9:07pm: We can add three more names to the list of Giants GM candidates, all via Peter Schrager of FOX Sports (Twitter links). The Cardinals have requested permission to speak with Cardinals Vice President of Pro Personnel (and former safety) Adrian Wilson, 49ers assistant GM Adam Peters, and 49ers Director of Player Personnel Ran Carthon.
6:38pm: We learned earlier today that Giants GM Dave Gettleman was calling it a career, opening a vacancy atop the organization’s front office. Well, the organization has already started requesting interviews with potential replacements. ESPN’s Adam Schefter reports (via Twitter) that the Giants requested an interview with Bills assistant GM Joe Schoen.
ESPN’s Field Yates tweets that the organization also requested an interview with Chiefs Executive Director of Player Personnel Ryan Poles, while Jonathan Jones of CBS Sports tweets that New York requested interviews with Titans VP of player personnel Ryan Cowden and Titans director of player personnel Monti Ossenfort. Poles will interview Thursday, Albert Breer of SI.com tweets.
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Schoen is set to interview Wednesday, per SNY’s Ralph Vacchiano (on Twitter). Schoen has been with the Bills organization since 2017, and he’s played a major role in the organization’s recent rise in the AFC. Prior to his stint in Buffalo, Schoen spent almost a decade in Miami (when he was endorsed by Bill Parcells), evolving from a national scout into director of player personnel. The executive also had a stint with the Panthers, working his way up from an intern in the ticket office.
Poles was mentioned as a candidate for the Panthers GM job last offseason. The executive has spent much of his career with the Chiefs, working his way up from director of college scouting to executive director of player personnel, where he works alongside GM Brett Veach and assistant GM Mike Borgonzi.
Ossenfort was also a candidate for the Panthers GM gig. The executive previously worked in the Patriots front office before moving on to Tennessee. Cowden has been with the Titans for six years, and that followed an almost two-decade stint with the Panthers organization.
Meanwhile, while many assumed that Giants assistant GM Kevin Abrams would be an option for the top gig, Paul Schwartz of the New York Post tweets that the executive “is not considered to be a candidate.” However, Abrams is respected within the organization and could stick around under a new GM.
Called out Monti Ossenfort getting hired on the Joe Judge post 2 days ago this is the guy they want.
If they hire a GM to fit Joe Judge they are a bigger joke(Clown Show) than already feared. I hope these candidates are allowed to start from scratch, if not, Mara just proves he wants to continue to making all the decisions which is a nightmare.
Agreed. Judge has proven woefully unequipped to be a HC. The dude is so far in over his head, I don’t see how it isn’t embarrassing for that franchise. Time and time again the NE tree has shown it produces rotten fruit when teams try to pull from it.
So what’s better the Giants job with Judge as your head coach or the Vikings or Bears job where you go in and pick the coach? And Judge says he wants input into the GM hire. Bahahahaha! It’s destined to be Kevin Abrams. Mr. 10-23 will think he’s your boss. What a disaster.
Vikings has to be the most desirable. There’s talent on the roster and they’re closer to competing than the Bears. Although Fields could break out next year and change that.
Jacksonville would honestly be more desirable than the Giants job, if it comes available. At least you’d have a QB, nice weather and no Judge as your coach. I cannot fathom why any candidate would want Judge unless they felt it’s their only option to get a GM job. That said, Vikings and/or Bears are more desirable than NY by a mile and a half.
A GM who has to inherit a HC always has the “I didn’t get to choose my guy” excuse to fall back on where a GM coming in with a clean slate doesn’t.
Yes and no. It buys you time, but if the coach isn’t running the system and implementing the culture you want, is it beneficial? It might earn you some extra paydays on the backside before being fired, but I feel like it’d be harder having to restart a rebuild in year 2 or 3 of your tenure. Just my view.
So Kevin Abrahms is so respected in the organization that they want him to stay on? What a joke! The guy is in charge of our salary cap. The same cap that we couldn’t even dress 53 players for our last game because we had no salary cap room! The same guy who has us with a measly $2.4 million in cap space for the 2022-2023 season, with only 43 players under contract? This is the guy they want to stay around because he’s so respected? As a Giants fan since the early 70’s this team has turned into a clown show!
If a new GM is brought in, Abrams is the first who should go…..followed by Judge….whose tough guy persona has worn terribly thin not only with fans, but in the locker room also…..once you lose the locker room, you’re doomed and Mara/Tisch above all should know this.
If you had an owner who actually had earned his fortune, you’d see much more impatience with failure, but in Mara’s case, its different day/same old tune…..disgusting!
I don’t get it.
How does this become an attractive position when you’re brought in with a coach who loses 10+ games a season and is a proven failure both on the field and in the locker room…then you get there, fire the coaching staff, but by that time all the best candidates are taken?
Sounds like 4-13 in 2022. If that, given the cap situation they’ve somehow gotten into.
The Cardinals requested permission to speak to their own VP?