Cleaning House!
New York Giants: Owners John Mara and Steve Tisch Decide It's Time To Make Wholesale Changes.
John Mara confirmed what many fans like myself suspected - it was Ben McAdoo's idea to bench Eli Manning all along.
Sure, Mr. Mara acknowledged he could have easily put a stop to it, and took full responsibility for the poor manner in which things were handled. In fact, he went as far as consulting with partner Steven Tisch, and together they decided it was time to make wholesale changes!
Giants President John Mara announced on Monday Ben McAdoo and Jerry Reese have been dismissed respectively as head coach and general manager of the New York Giants.
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Heaven forbid Ben McAdoo tailor a system more suitable to Eli Manning's style.
Good coaches do that. Stubborn, ideological ones, do not.
Since his first day as offensive coordinator, Ben McAdoo has been pushing his West Coast dope on Eli Manning, and till the very end sniveled when things went badly.
McAdoo seemingly didn't have much to say last season when Eli led the Giants to an 11-5 record and a return to the playoffs. He somehow had even less to say regarding his wide receivers' ill advised trip to South Beach just before said playoff game, then offered absolutely nothing during the post-game in response to Odell turning in his worst performance as a professional.
He once again refused this season to take up issue with Beckham after infamously impersonating a dog peeing in the end zone during a game against Philadelphia. McAdoo has also steadfastly refused to acknowledge any hints of poor play on behalf of the offensive line, and tried minimizing the numerous injuries among the receivers at every turn.
Instead, McAdoo used his words to levy criticism after criticism against Eli Manning. He even seemly threw his proverbial hands in the air by handing off play calling duties to offensive coordinator Mike Sullivan. But at no time did McAdoo ever once claim responsibility for his own flawed methodology. He'd much rather have blamed Eli Manning for not carrying the Giants offense like Aaron Rogers carries that of the Packers ... when Rogers is on the field, that is.
Eli, on the other hand, started 210 straight games until Ben McAdoo stepped in.
Once the Giants were mathematically eliminated from this year's playoffs, Ben the Outsider with no real connection to Giants tradition and history, thought it wise to suggest benching the organization's greatest ever quarterback in favor of Geno Smith, or perhaps more accurately, someone better suited to play his awkward style of West Coast nonsense.
All that being said, Jerry Reese signed off on McAdoo's folly. Generally speaking, though, he put Ben McAdoo in a position to fail, just as he put Kevin Gilbride and Tom Coughlin in positions to fail during their latter days as OC and head coach of the New York Giants.
What started well for Jerry Reese has ended horribly. The organizational torch was passed to him after the 2006 season by former general manager Ernie Accorsi. After a fruitful 2007 draft the Giants promptly won a Super Bowl. Four years later Reese squeezed out the last bit of goodness from the fruits of Ernie Accorsi's labors in capturing yet another Super Bowl. After which, Jerry Reese failed to sustain the organization's competitiveness.
The Giants indeed spiraled out of relevance. Ineffective drafting, prohibitive manipulation of the salary cap, and Jerry Reese's over-reliance on free agency have cost the organization dearly. His inability to replenish and resupply the roster with representative talent has resulted in a 41-51 record since 2012 through the present time, three times posting double-digit losses.
Ben McAdoo deserved to get fired based on the merits of his own shortcomings. Jerry Reese, because he set the conditions.
BIG BLUE
SHAME ON YOU
That's what the billboard along Route 80 in New Jersey said, and John Mara heard it loud and clear.
I'll hold off on critiquing his performance during all this for another post.
In the mean time, Mara is a business man. Four games remain in the Giants season, and three are at home. Mara is no fool either, and knew better to stave off a Big Blue maelstrom. Prominent former Giants players were threatening to parade the sidelines this week wearing Eli Manning #10 jerseys. Ownership also ran the risk of season ticket holders selling the balance of their games, thus turning MetLife Stadium into the Big Blue Pit of Misery. It may already be too late for some. I'm sure in the coming games there will be more Cowboys and Redskins jerseys than usual.
The question now becomes, how many more than usual?
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