As 2010 Camp Opens Questions Linger

For the first time since I've been documenting my thoughts on the Giants, I've failed to post any analysis regarding the failures of 2009 and the needs for 2010. And the reason is straight forward. I don't have a clue why the 2009 team struggled so mightily last year. The run defense was perhaps the worst I've ever seen in the 50 years I've been a Giants fan. The vaunted pass rush was invisible. The offense lost its physicality and the running game was a shadow of its former self. The only thing that worked was the passing game, the one part of the team considered to be the weak link heading into the 2009 season. All of the purported strengths turned out to be horrendous failures.But why? Without knowing the underlying cause, it isn't possible to design a solution. That was my struggle and my ensuing silence spoke volumes about my inability to latch onto reasons that made sense to me. Sheridan's firing made it easy to simply shift all the problems onto h...