I'm not sure there is any precedent for this, but it's likely Belichick will be sought after within the division after the season. Probably Dallas and maybe Philly. Dallas lost 44-19 today at home to the Saints. We'll see what happens with the Eagles.
I know a lot here want no part of Belichick because of his age. However, if you do want him - wouldn't it be best to get him in the building asap if he'd be open to it? He can get a head start on evaluation and have a head start into the offseason.
Again, I have no idea if it's even possible. But, being proactive could help secure him.
I will excitedly admit I am wrong if BB (or anyone) comes in here outside of the traditional structure to which this organization clings.
his 2021 and 2022 classes look ok too even though they aren't yet in the chart because they havent yet hit UFA (barmore, stevenson, the jones').
I will excitedly admit I am wrong if BB (or anyone) comes in here outside of the traditional structure to which this organization clings.
i dont trust john mara to do the smartest thing, but i think there's a reasonable chance he does the desperate and easy thing - which in this case happens to be the right thing.
when ernie was still with it, he had no problem hiring him to help advise on searches. when he wasn't, he went outside that. i dont know what belichick prefers but i think whatever it is mara should be desperate enough to give it to him.
in a perfect world i actually would prefer that he is more the president/GM big picture guy and Daboll does enough in his eyes to remain as HC because I like Daboll, and i think he and BB have complimentary skill sets. Daboll appears pretty good with Qbs but bad at roster management and defense - the 2 things belichick is great at. But belichick may want to be a coach so he can go for the record. id give him whatever he wants and total control, and whatever that is i think it'd be appealing to him to be able to start asap and get a jump on his 2025 offseason by possibly cashing in anyone he doesnt want at the trade deadline.
Belichick could end up with five Hall of Famers he drafted. Seymour is in. Brady will be in. Gronk will be in.
Chandler Jones has a very good chance of getting in. And so does Wilfork. Edelman might have an interesting case, too.
Joe Thuney is a great G that he drafted.
I know he went sideways, but Hernandez was a terrific TE.
I think one of his strengths has been OL and DB
At OL, he's picked Thuney, Mason, Solder (he was good before he came to NYG), Mankins, Light, Andrews, Vollmer, Stork, etc.
At DB, he picked Samuel, Hobbs, Meriweather, Chung, McCourty, Ryan, Harmon, Butler. And I think these young guys Dugger and Gonzalez are going to be valuable pieces for Mayo going forward.
But there are more good players I could name. I just don't think accurate or fair to say he was a terrible drafter. It's just not true.
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Belichik was always good at acquiring picks but he was a terrible drafter. He was very good at spotting undervalued veteran players that he could fit into his system, so guys would come there and excel after being mediocre elsewhere. But his drafts were bad.
Belichick could end up with five Hall of Famers he drafted. Seymour is in. Brady will be in. Gronk will be in.
Chandler Jones has a very good chance of getting in. And so does Wilfork. Edelman might have an interesting case, too.
Joe Thuney is a great G that he drafted.
I know he went sideways, but Hernandez was a terrific TE.
I think one of his strengths has been OL and DB
At OL, he's picked Thuney, Mason, Solder (he was good before he came to NYG), Mankins, Light, Andrews, Vollmer, Stork, etc.
At DB, he picked Samuel, Hobbs, Meriweather, Chung, McCourty, Ryan, Harmon, Butler. And I think these young guys Dugger and Gonzalez are going to be valuable pieces for Mayo going forward.
But there are more good players I could name. I just don't think accurate or fair to say he was a terrible drafter. It's just not true.
you can also add jc jackson, malcolm butler, jack jones, marcus jones, onwenu who just got a big contract, and barmore who they just extended. his poor drafting is way overstated.
i can understand preferring vrabel because he is younger and was also successful. and is the exact same style coach.
but he also brings zero GM/FO experience to the table and his track record drafting (albeit as HC not GM) is even shoddier than belichick's. remember isaiah wilson that OT who crapped out of the NFL right away? vrabel drafted him in the first round. and caleb farley. and treylon burks. his qb picks of levis and willis werent great either.
so i think my conclusion is if they are going in that direction anyway, why not go for the original? why not go for the guy who has the skillset to totally change the way the entire football ops works? and whose program has a history of helping teach effective head coaches (including Vrabel himself)?
I'd still do this mid season move though. If we are going to suck, we might as well do some weird of crazy stuff.
This will probably replace “Smart, Tough, Dependable” on all of the walls in the facility.
I'd still do this mid season move though. If we are going to suck, we might as well do some weird of crazy stuff.
by what credible measure are you considering BB's teams "one of the worst teams in the nfl"? 1 bad season where he made a really arrogant decision to try to let patricia/judge dress up as offensive coordinators and scored the least points in the NFL (other than carolina)?
if you look at the points against column his defenses were quite good each of the last 4 seasons. nyg gave up 407 last year, 371 the year before, and 416 the year before that.
Whatever the case, my expectation is the Giants cobble some meaningless wins together after Halloween and they run it back with everyone.
But yeah this is me saying hell yeah I'm on board for Belichick if he's an option.
And his drafting did decline once he parted ways with Ernie Adams as his shadow GM.
Nonetheless, he'd be a marked improvement over what we have now.
Whatever the case, my expectation is the Giants cobble some meaningless wins together after Halloween and they run it back with everyone.
But yeah this is me saying hell yeah I'm on board for Belichick if he's an option.
No he would not have ignored the kicker situation, absolutely not. Probably would have had the punter kickoff and saved Gano for points attempts - at worst.
Then again, for two or three years(probably more) he refused to get Brady legit NFL WRs. So one(two with last year) game(s) malfeasance vs a few seasons.....You cannot ignore his bullheaded refusal to get Brady weapons.
9-19-1 since the 6-1 start in 2022.
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Mara’s not going to fire them and do this all over again. At least not yet.
9-19-1 since the 6-1 start in 2022.
Yes because the 6-1 start doesn't count.....
Right now this place is where coaches and free agents come if they want to commit career suicide. Bill does not care about that but it is an indication of what Bill will be dealing with
It is not the same organization that Bill remembers. Back then it was a team run by a professional in George Young. Now we are back to the Mara run nightmare that some of us lived through in the 70's
That's really all that matters
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Mara’s not going to fire them and do this all over again. At least not yet.
9-19-1 since the 6-1 start in 2022.
Yes because the 6-1 start doesn't count.....
It doesn’t. That was almost two years ago at this point
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Would Belichick have treated the kicking game with the neglect and disrespect that Daboll did today?
Whatever the case, my expectation is the Giants cobble some meaningless wins together after Halloween and they run it back with everyone.
But yeah this is me saying hell yeah I'm on board for Belichick if he's an option.
No he would not have ignored the kicker situation, absolutely not. Probably would have had the punter kickoff and saved Gano for points attempts - at worst.
Then again, for two or three years(probably more) he refused to get Brady legit NFL WRs. So one(two with last year) game(s) malfeasance vs a few seasons.....You cannot ignore his bullheaded refusal to get Brady weapons.
? he had gronk/edelman the entire time brady was there at the end, before that obviously the welker/moss years. jakobi meyers was even a solid edelman replacement he found right before edelman retired.
his worst offseason was the year he signed agholor, henry, jonu smith and drafted nkeal harry/tyquan thornton, so yes at the end he failed at getting good weapons but it wasnt a bullheaded refusal. he just made some bad picks (which are fair game to criticize, just as it is fair game to criticize his arrogant appointment of judge/patricia to OC). he is not an offensive genius and that would be the area where you'd hope he is coming in with some kind of better plan and learning from what went wrong in NE.
but aside from that he'd be coming in as a major upgrade literally everywhere else. defense, special teams, draft, game management, roster management, etc. with BB sam darnold doesnt shred them like montana and they win yesterday just bc they avoid the kicker fiasco.
If we change coaches I'd want a younger guy who can relate to the players more. I like Vrabel, or someone like him
So, he looked like a very good prospect in their pipeline. But he suffered a knee injury that never healed properly, and he had to retire after two years.
THAT was our mistake. He was there and we wiffed.
So, he looked like a very good prospect in their pipeline. But he suffered a knee injury that never healed properly, and he had to retire after two years.
he also found jakobi meyers as a UDFA in 2019 and last year demorio douglas.
you can definitely look at his draft resume and find some bad early picks (like nkeal harry in that same year, 2019) but for every bad early pick he had he also consistently found quality players later on. jonathan jones and marcus jones are both quality corners he found outside rounds 1/2. last year they tagged dugger and gave onwenu a ton of $. godchaux, barmore, bentley too.
the numbers dont lie he was a solid drafter.
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Mara’s not going to fire them and do this all over again. At least not yet.
9-19-1 since the 6-1 start in 2022.
Yes because the 6-1 start doesn't count.....
It's evident now that that start was a mixture of luck (both scheduling and on the field) and the league not having film on what the Giants were doing.
What I'm not seeing from the people knocking Belichick - who's a better option? I'll buy Vrabel, but after that I don't see any obvious better choices.
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is Malcom Mitchell. He was their 4th round pick in 2016 and steadily improved his rookie year. He even played a big role in the Super Bowl comeback against ATL with 6 catches/70 yards.
So, he looked like a very good prospect in their pipeline. But he suffered a knee injury that never healed properly, and he had to retire after two years.
he also found jakobi meyers as a UDFA in 2019 and last year demorio douglas.
you can definitely look at his draft resume and find some bad early picks (like nkeal harry in that same year, 2019) but for every bad early pick he had he also consistently found quality players later on. jonathan jones and marcus jones are both quality corners he found outside rounds 1/2. last year they tagged dugger and gave onwenu a ton of $. godchaux, barmore, bentley too.
the numbers dont lie he was a solid drafter.
Based on his drafting, the way he used free agency, and the way he moved players before their expiration dates (Seymour, Malloy, etc), a sound argument can be made that BB is the best GM of all-time, especially in the cap era.
The real reason he is getting this heavy criticism is the struggle to replace Brady. The Cam Newton experiment failed. Mac Jones fell apart. Zappe wasn't the answer. Etc.
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Mara’s not going to fire them and do this all over again. At least not yet.
9-19-1 since the 6-1 start in 2022.
Yes because the 6-1 start doesn't count.....
It's evident now that that start was a mixture of luck (both scheduling and on the field) and the league not having film on what the Giants were doing.
What I'm not seeing from the people knocking Belichick - who's a better option? I'll buy Vrabel, but after that I don't see any obvious better choices.
I'm not knocking the concept of brining them in, it's the whole mid-season component of it in the OP. It would be fairly unprecedented, and take a lot of conviction by the FO - neither which instills a lot of confidence.
The chaos of having a new system, a coach trying to bring in new coaches over the last half of the season, it just seems infeasible.
The more likely scenario would be if the Giants fire Daboll before the end of the season would be to elevate an assistant coach and then hire BB or Vrabel the second the season ends.
It’s mind blogging. It’s basically the same as the insanely hot chick but weird thumbs.
Belichick is literally the best coach in history. We are fucking fortunate to even have a shot at him. He can coach 4 years or more if in good health, right the ship, set up a proper succession plan, and finish at HOME with the Giants as the all-time winningest coach in history. THAT would be a storybook ending for Bill and for us, a storybook beginning.
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Mara’s not going to fire them and do this all over again. At least not yet.
9-19-1 since the 6-1 start in 2022.
Yes because the 6-1 start doesn't count.....
It's evident now that that start was a mixture of luck (both scheduling and on the field) and the league not having film on what the Giants were doing.
What I'm not seeing from the people knocking Belichick - who's a better option? I'll buy Vrabel, but after that I don't see any obvious better choices.
this is the age old problem that applies to everywhere a bad team is bad, but especially the most important positions. there are rarely any readily available, obvious, better options.
right now is the exception to that with both BB and Vrabel out there, and for many even that's not good enough because there's a unicorn they cant name hiding somewhere. and after 10 years of strikeouts john mara is due to find it!
He cannot be unilaterally brought in from the outside as GM or head coach without a competitive process that adheres to the Rooney rules.
And if he's brought in at an executive or leadership level he'll never be able to be GM or coach.
Even if Mara went full fuck you to the league, imagine the blowback if Belichick the executive hires Belichick to be GM or head coach.
The right answer is the Giants will conduct a normal hiring process at the conclusion of the season.
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is Malcom Mitchell. He was their 4th round pick in 2016 and steadily improved his rookie year. He even played a big role in the Super Bowl comeback against ATL with 6 catches/70 yards.
So, he looked like a very good prospect in their pipeline. But he suffered a knee injury that never healed properly, and he had to retire after two years.
he also found jakobi meyers as a UDFA in 2019 and last year demorio douglas.
you can definitely look at his draft resume and find some bad early picks (like nkeal harry in that same year, 2019) but for every bad early pick he had he also consistently found quality players later on. jonathan jones and marcus jones are both quality corners he found outside rounds 1/2. last year they tagged dugger and gave onwenu a ton of $. godchaux, barmore, bentley too.
the numbers dont lie he was a solid drafter.
Based on his drafting, the way he used free agency, and the way he moved players before their expiration dates (Seymour, Malloy, etc), a sound argument can be made that BB is the best GM of all-time, especially in the cap era.
The real reason he is getting this heavy criticism is the struggle to replace Brady. The Cam Newton experiment failed. Mac Jones fell apart. Zappe wasn't the answer. Etc.
i'm no mcdaniels fan, but in mac's rookie year he got a pro bowl year and 10 wins out of him. that got mcdaniels the head coaching job in vegas.
so even post-brady, it's not like Belichick's drafting/development/offense was all awful. we have seen many good head coaches have trouble replacing their successful coordinators before. even in 2022 with mac regressing under BOB, they went 8-9. Not awful. If our current regime did that this year we'd be largely impressed by that!
where belichick can rightly get criticized for arrogance was the patricia/judge thing last year. that was a joke. it was basically him driving around bob krafts favorite strip mall with a lomardi trophy tied behind the car. and that directly led to his only season since 2000 under 7 wins. somehow that 1 season (and i guess the doc) has voided everything he ever accomplished. terrible gm, ruined the NE franchise (which isnt ruined and is run entirely by people he hired), etc.
He cannot be unilaterally brought in from the outside as GM or head coach without a competitive process that adheres to the Rooney rules.
And if he's brought in at an executive or leadership level he'll never be able to be GM or coach.
Even if Mara went full fuck you to the league, imagine the blowback if Belichick the executive hires Belichick to be GM or head coach.
The right answer is the Giants will conduct a normal hiring process at the conclusion of the season.
nothing is stopping john mara from hiring him as a consultant right now. or naming him chief strategy officer like paul depodesta in cleveland. they have a gm and they have a head coach, there is no need to run searches on either of those 2 positions.
and if the day after that they wanted to fire daboll, im pretty sure they can hire whoever they want as interim coach without any process. that's exactly how the colts hhired jeff saturday in-season despite having 0 prior coaching experience. he had a relationship with irsay, history with the team, and had some kind of prior consulting relationship.
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I posted this in a subsequent thread, the reason Belichick will not be hired mid-season is the absolute mess it would make of the fair hiring practices requirements.
He cannot be unilaterally brought in from the outside as GM or head coach without a competitive process that adheres to the Rooney rules.
And if he's brought in at an executive or leadership level he'll never be able to be GM or coach.
Even if Mara went full fuck you to the league, imagine the blowback if Belichick the executive hires Belichick to be GM or head coach.
The right answer is the Giants will conduct a normal hiring process at the conclusion of the season.
nothing is stopping john mara from hiring him as a consultant right now. or naming him chief strategy officer like paul depodesta in cleveland. they have a gm and they have a head coach, there is no need to run searches on either of those 2 positions.
and if the day after that they wanted to fire daboll, im pretty sure they can hire whoever they want as interim coach without any process. that's exactly how the colts hhired jeff saturday in-season despite having 0 prior coaching experience. he had a relationship with irsay, history with the team, and had some kind of prior consulting relationship.
I don't think the way Irsay runs his franchise is even comparable to what Mara would do. Hiring BB right now as a consultant would be extremely undermining for both Schoen and Daboll and I can't ever see Mara doing that. Just look at how they let DG ride off into the sunset.
He cannot be unilaterally brought in from the outside as GM or head coach without a competitive process that adheres to the Rooney rules.
And if he's brought in at an executive or leadership level he'll never be able to be GM or coach.
Even if Mara went full fuck you to the league, imagine the blowback if Belichick the executive hires Belichick to be GM or head coach.
The right answer is the Giants will conduct a normal hiring process at the conclusion of the season.
nothing is stopping john mara from hiring him as a consultant right now. or naming him chief strategy officer like paul depodesta in cleveland. they have a gm and they have a head coach, there is no need to run searches on either of those 2 positions.
and if the day after that they wanted to fire daboll, im pretty sure they can hire whoever they want as interim coach without any process. that's exactly how the colts hhired jeff saturday in-season despite having 0 prior coaching experience. he had a relationship with irsay, history with the team, and had some kind of prior consulting relationship.
To be clear, yes, technically the Giants can bring in an interim candidate mid-year and not be subject to the Rooney rules. I believe as part of a transition from interim to permanent those rules would then apply. In practicality, that would create a shit storm and a mess for the Giants. Imagine the blowback in these two scenarios:
1) The Giants fire Daboll and/or Schoen and either is replaced in an interim capacity by a guy who is likely to be subpoenaed in a current legal action re: violation of fair hiring practices
2) The Giants hire Belichick in an executive or consultative capacity and then he hires himself as GM or head coach
I don't think the way Irsay runs his franchise is even comparable to what Mara would do. Hiring BB right now as a consultant would be extremely undermining for both Schoen and Daboll and I can't ever see Mara doing that. Just look at how they let DG ride off into the sunset.
right because hiring jeff saturday who has never coached a game before at any level and bill belichick who is the winningest coach of the modern era are exactly the same thing.
you know what's extremely undermining to schoen/daboll? making excuses about injury luck when their active roster easily could have had a 2nd kicker on it but they made an elementary mistake that cost their players a win for the 2nd time in the last 10 games played.
if im mara im not worried about undermining them when they are already doing a bang up job by themselves.
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I don't think the way Irsay runs his franchise is even comparable to what Mara would do. Hiring BB right now as a consultant would be extremely undermining for both Schoen and Daboll and I can't ever see Mara doing that. Just look at how they let DG ride off into the sunset.
right because hiring jeff saturday who has never coached a game before at any level and bill belichick who is the winningest coach of the modern era are exactly the same thing.
you know what's extremely undermining to schoen/daboll? making excuses about injury luck when their active roster easily could have had a 2nd kicker on it but they made an elementary mistake that cost their players a win for the 2nd time in the last 10 games played.
if im mara im not worried about undermining them when they are already doing a bang up job by themselves.
When did I ever compare BB to Jeff Saturday? You are the one who is using the Colt's decision to hire Saturday as justification to hire BB now.
All I am saying is that the Colt's decision was fairly unpredented by an owner who has some personal issues and that is not the way the Giants operate.
Why would the Giants do this when they can just hire him in the off-season and side step all in the in-season drama it would cause? What tactical advantage would it give them? They would be doing a reboot in 2025 off-season anyway under BB.
1) The Giants fire Daboll and/or Schoen and either is replaced in an interim capacity by a guy who is likely to be subpoenaed in a current legal action re: violation of fair hiring practices
2) The Giants hire Belichick in an executive or consultative capacity and then he hires himself as GM or head coach
hire him as a consultant and go from there.
if they can get an hour long zoom with him on saturdays that helps stop making kindergarten level mistakes like the kicker fiasco so they win a few more games, maybe nobody gets fired at all and there are no searches.
if circumstances dictate that he becomes an interim this year, which i doubt would happen because there's no point and he'd probably rather "soft tank" to set himself with as much draft value as possible for next year, then so be it. after the season you fire whoever you need to fire and conduct a full search that complies with all rules. of course it'd be pretty close to certain that he's going to be hired in some capacity but that doesn't break any rules. maybe he'd prefer at that point to be GM and hire his buddy Vrabel as head coach, or maybe he'd prefer to stay on as coach only and hire one of his other buddies as GM? unless anyone can crawl inside his head we dont even know what his ideal role is going forward wherever he lands, beyond probably wanting final say. just take away his phone and dont let him send any text messages.
Hiring Belichick, in the midst of an unsettled legal action against the Giants where Belichick might be featured prominently, is not a good move.
If the upside is a jump start on the trade deadline, and the downside is a PR nightmare and potentially disqualifying him as GM or coach of the future, it's an easy decision.
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I don't think the way Irsay runs his franchise is even comparable to what Mara would do. Hiring BB right now as a consultant would be extremely undermining for both Schoen and Daboll and I can't ever see Mara doing that. Just look at how they let DG ride off into the sunset.
right because hiring jeff saturday who has never coached a game before at any level and bill belichick who is the winningest coach of the modern era are exactly the same thing.
you know what's extremely undermining to schoen/daboll? making excuses about injury luck when their active roster easily could have had a 2nd kicker on it but they made an elementary mistake that cost their players a win for the 2nd time in the last 10 games played.
if im mara im not worried about undermining them when they are already doing a bang up job by themselves.
When did I ever compare BB to Jeff Saturday? You are the one who is using the Colt's decision to hire Saturday as justification to hire BB now.
All I am saying is that the Colt's decision was fairly unpredented by an owner who has some personal issues and that is not the way the Giants operate.
Why would the Giants do this when they can just hire him in the off-season and side step all in the in-season drama it would cause? What tactical advantage would it give them? They would be doing a reboot in 2025 off-season anyway under BB.
um right here?
and i did not use the colts situation as an example of why the giants should hire BB. there are 1 million reasons why the giants should hire BB that have nothing to do with the colts/saturday/irsay and entirely to do with football. read any of the hundred posts advocating for BB before this colts/saturday discussion came up.
i only brought up the saturday example because it clearly demonstrates that christian was wrong about any rules preventing the giants from hiring belichick.
Hiring Belichick, in the midst of an unsettled legal action against the Giants where Belichick might be featured prominently, is not a good move.
If the upside is a jump start on the trade deadline, and the downside is a PR nightmare and potentially disqualifying him as GM or coach of the future, it's an easy decision.
this alleged PR nightmare is a boogeyman inside your own head. will there be litigation? maybe. like the wink saga and the ongoing litigation it will have 0 impact on anything related to their primary business which is football. maybe 1% of giants fans will even know that it happened.
playing football as ineptly and embarrassingly as the start of this season is a PR nightmare about 10000 orders of magnitude higher than whatever legal fallout comes from hiring a coach as a consultant. the PR "nightmare" of the ongoing flores dispute (which has lasted 2.5 years) paled in comparison the the PR nightmare of the last week from his defense kicking the shit out of our offense and getting boo'd out of the stadium in their home opener. His lawsuit didn't put Joe Schoen on the hotseat, his defense did.
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I don't think the way Irsay runs his franchise is even comparable to what Mara would do. Hiring BB right now as a consultant would be extremely undermining for both Schoen and Daboll and I can't ever see Mara doing that. Just look at how they let DG ride off into the sunset.
right because hiring jeff saturday who has never coached a game before at any level and bill belichick who is the winningest coach of the modern era are exactly the same thing.
you know what's extremely undermining to schoen/daboll? making excuses about injury luck when their active roster easily could have had a 2nd kicker on it but they made an elementary mistake that cost their players a win for the 2nd time in the last 10 games played.
if im mara im not worried about undermining them when they are already doing a bang up job by themselves.
When did I ever compare BB to Jeff Saturday? You are the one who is using the Colt's decision to hire Saturday as justification to hire BB now.
All I am saying is that the Colt's decision was fairly unpredented by an owner who has some personal issues and that is not the way the Giants operate.
Why would the Giants do this when they can just hire him in the off-season and side step all in the in-season drama it would cause? What tactical advantage would it give them? They would be doing a reboot in 2025 off-season anyway under BB.
um right here?
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I don't think the way Irsay runs his franchise is even comparable to what Mara would do.
and i did not use the colts situation as an example of why the giants should hire BB. there are 1 million reasons why the giants should hire BB that have nothing to do with the colts/saturday/irsay and entirely to do with football. read any of the hundred posts advocating for BB before this colts/saturday discussion came up.
i only brought up the saturday example because it clearly demonstrates that christian was wrong about any rules preventing the giants from hiring belichick.
Irsay runs his franchise worse, ie the Saturday thing was a joke.
I am not anti-BB. I am anti-BB mid-season because it's fairly unprecedented and I don't see the real benefit of it when they can just wait 8 weeks and do it 'cleaner' without the drama.
I'm very comfortable with my view that hiring a guy who is at the center of pending lawsuit regarding hiring practices, in a way that at a minimum optically skirts and complicates adherence to the league's hiring practices, isn't something Mara will do.
It just makes the potential for long-term employment too messy.
I'll bet you a PFF screen shot this is what happens if Belichick ends up a Giant:
After the conclusion of the season
A) Belichick is hired as an executive and hires/retains the GM and coach
Or
B) Belichick interviews through conventional process for the head coach and/or GM role
Irsay runs his franchise worse, ie the Saturday thing was a joke.
I am not anti-BB. I am anti-BB mid-season because it's fairly unprecedented and I don't see the real benefit of it when they can just wait 8 weeks and do it 'cleaner' without the drama.
get busy livin or get busy dying. if they are losing every week in uniquely embarrassing fashions, what's there to lose?
daboll has worked for him before so i really dont think his presences dictates a firing. they have a relationship and it's possible belichick would come in preferring to evaluate everything before making any decisions. again nobody knows what his preferred role going forward is. he may prefer a non-sideline job and sitting in box with his new gf. who knows?
the benefit to acting now, beyond decreasing the odds they shit themselves in public again like yesterday, is that it's possible he could recoup a bunch of picks at the deadline and move on from players whom he determines to be counter productive. its possible hyatt is the new toney. isn't one of everyone biggest complaints from last year that they didnt sell barkley knowing they were likely to lose him in FA? call the chiefs today and you can probably get a 3rd for singletary. you can probably get a 2nd for thibodeaux like montez sweat last year. you may be able to get a 3rd/4th for okereke like the falcons gave up for judon. someone may give you something for slayton. a few more good games from jones, and eat enough money, who knows maybe you can ship him to Pitt or Vegas or Miami? are you trusting schoen or daboll to do any of that if their job prospects are dwindling every week? we cant even trust them to be smart enough to carry a healthy kicker.
I'm very comfortable with my view that hiring a guy who is at the center of pending lawsuit regarding hiring practices, in a way that at a minimum optically skirts and complicates adherence to the league's hiring practices, isn't something Mara will do.
It just makes the potential for long-term employment too messy.
I'll bet you a PFF screen shot this is what happens if Belichick ends up a Giant:
After the conclusion of the season
A) Belichick is hired as an executive and hires/retains the GM and coach
Or
B) Belichick interviews through conventional process for the head coach and/or GM role
i recall you disagreed with me last year around joe schoens bye week press conference when you said there was no way the giants would seriously consider drafting a QB high (they did) and then again during the wink fiasco your expert legal guidance said there was no way wink had been in breach of his contract so he wouldnt have to give up any money (he was, and he did).
the only thing i trust about you is your ability to make any thread personal about me instead of staying on the topic at hand.
the only thing i trust about you is your ability to make any thread personal about me instead of staying on the topic at hand.
Unsurprisingly you've left out the material component of my view on Martindale. My view was the Giants didn't have the legal tools to fire him and achieve an outcome where they both didn't have to pay him the remainder of his salary and could control where he coached next.
As it turned out, the Giants and Martindale settled. He was not fired, and they came to a compromise where he walked away from the money and was free to work where he pleased.
That surprised me. I thought he would fight for the money.
But if you're going to call me out for being wrong, at least be right about where I guessed wrong.
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In comment 16356755 Eric on Li said:
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The Giants should fire him. That they have to an honor a guaranteed contract and cannot control where he goes to work next, is part of the deal they made.
not sure i agree. they now probably have cause, and the way he gave them cause / his behavior prior seem unprofessional enough that he sank his own reputation. it's not a situation that looks good for anyone but wink made his bed here, nyg dont owe him anything. he played with fire and is prob gonna get burned bad.
Two separate matters 1) the mutual contractual obligations 2) the practical effect on his reputation.
If there's a clause that contemplates insubordination in his agreement, then the Giants should fire him and they'll probably win if he sues them. Seems like he's been insubordinate.
If there's not, they should fire him anyway and live by the agreement they made.
He's got zero contractual incentive to resign, lose the money owed to him, and let the Giants dictate his next move.
Reputation wise, different matter. Which you've laid out nicely.
I think similar to me, you have a bad memory and you're bad at guessing outcomes from time-to-time.
So when you invoke things like mental boogey men, straw men, or any other kind of fictional men for that matter, you end up not making much sense.
But in the spirit of getting back to the topic, what do you think the likelihood of the Giants bringing Belichick on in any capacity while the Flores lawsuit is still pending?
I think it's 0% this year.
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with your old posts that you seem to have with mine.
I think similar to me, you have a bad memory and you're bad at guessing outcomes from time-to-time.
So when you invoke things like mental boogey men, straw men, or any other kind of fictional men for that matter, you end up not making much sense.
But in the spirit of getting back to the topic, what do you think the likelihood of the Giants bringing Belichick on in any capacity while the Flores lawsuit is still pending?
I think it's 0% this year.
ill take the over.
i called your comments boogeymen because they were, or can you link me to the rooney rules against hiring belichick as a consultant, non-gm executive like president, or interim head coach right now that didnt exist for jeff saturday?
In comment 16612426 christian said:
the argument that there would be a "PR nightmare" is even weaker and more fabulist. shitting themselves on national tv weekly, especially in the nationally televised upcoming "home game" vs dallas, is a far greater pr nightmare. like the difference between an auto company getting fined for unfair hiring practices vs their cars spontaneously combusting and killing millions of their customers.
not acting in the best interest of the team on the field - their core product - solely out of an unfounded pr fear would be worse than most of the worst allegations people have about the mara's motives over the years.
i called your comments boogeymen because they were, or can you link me to the rooney rules against hiring belichick as a consultant, non-gm executive like president, or interim head coach right now that didnt exist for jeff saturday?
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He cannot be unilaterally brought in from the outside as GM or head coach without a competitive process that adheres to the Rooney rules.
You replied directly to my 11:54 AM post where we discussed that I understood the rules didn't prohibit interim hires and only applied to permanent positions, and that I was more concerned about the messiness and long term implications.
Your boogeyman comment came several posts after that exchange, so I'm a little doubtful that was the reason.
It seems like the nature of your disagreement with me is rooted in the the PR/optics/messiness side of the debate.
I very much feel it would be bad business and create more problems than it would solve -- hiring a potential witness and the driving factor in a lawsuit about unfair hiring practices. I believe that hiring would at best skirt the spirit of the rules, and at worst be rubbing it in the league's face.
Ask yourself this question: If John Mara went to Rich Hernandez today and said "Rich, what do you think about me bringing in Belichick to help run the team next week?"
I suspect the Hernandez's answer would be "You mean the guy who got us sued the last time we were hiring people to run the team? Let's figure out that lawsuit, and then bring in the guy the normal way if you really want him."