How much money and draft capital can a front office set on fire before someone finally takes away the matchbook?

That is the question haunting the New York Giants right now as they stare at a secondary that looks less like a professional defensive unit and more like a crime scene. General Manager Joe Schoen is finding out the hard way that you cannot simply buy a culture or patch over poor development with a checkbook. The situation with Deonte Banks and the subsequent panic signing of Paulson Adebo is a perfect case study in how a franchise loses its way.

We are watching a systemic failure in real time.

Drafting a Square Peg for a Round Hole

The tragedy of Deonte Banks is that the kid actually has talent. When the Giants selected him 25th overall back in 2023, the logic was sound beca

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