The New York Giants are beginning to flip the web page on a muddied chapter for the franchise.
Quarterback Daniel Jones was released Friday after spending six seasons with the crew. He leaves with a suboptimal 22-44-1 file but in addition has led the franchise to its solely playoff win (2022) since Tremendous Bowl XLVI.
It is definitive that the Jones period in New York was an utter failure however who in the end deserves the blame?
Jones ended his tenure with the fifth-most passing yards in franchise history, however his 47 profession interceptions had been the prime focus of criticism. Consistency was arduous to search out in his time as a Big.
In his protection, he by no means had a steady teaching workers surrounding him. Pat Shurmur (one season), Joe Decide (two seasons) and Daboll (three seasons) do not add as much as a conducive surroundings for achievement.
The group poorly dealt with benching him, leading to hard feelings sprouting from Jones’ teammates within the locker room.
Financially, head coach Brian Daboll and common supervisor Joe Schoen share the blame for betting on Jones repeating his 2022 efficiency. Signing him to a mammoth four-year, $160M contract as a substitute of investing in arguably the crew’s finest participant, operating again Saquon Barkley, didn’t work out in anyway.
However not one of the clownery over the previous couple of years would’ve ever occurred if then-general supervisor Dave Gettleman did not waste the sixth total decide on Jones in 2019.
He was by no means a first-round expertise and there have been a number of different choices accessible like Dwayne Haskins or, as a substitute, addressing completely different place wants. Jones, if he was really the man, would’ve been accessible in later rounds.
NFL Community’s Wealthy Eisen weighed in on Jones’ launch on Friday and the conclusion was clear, Gettleman’s choice set the franchise again years.
