Sal Paolantonio reported Wednesday, aren’t budging from the offer of a second-round pick and a fifth-round pick. According to Ralph Vacchiano of the New York Daily News, the Giants are now moving forward with plans to pick a receiver early in the draft. Per Vacchiano, the Giants don’t plan to blink regarding their refusal to give up a first-round pick, and the Browns don’t plan to blink in their insistence on a first-round pick. (I blinked like seven times while typing that sentence because I haven’t had my coffee yet.) Vacchiano also mentions that the Giants might try to trade up in round one -- with two second-round picks and two third-round picks, the Giants have the ammo to do it, if they choose to use it.