Am I just cursed to root for terrible teams? I haven’t been behind a winner since youth football. It is a serious problem when you align yourself with failure time after time. I want the Giants to be better than they are. I want to have something to believe in. I believe in Saqon, but I’m not sure Daboll does. He wouldn’t give the man a chance on 4th and 2 and it resulted in a missed field goal and, eventually, a loss. That is bad coaching, my man. Bad coaching indeed. That awful coaching job really just sets the tone for what I am about to say:
I am tired of people living out their dream at the expense of those around them.
Period. There is no more than that. It happens too damn much. It happens in politics all the time. I mean how is the next election a choice between Biden and Trump? Neither person is the right one for the job. We are simply taking the lesser of two sad sacs. I can speak of this in the close to home version as well. I’m watching my kids play on a losing High school football team because the QB, who is not good is living out his dream instead of stepping aside and saying, “Coach, let’s see what the sophomore has or lets put a plan around the Jr as he learns how to be a QB–They are both better athletes and have more field awareness than me. I can best serve the team in a support role.” But that will never happen. Instead we will lose, and he’ll have an opportunity to say, “I lost but I tried as hard as I could.”
I’m done with all of it. I’m done with people who lack talent getting ahead of those who have it. Sadly, that has become the American way and the American dream–to be rewarded out of anonymity for basically being you. It doesn’t matter if YOU have talent or not. You can keep on acting like you do and nobody cares. They’ll align with you or against you and the act of that alignment makes you that much more popular. I might even go so far as to call it the Deion Effect. It stops being about you and what you’ve put out there and starts being about what you represent–Win or Lose.
I’m drifting in my argument here, but to bring it home: Stop screwing things up, Giants. Get it right and keep what little bit of defensive momentum you have left to power you to at least 7 more wins. That is the bare minimum you’ll need to even have a shot at the playoffs. If you down’t want to do that then it’s time to sell on the season, rest the players recovering, sell off the ones you can, and get ready for next year when you will have Jones for one more year before cutting bait and going with the next guy up.