Hail To The NFC Bottom Feeders

The best thing the Giants have going for them these days is that they aren’t the Jets. But the G-Men aren’t that far off. And the Jets had Sam Darnold’s three-game absence as a legitimate excuse.

- Kevin Gleason

.The Giants?

They are out of excuses.

They are simply a bad football operation, which of course ranks significantly worse than being a bad team or going through a bad stretch. The Giants are below-average both schematically and physically, an unworthy exacta that points to dysfunction from the front office to ownership.

Nobody is a bigger NFL laughingstock these days than the Washington Redskins. Their owner, Daniel Snyder, is widely considered one of the most incompetently intrusive bosses in all of sports. Snyder has transformed a once-proud franchise into a mediocre to unwatchable bunch since assuming ownership in 1999. Washington has had just five winning seasons and two play-off wins during that span.

So it was no surprise that he was back in the news last week, firing head coach Jay Gruden following an 0-5 start, leaving Gruden with a 3549-1 record in five plus seasons. Gruden wasn’t the next coming of Don Shula, don’t get me wrong. But he was clearly swallowed up by a God-awful franchise.

Indeed, the Redskins have been largely a band of misfits for the last five-plus seasons. Yet they possess at least one other claim to shame when it comes to tallying up the NFC East numbers during that span.

The Redskins are two wins better — and 1-1 in playoff appearances — than the New York Giants.