Great pick up for the Giants, Rivers has had some bad luck. I always was just waiting for this guy to break out. I do think the Bengals need to use this pick on adding to DL depth cart, we can’t keep our run stoppers healthy.

From an outsider’s perspective, it seems like he’s been injured a lot but the injuries he had were mostly flukes. If he lives up to the talent he showed in college, this would be quite the steal for the Giants. It’s hard to develop as a player when you miss two full years due to injury.

That being said, fans of the team know the team best. So if Bengals fans are happy with this trade, then the rest of us can’t really say much.

The line on the number of games he plays this year is 10. I will take the under.

Anyway, a fresh start is what Rivers needs and the Giants gave up very little and Bengals already have his replacement. Good trade for both teams.

He is a run stopper and containment type player. He is not a playmaker. He is decent. That is all.

The Bengals in the past would be too stubborn to move on from a player that didn’t fit or didn’t want to be here. Now it appears they are getting players in that fit and getting players out that don’t.

With all that said, good luck Keith Rivers! I hope you do well in NY.

In that mix is Derrick Harvey (25), Jamall Anderson (26), and Jason Allen (28).

Why is it when the Bengals make move like this they are signing trash and when the Giants do it the move is brilliant?

KiWi will now move back into the d-line and Rivers will take his spot (or another Lb takes KiWi’s spot and Rivers moves into the vacant spot)

after last year, you cant have too many LB’s

Mike Brown, last year was without doubt your best year EVER, proving once again that even a broken clock is right at least twice a day. Now it’s back to the same old Bungles. A 25 y.o. top 10 pick for a 5th rounder – you Sir, were just hoodwinked.
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Getting anything at all for a guy that had no spot on your team is a good deal. Yes the Giants spent very little for a guy that has promise, but the Bengals spent a high pick on him and he never panned out. Sometimes it’s best to just move on.

Maybe the real problem was that the Bengals reached for him in the first place. He wasn’t a top ten quality pick (not that he was a 2nd rounder, but he just wasn’t a top ten), but the Bengals reached for a position of need. I remember clearly even Carson Palmer saying of his fellow USC player that getting him in the top ten wasn’t a good value. All of the experts said basically “good player, but that was a reach”.

Sure, you can move Boley to MLB, but wouldn’t that slow down the progression of Greg Jones (who, IMHO, was a steal and will end up showing himself to be a really good player)? Jones was already getting limited snaps because of the high usage of the nickel package, which will probably only get higher considering all the passing going on in the league.

Then there’s also the speculation that the Giants might draft Lavonte David (a tackling machine), who is another guy who can only play the WILL. That leaves you with 4 weakside LBs (Boley, Rivers, J. Williams, David), 1 MLB (Greg Jones) and 2 SAM LBs (Kiwi and Herzlich). Since it is now a passing league, maybe having all those weakside LBs is a good idea for coverage, but you don’t have any real run-stopping LBs in there.

I’m not questioning the move by Reese (after all, he did architect two Super Bowl winning teams and it was cheap), but he does seem to be overloading on coverage LBs. Has to make you wonder if he trusts his secondary. I also wonder if he had a chance at getting Demeco Ryans.