Giants GM Joe Schoen on season expectations: 'We're just trying to get through today'

That is the good news.

The bad news is that new duo has quite mess to clean up after inheriting a bad roster and a disaster of a salary cap situation from the previous front office regime.

Schoen and Daboll both met with the New York media on Thursday, with Schoen dodging questions about what to expect from the team this season and starting quarterback Daniel Jones. When asked about expectations for this season Schoen simply said "we're just trying to get through today," while adding “The situation we’re in is the situation. It’s the hand we were dealt. We’re going to do the best we can," via Fox Sports' Ralph Vacchiano.

Just how bad is the situation?

Well, for starters the team is coming off of a 4-13 season and is lacking talent across the board. The roster is dramatically behind the divisional favorites in Philadelphia and Dallas, so third place might be the realistic ceiling for this team.

They have also not won more than six games since 2016 and has just one winning season (that 2016 season) over the previous nine seasons.

Even worse, they have a fourth-year quarterback in Daniel Jones that has struggled so much early in his career that his fifth-year option was declined, which could put them in the market for another quarterback after this season.

Oh, but it gets worse. The Giants entered the offseason needing to trim more than $40 million from their salary cap just to get under the cap ceiling for the season. With the season just a little more than a week away they still sit more than $5 million over the cap (more than any other team in the NFL) while having more than $34 million in dead salary cap space. That means Schoen is going to have to restructure another contract or two over the next few days just to become cap compliant.

You can kind of see why he is not really interested in talking about expectations for this season with all of that because he probably knows it is going to be ugly.

Honestly, the best thing that could happen would probably be brutal season that positions them to draft one of C.J. Stroud or Bryce Young at quarterback this April.