Happy Overreaction Wednesday to all who celebrate. What should I write about this week? I know! I am just going to talk about one of the most toxic places on planet Earth – Giants Twitter.
Episode 3 of Hard Knocks really showed nothing that we didn’t know. Don’t worry, Giants twitter provided the entertainment for the evening – as it usually does. I want to first start with the Saquon situation. It was always obvious that Schoen did not want to shell out money with the current state of this roster – which is understandable since we are horrible.
Did the Giants offer him a contract? No. But they weren’t totally off of him. They were talking with him and were planning on matching the top offer – Until it was an absurd amount of money. Schoen didn’t want to give him a low ball offer because that would be more disrespectful than not giving an offer.
This is simply an ugly breakup that had to be done. It reminds me of when Robin and Barney broke up in ‘How I Met Your Mother’. They both were overweight and a shell of who they actually were. Saquon could not reach his full potential behind that offensive line and The Giants could not put a league average offense on the field while paying Saquon top money.
I do think Saquon wasn’t being totally truthful in saying he wanted to be a career Giant. I think he was saying that as a negotiation tactic, which I don’t think is an issue. He know how much John Mara cares about popularity and wanted to play towards that. (I will write more about this in a bit.) To say he’s a “lying sack of shit” is also just an absurd thing to say. The Giants didn’t give him an offer. And he probably felt disrespected by that – which is understandable.
All that being said if Saquon has a great year, Joe Schoen will not be fired. This is the stupidest thing I have ever seen.
This was one of the stupidest things that I saw come out. Yes, this was technically before the episode – but it was in response to some of the leaked clips that came out before. Saquon is playing on an actual offense where he is one piece to the puzzle, instead of being THE offense. He will be playing behind an actual offensive line as opposed to 4 bean bag chairs and Andrew Thomas. Of course he is going to have a good year! The Eagles were set up to give him the bag! The Giants were SO FAR away from that position.
Ok. That is the last I will talk about Saquon. Time to trash John Mara – again. I know, I wrote about John Mara after the first episode. Feel free to read that one if you haven’t already. #BoostThosePageViews. Anyway, FUCK THIS GUY.
I don’t have an issue with John Mara putting in his input. But he is flat out BEGGING Schoen to give Saquon whatever he wants. Not ebven because of the player he is on the field! Because he is “Popular”! Does John Mara really have say in what decisions are made? No, but when your boss is making comments like “I am going to be sick if we don’t sign Saquon” for MONTHS, it will sway what you think. Gettleman probably did whatever John Mara wanted. Yes, that should be a knock on Gettleman – but being strong willed enough to ignore the CEO and Owner of the company you work for should not be a prerequisite for the job.
If that deal of $12.5/year would’ve been enough to keep Saquon – which sounded like it wouldn’t have even if this was the best he got from Philly. I think Schoen was on the fence about it and in that situation, the consistent comments from John Mara would’ve persuaded him to do it.
This makes me think about how everything went down with Jones and Saquon last year. Did Mara influence Schoen enough to overpay Jones and tag Saquon to not let either one go to free agency? Did Mara’s influence make Schoen see Jones as a more crucial part of the team than Saquon? I’m willing to bet a large sum of money that one of those are true. We know that they viewed Jones as the higher priority and would’ve tagged him and let Saquon hit free agency if a deal couldn’t get done. Sitting a year later, we know that was one of the worst decisions in franchise history.
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