By WFAN.com
Giants GM Dave Gettleman spoke to the media Wednesday from the NFL Combine in Indianapolis. Gettleman says he fully expects Eli Manning to be back next season. He said Eli can help them win games. He also said the Kansas City model worked. So what exactly is Gettleman saying?
WFAN's Mike Francesa has had just about enough of the halfway-ing by Gettleman and the Giants. He went OFF on the GM on WFAN Wednesday.
"The models you have used in recent years have stunk. Your inability to rebuild this team has been an embarrassment. The Giants have taken three swings at rebuilding the offensive line, they can't get it rebuilt. How about last year when you brought in a bunch of offensive lineman who were awful?
"The idea that you're going to bring Eli Manning back, but you might bring in a veteran quarterback or might draft one in the first round shows me you don't know what the heck you're doing. How does that work exactly? If you bring Eli Manning back, it should be because you believe Eli Manning can take this team to the playoffs," Francesa said. "If you don't believe that, if you think there's too much work to be done here in rebuilding this team...and let's be honest, this team needs an incredible amount of rebuilding. They stink on the offensive line. They stink on the defensive line. They were atrocious defensively last year. And for a lot of the season they couldn't block anybody. They were a bad football team with some good skill players. They need a lot of work."
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So are the Giants picking a QB with the 6th pick in the NFL Draft or not?
"If they don't believe and if they aren't committed to using every pick and every chip and every dollar to try to put a good team around Eli Manning then send Eli Manning packing," Francesa continued. "What is the point of bringing him back here for one last year if you're not bringing him back here to win? It makes no sense. If the effort and rebuilding job is too big for one year, that's a fair assessment. But have a damn opinion about what's got to be done here. This halfway-ing it doesn't work. And having two or three guys...the last thing I want to hear from the general manager, who did a lousy job last year...the last thing I want to hear out of him is 'well I think a good quarterback competition.' What would that prove? That you spent a lot of resources on more than one quarterback and don't know which one you want to play? So they both can play behind a lousy offensive line? Own up to your mistakes from last year. You owned up to some of them because you cut them. You're admitting you did a terrible job with your team. You're admitting that you struck out as a personnel guy."
Gettleman and the organization have failed to truly show that Manning is the guy. It sure looks like they want to take a QB with that pick and have Manning groom him for possible 2020 and beyond.
"If you believe in Eli Manning then show it. If you don't believe in Eli or think the rebuilding job is too big then go in that direction," Francesa ranted. "The halfway stuff will put you back at 7-9 if you're lucky. It doesn't work. Either put your resources and efforts in one way or a complete rebuilding job. And then bring in a QB with the 6th pick or a free agent QB and go about your business. But to bring back a guy who has been here for 15 years and then maybe replace him halfway through the season means you will get nothing out of this season. If Eli is your QB, that guy has to be a guy who can step in from the 6th spot in the draft and either block for Eli or go tackle the opposing QB, because you need both. How is another QB going to help Eli win next year? The answer he's not. So you have taken one of your biggest assets and allocated for something that can't possibly help, which shows me you don't know what you're doing. First make a commitment, we're in on Eli, we're out on Eli. See if you could do that first. Then get back to me. And if you're in on him, that means you're in all the way. None of this halfway crap, because nothing good happens that way. You'll have another losing season and there's sure been enough of those around the Giants recently."
You can listen to the entire rant from Mike's On above.
