mpharris36 wrote:
Yeah I mean can you blame them though? There careers as a GM/HC are now tied to wins. From Stafford to now Rodgers Mara has clearly forced wins on them.
Now this may be one case where losing out on a player like the Giants did with Stafford helps because he wasn't making the Giants better than the Eagles or Commanders next year (along with trading picks and that contract Stafford would have required). Rodgers wont either but the FO sees this as just buying them time. If they can win enough games and show Mara that with decent QB play Daboll's offense will look better and Schoen's roster will look better. Then they can be patient and let the young QB whoever they go with develop.
As for Giants fan most have come the assumption next year probably wont be good anyway and the GM/HC will eventually be fired and then we just need to make next season interesting and entertaining and buy time. And Winston as a bridge guy certainly would do that.
I understand that owners suck, but every GM in the league should be at least as smart as the average fan, and know that rebuilding takes a few years, and a bad season, maybe even two, should be acceptable on the road to getting better.
This isn't rocket science. It's barely more complicated than 2+2. I have no idea what's said inside private rooms when the GM meets the owner, but I would hope that conversations like "don't expect many wins" and "This guy is good for team chemistry" and "bridge QB while we draft hopefully a long-term QB" are at least part of the conversation.
Like . . . for example. Daniel Jones isn't much of a QB, but he is a two-way QB who should fit the Colt's system. He might not even start for them but if he ends up starting a bunch of games, he's a reasonable pickup for a coach who likes a 2-way QB.
Fields isn't much, but at least the Jets don't expect to win a lot of games and his ability to run should open things up a little and make the games more fun. The Jets are really badly run, but at least their new GM seems to have a strategy and know what he's doing.
A team expecting to be bad but wanting Aaron Rodgers just doesn't make sense to me. Rodgers is a HOF QB, but I don't think he makes sense for the Giants overall, or as a bridge QB, and I'm guessing most people agree, except the Giant's GM and Owner, which . . . I don't get.
Rodgers (reportedly) wants to join the Vikings, which, I think, would be a good place for him. A well set up team with a QB on the roster who hasn't thrown a single pass in a game yet. Rodgers for 1 year and JJ McCarthy maybe getting some snaps makes sense to me, if the Vikings can afford Rodgers' salary, and I'm not sure they can, but that's a pairing that makes sense at least, to my little brain.
The Giants don't make sense for either Rodgers or them.
The Steelers . . . I have no idea. I don't follow them close enough.
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