Do you ever have times in your life when nothing seems to be going well? I know I have and ultimately I have a few friends who I trust implicitly for good sound advice. I’m sure Mara has Friends that are very successful nfl owners like the Rooney’s for example.
Is he so prideful that he can’t or won’t toss the Giants way for a successful Steelers or Packers or whoever’s way?
I’m 75 now and running out of years i can be waiting for at least competency from my team.
I’ve already emotionally checked out as I’m sure many of you guys are. My only hope is that Mara will look in the mirror and see that he and his Giants way is the problem and he needs to ask for help from friends who are doing something right. Ugh!
Mara needs the humility and to put in the sweat to undertake a real GM search
i believe this gassed mara's head up, and made him believe he is a real football guy, and, due to arrogance and hubris and spolied rich guy entitlement, he has yet to figure out that he's not.
If he could, that's probably how John Mara would like to run the Giants. He fires people because they keep losing and he has to do something, not because he devalues continuity. Tomlin and Colbert stick around because they win more than they lose.
Of course, there are other things the Steelers and Packers do better than the Giants, but as others have said, they probably have more to do with execution than philosophy.
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Do what his dad did and find a competent, strong GM, then extract he and his family from all operational management of the team.
Technically his dad needed the commissioner to nominate George Young. His dad wanted to promote someone from Jints Central and cousin Timmy wanted Gil Brandt so they were in a bitter stalemate
Mara needs the humility and to put in the sweat to undertake a real GM search
Yup! Knew that. But my point stands as made.
Plenty of successful clubs where ownership confines itself strictly to the business part of the franchise and is hands-off on all football operations.
Who's doing that? Yes, all he did was eventually accede to Rozelle's recommendation, but he did do it. That's all I'm saying John needs to do.
Totally agree. I believe the Mara family is dumb and arrogant. Well was a nice guy but no genius by any stretch.
With those problems it's kind of hard to learn from others.
I’m sure Goodell doesn’t appreciate two terrible franchises in the media capital of the world. If I was Goodell I’d be doing a little ownership arm twisting for the good of the nfl conglomerate
This is actually funny. To continue the logic, Accorsi recommended both Reese and Gettleman and both have failed. So coming full circle, this current debacle is Pete Rozelle's fault.
Giants have never really learned to break a losing cycle and bad front office decisions. The league won’t save us this time. There are lots of football players out there who could have been Giants, and a fair number of Giants who are not football players.
If Judge gets to play out his contract he will need a real say in the next GM and the personnel people. However do the Giants have confidence that Judgencan do this? I don’t know enough to comment beyond the above.