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No one really asks if you are ready to lead. It took Eli Manning three years to get voted in as a Giants team captain. He was named the starting quarterback nine games into his rookie year and started all 16 games in 2005 and again in 2006. It was not until the summer of …
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The four biggest influences on Daniel Jones as a rookie all could be gone from the Giants when his second season begins. That new reality was created by recent tinkering with the Giants’ backup quarterback depth chart. It holds even if Colt McCoy’s grasp on the No. 2 job remains unaffected. It began with claiming …
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We already knew the Giants, based on 2019 records, have the seventh-easiest 2020 schedule in the NFL, facing opponents with a winning percentage of .482. For what that’s worth. Now we know the order of the opponents, and it certainly doesn’t look very easy. Week 1 Steelers Sept. 14, 7:15 p.m., ESPN Well now, isn’t …
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Their relationship was great, respect flowing down from the much older Eli Manning to Daniel Jones, and back up again, the much younger Jones up to Manning. As quarterback transitions go, the 2019 Giants season, from a personality-meshing standpoint, was a success. These situations are never perfect, though, and as Manning looks ahead, he sees …
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A tiny percentage of people ever become the face of a franchise. It is a title available to players, coaches and executives. It is a role earned through popularity and/or potential and/or longevity and/or achievement. Decade after decade, the defining faces of New York sports have often included all-time legends. Sometimes, someone holds the distinction …
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By Joe Judge’s early standards, this was a mountain of praise. It became a running joke during his first four months as coach of the Giants that Judge had not mentioned any player by name in his first dozen or so interviews. He broke the seal on his lips after the first round of the …
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This wasn’t only a dream come true for tackle Andrew Thomas, drafted by the New York Football Giants in Thursday night’s 2020 NFL Draft. It is a dream come true for Daniel Jones and Saquon Barkley, in some small way a merciful interruption from our coronavirus pandemic nightmare. Better late than never for Giants GM …
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Dave Gettleman gets this chance, this chance he nearly didn’t get when Pat Shurmur was fired, possibly his last chance if he fails to find Joe Judge the right players, starting with the fourth pick in Thursday night’s NFL Draft, so they can steer their titanic franchise safely around the iceberg that has been haunting …
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Smokescreen, future opposition research or both? A year after shocking the NFL and drafting Daniel Jones with the No. 6 pick, the Giants are reportedly getting to know another top quarterback prospect. They have done plenty of research on Oregon’s Justin Herbert, NFL Network reported Monday, including FaceTime conversations with first-year head coach Joe Judge. …
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Dave Gettleman, our 69-year-old football lifer, is surviving in his unsettling virtual reality NFL world … a world without interpersonal relationships and getting-to-know-you dinners and watching prospective draftees interact inside the Quest Diagnostics Training Center. “We got the visual touch-point, but we’re really missing out on the personal touch-point when you can smell and feel …
No one really asks if you are ready to lead. It took Eli Manning three years to get voted in as a Giants team captain. He was named the starting quarterback nine games into his rookie year and started all 16 games in 2005 and again in 2006. It was not until the summer of …
