The Giants‘ 27-20 loss to the Green Bay Packers at MetLife Stadium, in the team’s first sport since Brian Daboll’s firing, wasn’t even Sunday’s principal occasion.
Somebody put concussed franchise quarterback Jaxson Dart on blast with a leak to ESPN, saying that “people both inside and outside the Giants organization spoke with Dart and urged the rookie quarterback to be more thoughtful and careful with when and how he runs.”
The report stated “Dart has been told repeatedly, especially this past week, that missing games hurts his team more than not gaining extra yards and that he can’t help his team if he’s not in the game.” And ESPN particularly identified that “Giants quarterbacks coach Shea Tierney,” Daboll’s buddy who stays on the employees, “has shown Dart videos of multiple quarterbacks and pointed out the difference between being aggressive and acting in self-preservation.”
Then FOX aired a report saying that GM Joe Schoen, who didn’t do an interview this week after Daboll’s firing, had spoken to nationwide insider Jay Glazer to clarify the group isn’t going to rent a university head coach to fill the emptiness.
The nationwide gameday reviews had been a reminder of how a lot insider spin goes to come back out down the house stretch of the Giants season with Schoen attempting to retain his job and coaches doubtlessly holding grudges.
The Dart report, although, particularly was extremely uncommon. It put the complete onus on Dart for staying wholesome and altering his enjoying type on behalf of … whom? Tierney?
Hopefully, when Dart was advised to be safer whereas he runs, he requested the group why Daboll, Mike Kafka and Tierney have left him in video games throughout rubbish time and referred to as designed runs to have him take further hits for no purpose apart from to pad the group’s stats.
That sends combined messages, no?
Tierney’s placement on this story additionally could be very unusual.
Tierney is the one had a full dialog with a concussed Dart in between drives on the sideline in Chicago final Sunday — after Dart was mendacity immobile on the sector — and didn’t discover earlier than Dart went again within the sport.
In truth, Tierney stated he didn’t even converse to Dart about why the quarterback didn’t attain out for the ball after he fumbled it.
There is no such thing as a query Dart must be smarter about his working type at occasions. However pretending his aggressiveness is the one variable right here is absurd.
And making this public on this method — and mentioning {that a} quarterback coach isn’t responsible — could be very attention-grabbing. Maybe the leaks for this story are protecting their backsides in case they convey Dart again in Detroit subsequent week and he will get despatched to the blue tent a fifth time this yr?
Tierney, by the way in which, was Daniel Jones’ place coach when the QB was benched and launched and presumed a failure — earlier than he left to resurrect his profession with the Colts.
The Giants fell to 2-9 on the season with their fifth straight loss, they usually’re now wanting two brutal highway video games on the Detroit Lions and the New England Patriots earlier than their late bye week.
So buckle up. It will hold getting weirder — and worse.
This can be a creating story. Verify again for updates.
