"It has been a long time since the Giants were any good"
Jul 9, 2022 12:25:18 GMT -5
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Post by EddieNYG on Jul 9, 2022 12:25:18 GMT -5
Yahoo! Sports | 2022 NFL Preview: It has been a long time since the Giants were any good by Frank Schwab (7/8/2022)
We like to think of the New York Giants as a blue blood NFL franchise. They've been around since the early years. They have four Lombardi Trophies. Some great players are part of Giants lore.
The truth is, it has been a while since the Giants did anything to be proud about.
Since Feb. 5, 2012, they haven't won a playoff game (though that was a big win, in the Super Bowl over Tom Brady's New England Patriots). They've been to the playoffs only once since then, and they got blown out in the wild-card round. In 19 of the past 21 seasons, the Giants didn't win a playoff game. The two Super Bowl runs with Eli Manning have given the Giants a pass that other dysfunctional franchises like the Washington Commanders and New York Jets don't get.
In the 10-plus years that have passed since the Giants' last playoff win, they've made miserable decisions at every turn. Whether it's hiring the wrong coaches, giving Dave Gettleman too long as general manager, botching the benching of Manning and not knowing how to properly regroup from that, screwing up draft picks, overpaying free-agent busts or even blowing a goodwill gesture to give Pepsi to fans, the Giants have been a debacle.
“I kept thinking during the season that we hit rock bottom and then each week it got a little worse,” Giants co-owner John Mara said when asked if the end of last season was the most embarrassing point in his 67 years around the team, via NJ.com. “I’m not proud of saying this, but if I’m going to be 100% honest, I would have to say the answer is yes.”
The only hope is that a new regime figures a way out of the mess. Former Buffalo Bills offensive coordinator Brian Daboll was hired to replace Joe Judge, whose second year was punctuated by him curiously running quarterback sneaks and punting in the season finale, a sign he'd quit on the team. The new GM replacing the retired Gettleman is Joe Schoen, who like Daboll comes from a suddenly successful Bills organization.
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The truth is, it has been a while since the Giants did anything to be proud about.
Since Feb. 5, 2012, they haven't won a playoff game (though that was a big win, in the Super Bowl over Tom Brady's New England Patriots). They've been to the playoffs only once since then, and they got blown out in the wild-card round. In 19 of the past 21 seasons, the Giants didn't win a playoff game. The two Super Bowl runs with Eli Manning have given the Giants a pass that other dysfunctional franchises like the Washington Commanders and New York Jets don't get.
In the 10-plus years that have passed since the Giants' last playoff win, they've made miserable decisions at every turn. Whether it's hiring the wrong coaches, giving Dave Gettleman too long as general manager, botching the benching of Manning and not knowing how to properly regroup from that, screwing up draft picks, overpaying free-agent busts or even blowing a goodwill gesture to give Pepsi to fans, the Giants have been a debacle.
“I kept thinking during the season that we hit rock bottom and then each week it got a little worse,” Giants co-owner John Mara said when asked if the end of last season was the most embarrassing point in his 67 years around the team, via NJ.com. “I’m not proud of saying this, but if I’m going to be 100% honest, I would have to say the answer is yes.”
The only hope is that a new regime figures a way out of the mess. Former Buffalo Bills offensive coordinator Brian Daboll was hired to replace Joe Judge, whose second year was punctuated by him curiously running quarterback sneaks and punting in the season finale, a sign he'd quit on the team. The new GM replacing the retired Gettleman is Joe Schoen, who like Daboll comes from a suddenly successful Bills organization.
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