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. Every name links to that player's dawg file; the PROP FILE chip goes to his page in the prop room. Anyone rated after the board froze sits at the bottom as UNPRICED — same blind grade, no market number.
| ADP | PLAYER | POS | DAWG |
|---|---|---|---|
| 38.3 | Cam Skattebo | RB | 9.0 / 10 |
| 43.6 | Malik Nabers | WR | 7.5 / 10 |
| 116.4 | Jaxson DartPROP FILE → | 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.