This Week on the Blog
Giants: The Giants, basically, face another save or lose the season game today. I posted that picture of Larry Donnell because his massive inconsistency personifies the team. After last weeks no-show against Philly, I'm not sure the 2015 Giants are any better than last year's team, and that ridiculous, because they should be. They played way too softly against Philly last week, now let's see if they can turn it around against Dallas.
Rangers: The Rangers' record is okay, but they're off to another kind of crappy start this year. It's not as bad as last year's start, which they were able to overcome and win the President's Trophy, but it's frustrating to watch. They're hurting themselves on offense, but over-passing and not putting enough shots on goal. They should have won last night in regulation, but for a disallowed goal that the league made up a new rule for. They play again today, and it's time to get some momentum going.
Knicks: The Knicks will start their regular season in a few days, and I'm not really sure what to make of them. It seems like th D is going to be improved, and there's already a much better sense of "team" in this edition, than I've seen since the Riley/Van Gundy era, and since I believe teams win, that should be good news for the Knicks. I think they're only somewhat built now, but I like where they seem to be going from a construction standpoint, and we'll have to see if that turns into a good record this year, or just an improved one.
Yankees: The Yanks are apparently set to name Tim Naehring as the replacement for Billy Eppler, but won't announce it till they complete some more changes in their heirarchy. Interestingly, Naehring won't have the same job titles that Eppler held. That's a little like what they did last year when Denbo replaced Newman, but with a slightly different set of responsibilities. We'll see what it looks like when it shakes out. Naehring has been a scout for the Yanks since 2007, though I think he's mostly been on the less impressive pro side. Oh, and Gary Sanchez hit another bomb yesterday. Do not trade him.
So that's what it's looking like. Have a great week everyone.
posted by Kalel9 @ 11:07 AM
7 Comments:
So no Moore. WTF?
Based on the talent, Reese may be the worst GM in the NFL.
He ran the drafts starting in 2003, and was a scout who scouted Strahan. He's not a bad talent evaluator. They've had horrific health luck and you're kidding yourself if you don't think we'd be much better with Beatty and JPP, whose talent is or was real, and who's injuries have nothing to do with Reese or Coughlin.
The biggest indictment of Reese is Rounds 3-5.
It seems like his career is an example of the Peter Principle, and they haven't been the same since Gettleman left.
Gettleman was in pro personell with the Giants, he wasn't involved in the draft or anything like that. And the fact is that guys like DRC and Harris, who won today's game came in after he left.
The real problem is sort of two fold: first, it's injuries, both short term and career ending for several picks, and second, the Giants have never been quite bad enough to pick in the top 5, and what they used to be able to do was outdraft teams anyway, and teams picking ahead of them copied their formula (like passrushers and mean OL's) making it impossible for the Giants to do what they did in 2005 or some of their other great draft years whlle they were building to the two time SB champions.
I think the problem is that Reese can evaluate talent personally but he can't: 1) hire the best people below him; and 2) arrive at an efficient process to evaluate value in the draft, iow take the player in the correct round.
They can't draft OL beyond the first two rounds, TE at all, and have drafted one good LB in 10 years (Kennard).
As for pro personnel, most of their FA signings have been bad or mediocre at best.
The Reese tenure at GM, net net, has produced a mediocre roster even when everyone is healthy.
The reason they can't draft OL outside of the first two rounds is because people saw what they were getting out of David Diehl, Rich Seubert and others and started taking all of those guys in the first and second round. Giants were all set to go OL second and third last year, but Mewhort and one other guy got picked between their picks, ahead of where the pundits had them...
And the Reese tenure has also produced 2 Super Bowl wins. You win and your roster suffers, that's the game.
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