Challenged by team co-owner John Mara to fix a New York Giants roster that “lost some credibility,” general manager Jerry Reese has apparently tweaked his roster-building philosophies in order to solidify the team’s foundation.

Less than 24 hours after seeing the New York Giants finish with its third straight losing season and its fourth without a playoff berth, the embarrassment on New York Giants president and Chief Executive Officer John Mara’s face wasn’t hard to miss.

“Let’s be honest, we’ve lost some credibility as an organization,” he told the assembled media. “When you have three losing years in a row like that, you face a lot of criticism. A lot of it is deserved. It’s up to us now to turn that around and get back to where I think we should be.”

Mara would then go on to challenge Jerry Reese, his team’s general manager, to fix a mess resulting from injuries that exposed the team’s poor performance in the draft and, to a certain extent, free agency.





“Jerry knows this is on him,” Mara said. “You can’t hide from the record. It’s up to you now to get it fixed because the last three years are just not acceptable.”

More than five months after Mara personally put Reese on the hot seat, the Giants embattled general manager appears to have rewarded his boss’s confidence by making what seems to be smarter personnel decisions.

While no one knows what the Giants’ won-loss record by the end of the year will be, the changes made by Reese in building the roster appear, at least on paper, to have solidified the team’s foundation for the first time since 2011.

Let’s take a look.