Mike Garafolo
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Meanwhile, the #Giants have not begun a search for a new defensive coordinator and don't plan to do so as of right now, sources say. They want Wink Martindale to be their DC unless and until he resigns. So the standoff continues.
The attorneys will figure this out like adults, because Daboll and Martindale can't.
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But I’m sure teams do this ALL THE TIME. There is no way to know what is going on “behind the scenes” and extremely difficult to prove tampering charges unless it’s so obvious. If it were, there would be a plethora of tampering charges each year.
Your second assumption is based on your first assumption.
There really isn't anything to support that teams are regularly tampering with coaches that are under contract, especially considering that they would only likely do so when they have vacancies of their own, and those vacancies tend to be rather high profile, and usually happen immediately after the season concludes.
Besides, what would be the benefit of reaching out to a coach that's under contract if you still need permission from his current team to hire him anyway? Why risk the tampering charges just to do things out of order?
If your assumptions were valid, the scenario you'd see play out would be coaches getting fired at some point after the initial wave of "Black Monday" terminations, with very quick backfills from other staffs, because ultimately what you're describing is a situation where a team would be determining whether an desirable upgrade even exists before pulling the plug on the incumbent in that role.
Do you see that scenario happening with any frequency? I can't think of many (if any) instances that fit.
I understand and of course I am making an assumption but I think it goes on in more subtle ways like the "asking for a friend" scenario. There are just so many ways that an agent/rep can get around this similar to the Rooney Rule. I just don't think I am being naive here.
This is going to end badly for Wink.
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In comment 16357373 TyreeHelmet said:
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Garafolo is such a Giants mouthpiece. They don’t want Wink back.
Not even close to true.
You think the Giants want Wink back? Or that Garafolo isn’t a mouthpiece for the Giants?
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In comment 16357402 Joey in VA said:
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In comment 16357373 TyreeHelmet said:
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Garafolo is such a Giants mouthpiece. They don’t want Wink back.
Not even close to true.
You think the Giants want Wink back? Or that Garafolo isn’t a mouthpiece for the Giants?
The mouthpiece part. He's agenda less for the most part, he reports what he's told by people he trusts.
But that report was complete bullshit and a lie. A national reporter like Garafolo obviously knew that, he was just putting out that BS as a favor...