Good calls on Jones and Baker. Generally right about Lawrence’s value, even if the Harrison comp was off. Love has been OK, but not the steal they though he could be. The whiff in Round Three (Beal in the 2018 Supplemental, plus Ximines with the extra pick) looks comically bad in hindsight.
Aside from all the bad picks, Gettleman’s drafts were hampered by the absence of a sound strategic roadmap for building the team. The premise in 2018 was that the Giants could still win with Eli. 2019 was a self-deluded scramble to find a successor after Plan A imploded. By 2020, the trajectory was set, and Joe Judge wasn’t the pilot to keep that plane from hitting a cliff.
I won’t be surprised if 2021 turns out to be Dave Gettleman’s best draft - not because of Toney, Ojulari, Robinson, and Smith, but because he bequeathed the real first-round pick to the next regime and placed a partly-unintentional bet that the Giants and Bears would both continue to suck.
RE: As they admit, the “C” was generous/optimistic.
Good calls on Jones and Baker. Generally right about Lawrence’s value, even if the Harrison comp was off. Love has been OK, but not the steal they though he could be. The whiff in Round Three (Beal in the 2018 Supplemental, plus Ximines with the extra pick) looks comically bad in hindsight.
Aside from all the bad picks, Gettleman’s drafts were hampered by the absence of a sound strategic roadmap for building the team. The premise in 2018 was that the Giants could still win with Eli. 2019 was a self-deluded scramble to find a successor after Plan A imploded. By 2020, the trajectory was set, and Joe Judge wasn’t the pilot to keep that plane from hitting a cliff.
I won’t be surprised if 2021 turns out to be Dave Gettleman’s best draft - not because of Toney, Ojulari, Robinson, and Smith, but because he bequeathed the real first-round pick to the next regime and placed a partly-unintentional bet that the Giants and Bears would both continue to suck.
The strategic roadmap line is spot on, from quick fix to quick fix with no vision.
Aside from all the bad picks, Gettleman’s drafts were hampered by the absence of a sound strategic roadmap for building the team. The premise in 2018 was that the Giants could still win with Eli. 2019 was a self-deluded scramble to find a successor after Plan A imploded. By 2020, the trajectory was set, and Joe Judge wasn’t the pilot to keep that plane from hitting a cliff.
I won’t be surprised if 2021 turns out to be Dave Gettleman’s best draft - not because of Toney, Ojulari, Robinson, and Smith, but because he bequeathed the real first-round pick to the next regime and placed a partly-unintentional bet that the Giants and Bears would both continue to suck.
Aside from all the bad picks, Gettleman’s drafts were hampered by the absence of a sound strategic roadmap for building the team. The premise in 2018 was that the Giants could still win with Eli. 2019 was a self-deluded scramble to find a successor after Plan A imploded. By 2020, the trajectory was set, and Joe Judge wasn’t the pilot to keep that plane from hitting a cliff.
I won’t be surprised if 2021 turns out to be Dave Gettleman’s best draft - not because of Toney, Ojulari, Robinson, and Smith, but because he bequeathed the real first-round pick to the next regime and placed a partly-unintentional bet that the Giants and Bears would both continue to suck.
The strategic roadmap line is spot on, from quick fix to quick fix with no vision.