Daniel Jones needs to show he’s Giants’ $40 million man — or else
NY Post
LANDOVER, Md. — One game, a Game for the Rages, has the vultures circling over Daniel Jones, smelling the blood of Dead Quarterback Walking.
Only Brian Daboll knows whether he is, or when he soon will be, but if this is the last stand for Jones, he must get off the mat, and get off the mat now, and play with no fear Sunday against the Commanders, and let it rip like there is no tomorrow.
The quarterback played scared on the opener, and when the coach senses that his quarterback is playing scared, he will coach scared of his quarterback, and that is always a recipe for disaster.
Jones deserves better than pariah status among the angry fan base, a fan base that cares mostly about gameday and not that he dedicated himself to overcome his torn ACL, and win the respect and admiration of his organization and teammates.
No head coach with the courage of his convictions will allow his fan base or media scrutiny or social media venom to dictate any quarterback change, because it can rightfully be construed as panic.
But once the quarterback becomes the main cause of losing, and it becomes obvious to the locker room, all bets are off, and the head coach must act.
With the Yankees on an impressive run of mostly correct decisions, there’s some reason to leave them alone and just let the best team in the American League continue to roll. But they did raise serious doubt and leave room for suggestions (and even ridicule) following maybe the most inexplicable decision of this season, or any season.
The Giants have never been 0-2 under Brian Daboll, until now. They were 2-0 and flying high in 2022 and 1-1 after a rousing comeback in Arizona in 2023. So, this represents a low point as far as early-season difficulties for Daboll and the Giants. They had no business beating the Vikings in the opener and no business losing to the Commanders in Week 2. But here they are.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Harrison Butker kept making a lonely walk to midfield after each quarter Sunday to check on the direction of the wind, which tends to swirl inside Arrowhead Stadium. He did it one last time during the 2-minute warning, when his Chiefs were trailing the Bengals by two and trying to give him a winning field-goal attempt.