Am I alone in this? When the New York Giants signed Brandon Marshall to a two-year deal worth $12 million, my immediate thought was “OK . . . now what?” As sexy a move it may be on the surface, the Giants have so many other priorities to fix on offense.

According to the NFL Player’s Association, New York’s cap number was at just over $13 million. This took into account the Giants slapping Jason Pierre-Paul with the franchise tag, which put his 2017 salary at around $17 million. Now, I have no idea what the details of Marshall’s contract are, but even if they found a way to back load the contract, it still significantly reduces the Giants’ ability to go after other free agents.

They have to retain cap space to sign their draft picks. This puts immense pressure on the Giants to sign Pierre-Paul to a long-term contract. Even if he were to take a lower average salary, it would still likely be around the same number. Any benefits to a long-term deal would either come from the Giants giving him a huge number in guaranteed money and bonuses, or backloading the contract. Who knows if they or JPP are willing to do either of those things.

If nothing changes to Pierre-Paul’s contract, the Giants are likely hovering around $6-8 million in cap space. They would have to make more cost cutting moves, and even those wouldn’t free up much more room on top of what they’ll end up owing rookies from the draft class.

All of this equals little to no room to improve the offensive line in free agency, something many experts and fans were expecting them to at least explore. No offensive linemen in the market that would bring that improvement can be had for so cheap.

Either the Giants are extremely confident in getting a long-term deal done for Jason Pierre-Paul, or they will look to the 2017 NFL Draft for offensive line upgrades. Given Jerry Reese’s history of drafting offensive linemen, and Ben McAdoo saying expressing confidence in Ereck Flowers, I’m not so sure that is the best route.

While I understand Marshall makes the Giants lethal at the wide receiver position, we thought the same about the receivers in 2016. Eli Manning didn’t have time to progress through his reads and it was a disaster of a season offensively. Offensive line should have absolutely taken priority in free agency, and right now that appears to no longer be an option.