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WhiteFanposts Fanshots Sections New York Giants NewsGiants Training Camp 2016Giants vs. Eagles 2015 Color Rush Deandre Baker Jersey , Week 17New York Giants NewsGiants “still evaluating” whether to use tag on Landon CollinsNew,61commentsCollins could be a free agent in a couple of weeksESTShareTweetShareShareGiants “still evaluating” whether to use tag on Landon CollinsLandon CollinsRobert Deutsch-USA TODAY SportsThe New York Giants are facing a March 5 deadline to decide whether or to use a franchise or transition tag to keep Landon Collins in 2019. GM Dave Gettleman said Wednesday that the team is “still evaluating” whether or not to do that.“Here’s what everybody has to understand. You’ve got 53 players on your club and you’ve got a salary cap. You don’t have 53 silos. Decisions like this cannot be made in a vacuum.”A franchise tag would cost the Giants in the neighborhood of $12 million. A transition tag slightly more than $10 million.Gettleman reminded media on Wednesday that whatever the cap space number the Giants have ($28.8 million per Over The Cap) that you should subtract $10 million for in-season emergencies.“You’ve gotta go into the season with $8-10 million in space Youth Deandre Baker Jersey ,” Gettleman said. “If you don’t go into the season with 8-10 in space if someone gets hurt you’re playing a rookie.“Nothing can be done in a vacuum. It can’t. We’re not done.”If the Giants don’t use a tag on Collins he will be able to become a free agent when that begins in mid-March. The daughter of former NFL player and head coach Walt Michaels announced, via the Womens Deandre Baker Jersey , that her father died on Wednesday at the age of 89.Michaels was a seventh-round pick by the Browns in 1951 and was traded to the Packers before the start of his rookie season. He returned to the Browns the next year and played linebacker for Cleveland through the 1961 season. He won two titles and the Browns made it to the championship game five times while Michaels was on the roster. Michaels was also selected for five Pro Bowls.Michaels played one more game with the Jets in 1963 while serving as the team’s defensive coordinator and won a Super Bowl ring after helping the team overcome the Colts in Super Bowl III. He moved to the Eagles in the same role from 1973 to 1975 and returned to the Jets in 1976.He was promoted to head coach the next year and went 39-47-1 over six seasons. The Jets advanced to the AFC Championship Game in 1982, which turned out to be Michaels’s final season with the team as he resigned a short time later.Michaels would go on to coach the USFL’s New Jersey Generals in 1984 and 1985. The team went 25-11 in those seasons.Our condolences go out to Michaels’s friends and loved ones.