What Giants GM Joe Schoen needs to avoid doing this off-season.
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00:00 We all know the state of the Giants.
00:02 They underachieved last year.
00:04 They have a lot of roster holes.
00:05 They have a lot of roster questions.
00:08 And there's not a whole lot of time,
00:11 as in infinitive time, to get everything fixed, right?
00:15 The Giants this year have to show
00:18 some sort of forward progress.
00:20 They have to show that they are on the right track
00:24 after, you know, taking a step back a little bit last year.
00:28 So when you're in that kind of a situation,
00:31 there's usually a temptation to try to expedite
00:35 the forward progress, if you will.
00:39 And that, to me, is where Joe Shane
00:41 needs to be very, very careful.
00:43 I mean, you want to make progress, obviously,
00:46 but Rome was not built in a day.
00:48 And this is year three of the Joe Shane/Ryan Dable era.
00:52 There's a lot of stuff that has to be done.
00:55 Will everything that needs to be done get accomplished?
00:57 Probably not.
00:58 It's very rare that a team finishes everything
01:01 on their to-do list in the off season.
01:03 But what Joe Shane needs to be very careful of, in my opinion,
01:07 is in how he allocates his available resources.
01:11 Now, what do I mean by that?
01:12 Shane, at the Combine on Tuesday morning,
01:16 spoke of his surprise and delight
01:18 at having extra salary cap space.
01:21 The salary cap that he was initially working with,
01:24 I think he said was about $241 million.
01:27 And of course, we all know it went up to $255.4 million.
01:31 So now, all of a sudden, he's got all this extra money.
01:35 And it's kind of like if you play the lottery, I guess.
01:39 If you play the lottery and you're not anticipating
01:42 you're going to win, but suddenly you win
01:44 and you've got an extra, I don't know, 1,000, 5,000,
01:47 however much that you win in the lottery.
01:51 And now the temptation is to run out and spend it.
01:55 Okay, maybe you couldn't afford that steak dinner
01:58 at the fine restaurant,
01:59 but now that you've got that extra $1,000,
02:01 you can go out and you can afford to spend on steak
02:04 rather than having to eat hamburger.
02:06 This is what Joe Shane needs to be careful of.
02:08 And I'm not talking about food, by the way.
02:11 I'm talking about resisting the urge
02:13 to go out and spend like a madman in free agency.
02:18 I'm talking about the urge to go out
02:20 and overvalue his own free agents.
02:24 Now, Shane, in my opinion, has a good head on his shoulders.
02:29 He's not the type of GM that strikes me
02:33 as somebody who's going to go crazy.
02:36 You know, I go back to the last year
02:38 of the Dave Gettleman era,
02:39 when they just went bonkers in free agent spending
02:43 to the point where they were manufacturing money
02:46 through restructurings and whatnot,
02:49 because there was such a sense of priority.
02:52 I think it was year four of the Gettleman era.
02:54 There was such a high priority
02:55 and there was pressure to get the organization
02:58 and the franchise back on track, right?
03:01 This is year three, as I mentioned,
03:04 of the Shane and Abel era.
03:06 There is a sense of urgency, but that being said,
03:10 there also has to be a degree of patience.
03:14 So Shane, you know, will he have a little extra money
03:18 that maybe he could throw to Saquon or to Xavier McKinney
03:21 or to Gunnar Olshefsky, for example?
03:24 Yes.
03:25 Does it mean throw open the bank vault
03:27 and give them, you know, the whole pie, if you will?
03:31 No, absolutely not.
03:33 That's not what you want to get into.
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