You should hear Anita Marks gush about J.T. Thomas. You'd think this guy was the second coming of Lawrence Taylor... meanwhile, back on planet Earth, this guy was a backup linebacker with a -14.3 PFF grade on a 3-13 team.
Graziano started as the audio engineer for the Giants' podcasts. Listen to how poorly produced one of those shit-shows is and then tell me why the hell he was promoted to anything other than janitor. And by "poorly produced" I mean back when I taught podcasting to sixth-graders, one of their shows would have earned somewhere between a B- and a C.
On the other hand, James Kratch is a new beat reporter and I'm 90% sure he's the son of former Giants guard Bob Kratch, one of my all-time favorite Giants. Should be interesting to hear his perspective on things.