Giants’ Daniel Jones ‘as motivated as ever’ to prove doubters wrong

New York Giants quarterback Daniel Jones stays cool, calm, and picked up no matter circumstance. Regardless of his mellow demeanor, he has endured in depth criticism lately.

Whereas many consider that simply rolls off of Jones’ again, he does hear it and he does see it.

Following a season of regression in 2023, which was capped off with a torn ACL, Jones is utilizing the more and more loud hate as motivation.

“Privately, all offseason lengthy, he’s been telling individuals that he’s as motivated as ever earlier than — the negativity, the speak about drafting a quarterback with the sixth total decide,” Ari Meirov of The thirty third Group mentioned. “That lit a hearth in a participant like him and he needs to show everyone incorrect a yr after getting that large contract.”

At the moment, Jones is down in North Carolina working non-public exercises with a slew of his teammates — an annual occasion for Giants quarterbacks courting again to Eli Manning.

For Jones, it would give him a possibility for extra one-on-one classes together with his receivers and working backs after being held out of 11-on-11’s this spring.

“We have now excessive expectations. We all the time do. You understand, we’re going to get there by placing the work in day by day and ensuring we’re able to go for the primary day of coaching camp, and once we get into coaching camp, getting every thing out of every apply and bettering and rising collectively. We’ve received excessive expectations of what we may be as a workforce and what we may be as an offense,” Jones mentioned throughout minicamp.

Jones additionally mentioned the Giants have centered on creating extra explosive downfield performs this offseason. If he and the talent place gamers can get that firing, possibly DJ will lastly be capable of quiet the noise coming in from exterior the constructing.