EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- It's a whole new world for the New York Giants. They are offering prospective general manager candidates carte blanche to overhaul the organization as needed, and dangling the ability to hire the head coach.
This was perhaps the biggest factor in firing Joe Judge last week. The Giants wanted to offer the new GM the flexibility to align immediately with a coach.
It's a significant development in East Rutherford, where ownership has always made the coaching hires. It wasn't former GM Dave Gettleman who was driving the decisions to hire Pat Shurmur and Judge.