I remember Coughlin starring Mara down in that press conference when Coughlin was fired. Our best coach second only to possibly Parcells was surprised and angry with Mara in 2015. I sided with TC. I dont think the organization can comeback very quickly from the stupidity of the ownership. In pro sports teams, by quickly, I mean I have seen stupid owners make big bad decisions that cost decades of bottom dwelling.
I knew the GM should have been fired, not TC. I think the ownership has bad judgment. We were lucky to win 2 superbowls in this millennium. Our current GM seems to have a big ego and has made some unconventional decisions that have not panned out, so he should be on the hot seat. I do think Jones is an interesting specimen with impressive physical talent, but not sure Garrett and he are really a good tandem. Im not sure what the deal is, but I would say 6 wins would be their ceiling and this season could be ugly by October. FIRE MARA!
Yep, when he lost that opening season game to the Cowboys, it was time to move on.
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fired two years earlier. He was awful since right after SB 46. Team was ill prepared, often out coached.
Yep, when he lost that opening season game to the Cowboys, it was time to move on.
Coughlin was flat out awful his last three years. Bad prep, bad game management, bad personnel decisions. Get the rose colored glasses off. He was as bad a Shurmur but had the benefit of people remembering 2 super bowl wins.
The cupboard was bare when Gettleman was brought on board. plus he had a bad lockerroom and what talent he had had to jettisoned.
Everyone endorsed the Judge pick. But i think that's where the problem is and the roster is fine.
I've done the exercise, dialed up the draft history. i don't think anyone has the job that Gettleman has done with late picks. NOONE!
83% of the top fifty picks each year are successful. I think I've read that only 50% of the top ten quarterback picks make it. He is well within those parameters.
Gates, Coughlin, Tao Crowder (255th.pick and last overall), Julian Love, Shane Lemieux, Holmes, Johnson, Darius Slayton, Matt (still unproven) Piert, that's an extraordinary group over three years with many coming from the absolute end of the draft and beyond (Gates wasn't even drafted).
That tells me the problem isn't with the scouting or draft picks.
And you can do the right thing and not have it work out. Maybe that's the case with Joe Judge. Hiring a head coach is inherently risky. Successful co ordinators often don't work out; coaches that once were successful change, or profited from circumstances and don't work out.
In maybe the most competitive of all businesses, the NY Giants have won two superbowls in fifteen years. New England and the Pitts Steelers have done better and I think that's it.
This roster is darn good. if Judge can't make it, we'll have a new coach next year and he'll inherit a good roster and two top ten picks.
The Giants are in this mess because of a lack of planning. Every decision since Gettleman was brought in was bad, the organizational vision was awful:
1. Take a RB at #2 and try to win again with Eli.
2. Failure to build an OL to win with an aging QB.
3. Although I had no issues with the trade at the time, JPP had a lot left.
4. Retain Eli in 2019 and reach for Jones.
If the big plan was to win with Eli why not give Eli/DG/Shurmur 2018 & 2019 to either win or everyone goes? Then draft the new QB in 2019 with a new GM and coach.
Just no plan. They are winging it as they go. Nothing has changed from the end of the Reese tenure, DG has just been an extension of it.
No, he isn’t. He has a supervisory role with a fancy title. The heads of college and pro scouting were hired by and report directly to Dave Gettkeman. Those three are who is in charge of personnel.
with Reese. Reese should never have been allowed to stay on.
The Giants are in this mess because of a lack of planning. Every decision since Gettleman was brought in was bad, the organizational vision was awful:
1. Take a RB at #2 and try to win again with Eli.
2. Failure to build an OL to win with an aging QB.
3. Although I had no issues with the trade at the time, JPP had a lot left.
4. Retain Eli in 2019 and reach for Jones.
If the big plan was to win with Eli why not give Eli/DG/Shurmur 2018 & 2019 to either win or everyone goes? Then draft the new QB in 2019 with a new GM and coach.
Just no plan. They are winging it as they go. Nothing has changed from the end of the Reese tenure, DG has just been an extension of it.
It's almost as if, pick one or more of the following:
1) Gettleman and Reese came from the same outdated "Giants Way" of thinking - Gettleman is just better at saying the right thing to the fans (or, given the poster above harping on Reese's race, Gettleman is the right race). As a result, they will make somewhat similar decisions*.
2) Chris Mara is the one truly running the show and Gettleman and Reese were just the guys put out in front. At the very least, we functionally have 2 GMs. Chris Mara got his current position in 2012 - how has our personnel looked since then?
3) Our scouts are so terrible that it doesn't matter who the GM is, they are working with terrible information
* - Though I think even at his worst, I don't think Reese would've picked Barkley #2 overall. He would've gone with Bradley Chubb or Josh Allen from the physical numbers he had (assuming Mara would have allowed him to go QB at that point)
2012 D David Wilson, Reuben Randle, Jayron Holsey, Adrien Robinson, Brandon Mosley, Matt McCants, David Kuhn
2013 D Justin Pugh, Jonathan Hankins, Damantre Moore, Ryan Nassib, Cooper Taylor, Eric Herman, Michael Cox
2014 D OBJ, Weston Richburg, Jay Bromley, Andre Williams, Nat Behre, Devon Kennard, Bennet Jackson
How he was not able to get more out of this tremendous talent provided in mind boggling. Look at all this talent and the impact they had on the NFL.
2012 D David Wilson, Reuben Randle, Jayron Holsey, Adrien Robinson, Brandon Mosley, Matt McCants, David Kuhn
2013 D Justin Pugh, Jonathan Hankins, Damantre Moore, Ryan Nassib, Cooper Taylor, Eric Herman, Michael Cox
2014 D OBJ, Weston Richburg, Jay Bromley, Andre Williams, Nat Behre, Devon Kennard, Bennet Jackson
How he was not able to get more out of this tremendous talent provided in mind boggling. Look at all this talent and the impact they had on the NFL.
Awful. And to think they actually put work into scouting and analyzing that these were the best players to draft. Years of getting basically nothing from the college ranks.
Because for whatever reason, Mara had EA run the hiring show & he did a solid for an old friend in DG.
The cupboard was bare when Gettleman was brought on board. plus he had a bad lockerroom and what talent he had had to jettisoned.
Everyone endorsed the Judge pick. But i think that's where the problem is and the roster is fine.
I've done the exercise, dialed up the draft history. i don't think anyone has the job that Gettleman has done with late picks. NOONE!
83% of the top fifty picks each year are successful. I think I've read that only 50% of the top ten quarterback picks make it. He is well within those parameters.
Gates, Coughlin, Tao Crowder (255th.pick and last overall), Julian Love, Shane Lemieux, Holmes, Johnson, Darius Slayton, Matt (still unproven) Piert, that's an extraordinary group over three years with many coming from the absolute end of the draft and beyond (Gates wasn't even drafted).
That tells me the problem isn't with the scouting or draft picks.
And you can do the right thing and not have it work out. Maybe that's the case with Joe Judge. Hiring a head coach is inherently risky. Successful co ordinators often don't work out; coaches that once were successful change, or profited from circumstances and don't work out.
In maybe the most competitive of all businesses, the NY Giants have won two superbowls in fifteen years. New England and the Pitts Steelers have done better and I think that's it.
This roster is darn good. if Judge can't make it, we'll have a new coach next year and he'll inherit a good roster and two top ten picks.
A nice, rational argument. Just don't include Tae Crowder. He's not an NFL starting linebacker.
Held onto TC and Reese too long, then went with the half measure of letting one go and keeping the other instead of cleaning house. Just kept the organization in neutral for a few years.
Then GM search that netted Gettleman would be hilarious if I wasn't a fan of the team. You can't argue with the record, and he was so excited to get "an adult in the room" with Shurmur. Hes now on year 4 of his first priority and its going fucking *swell*. Gettleman has been awful and even his most ardent defenders are nowhere to be found lately.
I thought they stumbled into the right hire with Judge but I don't know how you watch the product they put out the last week and still feel any sort of confidence.
I don't know about worst, but in a sadly ironic twist Mara is the biggest barrier to success this team has. And there's no getting rid of him.
Evolve or die. Unless you can find a job with NYG.
He has meddled in the most consequential decisions this org has faced in the past decade, the biggest being how and when to bench Eli Manning. Plus he is too involved in deciding which QB to select.
is this a serious post? Hard cap means he spends no more than any other team. As an owner, he's very involved with the biggest decisions (who to hire as coach and GM) and he's fucked that up quite a few times.
The Giants Way has always been strong defense with pass rushers and linebacker play, complemented with a strong running game and vertical passing. Even when it was Fassel the defense led the way with Strahan, Hammer, Sehorn, Sparks etc. The Giants since 2013 have had none of that except a few Odell plays, and this is a team with no pass rushers and no running game.
I kept it pretty simple but's that's really the nutshell. Mara changes his mind every 3 years so we end up with McAdoo, Shurmur, etc.
That's a good summary. It's easy to forget about the stadium. What a horrible "new" facility. Zero personality.
These are the posts that piss me off so much. Reese was trash? Such a brutal take.
This is pitiful
That is when the meddling started imo.
2013: scapegoat Gilbride
2014: scapegoat Fewell
2015: scapegoat Coughlin
2017: scapegoat Reese/McAdoo
All to choose a GM who was in the building prior.
This is pitiful
You’ve come to that conclusion awfully quick. Let’s see how the rest of the season shakes out. Here are the records of each after 18 games coaching:
Shurmur: 5-13
Judge: 6-12
Shurmur went on to a 2-11 start in 2019 which included a 9 game losing streak after being 2-2. That is why he was fired. Let’s see if this year includes a similar stretch of losing before making absolute statements.
Shurmur: 5-13
Judge: 6-12
Shurmur went on to a 2-11 start in 2019 which included a 9 game losing streak after being 2-2. That is why he was fired. Let’s see if this year includes a similar stretch of losing before making absolute statements.
Well,that's my opinion.This guy Judge is one of the worst coaches I've seen here.
To me the bigger issue was the Giants seemed to shift away from being a physical team that wins the lines with big play potential. Who made this decision?
After Eli carried a older diminished OL who were all great Warriors look at that 2012 draft again. Some would not have liked it but I think the wise choice would have been to cut the OL and diminished DL, take the cap hits and very heavily draft replacements in 2012, 2013 and it should have started in 2011.
Not many teams better over that time frame...
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and doesn’t meddle in football decisions. There are many worse. Do some of you even know what a team owner does?
is this a serious post? Hard cap means he spends no more than any other team. As an owner, he's very involved with the biggest decisions (who to hire as coach and GM) and he's fucked that up quite a few times.
You are aware that operating expenses exist beyond player salaries, yes?
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and doesn’t meddle in football decisions. There are many worse. Do some of you even know what a team owner does?
is this a serious post? Hard cap means he spends no more than any other team. As an owner, he's very involved with the biggest decisions (who to hire as coach and GM) and he's fucked that up quite a few times.
You are aware that operating expenses exist beyond player salaries, yes?
Is the opex differential due to operating in the NY market?
Based on the caliber of coaches behind Judge, it looks like they pay up for coaching. But I'm not sure if the analytics team/scouting system is beefed up relative to everyone else.
And I genuinely don't know. I don't have that insight.
Fantastic post.
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and doesn’t meddle in football decisions. There are many worse. Do some of you even know what a team owner does?
is this a serious post? Hard cap means he spends no more than any other team. As an owner, he's very involved with the biggest decisions (who to hire as coach and GM) and he's fucked that up quite a few times.
You are aware that operating expenses exist beyond player salaries, yes?
yup, the 4 computer guys they recently hired really shows Mara's commitment to rounding out the football operations staff. But since you brought it up - where's the evidence Mara/Tisch are outspending their counterparts?
And of course, there's the pesky matter of the last 10 years where several major decisions have been botched spectacularly.
My personal opinion is Ross had a very big influence on Reese. Reese learned under Ernie. Ernie as a great LT and then you can fill in the rest.
2004 Draft Eli, Snee
2005 Draft Webster, Tuck, Jacobs Offseason McKenzie, Plax, Pierce
Tom was the influencer of being a physical team. Snee and McKenzie are not EA type investments. Plax, big physical threat who could run block. Jacobs, big, fast and physical player.
Again, I think you have to consider the shift in philosophy when the downturn happened.
Not many teams better over that time frame...
What was John Mara's role in any of those championships?
He inherited a team with a GM, coach, and QB. The transition to the next GM was already getting underway. The only thing you can say about Mara is that he didn't fire Coughlin after 2006.
The only time Mara was forced into action, he punted on doing an actual GM search and just let the guy who was GM when took over make the hire. They botched the end of Eli's career. Botched two coaching decisions. Botched the GM decision.
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In comment 15375281 Chris in Philly said:
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and doesn’t meddle in football decisions. There are many worse. Do some of you even know what a team owner does?
is this a serious post? Hard cap means he spends no more than any other team. As an owner, he's very involved with the biggest decisions (who to hire as coach and GM) and he's fucked that up quite a few times.
You are aware that operating expenses exist beyond player salaries, yes?
yup, the 4 computer guys they recently hired really shows Mara's commitment to rounding out the football operations staff. But since you brought it up - where's the evidence Mara/Tisch are outspending their counterparts?
And of course, there's the pesky matter of the last 10 years where several major decisions have been botched spectacularly.
Complain about the stadium all you want but it is one of only two in the country that were fully privately financed. They have a huge coaching staff. Money has never gotten in the way of signing a player the coaches or GM wants. Whether you think said player is worth the money or a good signing is irrelevant. Anything the front office or coaching staff need, they get. Do you have any understanding about how some teams operate?