Seven video games is a very long time.
Seven video games is a very long time for Dexter Lawrence, Bobby Okereke, Darius Slayton, Brian Burns and the Giants’ gamers to abdomen this nonsense.
Joe Schoen and Brian Daboll try to promote that Tommy DeVito may give the Giants one of the best spark as their new quarterback after shutting down Daniel Jones on Monday. They’re making an attempt to promote that this offers the staff one of the best probability to win.
Good luck getting them to purchase it.
“You’ve got to respect it as a player even though you don’t like it,” Lawrence informed reporters Tuesday at a charity occasion. “He’s the QB1. To me, the best quarterback on the team. But they see things differently. I guess that’s all that matters.”
Schoen and Daboll are placing DeVito in an inconceivable place and alienating veteran back-up Drew Lock within the course of.
DeVito had Saquon Barkley and Andrew Thomas on the Giants’ offense with him final season, and DeVito nonetheless led the NFL in sack proportion (15.5%) final season for quarterbacks with greater than 33 dropbacks.
He made some key performs to beat the Inexperienced Bay Packers, however the Giants’ three wins had been propped up by 12 takeaways, together with 11 pressured by Wink Martindale’s protection and one by Thomas McGaughey‘s particular groups unit.
Todd Bowles’ Buccaneers stress packages shall be relentless on Sunday at MetLife Stadium, and as Schoen and Daboll proceed to place a worse product on the sphere, the gamers are going to crack.
Bear in mind: we’re greater than a full yr faraway from Lawrence saying that he was uninterested in constructing and it was time to begin profitable. That was earlier than the 2023 NFL season.
Quick ahead virtually two seasons later, and the Giants’ gamers are being requested to play their hardest and fake every part is okay whereas Jones will get scapegoated, the staff loses its means towards one other excessive draft choose and one other yr of their careers goes down the drain.
The optimistic argument for the Giants on course is that they’re going to hold dropping video games to land their subsequent franchise QB. However attempt promoting that to the Giants’ veterans as a optimistic or, higher but, because the group’s plan.
If this Giants operation continues to seem like an entire catastrophe popping out of the bye in opposition to Tampa Bay — who could also be getting high receiver Mike Evans and high nook Jamel Dean — it will be inconceivable for Schoen and Daboll to maintain this locker room from fracturing additional.
Slayton already referred to as former Giants nook Nick McCloud a “free man” on Instagram following Shane‘s vindictive release of the now-49ers corner because he wouldn’t take a pay minimize.
Okereke appreciated an Instagram publish that praised Saquon Barkley’s Eagles success in Philadelphia on the Giants’ expense.
Lawrence is on the file noting that Jones is one of the best quarterback on the staff, which implies the gamers see that his benching is motivated by one thing else.
And the fan base even appears to grasp that the novelty of the feel-good DeVito story has worn off, and it’s now merely getting used as a protect by the Giants group to attempt to escape 2024 with out going through correct accountability.
Scapegoating Jones for all of the Giants losses is disrespectful.
Asking Lock to take a backseat to DeVito is disrespectful. What number of different NFL groups within the historical past of the league have left out their No. 2 QB for the No. 3 with out giving their high backup not less than one begin?
Asking Lawrence, Okereke, Slayton, Burns and the remainder of the Giants to fake every part is OK for seven extra video games of this pathetic season is disrespectful, too.
The ironic half about all of that is that final season, Barkley was the Giants participant and chief who put lipstick on a pig and diplomatically served because the voice of the locker room.
He knew who Schoen was and what the Giants had been. He knew how dangerous issues had been behind the scenes. And he saved a smiling face on all of it.
The query now could be whether or not any of the remaining gamers shall be keen to guard Schoen and Daboll now that they see this for what it’s:
A poorly run group that doesn’t have its priorities so as.
GIANTS SIGN BOYLE WITH JONES SHUT DOWN
The Giants signed QB Tim Boyle and OT Tyre Phillips to their apply squad and launched TE/FB Jakob Johnson, OT Garret Greenfield and LB Curtis Bolton from their apply squad. Boyle is presumably right here to function a scout-team QB so the Giants can hold Jones off the apply area totally, since any damage on the Giants’ grounds would activate his $23 million damage assure for 2025.
