Posted on 11/22/2024 9:17:59 AM PST by C19fan
Daniel Jones is moving on.
The quarterback, relegated to fourth string after losing his starting job with the Giants this week, was released Friday after making a request to the team.
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yes. Even Mahomes is down somewhat this year (its all relative) due to complaints about Chiefs offensive line. Its important.
“Shocking”? If he falls down the steps tomorrow they would have to pay him $23 million (”injury guarantee”). No brainer. Fire Daboll and start over.
Yep, as a giant fan... DJ has all the tools... but his read of the D is very slow...
That is what stops him from being a very good QB... as it does many others.
Carl Banks, Harry Carson, and a great Lawrence Taylor. I always believe it’s never about the players. It’s always the coach. But those three turned around a franchise.
Please let that happen. Deion is not a good coach, just a recruiter who can dazzle 17-year-olds. Shadeur isn’t better than Jones, so as an Eagles fan, this would make me VERY happy
The owner of the Giants is the problem. He fires the former GM, then won’t let the new one get rid of Jones to draft his own QB.
Is this correct? My understanding is that when veteran players are released, the contract is terminated and they become unrestricted free agents and can negotiate with any team without having to clear waivers.
I agree. You build football teams through the lines. If you have a top-10 pick, you trade down for multiple picks in lower round 1 or round 2 and load up on linemen. After that its cornerbacks and running backs.
Wow. Outright released him with six - seven games to go? There must be something going on here behind the scenes. I would think they would keep him for injury insurance if nothing else.
Well, we’ll see. Money talks.
Jerry Jones nixed that possibility this morning.....supposedly. I read it about 20 minutes ago but who knows what is in Jones' brain. He says that Deion Sanders is a good recruiter but that that is not necessary in the NFL.
Sadly true. The Maras used to run it as one of the premier organizations in the NFL. What happened?
Daniel Jones appear to be talented. He’ll do well if he plays for a team like the Steelers or the Ravens.
“I agree. You build football teams through the lines. If you have a top-10 pick, you trade down for multiple picks in lower round 1 or round 2 and load up on linemen. After that its cornerbacks and running backs.”
BINGO!
Games are won and lost on the offensive line and defensive line. One, celebrated, defensive lineman said decades ago, “The defensive line wins ball games. The offense is simply to excite the crowd. Offensive linemen make better husbands.” ;-)
The team was founded by Tim Mara in the 1920s. His two sons -- John and Wellington -- each inherited a 50% ownership stake when Tim passed away in the 1950s. Things generally worked out pretty well for several years, but then John died of cancer in 1965 at the relatively young age of 57. His 50% ownership was then controlled by his son Tim. Wellington and Tim despised each other for a number of reasons, and the team was run into the ground because they couldn't agree on anything and neither one had the sole authority to make important decisions about hiring general managers, coaches, etc.
Former NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle interceded in the late 1970s and basically laid down the law. He said they needed to get their act together or he would force them to sell the team. It was his decision to have the team hire George Young as GM in 1979. Legend has it that Rozelle selected him after asking Wellington and Tim to each submit him a list of three or four potential GM candidates, and he told them to hire Young -- and give him 100% control over the team's football operations -- because Young was on neither list.
Timothy Mara sold his family's 50% ownership stake in the Giants to the Tisch family in the 1990s, and the team has continued to function with this odd 50%-50% co-ownership arrangement to this day.
I think it's high time the NFL executive committee get together and figure out a way to force a sale of the team to a single owner. The current generation of Mara and Tisch owners simply can't run the organization effectively.
Thank you for that information. It didn’t make it to the New York Post or Warner Wolf on WABC-TV 7 at the time, so I didn’t know the backstory, only that Wellington Mara (who was portrayed as the boss in the media) was incompetent (fans had “I’ll Cry to Mara” towels).
Pete Rozelle was a great NFL Commissioner, who made the league scads of money but also protected the game. I doubt he would have made a deal with MGM for gambling sponsorships (!).
It’s amazing the team had any success at all back on those days.
There’s speculation that the Cowboys will do the same and tank enough to get Shadeur and make Deion their coach.
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