Jeremy Shockey

The trade involving Jeremy Shockey this weekend most likely helped both teams but I'm guessing The Giants didn't even have to think about it. In spite of his starting roll on Team Doucheman: NFL Edition, Shockey is still a very good player and a Tight End that can get open will be extremely helpful for New Orleans, a team who threw about a million interceptions last season. But The Giants receive draft picks and most importantly, they get something for a guy who has been experimentally proven not to help the team.

Shockey averaged 4 receptions and 45 yards a game in the regular season before he got hurt and had 3 TDs. Kevin Boss, Shockey's playoff replacement, had about a catch a game and zero touchdowns during the playoffs. Looking at the stats, you might wonder how the Giants pulled off their Super Bowl win without Shockey.

Remember how The Giants were the most unhappy, dysfunctional team (other than The Bungles) in the NFL? What happened? The fact is, a player with a large personality who uses it to question the guy (Eli) who should be leading the team CANNOT be helpful no matter how talented he is. Especially when you have a guy like Eli who needs at least a little help raising his voice in a crowd. Look at Michael Strahan. Michael has a HUGE personality, but he used it to help a talented kid who still has the disposition of a little brother.

Think about this: You are one of the best players on a team, you get hurt, and your team miraculously makes it to the Super Bowl. Don't you at least try to hang out on the sidelines to be a part of that? (He may not have been allowed to because he probably wasn't on the playoff roster. I don't know because I'm an idiot.) Well Shockey, instead, sat by himself in a box and got hammered drunk throughout the game. That could have been OK (maybe) if he were shirtless and freaking out like a soccer hooligan when his team was upsetting the 18-0 New England AntiChrists, but no. Shockey seemed completely indifferent to the outcome of the game.

On "Mike and Mike in the Morning," they asked The Giants' GM whether or not Shockey getting hurt helped them in the long run. He answered something like, "No. That's unfair to Jeremy. He was a very good player for our football team." When you ask a guy if someone getting hurt helped his team and his answer is, "He was a very good player for our football team," that means, "I don't really wanna talk about it, but probably." When your Super Bowl run begins right after some guy with high trade value who nobody really likes anyway gets hurt, is that the biggest no-brainer trade ever? It's gotta be up there.