That John Mara is considering giving up as the lead owner? He's getting up there in years, and may want to groom Chris to take over.
It does bring up the issue of succession, if something did happen to JM. Would there be a power struggle between Chris and Tim, or would the NFL have to step in? Since we don't know the arrangement, it's all speculation, but an interesting one at that.
Mara should voluntarily surrender his title of Senior Vice President of Player Personnel. He can own the team. But if they are going to change things, he needs to get out of the way.
This. 1000% this. It’s especially insulting to these GMs who are interviewing if he’s interviewing them as an owner only to go back to his senior VP title to work under the GM he helped to hire. While probably undermining the new GM. Just get out of the way, drop the position and avoid all of that bullshit.
It would be a million times worse to say one thing to the candidate in an interview and not have CM in the room to hear it and not be sure that everyone's understanding is the same. You people are nuts. For all the reasons concerning the lack of clarity over his position and the situation is 1000% of the reason Chris Mara HAS to be in the room. You are out of your mind if you don't see that.
I don't understand either. No one here knows what it takes to run an NFL team yet everyone is an expert in GM interviews and who should and should not be conducting him?
I'm not sure I would interview for the job if Chris Mara were to retain his job title.
Who is the GM?
Eric we will find out, if the Giants are able to land one of the top candidates, Schoen, Horitz, Peters, Poles, then IMO it will be because they are given complete control. There is no way that any of those four are going to pass on other jobs to work under Chris Mara.
Mara should voluntarily surrender his title of Senior Vice President of Player Personnel. He can own the team. But if they are going to change things, he needs to get out of the way.
This. 1000% this. It’s especially insulting to these GMs who are interviewing if he’s interviewing them as an owner only to go back to his senior VP title to work under the GM he helped to hire. While probably undermining the new GM. Just get out of the way, drop the position and avoid all of that bullshit.
It would be a million times worse to say one thing to the candidate in an interview and not have CM in the room to hear it and not be sure that everyone's understanding is the same. You people are nuts. For all the reasons concerning the lack of clarity over his position and the situation is 1000% of the reason Chris Mara HAS to be in the room. You are out of your mind if you don't see that.
They COULD and SHOULD, however, move him OUT of the personnel department, and give him another job or jobs that don't relate to personnel. He should be doing "ownership stuff," Give him half whatever John's duties are that aren't personnel related.
RE: Ownership shouldn't have a view on building a roster?
10 years from now, Jimmy will be wondering why the Giants are still a joke.
If they hire a GM who is not aligned with ownership thinking, there are going to me MORE conflicts, more ownership involvement, not less. You can dislike Maras all you want, but those are the facts. They have made many mistakes, no one is denying that. But having Chris Mara there in the interview to discuss the matter and clarify is a no brainer. Sorry, it just is.
RE: Ownership shouldn't have a view on building a roster?
The big mistakes were leaving Reese on the job too long. Replacing Coughlin with McAdoo. Replacing McAdoo with Shurmur. Replacing Reese with Gettleman. Replacing Shurmur with Judge. Leaving Gettleman on the job too long.
Within each of these were poor drafts, poor CAP use, and poor trades.
The consistent individual behind all these mistakes is John Mara. The other individual was Accorsi with regard to Gettleman. I don’t know what Chris Mara, Petit, Abrams, and others had on these moves but clearly John Mara has taken on football roles he is clearly not qualified to,make. Now, he says he’ll hire the GM and presumably get out of the way and act the way other owners act who own successful franchises. He has to get this one right and then do what he says he’ll do. Who knows?
And then give that GM absolute authority over football decisions. That's what they did when they hired George Young in 1979, and they did that because Young would not take the job otherwise.
RE: RE: Ownership shouldn't have a view on building a roster?
Tim Chris Mara was born in March of 1957. He is no “spring chicken”. By comparison John Mara was born in December 1954. That is a 3 year difference which is not much. Is there any speculation that Chris Mara is going to succeed John? Really? IDTS.
I suspect one of the other siblings or a nephew/ other will ultimately follow. So why I bring this up?
Because Chris presently appears to be above the position of GM. And he is involved with scouting. His history bio includes arena football and supposedly offering a ‘service’ to up to 15 other NFL franchises. Nuf said on that.
I agree with Eric, that is, where is the ‘stellar performance’? How can anyone objectively evaluate Chris’ performance other than looking at the poor results of drafts and on the field? It is a mystery to me.
Should he be included in the interview process? No problem for me. Maybe he is the heir apparent to John, who knows?
As long as the interviewing is two way (in the management world, we would call it a “360 degree interview”). The perspective GM candidates should be allowed, that is, encouraged to ask questions of all the interviewers including Chris and get to specifics on the scouting and draft process and his (Chris’) role. That would be fair.
Meanwhile, I am not going to hyperventilate. If none of these perspective, high quality candidates actually is hired, then I can only draw one conclusion. A new candidate with ties to the Maras, Belichick or Parcells will be what concerns me.
It does bring up the issue of succession, if something did happen to JM. Would there be a power struggle between Chris and Tim, or would the NFL have to step in? Since we don't know the arrangement, it's all speculation, but an interesting one at that.
If I’m GM my first question is do I report to Chris.
And who do you raise that question to?
Chris
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Mara should voluntarily surrender his title of Senior Vice President of Player Personnel. He can own the team. But if they are going to change things, he needs to get out of the way.
This. 1000% this. It’s especially insulting to these GMs who are interviewing if he’s interviewing them as an owner only to go back to his senior VP title to work under the GM he helped to hire. While probably undermining the new GM. Just get out of the way, drop the position and avoid all of that bullshit.
It would be a million times worse to say one thing to the candidate in an interview and not have CM in the room to hear it and not be sure that everyone's understanding is the same. You people are nuts. For all the reasons concerning the lack of clarity over his position and the situation is 1000% of the reason Chris Mara HAS to be in the room. You are out of your mind if you don't see that.
I don't understand either. No one here knows what it takes to run an NFL team yet everyone is an expert in GM interviews and who should and should not be conducting him?
I'm not sure I would interview for the job if Chris Mara were to retain his job title.
Who is the GM?
Eric we will find out, if the Giants are able to land one of the top candidates, Schoen, Horitz, Peters, Poles, then IMO it will be because they are given complete control. There is no way that any of those four are going to pass on other jobs to work under Chris Mara.
He was not part of the interview process last time, and this time he is.
The candidates get to ask about hierarchy directly to the source.
This is a great development.
Schoen
Horitz
Peters
Poles
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He is the Senior Vice President of Player Personnel on the worst team in the NFL. He has been directly involved in the franchise becoming a joke.
He's not "just an owner."
Let me ask you this. In your view, would it be a good thing or a bad thing to hire a GM who is aligned with ownership's thinking?
Bad thing
1) ownership shouldn't have a view on how to build a roster
2) it doesn't allow for any serious self evaluation
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Mara should voluntarily surrender his title of Senior Vice President of Player Personnel. He can own the team. But if they are going to change things, he needs to get out of the way.
This. 1000% this. It’s especially insulting to these GMs who are interviewing if he’s interviewing them as an owner only to go back to his senior VP title to work under the GM he helped to hire. While probably undermining the new GM. Just get out of the way, drop the position and avoid all of that bullshit.
It would be a million times worse to say one thing to the candidate in an interview and not have CM in the room to hear it and not be sure that everyone's understanding is the same. You people are nuts. For all the reasons concerning the lack of clarity over his position and the situation is 1000% of the reason Chris Mara HAS to be in the room. You are out of your mind if you don't see that.
I'm on board with this line of thinking.
They COULD and SHOULD, however, move him OUT of the personnel department, and give him another job or jobs that don't relate to personnel. He should be doing "ownership stuff," Give him half whatever John's duties are that aren't personnel related.
How's that working out for the Giants?
10 years from now, Jimmy will be wondering why the Giants are still a joke.
But it’s different people than last time. Was it obvious Chris Mara would be there?
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It’s crystal clear part of that organizational change includes Chris getting a seat at the big kids table.
If I’m GM my first question is do I report to Chris.
And who do you raise that question to?
Chris
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a view?
How's that working out for the Giants?
10 years from now, Jimmy will be wondering why the Giants are still a joke.
If they hire a GM who is not aligned with ownership thinking, there are going to me MORE conflicts, more ownership involvement, not less. You can dislike Maras all you want, but those are the facts. They have made many mistakes, no one is denying that. But having Chris Mara there in the interview to discuss the matter and clarify is a no brainer. Sorry, it just is.
absolutely not.
If the GM wants to build greatest show on turf 2.0 or recreate the 85 bears, it shouldn't matter as long as he produces wins.
Within each of these were poor drafts, poor CAP use, and poor trades.
The consistent individual behind all these mistakes is John Mara. The other individual was Accorsi with regard to Gettleman. I don’t know what Chris Mara, Petit, Abrams, and others had on these moves but clearly John Mara has taken on football roles he is clearly not qualified to,make. Now, he says he’ll hire the GM and presumably get out of the way and act the way other owners act who own successful franchises. He has to get this one right and then do what he says he’ll do. Who knows?
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a view?
absolutely not.
If the GM wants to build greatest show on turf 2.0 or recreate the 85 bears, it shouldn't matter as long as he produces wins.
I disagree. I think it's fine to express views and make his key decision-makers support theirs.
I suspect one of the other siblings or a nephew/ other will ultimately follow. So why I bring this up?
Because Chris presently appears to be above the position of GM. And he is involved with scouting. His history bio includes arena football and supposedly offering a ‘service’ to up to 15 other NFL franchises. Nuf said on that.
I agree with Eric, that is, where is the ‘stellar performance’? How can anyone objectively evaluate Chris’ performance other than looking at the poor results of drafts and on the field? It is a mystery to me.
Should he be included in the interview process? No problem for me. Maybe he is the heir apparent to John, who knows?
As long as the interviewing is two way (in the management world, we would call it a “360 degree interview”). The perspective GM candidates should be allowed, that is, encouraged to ask questions of all the interviewers including Chris and get to specifics on the scouting and draft process and his (Chris’) role. That would be fair.
Meanwhile, I am not going to hyperventilate. If none of these perspective, high quality candidates actually is hired, then I can only draw one conclusion. A new candidate with ties to the Maras, Belichick or Parcells will be what concerns me.