This was purported to be a triumphant second for the Giants.
And it nonetheless will probably be, to an extent, now that John Harbaugh has signed on the dotted line. The 2 sides lastly made it official mid-afternoon Saturday after a tense 48-hours of back-and-forth negotiation.
However the confirmed “power struggle,” as a supply referred to as it, throughout negotiations of Harbaugh’s contract creates a foul style getting into what was purported to be a brand new period for the fallen franchise.
Harbaugh, 63, had the entire leverage and no cause to take a job the place he doesn’t have remaining say.
He did his homework on which areas of the Giants constructing want gutting or personnel shifts. He regarded into which members of the group are untouchable third rails which have gotten earlier coaches fired.
The Giants usually are not simply hiring a person in Harbaugh. They’re hiring a program, a means of doing enterprise, a confirmed blueprint of maintain a extra competent and steadier soccer crew.
In the event that they wish to change, they needed to give him the whole lot he needs. In the event that they needed to prioritize private relationships and management, he was not the coach for them.
GM Joe Schoen, the person who stated “coaches come and go” at his finish of season press convention, is on the middle of the conversations on how Harbaugh will carry change to the Giants’ construction.
And that’s precisely what is going on right here:
Harbaugh because the Giants’ coach, won’t reply to Schoen. He may have the tiebreaking personnel vote. And finally, Schoen won’t have any actual say in any respect.
Don’t consider the Wizard of Oz-like studies telling everybody to ‘pay no attention to the man behind the curtain’ throughout this course of.
The fixed public flood of details about the Giants’ Harbaugh courtship, in the meantime, is one other fascinating a part of this drama.
League sources are watching this from afar with mouths on the ground, aghast on the “leakiest” potential course of for hiring a coach.
And folks near the state of affairs even stated that leaks, believed to be from Schoen, prematurely celebrating Harbaugh’s hiring, didn’t go over nicely with the old fashioned coach, who believes in a single message coming from one constructing.
So the Giants closed the cope with Harbaugh. They’re anticipated to introduce him at a press convention on Tuesday. And can probably blame the media for creating destructive narratives.
That’s the easiest way to create the very best optics after the previous 48 hours they’ve had.
However the fact right here is that Schoen’s presence has been an obstacle to the Giants turning over to a very new day, and it didn’t need to be this manner — but it surely now’s.
