Yahoo Sports’ Jason Fitz and senior NFL writer Frank Schwab discuss the quarterback’s continued struggles in New York. Hear the full conversation on “Inside Coverage” – and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.
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Here’s the, here’s the crazy thing.
When’s the last time we saw a quarterback that was in a contract year and the team was like, ah, I guess we have to, and it worked out like, that’s the thing.
Like, it’s, it’s like dating when you’re like, well, it’s time to get married because it’s time we’ve been dating for a long time.
We should get married like that rarely works out.
I want quarterbacks to work out.
I want quarterbacks to succeed in my bones because it means you have hope.
But when it works is when everybody knows right away, man, I can’t wait till we get to a year, year three.
So we can re up this guy or we’re in year four and like, hell, yeah, we’re picking up the option.
Let’s get this guy paid.
Let’s go ahead.
You don’t even ask the general manager because, you know, when you are Shane Daniels getting his fifth year option picked up, we don’t really need to ask Adam Peters about that.
Right.
That kind of example, I mean, the, the Texans are already starting the timetable doing the budget in advance of when we have to pick up CJ, we’re gonna pick up CJ when you are sitting there saying, I don’t know, I guess we gotta do this because what else are we gonna do?
Which is what happened with Daniel Jones.
Like they came off the playoff win.
They also looked around, they were like, there’s not really another option.
That is the worst thing that could have happened to the Giants.
It was fun in the moment, but it’s almost like a party where you come out of it and you’re hung over for three days.
Like the worst thing that could have happened to the Giants was that playoff season and the win because it gave them this false sense that Daniel Jones was becoming a thing.
He had 3200 yards of 15 touchdowns out that year.
He wasn’t really that much different than he ever had been.
They just got a bunch of lucky wins and then they ended up going against an overrated Minnesota team in the playoffs and beat them and, but all of a sudden you’re like, whoa, Brian DBA Daniel Jones, he’s the next Josh Allen and, and you give him a $460 million deal that everybody kind of looked around.
And I was like, I don’t know about this.
I don’t know if this is a good idea and, and now you’re just like, you’ve wasted our colleague, Charles mcdonald wrote about this today and yah sports of, they gotta just end this thing.
Like they’ve wasted too much time.
Like this is, there’s no reason to keep this Daniel Jones experiment going.
You take the L I want a towel.
It’s done.