Let’s take a look at Nolan’s quote cited in Fooch’s article:

"This is a player that Scot [McCloughan] was interested in, so we claimed him."

What Nolan as a matter of fact is stating, he is declaring indirectly that he had no interest in Kirk Barton until McCloughan “came along” and said “let’s pick Barton off the waivers and take a chance on this kid.” So basically here Nolan had no control over the pick-up on the waiver wire, McCloughan expressed his interest in Barton and got him.

I hope a pizza is not ordered that Nolan was interested in, because it probably won’t taste good- it’ll be a bust!

So do we take McCloughan’s word for it and Nolan’s word for it that he was inoblivious to the transaction making upstairs? Pizza was a bust !

On the McCloughan/Nolan dynamic, you’re right on the two keeping each other abreast of roster needs regularly, and that their conversations probably transpired in those acquisitations, I was ribbing Nolan.

I ribbed Nolan because of his losing record and poor game management, and from the sound bite I grabbed on, I tried to portray Nolan as not having complete control of the ball club.

There is one thing admirable about Nolan, and that is not having controversial players on roster like Pacman Jones (I reverted back to his old name since he reverted back to his old ways), or “the Tank.” He will let go any player who comes up with infractions. Pac Jones begged for another chance only to grin on one side of face and do something foolish in the public. We have players of integrity and of high morale. If there’s dirty laundry to air, that is by sacking the quarterback.

There is absolutely NO reason to roll out that package as the default package this week. If the Giants go three or four wide, by all means, use it. But the coaching staff had better not use it as their base package, or they’ll have lots of ’splainin to do.