during his stay with the Giants. Difficult to argue with the explosiveness of his offense when he had the horses. Also difficult to fault two Super Bowls.
I was also ok with Giants management making a change, figure they know better than me.
What is comical to me is reading the in and post game quotes from this site during the first two PRESEASON games.
If my memory serves me correctly, many of the posters that referred to a very good offensive coordinator in Gilbride as Kildrive, and praised the hiring of McAdoo, are already thinking of creative names for this OC.
Maybe something like McAboo will do?
No wonder players and coaches pay so little attention to what we fans think.
I think Gilbride was a fine OC.
My gut tells me McAdoo will be a fine OC (but we'll have to see).
But it still astounds me how some fail to recognize just how terrible our offensive personnel was last year. "Why didn't Gilbride adjust?" Adjust with what???
We don't know what we have now.
Gilbride was a flawed, but good OC whose time was up here, as you couldn't not change both the coaching staff and the QB, with how terrible the QB been playing for a season and a half. It's okay to accept that or even point that out, even if you also recognize the talent issues the team has in general.
The hyper defensiveness over Gilbride now, from some, is almost as bad as the hyper criticism from others used to be.
He wasn't a perfect OC, and there was stuff that drove me nuts, but overall he did a damn good job here.
I am guess at some point a lot of people that mocked Gilbride will miss what they had.
I believed this was a transition year, and still do. It's a completely new offensive system, with a brand new OC and a roster that's turned over an awful lot of players. I didn't, and still don't expect to know what kind of team this is going to be until 4 or 5 games into the REGULAR season. I know no one wants that, but I doubt it can be any different.
At best, I think McAdoo is a lateral move. If he turns out to have a top offense with the right players in place, we'll have what we had before minus the playoff tested execution.
At worst, our bad players from last year are actually bad players (sorry Chris Mara) and our good players are starting over mentally and may not be nearly as good in the new system.
I look forward to seeing with this offense becomes
I believed this was a transition year, and still do. It's a completely new offensive system, with a brand new OC and a roster that's turned over an awful lot of players. I didn't, and still don't expect to know what kind of team this is going to be until 4 or 5 games into the REGULAR season. I know no one wants that, but I doubt it can be any different.
I agree.
I like that better than taking an escape from everyday life and making that as stressful as a job.
I especially like it more than stressing out over preseason performances when we already knew going in it was going to be a work in progress.
Coaches are trying different personnel, plays, experimenting. Players are working on their technique and trying to get out of bad habits.
The qb who looks most comfortable with the offense is Painter. Don't know whether he saw a lot of it in Indy or what.
read this article about our offense. If you've watched enough Giants games you should know that this is 1000% accurate. It explains all the weird route jumping defenses have shown eli in hte past 2 years.
http://bigblueblitz.com/eli-manning/giant-issues-eli-manning-the-giants-offense-have-outgrown-kevin-gilbride/
As for Macadoo, we have no idea yet. Two preseason games, probably keeping it vanilla, no game planning yet, and a system just going in. We may not even have the set of guys we need for his system yet (I'm looking at you TE corp). So any statement is waaaaaay too early yet. Period.