(11-27-2019, 10:47 AM)Kane Wrote:

(11-27-2019, 10:22 AM)TrivialPursuit Wrote: It wasn't a mistake.

He had to go, Weaver made the right decision.

Weren't the Giants perennial losers or average with people claiming Eli was a bust and ready to run Coughlin out of town for alienating guys like Strahan and Tiki?
Then they caught lightning in a bottle at 4-6 and got to 10-6 and won a SB on the backs of a really good D. Then a couple more years of meandering around mediocrity and once again TC was about to be shown the door until they got hot in a bad NFC and went on to take down the evil Patriots once more.

So... ya know... if we keep him around we'll probably have some bad years some average ones and then boom, get lucky with some crap like 2017 and keep his average [BLEEP] around some more...

Everyone points to basically 2 good years with the NYG but fail to mention how much luck was involved in those seasons, how bad the teams were otherwise, and how awful they were at the end (and really haven't dug out of it yet)
And he put us in cap Hell back in the day... and our cap isn't in great condition now... best to not let him finish us off before walkering into the sunset.

The Giants managed all of that though with Tom Coughlin the football coach. Not Tom Coughlin the Executive Vice President Of Football Operations. The biggest mistake Weaver and some of the fans at that time ever made was convincing themselves that firing Tom Coughlin as our football coach was the right thing to do. I think time has proven that it was a mistake. 

https://www.bizjournals.com/jacksonville...aily9.html

The fact that Tom's downfall was because of some of his personnel decisions and salary cap issues that were not properly handled up front is all but telling of how the last two years have been handled by him in his new role though as you mentioned above.

Tom is a coach. Not a general manager. Not a front office kind of guy. He doesn't belong in a suit. He belongs in a hat and polo with a whistle around his neck. He tries like hell and he's had some good moments over the years with some players but he's not Bill Belichick. He can't do it all. 

Not even their mentor Bill Parcells could handle being a General Manager or a EVPOF. He was terrible at it as well. He's just a damn good football coach. Ernie Accorsi & Jerry Reese made Tom's life easier in the Big Apple. This experiment needs to end already though. His press conference the other day bothered me. That's not the Tom I grew up watching and remembered respecting. It felt like this scene below yesterday:

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