Chapter 1: What were the initial reactions to Joe Schoen's press conference?
It was exactly what we thought it was going to be. I mean, I thought Joe Shane was a little out of breath.
Yeah, it was a very strange thing there. I felt like he was nervous. You're right. He was nervous, and that's probably what was going on. But what I don't understand is he's been in a lot of situations where he would...
Chapter 2: Why was Joe Schoen nervous during the press conference?
Be more likely to be nervous where it's like these middle of the season into the bye week press conferences where his job is on the line or end of the year. It's another four wins and everybody's asking him why you should still be the general manager while Brian Dable got fired. And this is like the exciting one. You got it done. You're here. You're the man. You're staying.
And then that's why he was out of breath. It was weird, man.
It was kind of strange. And then, of course, because this is New York and because everybody has to know everything and everybody has to kind of understand the pecking order over there at the Quest Diagnostic Center, you know, the questions now start, you know, who's got the final say, who's got this, who's got that.
I mean, this is like John Harbaugh probably doesn't realize it, but now he does realize it, that this is New York, that everybody's going to question everything that you're doing, how you're doing it, who reports to the owner, who doesn't report to the owner. In the building over there, it really doesn't matter much as long as they collaborate.
The one thing I will say, for John Harbaugh to sign a five-year, $100 million deal, he's the one wielding all the power if you care about that kind of thing.
Sure, and John Maris says, listen, everybody's going to collaborate, but he is the most important cog in the wheel, if that answers your question.
Yeah, and John Mara is at the office every single day. Now, given his current health status, that may be a little bit different, and maybe Chris Mara is going to be much more present to help John out and to help these guys make decisions, but they're going to collaborate. That's what they should do. That's the job. Now, it's interesting because that's not what's going on up in Buffalo.
The opposite is going on up in Buffalo right now. And you can say whatever you want about the Buffalo Bills and the decisions that they've made, but where they stand right now, Brandon Bean is the president of football operations. He actually got a raise after he was brought to Buffalo by Sean McDermott. So every team is a little bit different.
I personally like it when the general manager is the guy that's hiring the coach, and he's the guy that is dealing with the coach on a daily basis. But this is completely different. This is a legendary coach. This is a coach that has won a Super Bowl. This is a coach that's coached in this league for 18 years as a head coach. So now you have to have more flexibility when you hire a guy like this.
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Chapter 3: How does John Harbaugh's contract impact his role with the Giants?
The Giants did not use a consulting firm like the Jets seem to use all the time. Yeah, it wasn't Korn Ferry. Yeah, it wasn't a consulting firm here. It was Tom Coughlin who called Chris Mara and said, hey, get your ass down there to Baltimore. And God bless Tom Coughlin. God bless him, man, because, you know, You could have a huge axe to grind if you were him and winning two Super Bowls.
And I remember that day that he was like, oh, man, that was a hard watch. Because maybe it got a little stale, and you can understand that. And maybe that's what happened to John down in Baltimore, too. It gets stale. Things have to change. Things have to move on. I mean, I don't believe that's what's happening up in Buffalo.
Something else happened up in Buffalo, and I'm not really sure what it is. Because, you know, Sean McDermott is still young. He's won all these AFC East titles. He's won, you know, twice as many games than he's lost. He's won five AFC titles. He's done everything you possibly could. And they basically pulled a rug right out from under him. And, you know, I just, I don't get that.
But anyway, so with Tom Coughlin leaving here and the awkwardness of all of that, but for him, the be calling Chris Mara, telling him to get down and go see John Harbaugh. And Chris listening to John and doing that, they built the boats. And they sent Chris Mara down there. And like I was saying earlier last week, I give Chris a lot of credit for going down there.
I didn't realize that it was at the behest of Tom Coughlin.
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Chapter 4: What is the significance of collaboration in the Giants' organization?
Yeah, I don't think anybody did until yesterday when Chris Mara told the story.
By the way, Chris didn't have to tell that story. No. No, I mean, like, he didn't have to tell that story. Because he was getting all the credit. Yeah, but again, like, in Mara-esque fashion, you know, I don't need all the credit. You know, here's a guy who I have listened to, believed in, and I took his advice, and his advice has turned into what we have today.
Yeah, and that's what you love about this team. And some of the questions going into this coaching search was, with all the recent ineptitude of the New York Giants, is that job still looked at as the New York Giants?
And the answer was a resounding yes yesterday with John Harbaugh, the way he talked about ownership and the history and the New York football Giants and all of these things that meant something to him.
That's why last Friday's report out of the NFL Network was asinine. It was all asinine. The whole thing was asinine, because there's no way that the Harbaugh family, you got to remember, I mean, their dad is, you know, was a longtime coach at Western Kentucky. I mean, like, this is coaching, like, this is, I can't explain it. The fabric of coaching is within and woven in the Harbaugh family.
The fabric of the NFL is woven through the Mara family because of how it all started and what went on way back when at the beginning of this great league that we all love. And there was no way that Harbaugh was going to go down this path with the Mara. And not have it come together like it did yesterday. Once you meet and then all of a sudden there's more meetings.
Then you go out to dinner over there. And you're sitting around and you're talking. And John Mara is going through what he's going through. And you have to sit there and you're talking to him knowing what he's going through. There's no way that John Harbaugh is ever backing out of anything.
Yeah, I agree. It was interesting, though, because no one asked him about that in the assembled media session. But Evan asked him when they had him on here on the fan. And and he basically just he didn't he just said, yeah, I don't know about any of that. When you said, hey, were you close to doing something else? Were you close to this thing?
And John Harper's like, I don't I don't know anything about that. And it sort of moved on.
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