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The quarterback should not start another game
We have more or less reverse-engineered game day coverage at Big Blue View, with ‘Kudos & Wet Willies’ running shortly after the game and this post coming the day after. Too bad the New York Giants can’t reverse-engineer a disastrous 2024 season.
Maybe even the last six or seven seasons.
I have supported Daniel Jones — when I have felt he has deserved it — for much of the past six seasons. I understood why then-GM Dave Gettleman drafted him No. 6 overall in 2019. I understood why Joe Judge stuck with Jones. I understood why Joe Schoen, rather than moving on from him after the 2022 playoff season, signed him to a contract with two years of guaranteed money rather than blowing things up and starting over. I have understood, through 10 games of this season, why head coach Brian Daboll has continued to trot Jones out as the Giants’ starting quarterback.
I won’t, though, understand if Jones is still the quarterback when the Giants return from their bye to face the Tampa Bay Buccaneers Week 12 at MetLife Stadium.
Daniel Jones just isn’t good enough.
As I wrote in Sunday’s ‘Kudos & Wet Willies’, Jones’ “limitations, and the ways in which they can hold back the Giants, though, were clear” during Sunday’s humiliating 20-17 overtime loss to the Carolina Panthers; a loss, incidentally, that allowed the Giants to wrest the title ‘Worst Team in Football’ from the clutches of the previously woeful Panthers.
Bad ball placement led to several balls that could/should have been completions being incompletions or worse. I am thinking specifically of an early throw to Wan’Dale Robinson that led to a punt, and the fourth-quarter red zone throw to Tyrone Tracy that resulted in an interception. That was one of two red zone interception Jones threw on the day, the second consecutive week in which Jones has reverted to being a turnover machine at crucial times in the red zone.
There was a throw to Malik Nabers that sailed waaaaay over his head, killing a drive. There was a skipped throw to an open Wan’Dale Robinson. A dangerous throw behind tight end Theo Johnson. I could probably go throw by throw and find more, but I don’t want to put myself through that.
If this was a bad day for Jones, or if Jones was a rookie quarterback with an anticipated learning curve you would look at the positives — the second-half, the final regulation drive, the toughness he displayed — and feel good.
Jones, though, is not a rookie.
ESPN’s Dan Orlovsky spoke, or posted, the truth that even the most ardent Jones supporters have to recognize six years and 70 games into Jones’ NFL career:
There are calls for the crucifixion — OK, that’s dramatic — the firing of Daboll.
That’s understandable. Fans want their pound of flesh when a team is failing, and the national media sees an 8-19 record since the start of the...
