New York Giants: 2018 offseason prediction through the draft

If the New York Giants want to be back on the top of the NFL landscape, it must begin in 2018. Predictions for free agency, the 2018 NFL Draft, and more.

Prior to 1981, the New York Giants were like the Atlanta Braves. From 1933-65, the Giants were 235-140-21 and made it to 14 NFL Championship Games, but like the Braves, they had trouble closing the deal. They only won three of their 14 appearances. They even have a Bills-esque feat of five losses in six years in the Championship Game (1958-63). Then the Super Bowl Era began, and the Giants fell into the doldrums.

From 1966-80, the Giants finished in last place eight times, and didn’t make the playoffs once. Since the 1981 season, the Giants have been a model franchise. They’ve had 16 playoff seasons, five Super Bowl appearances and four Super Bowl wins (one of seven franchises to have that many).

Dave Gettleman has been tasked with righting the ship after a 3-13 season that was just disastrous. He will have to work on his temperament, though, because as Joseph Person and Scott Fowler of the Charlotte Observer put it, that’s probably why he was fired from the Panthers:

In interviews with more than a dozen team and league sources, the Observer learned that Gettleman’s brusque management style – which had made him unpopular with some Carolina players from his earliest days as GM – had begun to wear thin throughout the organization.

His first task if finding a head coach, and there’s only one man that fits what the Giants need.