The New York Giants signed quarterback Daniel Jones to a four-year, $160 million contract earlier this offseason. It’s a deal that might be value as a lot as $190 million in complete.
For a lot of, that was a shocking quantity. Jones had largely been inconsistent over his first 4 years with many refusing to acknowledge the unhealthy hand he had been dealt (after which dealt time and again).
However the Giants by no means wavered. Common supervisor Joe Schoen and head coach Brian Daboll had been each public and clear with their help of Jones. And that was the identical help expressed by varied earlier regimes.
It was apparent that, at the very least contained in the constructing in East Rutherford, Jones had made believes out of anybody who crossed his path. However the exterior notion by no means matched that and the disconnect continues to this present day.
An nameless NFL govt lately ripped the Giants’ resolution to signal Jones to a long-term deal, telling Mike Sando of The Athletic they need to have invested that cash into Saquon Barkley as an alternative.
“They might have been higher off doing a foul take care of Saquon Barkley and (franchise) tagging Jones moderately than the opposite manner round,” an exec stated. “Who was going to step out and pay Daniel Jones? That one was wild.”
After all, there’s no strategy to know what Jones would have earned on the open market as a result of the Giants refused to let him check it. What is definite is that had the Giants tagged Jones as an alternative of Barkley, their cap state of affairs would have been in additional dire form than it at present is and that’s with out accounting for the $16 million per season Barkley has been demanding.
The irony of the criticism is that the Giants would have been pressured to pay a operating again nicely above market worth or threat dropping him altogether, basically costing Jones his finest offensive asset.
“That’s shocking that they didn’t attempt to squeeze (Jones) somewhat bit, however the brand new regime simply obtained there and gained with him,” one other exec stated. “They most likely wish to proceed to instill confidence in him. They overpaid Eli (Manning) prior to now. That might simply be a place they don’t wish to fiddle with and get too cute with.”
Eli Manning, in fact, gained two Tremendous Bowls. If the Giants overpaid for him and netted that consequence, would anybody inside the group or their fanbase actually complain about “overpaying” Jones in the event that they had been to win two extra Tremendous Bowls with him?
Ideally, the Giants will win a few Tremendous Bowls (or extra) with Jones and look again on these criticisms and snigger.
