Is it already Joe Schoen vs John Harbaugh in New York?
Andrew Siciliano, Jori Epstein, and Frank Schwab discuss the impact of Harbaugh requesting to report to ownership and not the GM. (via Inside Coverage)
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John Harbaugh was asked, "Why was it such a big deal to not answer to Joe Shane and hold?"
up the negotiations so that you could answer instead to ownership?"
John Harbaugh was definitely, like, kissing Joe Shane's butt publicly so that he didn't look like he had just kind of taken some of the power from him.
Joe Schoen still has some degree of authority.
Because, one, he's the GM, but his authority right now.
Despite the record, comes from finding Jackson Dark.
As long as they're winning, it's less of a big deal.
If John Harbaugh is not reporting to Joe Shane and they start having trouble, I mean, Joe Shane's gonna be the fall guy.
But Joe Shane will be the fall guy first anyway.
Most likely because he hasn't won a Super Bowl, and he's been there longer.
I'd like the model to just clear it out, bring in a new head coach and GM at the same time.
Joe Shane was already on the hot seat, and the Giants keeping him around was just weird, anyway.
The odd thing is, is that eight of the 10 openings kept the GM.
