The Giants‘ belief in GM Joe Schoen looks more absurd in light of the Miami Dolphins’ Friday firing of GM Chris Grier.
Grier ran the Dolphins for nine full seasons and part of a 10th. He finished with a .490 regular season winning percentage (77-80), a .517 AFC East winning percentage (30-27), three playoff berths and no postseason wins.
Schoen, meanwhile, has a .347 regular season winning percentage (20-38-1), a .217 NFC East winning percentage (5-17-1), one playoff berth and one postseason win in 2022.
Schoen also has an astounding 2-14-0 record (.125 winning percentage) in 16 meetings with the Giants’ two biggest rivals: He is 0-7 against the Dallas Cowboys and 2-7 against the Philadelphia Eagles.
Even Grier’s 4-15 record against the Bills (.211) comes with a higher winning percentage than that. And he beat up on the Jets, going 15-4 (.789), winning the games he was supposed to.
Schoen (3-3-1) isn’t even over .500 against the Washington Commanders.
Grier made it through three head coaches: Adam Gase (23-25, .479), Brian Flores (24-25, .489) and Mike McDaniel (30-30, .500). Schoen came in as a collaborative pairing with Brian Daboll, who also was in line for the Dolphins’ job that McDaniel landed in 2022.
It’s possible Schoen will become the beneficiary of Grier’s firing because the Dolphins now may trade some of its most attractive available players.
It’s wild, though, that the historic Giants franchise continues to tolerate being a laughingstock under Schoen when a franchise like the Dolphins is putting its foot down on a GM who hovered around .500.
It reinforces how far they’ve fallen.
