Former Browns GM Michael Lombardi blasts Giants over Hard Knocks revelations
The New York Giants may have shown too much of what they are in their season of Hard Knocks—in other words, their lack of an identity has become very obvious when watching the show. That is, according to Michael Lombardi.
Speaking on Pat McAfee's eponymous show on Wednesday, the former Cleveland Browns general manager said:
“What I find missing in terms of when I watch this show is there’s no identity for the Giants. There is no systematic, ‘This is who we are.’...I watch this show and I see a team that is basically every player is evaluated individually, so they’re adding talent, not building a team.”
He continued:
“When you enter into free agency, you’re entering off how you set up your team needs. And you figure out what player you can get that can adhere to those things. When I watch it, everything comes down to ‘We can get this guy. OK, well maybe we can get that guy.’ And then everybody has a different opinion."
"The great Charlie Munger once said, ‘If you want to make a bad decision, ask a lot of people.' That’s what I watch when I see that.”
Colin Cowherd also sees problems with Giants after seeing Hard Knocks
But Lombardi is not the only one to see trouble coming for the Giants after seeing Hard Knocks. Veteran sportscaster Colin Cowherd also addressed the situation on Wednesday's episode of his FS1 show, The Herd.
According to Cowherd, the clip where team owner John Mara cringed when he learned that Saquon Barkley had joined their divisional rival, the Philadelphia Eagles, in free agency was a telling sign of a breakdown in his trust in Schoen:
“That’s really bad. The underlings have their heads down. Like, it’s really uncomfortable. And Joe Schoen’s answer is, ‘Well, I don’t really know.’ I watch the Giants here and there is a disconnect between owner and GM and I’m uncomfortable watching it," said Cowherd.
He added:
“And it’s so predictable. Saquon’s gonna go crush in Philadelphia. Howie Roseman’s working the Giants... you know he’s gonna go to New York and rush for 120 yards and two touchdowns and the backpage of the New York Post is gonna be ‘Oh No, Joe.'”
A day after losing Barkley, Big Blue signed Devin Singletary, who was coming off 898 yards in 216 touches—both career-highs—for the Houston Texans.