Amen. This is how we got into this position in the first place. There is Gettleman's theory of Quarterback Purgatory, where you miss your chance when you suck bad to grab a great franchise QB, and then you are competitive with the other players you got instead, but now you are drafting too low to get a great QB.

So, for whatever reason, Gettleman ignored both his Hog-Molly offensive line assertions and his belief in evading QB Purgatory, and drafted Saquon Barkley #2. Passing over Sam Darnold, Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson, Quenton Nelson, Orlando Brown, Brian O'Neill, Wyatt Teller & Frank Ragnow. Also Rosen & McGinchley who have not been as successful as the other guys. And despite having Eli Manning throwing to Odell Beckham & Evan Engram and handing off to Barkley, their offense was ass, thanks to a too-little, too-late pick of Will Hernandez in the second round, and grossly overpaying Nate Solder, the best tackle on the free agent market, being the only significant upgrades to the line.

The following year, having determined to prepare grooming Manning's successor (two years after Ben McAdoo wanted to trade up for Patrick Mahomes because he said Eli only had one or two years left), Gettleman went into the draft looking for their next QB, and to his credit, he took the best quarterback left on the board (despite the immediate objections in favor of Dwayne Haskins, whose team moved on even faster from him) with the number six pick. Unfortunately, it was a shit year for quarterbacks, and Daniel Jones was just not the guy of the future. But that's exactly what they are looking at again - an unforced error in trying grab the best QB when there simply are not a good enough class to build your franchise on.

It seems pretty clear Daboll and Schoen have to go. Letting Schoen bring over a crony from his Buffalo days was a mistake. A guy with a proven track record and some mileage can do that, not a guy in his early 40s in his first GM job, whose wife is BFF with Mrs. Daboll. Daboll has been distinctly unimpressive. In his rookie year, I was put off by his resting starters for the regular season finale, against the local rival Eagles, when he was at the time 0-3 against Dallas and Philadelphia. Last year, it was the appalling lack of preparation of their backup QB situation. Jones went down and they went into their next three games with only Tyrod Taylor and Tommy Devito, and Devito was not, in Daboll's mind, ready to play in the NFL. So the oldest QB on their roster goes down and they end up losing a winnable game, because Daboll will not let Devito do anything but handoff. Once he had some practice and was taken seriously as a potential starter, DeVito ended up being the leading QB in wins for the Giants last year, but Daboll either had no faith in his own coaching, or neglected to prepare him to play. And this season, the debacle of the loss of a kicker in week 2 is yet another instance. Further, the team has been plagued with sloppy play, stupid penalties and undisciplined behavior. Everything I see on the field points to bad coaching, and Daboll probably having lost the locker room. Up until now his claim to fame has been his development of Josh Allen, but how much is him and how much is the material? For sure we have seen nothing for all his time with Daniel Jones and DeVito. He didn't fix Locke or fellow Buffalo expat Taylor, whose poor decision-making cost the Giants critical scores in two games last year.

With Schoen, I am hearing that he is a poor negotiator in contract discussions, failing to come to agreements with some players and in other cases, overpaying by offering too high an opening bid, or panicking and accepting a player's demand without trying to bring it down. I have no idea how much truth is in that. What I have heard in his defense is that he (and Daboll) inherited a mess and should be allowed the chance to rebuild with a clean slate. What I know is that some of the best players left on the team (Andrew Thomas, Dexter Lawrence) came from Dave Gettleman. In fact, in his first draft, one might think that Schoen was trying to one-up Gettleman, by using two top ten picks in the first round on a defensive lineman and offensive tackle. Kayvon Thibidoux has been decent, but never close to Lawrence in caliber, and Evan Neal is a horrific bust. They could not offload Gettleman's last top pick fast enough, but Kadarius Toney, for all his well-documented issues, has one more Super Bowl ring than anyone Schoen has drafted.

In an off-season that Schoen was so proud of, or confident in, that he allowed it to be filmed for a documentary, he let Saquon Barkley and Xavier McKinney leave in free agency, while he and Daboll hyped up their pursuit and acquisition of the distinctly mid Devin "Motor" Singletary, who has since lost his job to a rookie taken in the bottom of the 5th round with a quarter of the cap hit. There are no players left on the Giants who are playing on Gettleman's contracts. Every single contract on the Giants' roster was signed by Schoen. So where is the cap room? How have Gettleman's lost years hampered Schoen in building the roster? Why is it that the farther we get from Gettleman's hand on the tiller, the worse the team has played? Schoen & Daboll's best year was when they had the most Gettleman guys to work with.

And let's talk about that good season that gained Daboll the forbearance that will be the sole reason for his continued employment next year, if he is.
They finished 9-7-1, or 9-6-1 in games where they were trying. That that those two numbers are different is an automatic dismissal for any head coach in my book, but whatever. They jumped out to a 7-2 record, after which their only two wins came against perennial (at least until this year) punching bag Washington, and the Colts, who were about to fire their coach and finish 4-12-1. Those first seven wins were by 1, 3, 8, 5, 4, 6 & 8 points respectively. Their first two losses were by 8 & 14 pts. They went on to lose more games by 13, 8, 26, 3 & 6 points and tie against last place Washington. Four of their losses were by more or equal points as their biggest win. Their first win relied on a missed field goal (the Giants would hire that kicker, who had lost another season opener to the Giants with a miss in 2016 as well, to fill in with their issues this year, with predictable results) several others relied on meltdowns & turnovers by opposing QBs on a potential game winning drive, and another game was won when the opposing team threw just short of the end zone as time expired. They were five plays away from finishing 4-12-1 like their opponents in their only decisive win. What the schedule looks like is that the rest of the league figured out halfway through the season how to beat this team and went on to do it. And of course, it was front-loaded with shit teams. The Giants only beat two opponents with winning records that year. Yes, they won a playoff game, against a Vikings team that was even more dramatically successful in one-score games, suggesting, like the Giants, they won enough to reach the postseason by a few lucky plays.

Is this the season that should earn anyone another year, after having the worst record in the league, in their third year at the helm? Is being inspired by this season to pay Daniel Jones $40 million a year while pissing off your franchise player by prioritizing Jones the mark of a guy who is going to build you back to a winner? Is he the man you want to trust to judge who is the best player in the draft