NEW YORK GIANTS
The trenches are real: a top-three edge grade, a top-three interior, and a new head coach whose fingerprint graded top-three the moment he unpacked. The corner room graded bottom-three, which is a problem in a division that employs wide receivers. And the offense's identity grade is a rookie back I gave a 9 — the toughest number on the roster — priced in the fourth round of the frozen board. There is a real dog in this file trying to get out. The back end keeps letting the argument back in.
The Four Factors
Each factor is normalized 0–100 across the league — 100 is first, 0 is dead last — then weighted into the 54.8. Weights are the same for all 32 teams: defense 35, offense 30, history 20, coaching 15.
DEFENSE
× 35%Mid-pack. Not the problem, not the identity. The room-by-room read is below.
OFFENSE
× 30%Mid-pack — some real grades on the sheet below, not enough of them to move the column.
HISTORY
× 20%League-middle. The ring-counter found scraps, so the franchise-vibes read — 40% of this column — is doing the heavy lifting.
COACHING
× 15%Top-three fingerprint: fourth-down guts, early 2-point tries, halves played for the win instead of the tie.
The Unit Room
The raw grades behind the factors — my dawg read on each unit group, 1 to 10, with its weight inside the defense factor and where it ranks among the 32. Defense is graded by unit group this season, not player-by-player — per-player cap-hit weighting arrives when the final 2026 cap tables settle. Said loudly on the main board, said loudly here.
The Roster Sheet
Every Giant on the frozen ADP board — the market's price next to my dawg read. The two numbers were never allowed to meet: I scored the player blind, then ADP told me how much of the offense rides on him. That firewall is the whole method. Names that link go to that player's file in the prop room; the rest don't have one yet.
| ADP | PLAYER | POS | DAWG |
|---|---|---|---|
| 38.3 | Cam Skattebo | RB | 9.0 / 10 |
| 43.6 | Malik Nabers | WR | 7.5 / 10 |
| 116.4 | Jaxson DartFILE → | QB | 6.5 / 10 |
| 139.1 | Isaiah Likely | TE | 6.5 / 10 |
| 156.8 | Tyrone Tracy Jr. | RB | 6.5 / 10 |
Cam Skattebo is the dawg the rest of this sheet answers to — a 9.0.
Where the Paper Rides
The season-long ledger lives on the main board and grades itself all year. Here is the Giants' part in it, breed against breed.
GIANTS VS THE LADDER
| OPPONENT'S BREED | ROTTWEILER | GOLDEN RETR. | GREYHOUND | COCKER SPAN. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| THE PLAY | 2 UNITS · OPPONENT | 1 UNIT · OPPONENT | NO PLAY | 1 UNIT · NYG |
Greyhound games split three ways: the paper rides against the Giants when a bigger breed shows up, rides with them against the Spaniels, and sits out the all-track-team matchups. Locked all year, graded in public. If the finesse label is wrong, the count will say so — I don't re-grade. I watch.