Tampering Tuesday: TFW Even the Giants Look Down on You

The Brian Burns trade leaves the Panthers flatlining, while the Falcons double down on their Kirk Cousins investment and the Commanders sign ... everyone.

The difference between the New York Giants and Carolina Panthers is the difference between a mitigated and an unmitigated disaster.

The Giants make poor decisions for logical football reasons. They keep twiddling with Daniel Jones because he has some useful tools and at least acts like a franchise quarterback. They understand positional value, though they over-invest at high-leverage positions (see Jones). They’re trying to accumulate talent but aren’t very good at it.

The Panthers operate according to the dream logic of their hedge fund billionaire owner and his ever-changing cast of feuding lieutenants. They’ve been hemorrhaging talent since Cam Newton got creaky. They went into crisis mode the moment they realized (about one year after the rest of the football world) that Matt Rhule was a blithering ninny, and they are still there. The Panthers run their roster as if they fell asleep halfway through Moneyball, woke up for the final 20 minutes of Draft Day and mistook both films for documentaries.