Big Blue View
New York Giants news for Saturday
Good morning, New York Giants fans!
Victor noted that the Giants have to figure out a North Star of sorts and move forward with it with regards to the rebuild that they are going to undergo. It is extraordinarily difficult to succeed in the NFL, even if you have wildly talented people on your roster. I don’t know that this is the case for this year’s Giants team, but I know that it is very difficult to be as consistently bad as they have been since Cruz and others moved on from the organization.
Why the Giants made the move: My read on Daniel Jones’ release: It’s mutually beneficial, but the Giants weren’t going to make the first move.
If Jones was fine showing up every day and going through the motions as QB4, they would have gone along with that. But once he asked out, they (obviously) were going to grant that wish. — Dan Duggan, Giants beat writer
Daniel Jones mostly stood on the sideline with his hands in his pockets at Wednesday’s Giants practice. He was a scout team safety at Thursday’s practice. On Friday, he was released.
Q: In the three games you won when he was the quarterback last year, the defense and special teams had 12 takeaways. You always talk about complementary football. Is that a good example?
Daboll: “That’s something that was a big part of our bye week study. This year, teams that have won the turnover ratio in a game, all the teams combined have won 76% of the time. Just start with that right there. We haven’t done a good enough job of taking care of the ball or getting the ball. The games that we’ve played, we’re already behind the eight ball with just that in general. Making sure we’re taking care of the ball is something we...
