This might not have been the start to the offseason most expected from the Giants. They added players — good ones, too — like tight end Isaiah Likely and linebacker Tremaine Edmunds. Aside from that, though, it hasn’t been a wild spending spree.
The Giants targeted players: running back Kenneth Walker and center Tyler Linderbaum. They also worked to try to retain a couple of their own, like Wan’Dale Robinson and Cor’Dale Flott. When those prices got too high, though, they bowed out. That sounds familiar to anyone who watched how John Harbaugh operated in Baltimore.
Good teams aren’t built in free agency. Bad ones that flicker briefly are. The open market is a valuable tool to supplement a roster, but teams get in trouble the minute they enter bidding wars for players who are available for a reason. If Harbaugh returns the Giants to glory, the draft, not free agency, will be the reason why.