I would have chosen Haskins rather than Jones

If Louis Riddick had been appointed general manager of the Giants, the current team would be very different. And it's probably a fan of Big Blue who would be happier.

It is likely that superstar receiver Odell Beckham Jr. is the best defenseman and quarterback Dwayne Haskins is waiting for him. Landon Collins would probably still have sunsets in high school and could even have a different head coach to lead the show.

"I would have written Saquon [Barkley]. I would have made sure that this relationship existed between Odell. I could have lived with Eli [Manning] for one year. I understand why Dave [Gettleman] Do it. I would not have written the quarterback they wrote, "said Riddick on a podcast with another ESPN employee, Adam Schefter.

"When it comes to coach selection, I know Pat Shurmur, I've worked with him. Everyone knows how I feel about the other coaches I would like to work with, so a lot of these things would have been different. "

Riddick, an NFL analyst for ESPN, met with Giants co-owners John Mara and Steve Tisch in December 2017. The job was eventually entrusted to Gettleman, who led a series of unpopular moves.

Gettleman traded Beckham to Cleveland one season after awarding him a $ 90 million deal. He chose not to trade or franchise Collins, letting him travel to Washington as a free agency. And he overtook Haskins – and Josh Allen, who made the difference, in this month's draft to pick Daniel Jones with the sixth pick in all, when Riddick felt that the Duke product would probably have been available to Big Blue at 17 years old.

"In 2019, would I want to keep Landon Collins? Absolutely, "said Riddick. "The guys who, when you're crammed into the workout, receive calls from the sideline in the headset and talk to the rest of the team – safety, linebacker, quarterback, center – I Likes these guys a lot. Landon Collins would have been a guy I wanted to keep. I would not want to let him out of there. I did not necessarily like that.

"Regarding the quarterback, I would have given priority to writing a quarterback; I just would not have written this one. Everyone knows how I feel about Dwayne Haskins … I would have chosen this path. "

Riddick understood that when one is inside a team, rather than looking from afar, things can become personal and affect decisions like Beckham's. But he said he would not have moved the wide-star.

"I would have signed it for the long-term extension they've made," Riddick said. "I would have really tried to have a plan in place to make sure that a relationship was in place between him, the head coach and me, so that six months later we did not feel obliged to go on the road and eat in a ridiculous way. amount of space cap.

"That's not why you do that kind of thing. To take those kinds of decisive turns in the decisions you make for high-level players, it tells me that you may have not thought well or that you did not have a good enough plan. It happens. Nobody is perfect. "