He was just not as good as Nicks and Cruz at running routes, halling in sideline passes, and possibly avoiding drops. He saw more single coverages.

There’s no reason why he shouldn’t learn to overcome most of his technical failings.

The Giants would love to have him back, but are in cap difficulty and can’t pay a third receiver the type of Nicks and Cruz bucks he will be looking for. He doesn’t deserve that much either on what we’ve seen so far.

In the second place, those with knowledge of Giants’ history know that Belichick is a Giant hero who began a 12 year stint with the Giants in 1979 as a defensive coach. and rescued the Giants and their fans from 15 years of humiliation. In 1981 he took over the linebackers and welcomed all time great LT to his existing unit which already contained future hall of famer Harry Carson. All Pro Carl Banks was added as the other OLB with the third pick of the 1984 draft. While the NYG offense could still not get out of its own way, other teams were afraid to play Belichick’s defense, noting among other events that prime time game in which LT grotesquesly broke Joe Theisman’s leg.

After the offense became respectable the Giants won championships in 1987 and 1991 with Bill as defensive coordinator. The 1991 game vs. the Bills as the Gulf War swung under way was one of the best up to that time when nearly every SB generally ended up in a blowout.

If Parcells had not classlessly withheld until late in the offseason that he would not return as coach then it was just assumed Belichick would have been given the job. But he had already committed to Cleveland.

To Giant fans of that era, Belichick made it good to be a Giant fan again and he will never be forgotten.

Tampa is young, but they’ve got some pedigree on their coaching staff and a good running game. Mario-82 can get separation at least; and that should open things for Williams and Benn.

SHOULD.

Why don’t you take a look at the stats before you type. Looks like the last three years of Manningham compare favorably to Lance Moore’s.

He’s a good WR that’s going to do well for TB. He’s quick and creates good separation. All these fools who think he’s caught one catch his entire career obviously haven’t watched him.

That being said, he may be a good player, but he personally won’t make the Bucs WR’s or offense relevant. I would love to have him back with the Giants, but this is a business, and you aren’t always going to be able to resign everyone.

Lastly, call me crazy but Hixon for one could step in and the Giants would still have a top notch WR trio. I know what it sounds like, but Hixon is good. He’s just had some bad fortune with injuries. If Manningham really goes, I wish him all the best.

We’re not “hating”, we’re stating the facts, as they have been presented to us over four seasons of watching him play. I love the guy, but what I said is 100% accurate.

The Bucs fan base is eroding, partly because the team’s insistence on playing with 25 million in cap space on the bench.

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The Bucs will be used by agents a lot this offseason to pump up their client’s value because the Bucs have all that cap room. I wouldnt put much faith in many of these rumors being true. The Bucs have a list of guys they want to target and they are not going to hand it out for all to see.

Rumors that originate from agents are crap.

It’s only tampering if you get caught.

I think they just did.

But if those other guys in Tampa still cannot gain separation, he’s going to be taken away just as well.

This has nothing to do with Alvin Harper, who had the venerable ROOKIE (at that) TRENT DILFER passing him the ball. He’ll be a bit better off, but not by much.

Not nearly as good as things would be with Eli had he stayed in 2012 and actually been healthy (good for about 60 and 900 like 2010 had he not missed all that time this year).