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Giants' Head Coach and General Manager Fired



Ben McAdoo and Jerry Reese are Gone

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Giants owner John Mara fired head coach Ben McAdoo and general manager Jerry Reese with a month left in the 2017 season. The Giants were unexpectedly disastrous this year after they made the playoffs last season and seemed to improve during the offseason. They were 11-5 last year, and are currently 2-10. No one thought that the team would implode so significantly, and changes had to be made after some bad decisions and bad coaching. The Giants simply look like they need a fresh start. 

For a team like the Giants, a team that so values stability, to fire a head coach and general manager who won 11 games last year speaks volumes about what Mara believes are intractable problems that McAdoo and Reese could not be allowed to fix. The team has been embarrassing, especially regarding how they handled the Eli Manning situation. First and foremost, Eli Manning should not have been benched for Geno Smith. The problem was not the quarterback, it was the injuries around him to his wide receivers, an offensive line that cannot protect him, a running game that cannot help him move the ball down the field, and a defense that has not been playing at the same level as they did in the previous season. If Ben McAdoo wanted to see some of the other talents on the team, he should have started Davis Webb, a rookie, instead of Smith, a perennially bad quarterback. His decisions have not made any sense, and in my opinion, the Giants definitely need new leadership.

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