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Ralph Vacchiano
NFC East Reporter
In the mind of Daniel Jones, there is no quarterback competition looming for the New York Giants this summer. There is only one possible quarterback who is right for the job.
So yes, it was hardly a surprise, when he was asked on Monday if he feels like the best quarterback the Giants could possibly have to start the season, he answered simply “I do. Yes.” What else was he going to say?
But it wasn’t just an obvious answer. And it wasn’t just a boast. It was also a warning, and a reminder that any type of quarterback competition or controversy for the Giants is a really, really bad idea.
The idea of a competition/controversy — two words that in this case are virtually interchangeable — was floated by Giants co-owner John Mara at the NFL owners meetings in March. He was reiterating his faith in Jones, whom he has long supported as the rightful successor to Eli Manning, while giving general manager Joe Schoen the room to draft Jones’ replacement, if that’s what he wants to do.
But Mara wasn’t willing to call Schoen’s potential pick a replacement or successor.
“Why not let them both compete?” Mara said. “Let them both compete and let the better man win.”
There are actually a group of people who feel like that’s a tremendous idea, and almost all of them work in the New York media. For those whose job is creating the back pages of the city’s famed tabloids or programming 24 hours of sports talk-radio content, the idea is an absolute dream.
Almost everyone else, though, recognizes that as the seeds of a nightmare, because it would set up the most high-profile quarterback competition/controversy the Giants have had since the explosive Phil Simms-Jeff Hostetler affair back in the early 1990s. It’s not the same, of course, since both Simms and Hostetler have both won a Super Bowl before their battle exploded.
But Jones vs. Drake Maye or Jayden Daniels or J.J. McCarthy, or even Bo Nix or…
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Publish date : 2024-04-15 21:32:16
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