“Money won’t be issue between Giants & John Harbaugh … the face-to-face with Joe Schoen is big. All phone contact w/ Schoen & in-person w/ Chris Mara have been positive. But Harbaugh will need to connect with Schoen in person in their upcoming meeting and there has to be a sense of a potential partnership like the ones Harbaugh had with Ozzie Newsome and Eric DeCosta. Obviously, Harbaugh will need his share of personnel power. He’s earned that. And the Giants have to figure out what happens if the coach and Schoen disagree on the fifth pick in the draft. This is where the drafting of Dart might help the GM. Daboll wanted Dart more than Schoen did, but Joe listened to his coach and moved up to get the QB. If he listened to Daboll, he sure as hell should listen to Harbaugh. But again, so far so good. Schoen has laid out the whole Giants program to Harbaugh, including analytics, training & medical, etc. … But Schoen-Harbaugh, face to face, could be the difference, along with Mara willingness to make the Giants a bit more of a coach-driven franchise, a la Mike Vrabel-Eliot Wolf in New England. Stay tuned.”
