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Giants’ coach Ben McAdoo losing credibility inside, outside locker room
by Ed Valentine
Photo by Al Bello/Getty Images
For a guy who GM Jerry Reese says is “
smarter than all of us” McAdoo appears to have missed the lesson on maintaining credibility.
It’s apparent through the words of Eli Apple about the “culture” of the locker room and the disrespect shown to McAdoo by and ultimate suspensions of
Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie and Janoris Jenkins that at least certain segments of the Giants’ locker room have no use for their head coach.
Though it’s really a small, and insignificant to some, part of the story it’s also obvious that McAdoo has no friends in a media that has turned on him with a vengeance. See
here and
here for examples. Which is no wonder. I have been in enough McAdoo press conference to know he generally treats media members like ants to be squashed rather than people with a job to do.
Anyway, when the Jenkins suspension was announced Tuesday afternoon
I wrote that “It’s difficult at this point to argue that McAdoo has control of the locker room.”
I reached out to a number of people on Tuesday night and got agreement with that viewpoint, with one telling me “It's not a 100 percent lock, but hard to find another more plausible angle on it.”
The Giants right now have far bigger problems than losing games. They are broken, from the top down.
The head coach has no credibility outside the locker room and, apparently, not enough inside of it.
There are nine games to go, and it’s hard to see how things get any better the rest of the way. It is also increasingly difficult to see how McAdoo survives and gets a third season as head coach.
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We need a rebuild. New GM, new coach, new players. Keep our top young guys, everyone else is expendable as far as I’m concerned
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We don't need a rebuild, there's alot of talent on this team
Lots of pro-bowlers and good players on this roster. Reese failed to address the weaknesses of this team (Offensive line and Linebackers that can cover TEs and RBs). Its the same shit for the past 6 years. Fix those, and this team can be a winner again.
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This team has problems, the D-line really isn’t one of them. I’d argue there’s more talent at depth that’s being wasted, hurting the starters. That’s on the coaching.
This is one of the youngest rosters in the league, and there’s solid talent at almost every position.
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The Giants are 27th in sacks per game
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This team desperately needs legit Linebackers. The group they have now is not terrible, but also not a group that can take advantage of the D line in front of them. Teams have no respect for the LB group and we see week after week of huge performances by TEs and by RBs when they get around or through the DLine.
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Its great to say we need a full rebuild but we are not the Browns this won’t be a 5 season thing. The Eagles and Rams have turned it around pretty quickly with new regimes keeping most of the core so what makes you say the pieces who won 11 games last year can’t repeat with a new regime and some new pieces?
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"Next regime should be able to choose their players"
Just look at the past Rams offseason, no real change in roster other than Whitworth and didn’t even have a first round pick and the new coaching took the talent they had from 4-12 to 5-2. Tearing a roster apart and taking on a ton of dead money does not work in the NFL. This isn’t the NBA where you just rip apart a roster and go sign 3 big names the next year – there are 53 spots you have to fill, you work with what talent you have and adjust over time.
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I’m going to keep harping about this until people (hopefully) get it. The Rams were arguably the WORST offense last season. Gurley even criticized the scheme and said they ran a high school offense last year. James Kratch from NJ.com continually bashes Jerry Reese for not signing Andrew Whitworth. Many fans regurgitate the same narrative as well.
Instead of digging deeper, they assume Andrew Whitworth is the only reason why the Rams are a top offense. Is he part of the reason? Of course. But, why the sudden surge to the top of the NFL ? Coaching. The Rams have an innovative, young coach who plays to his players strengths. They had the talent, they just weren’t being used properly under Fisher.
I would have to say the Giants are a more talented team than the Rams, why do we need to blow up a talented roster just because our coaching staff can’t put our players in the best position to win. Develop our young talented team and play to our strengths. How can we do this ? That’s a more challenging question. -------------
The Rams/Jets/Bills are all better than us at the moment...
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Love the guy or hate him.
Mcadoo would have survived this season with a really bad losing record. The owners wouldn’t fire him so quickly on that ground alone.
Losing the lockeroom, giving the image of the organization to being that of a circus and causing Met Life stadium to be packed with opposing team fans in our biggest rivalry homes games in addition to a losing season will get you fired.
I frankly don’t see any other choice at this point except firing him unless we literally run the table.
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I have given up on the coach.
We are talking about Jenkins here. He didn`t pull this on the Rams and we`re talking about Jeff Fisher. That guy is awful. This should show you what kind of shape the team is in right now. Purge!