New York Giants must make progress, or changes coming
With weapons galore, the New York Giants have a chance to be a player in the NFC East. This season, they need to make serious progress, or serious changes.
The New York Giants need to taste success again. It’s been far too long.
The last time the Giants won a playoff game, it was Super Bowl XLVI. The final game of the 2011 season saw the Giants beat the New England Patriots, with Eli Manning at quarterback and head coach Tom Coughlin on the sideline. Not a single player remains from that squad, and there have been three coaches since Coughlin left a few years later.
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Entering 2021, the Giants are coming off a 6-10 campaign that produced hope. Despite quarterback Daniel Jones failing to improve on his rookie season, New York could cling to a good defense, a promising first-year coach on Joe Judge and youth with upside.
Fast forward to the present, and the defense still looks solid while the offense gets a healthy running back in Saquon Barkley returning, the additions of receivers Kenny Golladay and Kadarius Toney, and tight end Kyle Rudolph. In short, the roster is teeming with potential.
Yet potential is a fancy word for saying nothing has been accomplished yet. Owner John Mara knows it. On Tuesday, he spoke at a press conference and acknowledged his franchise must be better. While he wouldn’t directly put general manager Dave Gettleman or Judge on the hot seat, he was candid with his expectations for this fall and winter, per ESPN:
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“Well, I think it’s the same for the entire organization. I want to see us make progress and become a winning team again. We’re overdue on that and we spent a lot of money in free agency. I think we’ve had a couple of really productive drafts, now it’s time to prove it on the field.”
Playing in the league’s weakest division, the Giants have a chance to be back in the postseason. While winning 10+ games might be a stretch barring Jones becoming a household name, New York has the defense, coaching and weaponry to be an eight or nine-win team, which in the NFC East, might mean hosting a playoff game.
The Giants aren’t a contender, but the roster has enough talent to be a decent team. If they aren’t that, Mara has plenty to consider when the calendar turns to 2022.
