When the New York Giants hired Joe Schoen to be their new general manager, it was a marked departure from the status quo.
Not only is Schoen not a part of the direct line of succession that traces back to George Young, but he professes to be a forward thinker in way that’s new for the usually-conservative Giants. That isn’t to say that the Giants have been stuck in the football equivalent of the neolithic period until January of 2022. They were one of the first teams to make use of GPS tracking under Jerry Reese and Tom Coughlin.