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| The old way of doing things is over. Dave Gettleman, for the first time as the general manager of the Giants, will meet with all the team’s scouts Tuesday when they convene for Senior Bowl week in Mobile, Ala. Gettleman will lay out the comprehensive, sweeping changes about to hit an organization that can trace its demise to failures in identifying and procuring enough quality players. For those concerned the hiring of Gettleman, a longtime Giants personnel executive, was counterintuitive to the “wholesale changes” mandate co-owner John Mara set forth for a franchise that has one playoff appearance in the past six years, rest easy. Gettleman, The Post has learned, is tearing up the Giants’ entire operation when it comes to the draft — from how players are graded, how scouts will be assigned and how the actual draft board is assembled. “We’re changing everything around in the department, from how we operate to the grading scale, everything,’’ a Giants source familiar with Gettleman’s thinking told The Post. “Everything. Nothing’s going to stay the same.’’ Gettleman, 66, spent 15 years working in personnel with the Giants, but his NFL apprenticeship was served elsewhere, starting as an intern in Buffalo in 1986 and later as a scout for the Broncos. After leaving the Giants, he spent four years in Carolina as the general manager of the Panthers. The new template he will unveil was created with ideas gleaned from all these stops. “We’re gonna have what I call a philosophical and method shift on how we operate, yes,’’ Gettleman told The Post. “The philosophy is the way of looking at players, and the method is how we set up the draft board.’’ |
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| This will be reflected in how players are actually placed on the Giants’ draft board. Gettleman took a look at how the Panthers graded players, preferred that system to what he knew with the Giants, and retained it in Charlotte. Now he is bringing it to the Giants. “Putting your focus on different things, the board is gonna look very different,’’ Gettleman said. “It’s actually something I learned in Carolina. There’s an old saying: Every man is my equal, in that I may learn from him. These guys taught me a different way of looking at it — not how to evaluate, not how to do it philosophically, but just a different way of setting up a board, and I think it’s terrific.’’ Gettleman would not get into specifics, but agreed the new draft board will more accurately display how an individual players’ grade relates to others on the board. “It gives you not only a vertical view but also a horizontal view as well,’’ he said. “It allows you to really see the board, without giving anything up.’’ All NFL teams — other than the Patriots, not surprisingly — hire one of two scouting services, National Football Scouting or Blesto, to get a better handle on college juniors. The Giants are with Blesto. Teams usually assign one of their young, inexperienced scouts to these services, and one of Gettleman’s first jobs was as the Blesto scout for the Bills. When Gettleman got to Carolina, one of his first moves was to switch the Panthers from National to Blesto. |
I like the THIS is what we particularly want in your evaluation, no doubt in addition to standard metrics. THAT also lets you draft guys that you want for the team you envision.
Small but important things, like drafting/UDFA STers(Reyna Thompson, David Tyree}.
What do you think this says about the odds of the G Men's first rounder? Increase Barkley's odds?
F the thread police!