2010 5th rounder for OG Montrae Holland. 6'2" 322 pounds. Told ya it was huge trade! Bad news, of course, is Kosier is injured. Worse news, is that the staff obviously didn't feel comfortable enough with McQuistan, Berger, Proctor, or Marten to fill in for a month. Good news is, Holland gave up 2 sacks and committed 4 penalties last year, according to Stats LLC. Let's look at the size of the OL LT Flozell Adams (6'7" 340) LG Montrae Holland (6'2" 322) OC Andre Gurode (6'4" 318) RG Leonard Davis (6'6" 354) RT Marc Colombo (6'8" 318) Average OL (6'5.4" 330.4)
I think this has been a huge (haha I did it, too!) factor as to why the Giants have been successful against the Cowboys in the fourth quarter. If these guys are on the field the whole game (and against the Giants they frequently are) it leads to a conditioning issue late, which was bad news against the medium-sized speed rushers of the Giants. Without Osi and Strahan, I don't know if the Giants will still have enough depth to take advantage of this, though.
In the 2 regular season games, this hasn't been an issue. I don't know what happened in the playoff game. I don't think it was a conditioning thing though; otherwise it would have popped up elsewhere at some point. Rather, I think it was as simple as your DL just dominated us, particularly in the 4th Quarter. And the evidence to that would be the same thing happened in Green Bay, and then in the Super Bowl... simply put, your DL flipped a "switch", and from there, no one handled your pass rush.
