Giants waive the Hefty Lefty?!?

Say it ain't so! Sorry, it's true - the Giants have cut 285(+) - pound QB Jared Lorenzen after four seasons. This'll make Preseason Challenge V just a little less enjoyable now.

Just say for a minute the Rams pick Lorenzen up. His strengths would be he'd have the strongest arm on the team, and I think, even at his size, he'd also be the Rams' most mobile QB. The big man can in fact scramble, and is certainly fleeter afoot than Marc Bulger or Trent Green. Weaknesses? He's taken a TON of sacks in the limited amount of preseason scouting I've done on him. That makes me question his field-reading ability and ability to audible out of trouble. Also, he's never beaten out the likes of Anthony Wright, Tim Hasselbeck, Jesse "The Bachelor" Palmer, or this year, David Carr, to even crest as high as #2 QB on the Giants' depth chart. That's not that high a bar to clear, even at 285 pounds. (OK - Lorenzen and Palmer never actually competed in a training camp; Lorenzen sat out the '04 season, Palmer's last with the team, for "personal reasons".)

The main reason the Rams should sign Jared Lorenzen? The man can run a QB sneak. He was unstoppable on QB sneaks as a preseason G-Man. Think of all those 3rd- and 4th-and-less-than-1s the Rams failed miserably on last year. How many QB sneaks failed in those situations? None. Linehan never called any! Mike Martz never called the QB sneak, either. In fact, it's been so long, for all I know, the last Ram QB to run a sneak may have been Roman Gabriel, and he probably fumbled. The trend's really inexplicable. The way both of these guys let their QBs get pummeled, I can't believe they were averse to the risk of QB injury on a six-inch running play. Nah, let's try to run Brian Leonard outside! Let's reverse to Cam Cleeland! Let's ignore that the QB sneak is one of the most effective short-distance running plays! Especially when your QB is bringing 300 lbs of beef!

Semi-seriously, for his QB sneak skills alone, wouldn't the Hefty Lefty be worth a flyer? What's there to lose? That the Rams gave up on the vast potential of Brock Berlin?