The New York Giants have been, within the phrases of a minimum of one protesting fan, a “dumpster hearth” in 2024. They completed with a file of 3-14 and set many historic marks for futility alongside the best way.
The catastrophe started on the primary day of the offseason when head coach Brian Daboll and defensive coordinator Wink Martindale had an explosive assembly that finally led to a parting of the way.
Issues solely snowballed from there, together with the ugly optics of “Exhausting Knocks: Offseason with the New York Giants” and their failure to land a quarterback within the 2024 NFL draft.
When it got here time to play, every thing that might go incorrect did go incorrect. That included a number of personnel miscues that led on to a number of of these 14 losses.
The roster administration is one thing these of us at Giants Wire griped about all season. It was a bafflingly persistent downside that grew to become a working joke.
In a postmortem revealed by ESPN’s Jordan Raanan, one supply with direct data of the Giants’ internal workings slammed the group for these personnel choices.
The Giants appeared satisfied Ezeudu was primarily a sort out and performed him there all spring and summer season. When Thomas went down, it was Ezeudu who began the subsequent sport in a blowout loss to the Philadelphia Eagles and struggled within the first half. He performed higher within the second half, however the Giants shortly pivoted and benched him the next week for Chris Hubbard, a veteran who additionally wasn’t a pure left sort out and had been claimed off the 49ers’ observe squad 10 days earlier.
None of it labored. The Giants moved Ezeudu again to protect in Week 18.
“It’s like they make strikes off Twitter,” a league supply with data of the Giants’ internal workings instructed ESPN.
The irony is that had the Giants listened to followers on X, they by no means would have performed Joshua Ezeudu at sort out. They’d have additionally moved Evan Neal inside to protect at this level.
Solely the Giants could make armchair normal managers look sensible.
