New York Giants GM Jerry Reese on another 9-7 season – NFL News
The New York Giants hardly managed to win nine games in the 2011 season and were lucky enough to qualify for the playoffs. Their performance in the postseason, however, was much more impressive and they eventually won the Super Bowl.
When the 2012 season started, the Giants hoped to defend their title well, but the commitment to do so was not reflected on the field. They lost a couple of close-margin games, gave some sloppy and costly plays away, and did not seal the division when they
had a chance.
They ended the 2012 season after once again winning nine games, but this time nine wins were not enough to see them through to the playoffs.
A nine-win season is in fact never enough to earn a playoff spot. The Giants were lucky to get through to the postseason last time, but fortune is not going to favour them again, not if they are not willing to improve. There are teams in the league that
finished with 10 wins and still could not make the postseason.
This, according to Giants general manager Jerry Reese, is not a very promising situation. Speaking on the team’s 9-7 record for the second straight time, the general manager said, via Giants’ website:
“We don’t get paid here for the Giants to go 9-7. We got away with that last year, things worked out for us, but we don’t go into our season saying, “Man, let’s go 9-7.”
He added:
“The Bears, they go 10-6 and they don’t get in. A couple years ago we go 10-6 and we didn’t get in the playoffs. That’s not a given either.”
Reese asserted that the Giants do not want the same record again. While trying to reason the team’s failure, the Giants general manager did not have anyone but his team to blame. Reese said:
“Again, we set the bar very high here and we didn’t get the job done. Like I said, I wish I could say something clever to make it sound good, but we didn’t get the job done.”
Meanwhile, Reese has said that he is going to start an evaluation process and judge every player’s performance so as to make some important decisions with respect to the team’s future.
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