1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:06,040 Speaker 1: Statement the reissue this morning. I met with Joe Shane 2 00:00:06,120 --> 00:00:10,960 Speaker 1: and Brian David Friday afternoon for several hours, after which 3 00:00:12,800 --> 00:00:16,040 Speaker 1: I had a conversation with Steve Tisch and we spook 4 00:00:16,200 --> 00:00:18,840 Speaker 1: some more over the weekend and just came to the 5 00:00:18,920 --> 00:00:21,680 Speaker 1: decision that's staying with both of them is the best 6 00:00:21,720 --> 00:00:25,040 Speaker 1: course of action for us right now. I think in 7 00:00:25,160 --> 00:00:28,120 Speaker 1: Brian's case, he was the coach of the year two 8 00:00:28,200 --> 00:00:32,120 Speaker 1: years ago that didn't disappear all of a sudden. I 9 00:00:32,120 --> 00:00:35,640 Speaker 1: still believe he can do that again. And in Joe's case, 10 00:00:37,080 --> 00:00:39,400 Speaker 1: I thought we had an outstanding draft class this year. 11 00:00:39,440 --> 00:00:42,680 Speaker 1: I thought we had a really good free agency period, 12 00:00:43,040 --> 00:00:45,479 Speaker 1: and I really like the staff that he's put together 13 00:00:45,960 --> 00:00:48,680 Speaker 1: and built, and I think that they're the right two 14 00:00:48,720 --> 00:00:52,400 Speaker 1: guys to lead us going forward. I understand believe me 15 00:00:52,840 --> 00:00:55,920 Speaker 1: that that's not gonna be the most popular decision in 16 00:00:56,040 --> 00:00:59,360 Speaker 1: Giant Land, but you believe it's the right decision for 17 00:00:59,440 --> 00:01:02,080 Speaker 1: us going forward. So with that, I thought it'd come 18 00:01:02,080 --> 00:01:06,160 Speaker 1: out and face the music and and listen to your questions. 19 00:01:06,480 --> 00:01:09,000 Speaker 2: John, what is your message to Giants fans who are 20 00:01:09,120 --> 00:01:10,240 Speaker 2: very frustrated right now? 21 00:01:10,920 --> 00:01:15,160 Speaker 1: Nobody's more frustrated and upset than I am. I appreciate 22 00:01:15,240 --> 00:01:18,840 Speaker 1: the fact that they have with us. I get your frustrations, 23 00:01:18,880 --> 00:01:21,480 Speaker 1: I feel your pain, but I still believe this is 24 00:01:21,520 --> 00:01:23,199 Speaker 1: the right decision for us going forward. 25 00:01:23,319 --> 00:01:26,199 Speaker 3: And you said, John that you said that Brian's coach 26 00:01:26,240 --> 00:01:28,040 Speaker 3: of the year, great draft classic at the end of day, 27 00:01:28,080 --> 00:01:30,920 Speaker 3: guys from three games, So how does that don't wear 28 00:01:31,040 --> 00:01:31,600 Speaker 3: how many games? 29 00:01:31,640 --> 00:01:34,480 Speaker 1: People? And obviously the results are not even close to 30 00:01:34,560 --> 00:01:37,600 Speaker 1: what we want them to be and they're going to 31 00:01:37,680 --> 00:01:41,000 Speaker 1: have to get better if we're going to move out. 32 00:01:41,040 --> 00:01:44,200 Speaker 4: In your form, Johnny John, after the season last year, 33 00:01:44,240 --> 00:01:46,760 Speaker 4: you always say, I need to see progress. I need 34 00:01:46,760 --> 00:01:48,920 Speaker 4: to see the arrow pointing up. I need to see improvement. 35 00:01:49,920 --> 00:01:51,960 Speaker 4: What signs are there with the three win team that 36 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:53,040 Speaker 4: any of that has taken place. 37 00:01:53,240 --> 00:01:58,640 Speaker 1: Certainly the signs were not u based on a record. However, 38 00:02:01,120 --> 00:02:03,480 Speaker 1: in Joe's case, I think the draft class that we 39 00:02:03,560 --> 00:02:06,880 Speaker 1: had was really productive. I think all six of those 40 00:02:06,880 --> 00:02:08,919 Speaker 1: guys are going to help us a great deal. Let 41 00:02:08,919 --> 00:02:13,280 Speaker 1: the free agency brought in, including Brian Burns, we're really 42 00:02:13,280 --> 00:02:17,079 Speaker 1: a big plus. And I think the staff that he's 43 00:02:17,080 --> 00:02:19,600 Speaker 1: assembled around him and the process that we go through now, 44 00:02:19,680 --> 00:02:23,440 Speaker 1: the information that we have in making personnel decisions is 45 00:02:23,480 --> 00:02:27,800 Speaker 1: better than I've ever seen it before. And Brian Davis's case. Listen, 46 00:02:27,919 --> 00:02:29,720 Speaker 1: I'm at practice all the time, I go to the 47 00:02:29,720 --> 00:02:32,880 Speaker 1: team meetings, I watch the players, I watch how they react. 48 00:02:33,919 --> 00:02:36,560 Speaker 1: I still think he's the right guy to lys. If 49 00:02:36,800 --> 00:02:39,560 Speaker 1: I'm sitting here a year from now you're asking me 50 00:02:39,639 --> 00:02:42,920 Speaker 1: these questions, I'll take the heat. But at the end 51 00:02:42,919 --> 00:02:44,840 Speaker 1: of the day, we've got to make a decision, and 52 00:02:44,880 --> 00:02:45,480 Speaker 1: we've made one. 53 00:02:45,600 --> 00:02:48,919 Speaker 5: John, he's really a two year commitment to them, because 54 00:02:48,919 --> 00:02:51,560 Speaker 5: I think back to when you had Daniel Jones and 55 00:02:51,600 --> 00:02:53,799 Speaker 5: you said we've done everything to screw them up, firing 56 00:02:53,840 --> 00:02:56,120 Speaker 5: a rookie, firing the coach after a rookie quarterback. 57 00:02:56,160 --> 00:02:58,239 Speaker 1: If you're going to draft a rookie quarterback and then. 58 00:02:58,280 --> 00:03:01,440 Speaker 5: Change the head coach GM after that, is this really 59 00:03:01,480 --> 00:03:02,639 Speaker 5: a two year commitment to them? 60 00:03:02,760 --> 00:03:04,760 Speaker 1: I understand the question, but I'm not going to put 61 00:03:04,760 --> 00:03:06,799 Speaker 1: any kind of time loving on it. But I certainly 62 00:03:06,880 --> 00:03:09,680 Speaker 1: understand where you're going with that. You do need a quarterback, 63 00:03:09,720 --> 00:03:11,600 Speaker 1: So how important is that decision going to be to 64 00:03:12,639 --> 00:03:15,160 Speaker 1: keeping them here and seeing what they can do. That's 65 00:03:15,160 --> 00:03:17,960 Speaker 1: obviously the number one issue for us going into this offseason. 66 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:20,560 Speaker 1: Is to find our quarterback in the future, whether that 67 00:03:20,680 --> 00:03:24,320 Speaker 1: be via the draft or acquiring a veteran is going 68 00:03:24,360 --> 00:03:25,440 Speaker 1: to be up to them to decide. 69 00:03:25,520 --> 00:03:29,320 Speaker 3: Ultimately, Johnny, you talked about, you know, the process being good, 70 00:03:29,840 --> 00:03:33,079 Speaker 3: the coach, you know, having it in there, the free 71 00:03:33,120 --> 00:03:35,280 Speaker 3: agency being good in their process, that all this stuff, 72 00:03:35,640 --> 00:03:37,640 Speaker 3: How do you justify, like, how did you get the 73 00:03:37,680 --> 00:03:38,640 Speaker 3: three and fourteen then? 74 00:03:39,240 --> 00:03:42,040 Speaker 1: Because we stunk this year? Okay, the results on the 75 00:03:42,080 --> 00:03:44,000 Speaker 1: field were not what we wanted them to be. There 76 00:03:44,040 --> 00:03:46,600 Speaker 1: are a number of factors that went into that. A 77 00:03:46,600 --> 00:03:50,240 Speaker 1: lot of that has already been discussed with the coach 78 00:03:50,280 --> 00:03:53,120 Speaker 1: and with Joe, and we'll continue to be discussed. And 79 00:03:53,400 --> 00:03:57,640 Speaker 1: but I liked what I heard from them on Friday afternoon. 80 00:03:57,680 --> 00:04:01,520 Speaker 1: I like what their plan is going forward, and we're 81 00:04:01,520 --> 00:04:02,360 Speaker 1: going to stay with it. 82 00:04:03,520 --> 00:04:05,480 Speaker 3: People are separating the too. 83 00:04:05,680 --> 00:04:08,520 Speaker 1: I understand that. I understand that. Believe me, I understand that. 84 00:04:08,760 --> 00:04:11,640 Speaker 1: It's a bottom line business. You're judged on what your 85 00:04:11,680 --> 00:04:14,600 Speaker 1: record is, and our record is pretty lousy right now. 86 00:04:14,640 --> 00:04:17,760 Speaker 1: And I get that, and I take responsibility for that. 87 00:04:17,839 --> 00:04:22,599 Speaker 1: But again, when you make these changes, and god knows, 88 00:04:22,600 --> 00:04:24,919 Speaker 1: we've made them in the past and been impatient in 89 00:04:24,960 --> 00:04:27,080 Speaker 1: the past, and when you do that, you feel like 90 00:04:27,120 --> 00:04:29,039 Speaker 1: you take one step forward and two steps back, and 91 00:04:29,080 --> 00:04:31,480 Speaker 1: I just didn't want to fall into that cycle again. 92 00:04:31,480 --> 00:04:34,520 Speaker 1: I wanted to give people a chance to build this 93 00:04:34,560 --> 00:04:37,120 Speaker 1: thing the right way and to get us to where 94 00:04:37,160 --> 00:04:40,080 Speaker 1: we need to be one at a time, one at 95 00:04:40,080 --> 00:04:40,360 Speaker 1: a time. 96 00:04:40,400 --> 00:04:41,920 Speaker 5: Why do you believe you're building it the right way 97 00:04:41,960 --> 00:04:44,159 Speaker 5: when it's gone nine to seven and one, six and 98 00:04:44,160 --> 00:04:45,400 Speaker 5: eleven and fourteen. 99 00:04:47,040 --> 00:04:49,440 Speaker 1: I certainly can't justify it based on the records, but 100 00:04:49,480 --> 00:04:52,400 Speaker 1: again based on my observation of how they work together, 101 00:04:53,560 --> 00:04:55,960 Speaker 1: of how the players respond to them, and how Joe 102 00:04:56,040 --> 00:04:59,440 Speaker 1: is going about building the roster going forward. It's my 103 00:04:59,560 --> 00:05:03,680 Speaker 1: instinct and my strong belief that that we are going 104 00:05:04,680 --> 00:05:06,280 Speaker 1: that we are going to go in the right direction. 105 00:05:06,320 --> 00:05:07,560 Speaker 1: It's hard for me to say we're going in the 106 00:05:07,640 --> 00:05:10,480 Speaker 1: right direction right now because we've been going backwards and 107 00:05:10,600 --> 00:05:14,240 Speaker 1: nobody feels that any more than I do. Okay, I 108 00:05:14,560 --> 00:05:16,880 Speaker 1: hate having to go through this process. I hate having 109 00:05:16,920 --> 00:05:19,360 Speaker 1: to answer these questions, but at the end of the day, 110 00:05:19,360 --> 00:05:22,560 Speaker 1: you got to take a calm, rational look at things, 111 00:05:22,960 --> 00:05:25,359 Speaker 1: and we did that, and this is the decision that 112 00:05:25,400 --> 00:05:28,560 Speaker 1: we came up Friday that gives you confident I'm not 113 00:05:28,560 --> 00:05:31,560 Speaker 1: going to go into all the details something I understand 114 00:05:31,560 --> 00:05:34,120 Speaker 1: that I understand that obviously the quarterback is is the 115 00:05:34,120 --> 00:05:37,400 Speaker 1: big issue, and you know, maybe he makes uh some 116 00:05:37,520 --> 00:05:41,360 Speaker 1: other changes in the way he operates going forward. I've 117 00:05:41,360 --> 00:05:44,080 Speaker 1: talked to him about do you really believe that it's 118 00:05:44,080 --> 00:05:46,679 Speaker 1: in our bed interest for you to continue calling the plays? 119 00:05:47,400 --> 00:05:49,880 Speaker 1: I said, I'm not going to demand that you do 120 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:53,359 Speaker 1: one one thing or the other, but are better letting 121 00:05:53,360 --> 00:05:55,320 Speaker 1: somebody else call the place? And that's a discussion that 122 00:05:55,360 --> 00:05:57,599 Speaker 1: we're going to continue to have. There are issues like 123 00:05:57,640 --> 00:05:59,920 Speaker 1: that that we have to have some further discussion. But 124 00:06:00,200 --> 00:06:02,120 Speaker 1: at the end of the day, he's got to make 125 00:06:02,160 --> 00:06:05,440 Speaker 1: the decision on whether he does that, on whether he 126 00:06:05,480 --> 00:06:09,240 Speaker 1: wants to make replacements in the staff. That that's got 127 00:06:09,279 --> 00:06:10,680 Speaker 1: to be his decision at the end of the day. 128 00:06:11,800 --> 00:06:13,680 Speaker 4: These guys come back on a hot seat, I'll come back. 129 00:06:14,400 --> 00:06:16,000 Speaker 4: Did these guys come back on a hot seat? 130 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:18,159 Speaker 1: Now? You guys are going to have number one on 131 00:06:18,200 --> 00:06:20,200 Speaker 1: the hot seat going forward? Said, No matter how I 132 00:06:20,240 --> 00:06:25,200 Speaker 1: answer that question, we're going to have to see I'm 133 00:06:25,200 --> 00:06:27,200 Speaker 1: going to have to be in a better move this 134 00:06:27,279 --> 00:06:30,760 Speaker 1: time next year than I am right now. I'm sorry 135 00:06:31,920 --> 00:06:34,160 Speaker 1: beyond quarterback and likelin, what are some of those other 136 00:06:34,200 --> 00:06:37,760 Speaker 1: issues that you see. I mean, quite frankly, I didn't 137 00:06:37,760 --> 00:06:39,719 Speaker 1: think our defense played very well this year at all. 138 00:06:40,279 --> 00:06:42,360 Speaker 1: I know that when you have an offense it performs 139 00:06:42,360 --> 00:06:44,560 Speaker 1: like that, you're putting more pressure on your defense. But 140 00:06:44,600 --> 00:06:48,160 Speaker 1: we need to make improvements there. You know, I'm tired 141 00:06:48,200 --> 00:06:51,000 Speaker 1: of watching teams go up and down the field, honest, 142 00:06:51,040 --> 00:06:53,760 Speaker 1: so I think that has to be addressed. I think, 143 00:06:54,360 --> 00:06:56,640 Speaker 1: you know, we need some more depth in the offensive line. 144 00:06:56,960 --> 00:07:00,520 Speaker 1: But number one thing, certainly is the quarterbacks on the 145 00:07:00,680 --> 00:07:02,960 Speaker 1: rosters better than it was three years ago. In these 146 00:07:02,960 --> 00:07:08,200 Speaker 1: two I'm not sure I am all that competent, that 147 00:07:08,320 --> 00:07:13,840 Speaker 1: is that much better. I think though, with the draft 148 00:07:13,840 --> 00:07:16,920 Speaker 1: class that we just had again it's very unusually you 149 00:07:16,960 --> 00:07:19,840 Speaker 1: have six draftees, all of them you think are going 150 00:07:19,920 --> 00:07:22,360 Speaker 1: to help us going forward. I thought that was a 151 00:07:22,440 --> 00:07:24,920 Speaker 1: huge step. And the free agency that we picked up 152 00:07:24,960 --> 00:07:28,360 Speaker 1: between you know, Runyon and bringing Brian Burns in here, 153 00:07:28,360 --> 00:07:30,240 Speaker 1: I think that was really going to help us going forward. 154 00:07:30,480 --> 00:07:33,160 Speaker 1: I think once you solve the quarterback issue, I think 155 00:07:33,200 --> 00:07:34,880 Speaker 1: a lot of these other things will improve as well. 156 00:07:34,880 --> 00:07:36,560 Speaker 3: I guess when a fancies that here's that though, that 157 00:07:36,600 --> 00:07:39,400 Speaker 3: you're not confident the rosters better three years making a charge. 158 00:07:39,400 --> 00:07:42,040 Speaker 1: I mean, how can I say that it's better if 159 00:07:42,040 --> 00:07:46,240 Speaker 1: we win three games. We need to win more games 160 00:07:46,240 --> 00:07:47,840 Speaker 1: for us to be able to prove that point. But 161 00:07:48,440 --> 00:07:51,080 Speaker 1: there's just a better feeling in the building now that 162 00:07:51,080 --> 00:07:53,400 Speaker 1: that we're that we've got the right pieces in place. 163 00:07:53,480 --> 00:07:56,200 Speaker 1: We have a lot of holes to fill, and that's 164 00:07:56,240 --> 00:07:57,679 Speaker 1: what this offseason is going to be about. 165 00:07:57,840 --> 00:08:00,400 Speaker 3: How long will it take to improve the product? 166 00:08:00,480 --> 00:08:03,840 Speaker 1: John better not take too long poost because I've just 167 00:08:03,880 --> 00:08:11,400 Speaker 1: about run out of patience. Sound the money remaining on 168 00:08:11,480 --> 00:08:15,720 Speaker 1: their contracts, The fact that there was absolutely absolutely not 169 00:08:16,120 --> 00:08:18,800 Speaker 1: absolutely not that that's never been a factor in any 170 00:08:18,840 --> 00:08:20,400 Speaker 1: coaching decision that we've ever made here. 171 00:08:21,640 --> 00:08:24,120 Speaker 3: Quarterback, you have the number one pick two weeks ago, 172 00:08:24,360 --> 00:08:26,200 Speaker 3: and then you win the Colts game, and then it 173 00:08:26,240 --> 00:08:27,679 Speaker 3: seems like you didn't go all out yesterday. 174 00:08:27,680 --> 00:08:30,440 Speaker 1: Why not have just tanked if you knew they If 175 00:08:30,440 --> 00:08:32,400 Speaker 1: I had thought that we were tanking either one of 176 00:08:32,400 --> 00:08:34,800 Speaker 1: those games, I would have fired everybody. We are never 177 00:08:34,800 --> 00:08:37,240 Speaker 1: going to do that in this organization as long as 178 00:08:37,240 --> 00:08:41,080 Speaker 1: I'm standing on this side of the grass. John. 179 00:08:42,120 --> 00:08:43,760 Speaker 5: We didn't get to talk to you after the planes. 180 00:08:43,760 --> 00:08:47,520 Speaker 1: How much did that bother you? And listen, I didn't 181 00:08:47,520 --> 00:08:50,440 Speaker 1: need planes flying over me to tell me how upset 182 00:08:50,480 --> 00:08:54,200 Speaker 1: the fans are. I hear from them every day, so 183 00:08:54,360 --> 00:08:57,040 Speaker 1: that really did not have much of an effect. I 184 00:08:57,320 --> 00:08:59,800 Speaker 1: get how how upset they are. I try to respond 185 00:08:59,800 --> 00:09:04,120 Speaker 1: to them. Nobody was more upset than I am about 186 00:09:04,880 --> 00:09:07,720 Speaker 1: how we performed in recent years. And you know, I 187 00:09:07,760 --> 00:09:09,520 Speaker 1: have to stand up here and take the heat for that. 188 00:09:09,559 --> 00:09:12,000 Speaker 3: Big failure of this regime. With Daniel Jones contract, I 189 00:09:12,040 --> 00:09:14,160 Speaker 3: think the question is how much of a handed ownership. 190 00:09:14,200 --> 00:09:16,480 Speaker 3: Having that deal, you're resolving them of that mistake. 191 00:09:16,679 --> 00:09:19,720 Speaker 1: Now, listen, we made a decision at the end of 192 00:09:19,760 --> 00:09:22,320 Speaker 1: the twenty two season based on how Daniel had played, 193 00:09:22,840 --> 00:09:25,480 Speaker 1: that we're going to sign up to that contract. I 194 00:09:25,520 --> 00:09:28,960 Speaker 1: approved that, and we live with the results. 195 00:09:30,760 --> 00:09:34,680 Speaker 2: Believe in Joe and Dave's after speaking with them on Friday, 196 00:09:34,720 --> 00:09:38,240 Speaker 2: after watching them. But you also do not want a 197 00:09:38,440 --> 00:09:41,840 Speaker 2: starting over process. You've been through this process enough. Is 198 00:09:41,880 --> 00:09:45,120 Speaker 2: it more belief in them than the pain of having 199 00:09:45,120 --> 00:09:48,000 Speaker 2: to start over, or is it not wanting to start over? 200 00:09:48,400 --> 00:09:51,040 Speaker 1: I think it's a combination of things. It's a belief 201 00:09:51,040 --> 00:09:53,640 Speaker 1: in them, number one, But Number two, I think when 202 00:09:53,640 --> 00:09:58,080 Speaker 1: you start over, you really set yourselves back. And when 203 00:09:58,120 --> 00:10:01,360 Speaker 1: you have a belief in the two individuals that are 204 00:10:01,440 --> 00:10:04,280 Speaker 1: leading the organization, you have to have the patience to 205 00:10:04,320 --> 00:10:07,320 Speaker 1: stay with it. And again, if we're s standing here, 206 00:10:07,360 --> 00:10:09,960 Speaker 1: if I'm standing here a year from now and we're 207 00:10:09,960 --> 00:10:12,120 Speaker 1: having the same conversation, I'll take the heat for it, 208 00:10:12,160 --> 00:10:14,400 Speaker 1: but I still think we still believe that it's the 209 00:10:14,480 --> 00:10:16,400 Speaker 1: right decision going forward.