GM Jerry Reese put his stamp on the Giants today, and it's a pretty darn big imprint: LB Carlos Emmons was released, as expected, but so were LB LaVar Arrington and LT Luke Petitgout. There are no plans to renegotiate with either Arrington, whose Giants career lasted all of six games, or Petitgout, who had been a Giant for eight seasons and was having one of his best years when he suffered a broken leg against the Bears.
Cutting Emmons saves a million on cap space, which the Giants are reportedly about $14-million under. Cutting Petitgout saves the Giants around $3.2-million and, while it seems as if cutting a veteran who was playing well seems drastic, only means that Reese and the on-field talent evaluators feel David Diehl is the future at left tackle and Rich Seubert can handle left guard.
Cutting Arrington is roughly a $1.5-million cap hit, but the Giants clearly don't want to wait and see if his Achilles and knees would hold up. So the Giants may go hard after OLB Lance Briggs when free agency starts on Mar. 2, and would likely draft a LB in one of the first couple rounds of the draft.
OL Bob Whitfield also announced his retirement on Sirius radio today, probably knowing he would be cut or was already informed he wasn't coming back. We'll miss ol' Bob, though I bet Coughlin won't.
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I read that the Giants are interested in Willis McGahee. I wonder which draft pick they would give for him, or would it be a combo of a 2nd and 3rd, a 1st round pick, or a 2nd round pick and a player. Any ideas?