I’m 65 years old, my earliest memories of the NFL going back to 1960. In my opinion, this year’s team is on track to become the worst Giants team of my lifetime because of the huge gap between expectations and reality. There was the 1-12-1 team in ‘66 but not much was expected of that team from the beginning. Today’s team was awash with Super Bowl expectations but has fallen so far it’s unlike anything I can remember, and with it the unprecented degree of disappointment and disgust. I’m wondering if any other “ancient” Giants fans out there agree, or am I not remembering another equally bad or worse year (?)
I remember the Miracle of the Meadowlands like it was yesterday and I saw the phoenix that rose from the wreckage. It wasn't overnight and there was pain....but the team George Young and Bill Parcells built was likeable, played with guts and for each other and the SB in 1986 was the culmination of years and years of frustration.
I keep telling myself that from this wreckage we will see the light, find players we actually like and root for and players who would give their left arm to make sure they supported their teammates out there and in the media.
But it is hard to think that we will see anything positive from this group without a complete housecleaning and objective review of each and every player.
How can any player currently on this team trust another when the proof is on the field that these guys don't care.
Yes, we had some lean years
Oh, btw, thanks for ruining my plans for Thanksgiving evening. Now I have nothing planned. I'm not watching this shit show.
We will rise again and hopefully see another. Hope I’m not in a nursing home wearing diapers!
Saw Yelberton Abraham throw 6 against I think the Cowgirls in 1961.
Suffered through the Goodbye Allie phase, the big red failure, Andy as the GM.
Meadowland Miracle.
This season I have the Sunday Ticket and have not watched a game since the Denver victory.
Feel so bad for Eli and some of the other professional players on the team.
Sorry Ben and Jerry have to go.
No Mike Smith, maybe Josh, like the Defilippo idea.
So glad the Terrapin basketball season is here. Love Brenda and the Turge!!
Go Terps
As for expectations, well much of that was the by product of ignoring the elephant in the room, the offensive line.
As for the defense, I think we were fooled by a weak schedule last year. They have no pass rush from the front four and once again the linebacker corp consists of low draft picks and free agents., not the expensive kind.
But unlike most, I am I good spirits today in regard to the Giants. Yesterday leaves no doubt that changes are coming, and was a big step too a top 3 pick.
Much like the fumble preceded the ext era of great Giants football, I think this failed season can have the same result.
...I'm in my early 60s and I sure can't recall a season like this one with such high expectations coupled with such disastrous results.
The only season that sticks out in my mind is 1973. We ended 1972 on a fairly strong note, so expectations were pretty high which were only reinforced by a convincing opening day win against the Houston Oilers (1973).
The very next week we were supposed to trounce the Eagles but the game ended up in something like a 31-31 tie.
And then the bottom fell out.
I'm not that bent out of shape about this season at this point...disappointment and anger quickly giving way to humor. It's been a long time since a Giants team was so utterly hopeless.
Thankfully, in this NFL turnarounds are very common with good coaching and roster management. Change is coming.
I’ve been saying for some time there is something insidious within the Giants and this confirms it.
Mara has to be steaming about this. This is his family’s business and how can you accept this. I must admit I expect something to happen today...I think the line has been crossed and I am convinced someone will get fired today.
Unfortunately, it looks like we are headed for another dry run. So dig in your heels and don't be a fair weathered friend, let's support our Giants! The good news is that teams can turn their fortunes around pretty quickly these days (free agency), a team just needs to consistently make sound personnel decisions and have a little luck.
Let's the Giants can have a lot of both for the next few seasons.
For three straight seasons, I just thought this is how it would always be.....I was in sports heaven...
Then the Giants fell off a cliff in '64, and the Yanks did likewise in '65, and thus the black hole began.....
It's funny....sometimes a team can play great for several seasons, and have that one season, where everything goes wrong, in the middle of that run......
Unfortunately, the opposite can happen also.....the Giants have been terrible the last 6 seasons(yes they were 9-7 in 2012, but the seeds of the future were planted that season), except for last year.....so 2016 was just a blip of false hope on the radar last season....the planets were aligned....the schedule was favorable.....the breaks went our way......or as they say, shit happens....
But that black hole in the '60s was caused by this team getting old all at once and there were no building blocks.....it seems, we are in the same position here......where are the building blocks on this team?
This team has talented players that will be part of the next push, however far that goes.
These days we have Sy'56 et al to remind us of what's going well, and how teams like the Rams show how quickly things can be turned around. Back in the 70s we had Raanan-esque content in the News and the Post which added no value.
'64-80+/- you knew it was a 2-3 year project to turn things around, when there was 12 rounds+ and <32 teams so you had a chance to hit on a starter in round 7. Unfortunately every time it looked like one more draft and they could be .500+ and arrow up, something happened and back to Suckville.
Thought '82-'84 was going to be a redo but the '85-'86 drafts, the USFL breakup, and the core group turned it around.
,'03-04 led to Eli, the '07-8 drafts,short success thanks to JR, equally short for the moment but to become long fail thanks to JR.
2017 will lead to a new QB, new GM, new HC like '79+'04.
I hope the new people are all on a successful same page as quickly as possible.
I'm old and another 18 years of fail may be too long to make it through.
Rumor was the defense would tell the offense to "hold em" when they came off the field.
Some of those teams back in the 60s and 70s didn't have much talent, and some of them looked awful on the field. But they played hard and didn't give up.
This team was flawed to start with (but they all are), has now given up on the HC, and is on the way to a record number of losses in a season and a record-worst winning percentage for any GIANTS team I have ever seen, so it is the WORST team and WORST season ever.
This is probably the worst season I've gone through as a Giants fan because:
* Of the expectations;
* For the lack of effort;
* Because of some of the assholes on BBI
Funny. Of that group and Spider Lockhart, the only one who DID suck was Thompson.
For some reason my favourite player was Webster.
Frankly I don't remember which was the worst season -- all the years morph into one fog of unhappiness till George Young led us out of Sinai.
One horrible season will not upset me. Years of mediocrity in a row will.