@pattyd @Mickster That's because you may have bought into the tribal narrative of many Giant fans (or half-fans), who find it more convenient to blame the guy that DOESN'T look like them.
Believe me, the team was full of "talent", but after SB46 Coughlin's coaches wanted to rest on their laurels. Instead of firing complete zeroes like Guinta, Herrmann, Nunn, Fewell and Jerry Palmieri, he kept them because they're his buds. You think Belickick would do that? Parcells?
People like Jernigan, Brewer, Mosley, Austin, Barden, Beckum, Hosley, and Wilson were significant college players that were slotted to be drafted at of HIGHER than they were taken by the Giants.