“John Mara has made some poor decisions over the last few years, but he is suffering right along with Giants fans. When a flag was picked up last week against the Cowboys, he stormed out of his box and his face was so red it looked like Tom Coughlin’s cheeks in Green Bay at the frigid NFC title game nearly 10 years ago. This just might be the worst Giants team of all time. It’s been torture for Mara. “I’m trying to think of one that was worse,” he said. “Maybe ’78, maybe ’66. Never one where the expectations were so high and the performance was so poor.”… Mara thinks very highly of Dave Gettleman, who worked for the Giants from 1998-2012 in personnel and then spent four years as Panthers GM. He appears to be the favorite to be Giants GM but the plans is to wait for other candidates to become available to interview after the season. But that could change if Gettleman has a strong interview. He will likely be interviewed this week along with internal candidates Kevin Abrams and Marc Ross. Mara was reluctant to speak about Gettleman at last week’s league meetings. “I don’t want to get into that. People are going to run with it and say he’s the favorite,” he said.”
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Who else would hire him?
Who else would hire him?
Don’t think it would explode. And he “left” Carolina because he didn’t want to extend aging players.
Who else would hire him?
1998-2012 (Gettleman in the building): Giants had 4 losing seasons
- Gettleman leaves
2013-2017: Giants have 4 losing seasons
Since 1987, organizations Gettleman has been apart of went to 9 super bowls.
I think organizations would be interested in him.
horrible. I read a little while ago that Ross is not respected in league circles. The conventional wisdom is that he pompous and clueless.
Gettleman's history with Carolina was that he was willing to make unpopular decisions by cutting/not extending popular aging players. It seems like he may have the combination with big enough balls to change the organization and instant credibility with Mara to get things done. He may even have predilictions on people (ex. Ross) he doesn't think is competent enough due to his history in the organization.
If you aren't going to replace those guys in the front office you damn well better start putting some other thoughts in their head on how a team should be built...
Gettleman's history with Carolina was that he was willing to make unpopular decisions by cutting/not extending popular aging players. It seems like he may have the combination with big enough balls to change the organization and instant credibility with Mara to get things done. He may even have predilictions on people (ex. Ross) he doesn't think is competent enough due to his history in the organization.
I'd say an outside voice would be more likely to push Ross out the door than Gettleman would be. I don't see how a history with the organization is helpful if change is what you're after.
That's why people are against this, the drafting has been terrible and the FO needs to be gutted. No more half measures. Ross needs to go.
horrible. I read a little while ago that Ross is not respected in league circles. The conventional wisdom is that he pompous and clueless.
And you can throw in “lazy”.
Gettleman's history with Carolina was that he was willing to make unpopular decisions by cutting/not extending popular aging players. It seems like he may have the combination with big enough balls to change the organization and instant credibility with Mara to get things done. He may even have predilictions on people (ex. Ross) he doesn't think is competent enough due to his history in the organization.
Playing devil's advocate, we just had a situation where an unpopular decision was made on a popular aging player and the fanbase went into revolt and likely pushed the owner over the edge to fire the then-current GM. How ready for 'change' people are is up for debate.
As if they were searching for an excuse or justification for the failure of the grand scheme that failed.
We all know he's 37. Look at the number of 'draft a QB' threads, for evidence of that.
I am fairly sure that the vast majority of fans want an entirely new offensive system and style.