New York Giants take crown as NFL’s dumbest team
By Adam Patrick
For some reason, the New York Giants thought it was a great idea to recently trade wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr., the best player on their roster.
Over the the past five NFL seasons, the New York Giants have finished with more than six wins just once. Without wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. on their roster during these five years, the Giants would have been lucky to win three games.
Beckham is a once in a generation-type player and now he is no longer a member of New York’s roster after the team recently traded him to the Cleveland Browns. The guy whose 16-game averages during his NFL career are 106 catches, 1,485 yards, and 12 touchdowns was apparently not good enough for the Giants to build around.
Instead of attempting to fix their problem at quarterback and finding a replacement for Eli Manning, New York is now trying to make it seem like Beckham was the problem behind their lack of success during the last half of a decade. The Giants’ failures certainly couldn’t be due to their starting signal-caller who should have retired two seasons ago.
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New York must have believed in Beckham for a few seconds since they gave a fat contract extension last August worth $95 million. But now, less than a year later, $16 million of the Giants’ salary cap space will now be taken up by a guy who isn’t even on their roster.
Seriously, a cardboard cutout of Bill Belichick could do a better job running this franchise than the “leadership” they currently have.
Trading Beckham to the Browns is just the latest bonehead decision the Giants have made within the past year. Last offseason, New York passed up the opportunity to draft a franchise-altering quarterback in the first round to instead select a running back in Saquon Barkley that they are now going to ruin by overworking him into the ground.
Dave Gettleman has been a general manager in the NFL since 2013 when he inherited a Carolina Panthers’ roster that already featured a number of talented players including Cam Newton, DeAngelo Williams, Greg Olsen, Steve Smith, Luke Kuechly, Thomas Davis and Josh Norman.
The Panthers achieved success during Gettleman’s four seasons with the team, but it hardly had anything to do with any of the decisions he made. Carolina knew this and that’s why they decided to fire him in 2017.
So now he’s running things for the Giants and the franchise appears to be headed towards the gutter thanks to his guidance.
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New York used to have arguably the best wide receiver in the NFL on their roster who could’ve made life much easier for a young quarterback. But now thanks to Gettleman and company, the Giants are gearing up to be the laughing stock of the league in 2019.