Normally, when a team is coming off a 3-13 season while experiencing wholesale changes to the coaching staff and front office, the expectations heading into the following season are modest.
But New York Giants general manager Dave Gettleman is not taking that approach.
Since the Giants hired Gettleman as their new general manager in December, he has made precise moves that he believes will make the team contenders in 2018.
First, he provided reinsurance to Eli Manning that he wants him as his quarterback by not asking Manning to take a pay cut to create more cap space, and by not taking a quarterback with the second pick in the draft.