Mr. Scot

Yeah, that guy. My two big complaints about Reich so far are that and questionable depth chart decisions.

I haven't followed it super closely, but from what I've seen they sent a staffer named Connor Stallions (apparently his real name) to other games where he managed to get on the sidelines with Google glasses type equipment and steal signs, even from lesser schools like Central Michigan. Word was that Michigan was ready to offer Jim Harbaugh an extension that would have made him the highest paid coach in college football, but now that's been delayed. It's insane.

The guy who would have been in the best position to foresee that would have been Reich himself. Nobody was going to know his offense better than him. I would like to know what his opinion of that was, but I doubt we ever will.

Mind you, this isn't NFL but damn...

This time last year I'd have said that the offensive line was pretty well set, we had a lot of good players on defense and the biggest need outside of quarterback was to upgrade the skill positions. What complicated things of course was that changing coordinators meant changing schemes, which meant that some of the players we had expected to keep no longer suited what we were doing. Unfortunately, the OL scheme change just made it that much worse.

Next year though... Ouch

Meanwhile... Yes, this was a thong...I mean thing

That's what scares me...

When you go back to the draft videos, you'll hear Tepper talk about how crazy it was to hear Bryce Young breaking down a play that he was given during their dinner. I think if there was a point where Tepper decided Young was the guy, that was probably it.

You know I love the "football consultant" idea, but I wouldn't want anybody hired or fired until that guy is in place and has had a chance to evaluate everything. David Tepper just needs to sit on his ass until someone smarter than him is in place.

If you ask a lot of GMs what the foundational pieces for a team are, they'll often say quarterback, left tackle and pass rusher. The belief last year was that we had two of those three.

Especially problematic statement... "This is why David Tepper has been successful in business, because that's the way he operates." That's fine in business. In football, not so much. Football is an area where David Tepper doesn't have a clue, and if he thinks he can just operate a football team the same way he would a hedge fund, he's an idiot.

That's...not good.

Is Steve Reed checking the Huddle? And to be clear, It's not necessarily that David Tepper made the pick himself, but that he influenced the pick in any way would still be unacceptable.

Joe Schoen and Brian Daboll have probably improved the Giants overall, but the decision to go with Jones with Still a head scratcher.

Also of believing the hype...

See I think we are doing a rebuild, even if it's not acknowledged to be so. I know this is where people disagree with me, but that's still my belief.

That's not bad.

To be fair, the fanbase has been ready to "watch it all burn" for years. (under Rhule It might have been justified)

How very fetch...

Starting with... For as bad as our season has been, we might feel even worse if we were Giant fans given how much they've fallen off from the hopes they built up last year.

I think the bigger deal for me would have been the ability to put off the decision until we saw more of what was going to happen under Reich. That would have required patience though, and neither Tepper nor the fanbase seems to have much of that.

To be clear, I actually started writing this thread during the bye week. Just hadn't posted it till now because my thoughts were still coalescing... Here's one of them. Back during Fitterer's first draft with Rhule, there was a moment in the draft video where Tepper turned to whomever was on the phone and directed them what to say back to another team. I didn't necessarily think that much of it at the time because what he said wasn't that big a deal, but in the wake of Frank Reich's comments about Tepper's involvement that moment came back up. In truth, that's one of the reasons why I started asking questions to begin with.