Giants’ John Mara: ‘It’s time for us to start winning’
New York Giants co-owner John Mara said it earlier this week and repeated it again on Wednesday: he’s tired of losing, his patience has worn thin and it’s time for the team to start winning.
“Obviously, it would mean the world to me [to turn things around],” Mara told reporters. “It’s been a very difficult four or five year period for us and I’m tired of the losing and of having the postseason press conference trying to explain what went wrong and why I think we’re making progress. It’s time for us to start winning some more and that’s one of the reasons we spent the money we did.”
Although the Giants entered the start of free agency with precious little cap space, they managed to move things around enough to afford a significant spending spree. In fact, the Giants shelled out the third-most guaranteed money in the NFL.
Now Mara wants a return on his investment, although he cautions that the team is far from a finished product.
“I think it’s just that we’re committed to doing whatever we have to do to put a winning team on the field,” Mara said. “As I’ve said before, there were opportunities that presented themselves to add quality young players that were highly regarded, that we think can make an impact and also were positions of need, so we took advantage of them. I think you can’t do that every year, but when the opportunity presents itself I think you have to seize it and I think that’s what we did this year.
“We think it will pay off, but time will tell. We’re certainly not a finished product by any stretch of imagination. We need to add some more pieces in the draft, but I do like the direction that we’re going in.”
Mara stopped short of setting any specific goals or benchmarks, but his message is crystal clear… He’s opened the bank vault and given general manager Dave Gettleman and head coach Joe Judge everything they’ve wanted. Now it’s time to stack W’s.
