Giants must ditch blind-faith evaluation approach this training camp
NY Post
Joe Schoen needs to listen to his own words of wisdom.
And then ask head coach Brian Daboll and the Giants’ other key decision-makers to remember them over the next few weeks.
“The best predictor of the future is the past,” the general manager said during a meeting shown on “Hard Knocks.”
When it comes to self-scouting during training camp, the Giants’ recent past reads like an epitaph for lost seasons.
Too frequently, obvious repeat warning signs during preseason practices — missed blocks, blown coverages and inability to create route separation, to be more precise — that are raised as concerns by spectators have been overlooked internally for the sake of not admitting to a sunk investment.
Or in a transparent attempt to rebuild a player’s confidence because of a lack of suitable alternatives.
With the Yankees on an impressive run of mostly correct decisions, there’s some reason to leave them alone and just let the best team in the American League continue to roll. But they did raise serious doubt and leave room for suggestions (and even ridicule) following maybe the most inexplicable decision of this season, or any season.
The Giants have never been 0-2 under Brian Daboll, until now. They were 2-0 and flying high in 2022 and 1-1 after a rousing comeback in Arizona in 2023. So, this represents a low point as far as early-season difficulties for Daboll and the Giants. They had no business beating the Vikings in the opener and no business losing to the Commanders in Week 2. But here they are.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Harrison Butker kept making a lonely walk to midfield after each quarter Sunday to check on the direction of the wind, which tends to swirl inside Arrowhead Stadium. He did it one last time during the 2-minute warning, when his Chiefs were trailing the Bengals by two and trying to give him a winning field-goal attempt.