Malik Nabers declined to handle his weekend run-in with projected No. 1 NFL Draft decide Shedeur Sanders after Sunday’s 35-14 Giants beatdown by the Baltimore Ravens.
“I want to talk about the game,” the Giants’ rookie receiver mentioned. “I want to keep my focus on the game.”
However protecting focus off of the skin drama goes to get more and more tough. As a result of now ‘Prime Time’ is concerned.
Now Deion Sanders, the Corridor of Famer and Colorado head coach and father of Shedeur, has entered the chat. And there aren’t any boring days when Deion will get concerned.
He is a large persona, a profitable coach whose dual-threat expertise Travis Hunter simply received the Heisman Trophy, and a direct and outspoken larger-than-life sports activities determine.
New York’s fan base acquired a small style of it on Friday when Sanders and Nabers had a catch on the street in Manhattan — with a Giants-logo soccer, at that.
Throughout that social media stir, an unreliable ‘X’ account named “NFL Rookie Watch” unfold a rumor that Shedeur Sanders would refuse to play if he was drafted by both the Giants or Browns as a result of he most popular the Raiders or Cowboys.
The account went on to say that “NFL scouts reportedly believe the Giants will end up ‘settling’ for [Miami QB] Cam Ward, knowing Sanders wouldn’t play for them.’”
That didn’t sit nicely with Deion Sanders, who fired again himself on his “COACH PRIME” account.
“A Lie don’t care who tells it,” he mentioned. “Please stop trying to become relevant by misrepresenting my son. God bless you.”
The hypothesis about Sanders’ choice, although, is being fueled partly by a video that surfaced just lately of Deion Sanders to chatting with Raiders coach Antonio Pierce at an occasion in entrance of a crowd.
“I need you to draft those Sanders boys next year,” Sanders mentioned on the microphone.
Deion Sanders clarified that the video was taken eventually yr’s Tremendous Bowl, in order that was not a current comment made by the Colorado head coach with the present draft order in thoughts.
“To whom is may concern the video that’s being played of me & Coach Pierce is from the Super-Bowl Last year,” Sanders posted on Dec. 9. “God bless and have a phenomenal day. We are. #Dad/CoachPrime.”
Sanders nonetheless mentioned it, although, similar to he responded to a hypothetical query about Shedeur going to the Raiders in July by saying: “That would be nice.”
The drama, the clarifications, the rumors, the intrigue goes to observe the Giants into this offseason and develop louder by the day with somebody as distinguished, outspoken and influential as Deion Sanders concerned within the public dialog.
Particularly as a result of the Giants (2-12) are so clearly monitoring towards the No. 1 general decide, with a 40.1% probability of touchdown it as of Monday morning, in line with ESPN’s Soccer Energy Index projections.
They had been one among solely 4 groups with an opportunity to safe it. The others are the New England Patriots (25.1% probability), the Carolina Panthers (13.8%) and the Raiders (8.1%) — though Vegas nonetheless needed to play the Atlanta Falcons on Monday Evening Soccer, which might alter the percentages.
Shedeur Sanders the quarterback, after all, is an thrilling prospect. And the Giants desperately want a QB.
Giants linebacker Isaiah Simmons, who was with Nabers and Sanders final Friday night time, even mentioned Sunday that “personally I think [Sanders] could come here and really transform things.”
“I think he’s gonna be a very, very valuable piece wherever he goes, kinda like a Jayden Daniels effect,” Simmons mentioned. “You see what Jayden’s done [in Washington]. I could see something like that happening with Shedeur, as well, wherever he ends up — if he ends up here or wherever.”
Then, so as to add extra intrigue to the dialog, there’s Deion Sanders’ presence as a attainable head teaching candidate on the NFL circuit.
May he be a part of Sanders with the Raiders in the event that they made a change with Pierce? May he turn into the Giants’ subsequent head coach and exchange Brian Daboll together with his son as New York’s quarterback of the long run?
It’s unattainable to low cost any of that within the trendy sports activities, leisure and soccer panorama, to not point out Sanders’ faculty success.
There was additionally that well-circulated video of GM Joe Schoen and Giants brass at Colorado scouting late in November to stir the pot on a dialogue of what’s to return.
The purpose is that is solely the start. Wherever that is headed, it’s going to be well-documented, it’s going to be wild and controversial and heated at instances. And it’s going to ratchet up the Giants’ drama and hypothesis to a complete new degree over the following few months.
As a result of when ‘Prime Time’ will get concerned, there aren’t any boring days.
MAKING THE WRONG KIND OF HISTORY
Sunday’s loss meant the Giants have misplaced eight house video games in a season for the primary time of their franchise’s historical past. In the event that they lose to the Indianapolis Colts on Dec. 28 or Dec. 29 of their closing house sport, they are going to be a part of the 1974 crew as the one winless Giants groups at house of their 100 years of existence.
That 1974 was solely 0-7 in a 14-game season, although.
Baltimore’s Lamar Jackson, in the meantime, set some astounding data with Sunday’s domination of the Giants. He threw 5 landing passes to solely 4 incompletions.
He grew to become the primary QB in NFL historical past to hit all the following minimums in a sport: 80% completion, 250 passing yards, 5 passing TDs, zero interceptions and 50 speeding yards.
And he grew to become the primary QB to throw 5 TD passes towards the Giants since Cam Newton on Dec. 20, 2015. Jackson did it by finishing 21-of-25 throws and racking up a passer score of 154.6.
STEEP DOGS (AGAIN)
The Giants opened as 10.5-point underdogs subsequent Sunday on the Atlanta Falcons, who entered Monday night time’s sport towards the Raiders averaging solely 14.25 factors per sport themselves throughout a four-game shedding streak. This comes on the heels of the Giants failing to cowl a 16.5-point unfold at house towards the Ravens, the biggest of this NFL season.
