After three consecutive dismal seasons and six losing campaigns over the last seven years, New York Giants CEO John Mara feels he is still capable of leading Big Blue back to prominence.
“I don’t fear that I’ve lost the touch,” Mara told NJ Advance Media. “But I certainly understand our fans’ lack of trust in what we’re doing right now. And the only way to win that back is to start winning games. I get that. The record is what it is, and I can’t defend that. I don’t feel any differently about myself and my judgment now than I did in February of 2012. Certainly, the record doesn’t bear that out. But I have just as much confidence in myself now as I did in 2012.”
We can’t see how. The Giants have been on the wrong side of so many things since that Super Bowl win in 2012 that fans are skeptical of this management team’s capabilities. Mara himself reverses course almost yearly, which has added to the confusion. He’s made many a bad call and the lack of confidence among the Giant faithful is dwindling. He needs to win and soon.
The Giants have squandered many an opportunity to turn things around and have yet to find their 21st Century football guru, instead relying on the likes of Dave Gettleman, their erratic general manager who is dire need of a calendar change.
The faux pas are all well known. The misuse of draft resources and the poor choices in free agency have doomed this team. They have tunnel vision and conduct business like George Young did in the 1980s, which was cutting edge then but archaic by 2020 standards.
The only way Mara can turn things around is to really turn things around. Hire someone from the outside to re-engineer their processes and systems. Until the, it will be same-old, same-old.
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