New York Giants Free Agency: If We Could Only Have One- Jacobs or Umenyiora?

Jim MancariBGB Assistant EditorThough the Giants are the Super Bowl champions, next season’s team may look a little bit different than this year’s team.The core should pretty much be intact, but based on the Giants’ salary cap situation, some key pieces from the last few years may call somewhere else home in 2012.Hopefully, the Giants are able to work with a few players in restructuring their contracts in an attempt to keep as many pieces as possible. But unfortunately, the game has become a business, and if the Giants are unwilling to pay, another team will.Both Brandon Jacobs and Osi Umenyiora have said that they would explore the possibility of taking a pay cut to remain with the Giants.But let’s say the Giants can only work out a deal with one of these two. Who would you rather have?When thinking of the team’s strengths (other than Eli Manning of course), the defensive line tops the list. Justin Tuck, Chris Canty, Mathias Kiwanuka and Linval Joseph all had strong seasons.The eme...