Don't expect much from NY NFL teams

The Giants and Jets offer no hope that it will get better next year or the next few years.

The NFL wild-card playoffs took place this weekend.

Outside of the upstart Washington Commanders’ matchup against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the games were unwatchable.

No matter. At least, those participating NFL teams that play in their respective cities provided hope and buzz.

No one can say the same thing in our town. Our NFL teams that play here are terrible. This is a football graveyard. I know many folks in the tri-state area that root for different NFL teams. You would be hard-pressed to find a kid rooting for the Giants and Jets. That’s a problem, and that’s unacceptable.

Once again, the Jets stink, and they will be looking for a head coach and a new general manager in what is another Wash, Rinse and Repeat episode.

As for the Giants, not only did they stink, but they were unwatchable. Yet, for some reason, Giants owner John Mara decided it was a good idea to retain the incompetent duo of general manager Joe Schoen and coach Brian Daboll. Shit, Shane Bowen was retained as the Giants defensive coordinator, and he ran the team’s worst NFL defense.

Neither the Giants nor the Jets offer hope that it’s going to get better any time soon.

Jets fans at least know better. They know as long as owner Woody Johnson makes the hire of the next scapegoat for general manager and head coach, it will never get better.

Giants fans such as the Shaun Morashs and Paul Dottinos of the world don’t get it along with the media apologists in town. Those folks are part of the problem. As long as they offer blind faith in Mara’s management style of creating stability, it will never get better.

What have Schoen and Daboll done to offer faith? Shut up about their first season. It seemed like 20 years ago. The Giants trended downward the last two seasons.

The next great personnel move Schoen makes will be his first. His first two draft classes have been a bust, which explains why the Giants are in a dark place. Why should we trust him and Daboll to get it right in drafting a quarterback?

For the Morashs and Dottinos of the world who want to hail Schoen for drafting Malik Nabers and Tyrone Tracy Jr., let’s remember those guys did not elevate the team to anything good this year. It’s hard to get excited about that.

I can’t come up with one good free agent move that Schoen made.

Daboll has shown me he can’t coach. His players clearly didn’t play for him at all this year. They know he is a fraud. They know one when they see one.

The Giants head coach may as well be overrated as an offensive guru based on his body of work with the Giants. Could it be that Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen made Daboll than the other way around? I can’t come up with any other quarterback that flourished under Daboll.

Here’s what is indicting about this Giants administration: What player developed into a star under their watch?

Schoen and Daboll acted like used car salesmen when they defended their body of work last week. But then again, Giants fans will believe anything, so why should they ever be honest?

For Mara to be okay with their work and have them stay on, it shows he has low standards of what the Giants should be. His late father Wellington should be embarrassed.

The Jets’ problem starts and ends with Johnson. He has been the constant where coaches and executives come and go in the team’s 14-year playoff drought. What makes anyone think the Jets owner will get it right when he always gets it wrong?

It’s hard to get excited about whoever is the next general manager and head coach, despite the Jets interviewing everyone across the board. Todd Bowles, Adam Gase, Robert Saleh, John Idzik and Joe Douglas had stellar reputations just to be spat out with the losing.

If Johnson ever sold the Jets to successful Mets owner Steve Cohen, you can say there’s hope. Unfortunately, he’s not selling. What’s scary is that he wants his sons to eventually own the team.

When a Jets fan hears stories about Johnson being too involved and his teenage sons having a say, this is not good. It’s going to be hard to get executives and head coaches to come to the Jets. Face it: This Jets job is not appealing whatsoever.

Whoever takes that job deserves a prayer.

The foundations for both teams are a train wreck. There’s nothing funny or interesting about them. It stinks that the season is over before Halloween every year. Even when the Giants made the playoffs a few years ago, it was unmemorable.

This season was the worst season in New York football history. For sure, this was the worst season in Jets history based on so many expectations that this team had this year with Aaron Rodgers back at quarterback after having his season cut short after four snaps with an Achilles injury.

It will get worse before it gets better. Hard to believe since we said that just five years ago.