Our team gets off to a great start. They win games they shouldn't. Then we struggle and lose a bunch. Somehow, we make it to the post-season, where our hopes skyrocket. We actually believe.
Then, on national TV, we get wiped-out - embarrassed, humiliated, whacked, whupped, walloped, wing-nutted, wankered, Wally Worlded, whatever - molested, undressed, deleted, biglateeded, garbered, wantooned. It's not even close. In fact, it is so utterly overwhelmingly awful that we begin to wonder if our early success was merely a mirage.
Soon, we will spend all our allotted money just to keep together the same team that, basically, just came up a few light years short.
I know, I know... Giants fans are supposed to think 2023 was a "magical" season, that the team outdid expectations, that our coaches brings hope for the yatta-yatta-yatta. I get it. Still, I dunno...
After last night, I can easily foresee the New York Football Giants floundering for another 10 years.
Something about New York sports and payroll caps... they just don't mix. All things considered, a $200 million team in Kansas City will almost always beat a $200 million team in NYC, because they simply don't face the distractions.
Hey, it could be worse. You could be a Jets fan.
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ReplyDeleteBoone was finally right about something
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In terms of building winners or at a minimum, REAL contenders that last, we all know that it comes down to the organization, not the players.
It's not the talent. It's who picks the talent. It's who runs the talent.
The Astros, instead of giving him over $300M, let Correa go and replaced him with a rookie who was even better. We're spending 280M plus this year - which is WAY MORE than enough to be bullet proof and yet still have no left fielder, closer, or third baseman.
The Yankees biggest move this year wasn't keeping Judge or adding Rodon it was bringing in Sabean and to a lesser extent, Minya. I say lesser extent because Sabean has built winners. More than once.
Which takes me to the NY Giants...
I don't know what will happen with Daniel Jones, Barkley etc.
I don't know who they will sign as FAs (Although the Giants are FINALLY more attractive than they have been for a long time and that will help attract good ones that they don't have to overpay.)
Bonus - The Giants are no longer a place where mercenaries will go for money at the expense of winning (Cough... Knicks...Cough)
I don't know who they will draft but, for the first time in years, I believe they have the right General Manager and the right coach.
They will pick guys and get the most out of them and slowly build a team that, if the star running back goes elsewhere there will be someone right behind him who can get it done.
This was a good year and regardless of who they get in the off season and how they try to patch the holes... the key additions have already been made.
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Last...
After watching Daniel Jones physically stumble a couple of times on the opening drive I had a flashback to the Super Bowl game against the Ravens.
The Giants made the championship game that year despite being a good not great team. The Ravens were a team of legend. One of the fiercest defenses in NFL history.
The Giants played scared from the opening kickoff and were never in it. Not even for a second.
Same with yesterday. Totally outclassed and out talented at every position. Boys against men. It was over on the bus.
Still - Good year. More importantly, amazing first year of what might actually be a legitimate and sustainable rebuild because of what I wrote above. they have the right General Manager and the right coach.
The Yankees? Not so much.
I am a Jet's fan. What does that say about me? I rooted for The Giants. They lost to a superior team. I don't believe it is distractions, rather lack of proper management at the top of most NY teams. We all know about The Yankees. In Boston, The Red Sox and Patriots are presently a disaster. However, The Celtics and Bruins own the best records in their particular sport. The media and fans are tough in Boston, so I believe it is not distractions. Hiam Bloom, now leading The Red Sox, works like a NT guy.
ReplyDeleteI expected the Jints to lose, but it was so bad by the end of the first quarter that I switched to the Food Channel and then Amazon Prime, just checking in on the game a few times to make sure it was as big a disaster as it looked like in Q1.
ReplyDeleteStill, a pretty good year overall. Like the Yankees, when everyone is clicking and the opponent has the right weaknesses, the Giants put up a winning record and gave fans hope that a corner had been turned.
But if they are indeed like the Yanks, it will be playoff losses for years to come and no ring. I hope their front office and coaching is better than that. Looks like they could be.
Coming from a completely objective perspective—I'm a Packers fan—I have to agree with Doug.
ReplyDeleteThis was a terrific year for the Giants. Barkley proved that he's back, and Jones proved that he's for real. It showed that—unlike with a certain other team we could name—the Jints have a front office that knows what it's doing.
I think their future is very bright.
For that certain other team...
Still lots of work ahead for the G’s, but they have young aggressive leadership open to change. John Mara still has a fierce desire to win. Steinsucker? Not so much. He has a fierce desire to make money, and surrounds himself with faded sycophants who are happy to fellate him by maintaining the corrupt status quo and gaslighting the resultant failures.
ReplyDelete@Horace....A green Bay fan, eh? My son's fiancé is A.J. Dillon's aunt. She's only 35, though.
ReplyDeleteAJ is from New London and comes from a great family. He's black, Italian and Jewish. I guess you can say he's a Jewish Franco Harris. His grandfather was a backup on the 1970 Giants, Tom Gatewood. But I think he only played very sparingly.
Now that "Gefilte Fish" Gettleman is gone, the salary cap that he hamstrung the new management with will be gone next season. It was tough seeing the Eagle's two starting safeties being ex-Giants and only due to salary cap restrictions. Gefilte Fish authored the absolute worst free agent signings in Giants history-the 18 million per year bust, Kenny Golliday. His TD total in 2 years? 1, and that was the last game 3 weeks ago.
Next year they need a deep threat, fast receiver or 2 and a good tight end. Perhaps they can lure Gronkowski out of retirement for 1 year.