The cry from the New York Giants fans base is clear… It’s time for the Giants to stop what they have been doing an try something completely different.
That means changing their philosophy of hiring familiar faces and retreads to run the front office and lead the team on the field.
Many Giants fans on social media have suggested the team should look to the college ranks for a new coach with a fresh approach and 21st Century ideas. Former NFL quarterback and television analyst Trent Dilfer also believes its time for the Giants to restructure their organization rejoin the rest of the NFL.
“The most explosive offenses in the NFL, with the best quarterback play, most of those teams — if not all of them — have a Saturday coach on their staff with a lot of influence,” Dilfer told NJ Advance Media. “Meaning a coach that has studied the college football game extensively. You have to have college elements in the offenses right now.”
Dilfer is OK with the Giants hiring a CEO coach who doesn’t necessarily have an offensive/quarterback-developing background. But that coach would need to bring in somebody legit to handle those duties — and an emphasis on college football’s offensive influences is a must, said Dilfer.
“You have to take advantage of the [run/pass options], the line-of-scrimmage screens, some of the misdirection stuff, some of the creativity that the college game has kind of introduced to the NFL,” Dilfer said. “They don’t have to have coached in college, but somebody that has really taken a deep dive into the schemes and the creativity of Saturday football.”
We agree. What the Giants have been doing has obviously not worked. The handling of the Tom Coughlin-Ben McAdoo transition was a disaster. Jerry Reese’s personnel decisions were questionable and the hiring of the out-of-touch Dave Gettleman to replace him has set this team back even further.
Pat Shurmur is a wonderful man but his career arc stops at offensive coordinator. He is not an effective head coach and the decision to put this young team in his and his average staff’s hands has obviously been a mistake.
