EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. – General manager Dave Gettleman today announced a series of personnel additions and title changes in the Giants’ front office, college scouting and football operations departments.
Kevin Abrams, a member of the organization since 1999 and the assistant general manager for the last 16 years, has added the title of vice president of football operations.
Mark Koncz, brought in by Gettleman as a consultant prior to the NFL Draft, is now the director of player personnel. Koncz was a member of the Carolina Panthers organization from 1994-2017 and was their director of pro scouting from 2000-17. He worked under Gettleman when the latter was the Panthers’ general manager from 2013-16.
Chris Pettit has been named director of college scouting after spending the previous 13 years as an area scout. He joined the Giants’ scouting staff in 2005 after spending the 2004 season as a scouting intern for the team. Pettit first worked for the Giants as a training camp pro personnel intern from 1998-2000.
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Marcus Cooper has been hired as an area scout who will focus in the Southeast. Cooper spent the previous seven seasons with the Buffalo Bills, first as a player personnel assistant, then as an area scout, and last year as the team’s scout in the BLESTO Scouting Combine.
Beginning this season, each area scout will concentrate on a specific region. In addition to Hanscomb and Cooper, these are the scouts and their areas: D.J. Boisture (west), Jeremy Breit (regional), Steve Devine (Midwest), Donnie Etheridge (southwest), Ryan Jones (northeast), Michael Murphy (west), Steve Verderosa (regional) and Chris Watts (midlands).
Jeremiah Davis and Marquis Pendleton will continue to serve as executive scout and BLESTO scout, respectively.
In the Football Operations Department, Ed Triggs is the football operations coordinator, Ty Siam is football operations/data analytics, Charles Tisch is a football operations assistant, and Jessie Armstead, the former five-time Pro Bowl linebacker, is a special assistant to the general manager.
Yes, right after their exhaustive search leads them to conclude that the ideal candidate was already in the Giants' family.
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Or mow Mara's lawn
Or mow Mara's lawn
You've got to have a great deal of trust in each of your scouts to allow them to be the sole scout in any region.
Most teams use regional scouts with some national cross-checkers. This way area scouts can build relationships with coaches
He'll have to beat out Bill B
Definitely possible, but for some reason I think it will be Chris Pettit. Gettleman wasted no time in increasing CP's role when he started.
Who reports to Chris Mara?
* Director of Player Personnnel: Mark Koncz ?
* Director of Pro Personnel: Ken Sternfeld ?
And, if anyone reports to Chris Mara, wouldn't that, by necessity, mean such people do not, in any way, report to Dave Gettleman?
And, if the answer is that nobody reports to Chris Mara, then wtf does he do?
Every team is run differently though, so there's no way to nail down responsibilities without having firsthand information.
It's fairly safe to conclude that Gettleman and everyone under him still has to treat Chris Mara as if he were an owner regardless though.