You can draft well and still miss the point. The Giants did plenty of tidy work and somehow never got around to interior defensive lineman, which was the need that mattered most. A dependable weekend that grades out a B+.

Arnold at that cost is the sort of edge that compounds over a roster. The James Daniels pickup adds a known quantity to a class of unknowns. The roster is better shaped than it was, with safety chief among the fixes.

It is a bet on later, and a defensible one for a team playing the long game.

In short, they left a little better than they arrived, which is the whole idea.