Former New York Giants general manager George Young had his own version of the \u201cPlanet Theory.\u201d Young believed having the bigger, stronger athletes gave a team a better chance to win, and that you should collect as many of those players as you could.<\/p>\n
Young would have loved John Harbaugh, the Giants\u2019 new head coach.<\/p>\n
An old-school coach who always tried to build big, imposing, physically dominant teams during his 18 seasons with the Baltimore Ravens, Harbaugh is returning the Giants to their \u201cPlanet Theory\u201d roots.<\/p>\n
Tremaine Edmunds (6-foot-4, 251 pounds) and Arvell Reese (6-4, 243) have been added at linebacker, replacing the 6-2, 235-pound Bobby Okereke. Daniel Faalele, a 6-8, 380-pound guard, has come over from the Baltimore Ravens. Evan Neal, 6-7, 340 pounds, is being given another chance. UDFA right tackle Ryan Schernecke is 6-7, 330 pounds. Second-round pick Francis Mauigoa is 6-6, 335. Defensive tackle Josh Tupou is 350 pounds. New nose tackle D.J. Reader is 6-3, 335 pounds.<\/p>\n
Wide receiver Malachi Fields is 6-4, 222 pounds. JuJu Smith-Schuster is just 6-1, but he is a solid 215 pounds.
Reader, who met the media for the first time as a Giant on Wednesday, had a great description for the collection of players Harbaugh has assembled.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe kind of got a get-off-the-bus type of team,\u201d Reader said. \u201cYou look at it, there\u2019s a bunch of big, strong, fast guys running around. That\u2019s exciting when you\u2019re playing on defense.\u201d<\/p>\n
Reader, 31, is one of those \u201cget-off-the-bus\u201d type players, despite the flecks of gray visible in his beard.<\/p>\n
Reader, of course, will man the position that Dexter Lawrence vacated when he muscled his way out of New Jersey and was traded to the Cincinnati Bengals.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not necessarily his replacement,\u201d Reader said.<\/p>\n
Reader said he knew when talking to the Giants that Lawrence being traded was a possibility. He wasn\u2019t concerned about whether he would be teaming with Lawrence, or becoming the primary nose tackle.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was more so I wanted to be in a place with some good pieces,\u201d Reader said.<\/p>\n
He believes he has found that with the Giants.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou see the special pieces on the edge. You got three edges that are proven, can play,\u201d Reader said. \u201cThe guys in the middle, safeties, linebackers. It\u2019s a team you kind of want to be around.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou look at the guys, you see what is in your room. A lot of teams aren\u2019t really built like that. If you can do it right and put it together, it can be special.\u201d<\/p>\n
Only time will tell if that will happen. At the least, they will look more imposing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former New York Giants general manager George Young had his own version of the \u201cPlanet Theory.\u201d Young believed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255557,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,8144,30161,11,10],"class_list":["post-255556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-giants-news","tag-new-york-giants-transcripts","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}