Maybe this means nothing. It’s reality television, after all. I’m not sure anyone sprints right out to a restaurant simply because Gordon Ramsey has gone all Bobby Knight on some poor sous-chef. A lot of the drive-ins, diners and dives Guy Fieri visits might make our mouths water, but if you visit too many of them, you’re probably going to need to carry gallon jugs of ready-made Alka Seltzer with you.
So yes, the peek behind the curtain we’ve gotten with the Giants the past few weeks on HBO’s “Hard Knocks,” enjoyable as its been, probably doesn’t translate to the kind of regular-season (and beyond) success Giants fans crave. All we need to do is remember how many hours of last summer we spent watching the life and times of Aaron Rodgers, and all of that yielded four plays from scrimmage.
And it’s true, we might be just as impressed if we got to hang out in Brett Veach’s office in Kansas City, or in Brandon Beane’s office in Buffalo, or in John Lynch’s office in San Francisco. You don’t become a general manager in the NFL without being the quickest-thinking guy in most rooms you walk into.
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