Who Is Anthony Mix?

Anthony Mix is a 24-year-old undrafted free agent (2006).

He’s a 6-5 receiver (looks like a tight end) out of Auburn who weighs in at a whopping 252 pounds.

Against the Jets Saturday Mix had 7 catches for 45 yards with a touchdown.

On August 11, Mix had one reception, a touchdown for 10 yards. Against the Ravens on August 19 he pulled in 5 catches for 43 yards.

In 2005 playing for the Auburn Tigers, Mix had 23 catches for 288 yards with two touchdowns. A year prior he had 19 catches for 294 with 3 touchdowns.

Mix is in his second year with the Giants. He spent 2006 on the Giants practice squad. I’d look for Mix to be among the mix of Giants wide receivers this year. He’s impressed coaches in practice and in preseason games and his size and speed and reason enough to keep him around. Tom Coughlin would like to see Mix play a more active role on special teams, but it the Giants receivers go down this year with injuries, Mix might get his chances.

Giants – Jets First Half Thoughts

By Ryan Murphy, WNBC.com Editor

The first play aside, I’m pleasantly pleased with the Giants so far.

Offense – moved the ball down field. Could have gotten inside the red zone a bit more, but Manning looked good and I am extremely impressed with WR Anthony Mix (I was going to write that before his touchdown, too.) Jacobs looked decent, I’m just worried about this guy taking a beating if he carries 30 times a game. The upside is clearly his size so maybe he’ll be distributing more beatings than taking them.

Defense – mulligan on the first play and they were putting for birdie every series after that. The Giants D-line made Jets O-line look like Swiss cheese and Pennington had 80 total yards. Remember, 79 came on the first play. A+ for the Giants D in the first half. A safety always helps too, but that’s more a credit to special teams coverage.

Special Teams – a little disconcerted about missing 2 field goals with our supposed starting kicker. I’m over it fast though as preseason is just that – PRE season. 0 for 2 in a close game during the regular season will not evoke the same response, I assure you that. You can’t give up 6 points, ever. I still think Tynes will be our guy on opening day. But why is kicker such a shaky position for the Giants year in and year out? Great coverage on the punt that led to the safety. It’s nice to see David Tyree back in action.

All in all, Giants get an A- for first half action. I’d take a performance like this on opening day against Dallas in a heartbeat. Let’s see how bad second and third stringers want on this team…

By the way, kudos to Darrelle Rivas for tight coverage in the first half. My counterpart, Jim Scott will be pleased with his first half performance. Ouch…he just got drilled on a second-half punt return…sorry Jim

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