Go ahead and criticize Giants owner John Mara, but do not accuse him of meddling based on what has been seen so far on “Hard Knocks.”
Here is the one thing about team owners: They might be overbearing or clueless, but most do not meddle.Yammer on all you want about meddling, and how that relates to John Mara and his involvement with the Giants, if it makes you feel any better. The franchise has fallen into disarray since the most recent Super Bowl triumph after the 2011 season, and the boss man must take his share of the blame for that.
There are those who view what they are seeing on “Hard Knocks’’ as revelatory evidence that the Schoen and Mara relationship is strained. It is fact, not opinion or conjecture, that the two are rock-solid with each other. When Mara said he wouldn’t be able to sleep at night if Barkley went to the Eagles, some viewers characterized it as a warning. Of course, it was not. It was the truth.
“I got to stand by my conviction, that is if you guys got a conviction on a quarterback, that’s what we do,’’ Mara said. It is not a one-sided deal. Schoen walks down the hall and into the owner’s office more often than the other way around. Mara wants to be in the loop, and he is because he is part of the loop. Schoen, 45, understands the value of “managing up’’ — making sure those above him are kept apprised of the decision-making getting done on a daily basis.
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