Single Card Mail Day: 2019 Panini Gold Standard Newly Minted Patch Card Darius Slayton

I have picking up and trading for a lot of Giants recently.

Some are players of the past, others are players of the now.

Or for now.....

With Darius Slayton's contract up, will the G-Men consider bringing him back? He had a decent season for a player who was rumored to be traded and ended up being the Giants number one guy. However, he still had key drops in games including the Wild Card Playoff game where he dropped a wide-open pass that would have given them a first down...if not more and ended the game against the Vikings. Fortunately for him, they held on for the win anyways.

In my opinion, I think they should bring him back but only if it fits the budget. Do not overpay.

 

I recently picked up this patch card of Darius for $2. 

It was a good-looking card and fun swatch so couldn't just let it sit there with no bids.

Thoughts on my latest add and if the Giants should extend Darius welcomed in comments!

Pack Pulled Again

I hate bye weeks. It's so boring.

But I can say I am still excited about the future of this team after a 6-2 start. The Seahawks loss was a tough one to swallow as the team reverted back to looking a little like last year, but I still feel with the schedule they have remaining, they can still make a run at this thing.

All I want out of this team for the second half of the season is a playoff berth. One playoff game would bring me so much joy.

I guess we will see how they play out of the bye this week against Houston.

Now onto today's post. This is almost like a sequel to a previous post where I pack pulled some Giants. It doesn't happen often, so I got to celebrate it.

Recently, I started busting some older packs I had sitting around and one of those was a 2021 Prestige Hanger pack.

To my surprise, I landed three NY Giants pulls.

A Living Legends of Jeremy Shockey. Still my favorite Tight End ever to watch.

Darius Slayton Xtra Points Astral Stars parallel. I just picked him up for my fantasy football team that is struggling at the WR position.

 

Final card I found was an Xtra Points Green of Daniel Jones numbered to 199.

Pretty decent finds for my collection.

Thoughts on my latest adds, the second half of the Giants season and what you expect from your team in the second half of the season welcomed in comments.

My 2021 Prizm Base Giants

Finally! I get to put up a new post up on this blog!

Today I am showing off my Prizm base card adds.

Since this year's Prizm base was such a deep set, there were extra Giants in it instead of the usual three or four.

This year's Prizm included seven Big Blue in the base set including,

Former safety Jabrill Peppers.

Leonard Williams

Kyle Rudolph (who also has an autograph I want in the set to go into my Giants autograph PC)

Blake Martinez who I hope has a big year back.

Darius Slayton (let's see if keeps his roster spot)

Saquon Barkley (I just traded for him in Fantasy)

And Super Bowl 42 winning catch....

 

Plaxico Burress.

Missing is Daniel Jones from having them all. I will have to chase him down.

Missing from the set that should be in it is Eli Manning. If you can put Kyle Rudolph in, Eli should be in.

Thoughts on this year's Prizm welcomed in comments.

More 2021 Playoff Adds

This year's 2021 Playoff football product had six NY Giants in its base card set excluding the rookies. I had already found the first three in Daniel Jones, Saquon Barkley and Evan Engram but was missing the final three until today.

After opening a couple of fat packs, I was able to piece the other three together,

Lawrence Taylor who possibly is the greatest defensive player ever.

Darius Slayton who had great chemistry and played amazing his rookie year has dropped off some. Hopefully he will continue to be a Giant and pick up his game this year.

Final card I needed was the Giants big offseason add last year in Kenny Golladay. He didn't quite do what the Gmen had hoped but maybe this year with new coaches and a new look on the offense things will be different.

I am still in need of a couple rookies, all of the inserts and all of the parallels except one card. It's not easy to chase all of them as a team collector but I will chip away what I can when I can.

Thoughts on today's additions welcomed in comments.