Prince Amukamara To The Jags
I’m pretty sad to see Prince go, even though it was more or less expected. Prince is one of the first real Giants draft picks I ever got excited about. The year Prince declared was the first year I ever truly paid any attention at all to the draft. I learned who players were, I found out what college they went to, etc. It was my first real draft. Before that, I couldn’t have cared less. If they came to the Giants and did well? Hooray. Who they were before they put on Blue didn’t matter to me in the slightest. But Prince was different. He had a ton of hype that year. People wouldn’t stop mentioning Prince, the Nebraska shutdown corner, as a top 10 talent. That year all I remember was Cam Newton, Blaine Gabbert, Jake Locker, and Prince. Those are the players I knew about simply through draft chat osmosis. It didn’t even feel like Patrick Peterson got as much love as Prince. I didn’t watch the actual draft because I still didn’t care that much, but when I came back to find out that the Giants got Prince at #19 overall, I got supremely excited. We got one of the players I knew about! A player I knew who was supposed to be good! I was incredibly pumped to have Prince on the team. I’m glad we got him a ring in his rookie year.
Since then I’ve pretty much constantly rooted for him. I wanted to bring him back this off-season. But the fact that he only got a 1-year contract with the Jags really says a lot about his health problems and why we let him go despite him being a decent player on a bad defense, and overpaying another questionable corner to replace him. He never played a full season on the Giants. He played well when he was on the field and I’d rate him pretty highly as a player, but he was never there. He was constantly hurt.
I’m honestly kind of mad the Giants didn’t bring him back if all he got from Jacksonville was a 1 year deal worth 5 Million max. They had no issue giving a one year “prove it” contract to Jason 8 Fingers. We could have easily offered Prince what the Jags gave him. But what’s done is done. Jags fans should be happy if Prince stays healthy. He’s honestly a good corner. Not the best at interceptions but he’s a very solid fundamental player and a good personality. He also has what might be the biggest set of lips on a human being. I wish him well in Jax and I hope he earns another good contract.
Edit: Yes I did the art on this one a little differently. Mostly because I was really unhappy with how the linework looked, and I liked what it looked like without it better. This won’t be permanent or anything because most comics don’t look this solid without the linework. Probably. Haven’t really tried it.
Woah…… Did you change the style for the comic? It looks more flat, no lines also.
My opinion on the prince: overpaid. Jaguars got ripped off in my opinion. He’s not worth that much, sad to say with the injuries and everything.
Yeah I noticed the style change first too.
I think that Prince is overpaid as well
A one year, 5 million dollar contract? In this market I have no idea how that qualifies as “overpaid”.
I think that Prince’s contract is absolutely fair, with how much Janoris Jenkins and Sean Smith got. I’m actually mad my Chiefs didn’t sign him at that rate.
The art style…I love it. As for Prince I am pretty surprised he left NY but maybe it was for the better, at least for Jacksonville. They’re really trying to build a defense.
I have to disagree about the art style, I don’t really like it, although I usually am slow to accept changes. As for Prince, I think that NY was rebuilding, and he wasn’t in the plan. He went to Jacksonville because they wanted him.
Similar situation with Brock Oswieler, he didn’t want to be in Denver, so they let him go, and brought in guys who wanted to be there. Even though Sanchez is not the answer.
Dave you should do a Sanchez to Denver comic, plenty of material there.
Imagine if the Broncos bring in Tebow, and we(Arizona) send Matt Barkley to Denver. That’d be a whole series of
offseason comics right there
He would run into John Elway’s backside and Elway would shit all over him
I like this art style. I would not be opposed to seeing it again on occasion.
To be fair, everyone is always hurt on the Giant.
Nothing wrong with switching up the art every so often. Hell, Ian McConville (Mac Hall, Three Panel Soul) barely does two in a row in the same style sometimes.
Although I have no problem with this style. The cartoony normal style you have just gives it a certain charm that IS TDP
Prince was always one of my favorite guys on the giants along with Osi and Cruz (now Landon Collins is one of my favorites) and I always felt like when he was on the field he was a great player, and he always seemed like a great guy. I’m hoping he can come back to the big blue.
Love the art style on this one
How many times are you going to use this awful pun? http://www.thedrawplay.com/comic/tom-coughlin-reaches-the-modern-age/
Show some originality for god’s sake. Marco Rubio didn’t drop out of the race for this.
Your anger about this is really silly
1: It’s kind of weird to say HOW MANY TIMES ARE YOU GOING TO USE THIS PUN and point to the single solitary other time I used it. Maybe you’re sick of Prince Puns in general and attributing them all to me? 1 other time doesn’t really seem to warrant this kind of hyperbole.
2. They aren’t the same joke. The “Nigerian Prince scam email” joke is the setup for each comic, not the punchline. Technically the joke is different. The first joke is that Tom is told it’s a scam but it turns out to be Prince. This time the joke is that the “scam” is that he’s hurt all the time and not worth the money.
It might be derivative, sure. But complete originality is overrated and not as common as you seem to pretend it is. A lot of comedy is based around taking a well known or used subject and hitting it from different angles for different laughs. Honestly that’s most of what I’ve been doing here for 4 years. Looking at well known established football in-jokes and giving them my own personal spin.
If it bothers you so much maybe just don’t read the comic?
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Great to see another Rubio fan at times… I wish he hadn’t dropped out.
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Nice subtle background gold to black gradient
Sad to see prince go. He was on that “real” giants team. The team that would take us to the super bowl and beat the mighty pats. Ya know Justin Tuck, a healthy Victor Cruz, Hakeem Nicks, Mario Manningham, Ahmad Bradshaw and of course, Prince Amukamura. That was the last time we went over the .500 and (kinda) settled the pats giants rivalry.
This is fitting that you changed the art style here since the Jags are always trying new trends in design.
We may not have won in recent decades but at least we’re the most FAB-U-LOUS.