Getty An NFL Insider provided an emphatic update about Daniel Jones' future with the New York Giants beyond this season.
Everything’s on the table for the New York Giants 10 weeks into a nightmare season, including quarterback Daniel Jones not being back for 2024, despite signing a $160-million contract earlier this year.
Multiple turnovers and injuries puts a quick end to the Giants’ expensive commitment to Jones in play. Yet, Bleacher Report’s Jordan Schultz provided an emphatic update on the signal-caller’s future at MetLife Stadium: “Here’s what I’ll tell you. Daniel Jones has a $38-million guarantee next season. I believe it was 80 over two. He will be with the Giants next season, you can book that right now.”
General manager Joe Schoen and head coach Brian Daboll tied their fortunes to Jones. The decision to pay him looks foolhardy after a cervical neck injury was followed by a torn ACL to end Jones’ season after Week 9.
Poor decisions, relentless pressure and interceptions subjected Jones to criticism before the injuries. His mistakes also put heat on Daboll and Schoen after the questionable decision to reward Jones ahead of Pro-Bowl running back Saquon Barkley backfired.
The pressure is still on Schoen and Daboll amid a 2-8 record to go with a litany of suspect personnel decisions and coaching mishaps. Schultz also revealed where the two main decision-makers in this regime stand beyond this season.
Daniel Jones Safe With the Giants for Now
As Schultz pointed out, the contract provides a lot of reasons for the Giants to stick by Jones a little longer. A cap hit totalling more than $47 million, per Spotrac.com, would make Jones hard to shift.
There is an out in 2025 that would leave the Giants with $22,210,000 worth of dead cap. It would be a lot to absorb, but Big Blue might have no choice if Jones still hasn’t proved to be the answer by then.
He’s hardly passed the litmus test this season. Jones endured a torrid time even before his campaign ended against the Las Vegas Raiders.
The numbers behind the 26-year-old’s nightmare were relayed by Ralph Vacchiano of Fox Sports.
This was supposed to be a breakout season for Jones, after he’d protected the football and excelled down the stretch in 2022. The Giants paid him like a rising quarterback ready to join the league’s best at his position.
That same expectation prompted Schoen and Daboll to trade for tight end Darren Waller. They also added wide receivers, Parris Campbell in free agency and Jalin Hyatt via the 2023 NFL draft.
Jones appeared to have all he needed to make the next necessary leap in his career. Things haven’t work out that way, prompting speculation the Giants will draft Jones’ replacement next year.
The “Giants won’t hesitate drafting a QB in 2024,” according to Jonathan Jones of CBS Sports. Using what’s likely to be a top-five pick on a passer gained credibility when Schoen was in attendance to watch USC’s Caleb Williams and Washington’s Michael Pennix Jr. on Saturday, November 4.
Whatever they decide, what comes next at quarterback for the Giants will determine how long Daboll and Schoen keep their jobs.
Brian Daboll, Joe Schoen Have a Future With the Giants
Daboll and Schoen are safe for now, per Shultz: “I also believe and am told that barring something dramatic, barring something extreme, both Joe Schoen the GM and head coach Brian Daboll will also be back next season.”
Even if they are back, Schoen and Daboll will have a tough time selling ownership on a new quarterback, according to Sam Monson of Pro Football Focus: “It’s gotta be pretty hard to go into the ownership room, your pitch is essentially, ‘hey, we misidentified out franchise quarterback a year ago, let me fix it by identifying the next franchise quarterback.”
Schoen and Daboll may not even get to that conversation if the “something extreme” Schultz referenced happen, “If you remember, there was a thought process that Joe Judge would’ve kept his job, and then he has a disastrous last month of the season.”
Avoiding a complete collapse will require better play at quarterback. The Giants will struggle to get that from undrafted rookie Tommy DeVito.
It doesn’t help to have top backup Tyrod Taylor on injured reserve with a rib problem. Taylor performed well during starts against the Buffalo Bills and Washington Commanders.
Waiting on Taylor’s possible return leaves Daboll trying to work miracles with either DeVito or veteran Matt Barkley. The latter played for Daboll in Buffalo, but he last started a game in 2020.
Daboll and Schoen are trying to solidify their futures on a pretty shaky foundation.
These MEDIA SPORTS TYPES are so clueless. We have one ALLPRO OFFENSIVE LINEMAN, THOMAS, 2nd Team OFFENSIVE TACKLE ALL PRO 2022. Anyone, anyone, anyone who thought after watching what DALLAS did to us 2x last year, and the Home Opener 2023 and what the EAGLES did to us 3x in the 2022 season , would have to blind, hard of hearing, too much alcohol, etc., to NOT KNOW that OUR OL was and is not ready for PRIME TIME against the Bigs. SO LETS set the record STRAIGHT….. DJ is a very talented QB. HE showed his skill set last season. HE SHOWED it again in the 2nd half against PHEONIX… HE ALSO GOT HAMMERED WHETHER it was an official sack or a hit or a near miss, probably like 35-40 X in 4 games… maybe 5…. and DABOLL punished him in the next to last game he played, and the GIANTS getting hammered offensively, defensively. AND DASTUPID kept DJ in the blowout running him into the heart of the D, more than once. He gets crushed by 3 big DL’s hurts his neck, comes back and he said that his knee acted up his last game… So he injured ACL……. TAYLOR comes in and looks athletic but in his last game he gets hammered and is running for his life, goes out of bounds has the football planted on his chest to avoid fumble and suffers a rib fracture, break, or serious chest injury….. TOAST….. SCHOEN the main with the frozen brain, doesn’t bring in a VET QB, between THE DJ injury and Taylors first start… They through Devito, a deer in headlights if I ever saw one and he tries, give him that. We LOSE the GAME. HOWEVER there is more SCHOEN STUPIDITY… GANO HURTS HIS KNEED IN GAME 3, SCHOEN ROLES THE DICE, DOESN’T SIGN A KICKER AND THAT PROVED FATAL TO our playoff chances. He waits until GANO can not kick FG/s and then THE GIANTS come CLEAN about the injury first reported 2, 3 weeks ago, hoping that KNEE injury could heal, with rest and therapy,,, STUPID IS AS STUPID DOES…. AND IT GETS BETTER. SCHOEN HAS BEEN KEEPING WILLIAMS HOSTAGE because he represented a HOME EQUITY LOAN….. so he got a 2nd rounder from SEATTLE, but but, WE ARE PAYING ALL OF HIS 2023 SALARY, ALL 17 GAMES AND PLAYOFFS. IF ANYONE FEELS THAT SCHOEN AND DABOLL, CAN WALK INTO MARA’S OFFICE AND SAY HEY WE SCREWED UP,,,,,, and be retained. that can ONLY HAPPEN WITH MARA/TISCH…. SCHOEN HAS TWO PROMISING DRAFT PICKS…. KAVON AND SCHMITZ… HIS FREE AGENT SIGNINGS ARE WORSE THAN GETTLEMANS…. GETTLEMAN, PROVIDED SAQUON, DJ, ALEXANDER, THOMAS, SHEPHARD, SLAYTON , BRADBURYY ALL PRO SAFETY/CB, LOVE ALL PRO SAFETY CB. and a cap situation which wasn’t that bad…. bradburry and love dumped… HERNADEZ AT MLB BLEW HIS KNEE OUT, CAP was restored to normalness for 2023 draft, FA signings, TRADES and what did SCHOEN do….. WALLER TE BUST, his injuries with the RAIDERS resulting in him being cut, THE MLB signing , also looks like a bust as he admitted after the RAIDER loss he has to play better.. GIVE ME A FRIGGIN BREAK…. WITH WILLAMS NOT AT RDT, no body on the roster to be as effective. NEAL, EZEUDU, arent’ looking to good, and like 8 other OL’s on the roster in MAY 2023 WERE CUT BECAUSE THEY SUCK. AND WHAT REMAINS SUCKS EXCEPT FOR THOMAS AND SCHMITZ and Tryre ROT, emergency signing. AND THESE EXPERTS MEDIA TYPES IGNORE THESE FACTS and blame it on DANIEL JONES , WITH ONLY 1 REAL GOOD OL PLAYER, ONE GOOD LOOKING CENTER AT OL, and a FREE AGENT in GLOWINSKI , signed in 2022, ALSO FELICIANO, signed in 2022, both average at best, one gone, one on the way out….. GLAD I SAW THIS STUPID ARTICLE. …… THE ONLY PATH is to fire daboll and schoen, and kafka, keep WINKY AS DC, and name him as HC, WITH A NEW TITLE AND SALARY, HC DEFENSE… Get folks who know football, DRAFTING, SALARIES, COACHING,,, SHOOT SCHOEN HAS BEEN ON THE ROAD at NCAAA DIVISION ONE FOOTBALL GAMES , simply because he doesn’t trust the SCOUTING STAFF HE PUT IN PLACE….. AND THE BOTTOM LINE IS THIS … THE GIANTS FRANCHISE IS WORTH AT LEAST $7.5 BILLION given that the Washington franchise sold for about $6.4 BILLIONS AND MARA AND TISCHC ARE QUITE HAPPY…….. HEY, THE NFL OTHER OWNERS FEEL EMPATHY AND WANT THE GIANTS TO FIX STUFF so that everyone’s franchise value increases.