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Giants owner unimpressed with "mediocre" free agent class

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“There were obviously some star players out there, but for the most part I thought it was a mediocre free-agent class,’’ Giants co-owner John Mara told reporters Thursday at the PAL’s William J. Duncan Center in Manhattan.

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“And I think a lot of guys got paid more money than maybe they would have in other years because there was a lot of cap room out there. I think the guys who we got will help us, but we still have a long way to go.”

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Long before FA, I was unimpressed. A few times I stated, the cuts will have far more impact than the group of soon to be FAs. If the lions done a better job of planning, suh would have never been a FA. I knew the good/great FAs would get tagged or resign before the start. It happens each year, a monkey could see it coming.

If not for chip doing some of dumbest moves in nfl history, the FA period would have been a huge dud.

Sad part is I already looked at next years FA class, you know when the panthers have around 60+/- million in space. Same problem the 10-15 guys you'd like to spend that money on will be tagged or resign, just like this year and years before. There's about 4 good LTs set to hit(or not) the market and a couple WRs too........(pointless) panthers should just take that space and use it on cam. Have his cap number be like 40 million for just that one year. Hell same for luke, his should be 20 million for 2016.

I'm still holding to hope that more juicy cuts will happen, even right after the draft.

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Let's be honest, do any of us really have any clue how good or bad free agents are? I have a buddy that is a NFL scout and laughs all the time when us commoners try and break down a player.

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I would take 3 off of that list. To me it was just Suh, Revis, Hardy.

Perhaps, but I always thought that Maclin was underrated here. I always thought that he was the best receiver in free agency. When you are still young and put up more than 1300 yards in a season (w/ Sanchez and Foles, no less) you are bound to get paid. The thing is, people aren't really looking at the guaranteed money which was probably fair market value for Maclin and Cobb. The price for receivers is increasing. But give me a 1300 yard receiver basically just entering his prime any day. Of course Alex Smith will probably kill some of that value with his noodle arm, but that's KC's problem.
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Let's be honest, do any of us really have any clue how good or bad free agents are? I have a buddy that is a NFL scout and laughs all the time when us commoners try and break down a player.

To be honest, his opinion probably isn't any more valid than ours.

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