Quote from: jimc on March 28, 2024, 06:45:36 PMI believe they wanted to sign Barkley, but at their price. That is responsible stewardship. I think they were surprised that they couldn't.
I don't believe at 2-6 we were done. I don't know what would have gotten us into the playoffs, but you keep playing and trying until you can't. You owe it to your players and to all the other teams.
If you are not trying to win then the only thing you're doing is QUITTING.
Look, you have your opinion and I have mine. Better to say that we agree to disagree on this point. No harm no foul.
Agree with this 100% and will add a few more points.
-Viewing the team in such a "macro" way feels a lot more like fantasy football/Madden type of thinking than actually running an NFL organization. At 2-6, following a season in which the team had won a playoff game, is 100% not the time to trade away literally your only offensive weapon and the face of the franchise. Doing so would have been a disaster- leading to a higher draft pick? Sure. Disastrous in every other way? Yep.
-The fans that pay for tickets and spend all that money to go to games deserve a franchise that is trying to win
-Comparing the Giants throwing in the towel with NINE games left in the season to the Eagles tanking in the final game of the season for draft position is apples and oranges and intellectually dishonest.
-It seems obvious that the Giants were hoping the RB market this year would be similar to what it looked like when the bottom fell out the previous year. They would have definitely signed Barkley back if that was the case. But it wasn't.... In fact, DaveBrown and many others on this board thought the same thing and were proven 100% incorrect. In their eyes we had a broken down RB about to hit a terrible RB market and so it would be smart to let him hit free agency and then try to sign him to a team friendly deal. That turned out to be wrong. Ob la di Ob la da. It's ok to be wrong sometimes.
-Guess what? After all this chatter on this board over the last few years it actually looks like Barkley was the smartest one of all of us. Got a tag for a good amount of $$ and then converted that to a deal that will set him up for the rest of his life- and in the process goes to a hometown team with actual offensive players and an OL around him, and to top it off he gets to stick it to all the fans who have weirdly turned on him.
It will be interesting to see how he does next year, to say the least. If he stays healthy, IMO- look out. Top 3 RB for sure.