Throughout the last moments from episode 2 of “Exhausting Knocks: Offseason with the New York Giants,” which aired on Tuesday night time, Giants basic supervisor Joe Schoen was proven talking with operating again Saquon Barkley over the telephone.
The decision, which appeared very chilly in nature, centered across the Giants’ resolution to let Barkley check the free agent market whereas in search of assurances that he’d enable them the choice to match any potential contract supply.
It was the fruits of almost two years of negotiation that yielded no fruit and successfully served as a goodbye given what we all know transpired shortly thereafter.
After having seemingly watched the episode a day late, Philadelphia Eagles radio host Howard Eskin supplied a critique of the scene and the dialog, calling it “asinine” and labeling Schoen an “fool.”
This dialog between Saquon Barkley and #NYGiants GM Joe Schoen I assume Saquon thought was personal. Proven fact that Giants allowed “Exhausting Knocks” put it on the market publicly is a shame. What an asinine dialog by Schoen as effectively. Why would Barkley wish to play for that… pic.twitter.com/pVRtRFJS6Y
— Howard Eskin (@howardeskin) July 10, 2024
Paradoxically, Eskin, who was lately suspended from Phillies house video games for the remainder of the season after allegedly kissing a Residents Financial institution Park’s meals service supplier with out consent, appears uneducated on the extent of editorial management the Giants have on the present.
Though the Giants had been granted editorial management, that’s solely utilized to situations wherein there turns into a transparent aggressive drawback. The telephone name between Schoen and Barkley doesn’t fall beneath that purview and due to this fact the Giants had no say in whether or not or not it was proven.
Maybe extra fascinating is Eskin’s sudden shift in opinion on each Schoen and Barkley.
Virtually a yr in the past to the day, again in July of 2023, Eskin praised Schoen for not signing Barkley to a long-term deal, calling it a “mistake” for the staff to have chosen him second total within the 2018 NFL draft.
Unfortunetly for #Eagles followers, #NYGiants have carried out proper factor not signing Saquon Barkley to a long run contract. Attempting to maneuver on from mistake they made drafting him quantity 2. RB’s want to comprehend its mistake for groups to resign that participant after rookie deal. They all the time get…
— Howard Eskin (@howardeskin) July 17, 2023
Oopsie daisy. That’s somewhat egg on the face.
