The Giants have set a date for their interview with Ravens defensive coordinator Don “Wink” Martindale. They’ll meet on Saturday, as Peter Schrager of FOXSports.com tweets. 
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Martindale has no head coaching experience, but he has guided Baltimore’s top-rated defense in each of the past two seasons. The league has taken notice and Martindale seems likely to land a head coaching job, if that’s what he wants. The veteran coach has expressed a desire to stay in Baltimore, but you’ll often hear a similar refrain from coordinators weeks before they accept a head coaching gig elsewhere.
If the Giants hire Martindale, he’ll reportedly tap LSU passing game coordinator/wide receivers coach Joe Brady as his offensive coordinator. Martindale, naturally, would keep the majority of his focus on the other side of the ball.
The Giants need help everywhere, essentially, so they’re casting a wide net in their search. Former Packers coach Mike McCarthy and Chiefs offensive coordinator Eric Bieniemy are among the candidates to replace Pat Shurmur as the head coach of the G-Men.
Dont forget to interview a minority even if you dont like him/her.
Bieniemy satisfies the Rooney Rule for them.
That s bienamy
I’m sure you’re a straight white Christian male who’s about 60.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
Hes not going there
Typical Giants what a joke.
Great insight crazylarry.
I was born in 1980. The Giants are my team and have won a title in every decade I’ve been alive. Care to explain how they’re a joke? They suck now, sure but your comment makes them sound like the Browns.
Maybe they’d like to win more than once every ten years?
There jokes. Seems like if you say something wrong about somebody’s team they cry about it and report you or whatever it is. Childish ppls
Giants should be selling this as the best job out there. Because it is. A franchise QB (whose ceiling might be Joe Flaco, but that ain’t bad; Jones might EVEN be better), a prime RB. They may need help everywhere else, but staring with those two makes it easier.
Decent wrs with Tate and Shepard and Engram too. Need to bolster the OL and improve the defense
I’d love to know how you’ve determined that Jones’ ceiling is Flacco. Jones threw for 24 TDs in only 12 games as a rookie. Flacco has only twice thrown more TDs in an entire season (career high 27 TDs; Jones would have eclipsed that easily in a full season). And Jones did it despite a decimated WR corps (Shepard, Engram, and Tate missed lots of time) and having no running game for half the season (Barkley injured and then not at 100%).
Further, they’re not stylistically similar, either. The most rushing yards Flacco has ever had in a season is 180. Jones rand for 279 and, again, it was only in 12 games. Flacco is/was a pocket passer, Jones less so.
I’m not saying Jones will be a better QB than Flacco, just that his ‘ceiling’ is definitely higher than Flacco.
Hmmm maybe, but won’t win y’all no SB. Like my buddy did for us. And dont say the d fence or this or that. He did it for Baltimore.
Joe Flacco didn’t have a running game, had 40 year old washed up WR’s, and a patchwork OL most of his Baltimore career and yet the Ravens made the playoffs almost every single year he was their starting QB and was a superbowl MVP and was the entire reason that team swept the playoffs. Record setting performance.
If Jones can reach that level I am sure the Giants would be very happy with that.
Franchise QB’s don’t turn the ball over that much.
He’s a rookie. He had 12 interceptions and 11 lost fumbles. I’m sure you’re aware, but plenty of ‘franchise QBs’ have indeed turned the ball over that many times as rookies or young QBs. Peyton Manning threw 28 interceptions and lost a fumble as a rookie. In his second full season, Favre threw 24 interceptions and fumbled it 14 times. There are countless other examples.
Have you ever heard of Brett Favre? Eli was also a franchise qb who turned the ball over a lot. Your statement is dumb.
Given his supposed pedigree, i.e. all the work he did with the Mannings, and having Eli standing next to him, I would have thought Jones’ decision making skills would have been better. And the Flaco comparison was for floor/ceiling purposes only; no, they’re not the same type of QB.
But I hardly see DJ as a superstar QB. Somebody in the #8-#13 range, which is where Flaco sits. You won’t NOT get to the SB because Jones is your QB.
WRs? All three are hurt all the time, and Tate ain’t getting any younger. They’re alright…..nothing better than that tho.
“And the Flaco comparison was for floor/ceiling purposes only; no, they’re not the same type of QB.”
Right, which is why I cited numbers showing that putting Flacco as Jones ‘ceiling’ is silly. I’ll just quote it since you ignored it:
“Jones threw for 24 TDs in only 12 games as a rookie. Flacco has only twice thrown more TDs in an entire season (career high 27 TDs; Jones would have eclipsed that easily in a full season). And Jones did it despite a decimated WR corps (Shepard, Engram, and Tate missed lots of time) and having no running game for half the season (Barkley injured and then not at 100%).”
In other words, Jones was on pace for 32 TDs if he’d played all 16 games this year. Flacco’s *career high* (in his prime) was 27. And he did it with a depleted offensive unit. To cap Jones at Flacco’s level makes no sense. His passer rating and QBR (again, as a rookie) were already better than all but three of Flacco’s seasons.
Nobody that is any good is coming here, because of Gettleman. You saw how fast Rivera took the redskins job, he wanted no part of Gettleman! Why don’t we look at Urban as either a GM or coach, he seems to have a great talent for getting good players
This. I hate this clown. I wanted him fired day one. What he did to Cam was a damn joke.