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I was prepared to open up my laptop and shit all over the Giants signing Tyrod Taylor. After the years of Dave Gettleman having no idea how to run a football team, I’ve been conditioned to assume the worst.
But I sat and reflected for a moment. Remembering there’s a brand new front office, it’s time to be a naive fan again and trust the process.
It’s a 2-year deal worth $11M, source said — $5.5M per year. There are incentives he’d have to hit to bring it to $17M. https://t.co/59S5EYkjbJ
— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) March 15, 2022
Tyrod Taylor has done far more winning than Daniel Jones over the course of their careers. With this roster in shambles, this would be the perfect season to truly tank. Let Daniel Jones’s goofy ass jog out there and lose every game so the team is better positioned to acquire a star QB in the 2023 Draft to replace him.
Tyrod on the roster just means the Giants are going to win 2 or 3 more games than they deserve to and the team will never be able to draft that franchise star. They’re going to be stuck with a Baker Mayfield or Kirk Cousins.
But again, I had to take a step back. This is no longer Dave Gettleman’s Giants. Tyrod Taylor is a humble veteran who has no problem sitting on the bench and supporting the guy on the depth chart in front of him.
So the Giants could still potentially tank even with Taylor on the roster. With a 2-year deal, Taylor will be on the team next season to start and mentor the rookie they’ll be drafting in 2023.
And this signing also indicates something very different about this front office compared to the previous one: With the no. 5 and no. 7 pick in this upcoming draft, they won’t be wasting it on a QB.
How many times do we have to watch a bad team reach for a quarterback who will inevitably fail because the roster is completely talentless? It’s how the New York Jets have run their organization for over a decade.
Dave Gettleman would’ve 1000% used one of this year’s first-round picks to draft a guy like Kenny Pickett and ruin his career just like he did with Daniel Jones instead of building an offensive line and/or drafting a defensive stud who will shine regardless of who else is on the team.
I’m still pissed Gettleman reached for Daniel Jones with the 6th pick in 2019 when star pass rusher, Josh Allen, was waiting right behind him.
The Giants lowkey signed the best backup quarterback in the NFL who is the perfect player to transition between Daniel Jones and the next rookie QB while still maintaining full flexibility to build a strong roster around the incoming rookie. Meanwhile Dave Gettleman is somewhere wishing he could’ve drafted Saquon Barkley every year.
