This is what rock bottom looks like, New York Giants

How do New York Giants turn it around?

Terry Bradshaw summed up the state of the New York Giants perfectly.

Asked on the Week 18 edition of FOX NFL Sunday why Giants fans should be optimistic about the future, Bradshaw offered a scathing view of how far a once-proud franchise has backslid over the past decade into irrelevancy.

“I can’t,” Bradshaw said. “It’s a bad, bad, bad job. It’s a bad coaching job by Joe Judge, and a bad GM job by Dave Gettleman.”

If New York Giants fans are looking for hope, a pair of top-10 picks in the 2022 NFL Draft are meaningful assets that could make a tangible impact on the trajectory of the franchise.

Likewise, there will be a new general manager calling the shots in New York.

However, fans looking for quick changes or marquee free agent signings, are going to be disappointed.

It would seem that the New York Giants are finally going to be forced into a teardown and long overdue rebuild, after the failures of Gettleman’s free-agent spending sprees the past two offseasons and miscalculations in the NFL Draft, leading back to 2018.

The New York Giants’ front office so badly mismanaged the salary cap that the Giants couldn’t even field 46 active players Sunday afternoon.

Gettleman’s successor inherits just $2.7 million in cap space, with $49 million tied to signing bonus money in 2022 and another $9.4 million in roster bonuses. This will not be a quick, or easy turnaround.

But, two premium draft picks and potentially a new direction from an outside voice could be a solid first step in the right direction for a franchise that has made countless missteps over the past decade.