Darius Slayton may be the next Giant to find stardom elsewhere
NY Post
You don’t need to be a fortune teller — just a Giants fan well-versed in Murphy’s Law — to see the future headline now.
“Free-agent steal Darius Slayton has first career 1,000-yard season after leaving the Giants.”
If things weren’t bad enough at home during a 2-10 slog of a season, it seems that a former Giant is excelling somewhere during every NFL television window.
Saquon Barkley is threatening to break the NFL single-season rushing record for the Eagles, Xavier McKinney leads the league in interceptions for the Packers, Julian Love just said that Leonard Williams is playing at a “Defensive Player of the Year” level after they both made huge plays in a Seahawks win over the Jets at MetLife Stadium, and the list goes on with Evan Engram, Ben Bredeson, Jabrill Peppers and others to a lesser degree.
“They’re all really good football players, so, obviously, they’re going to make plays,” Slayton said after Monday’s practice. “But we have plenty of capable football players in this building. If we can just get everybody to play to the level that they’re capable of simultaneously, then we’ll be all right.”
Slayton has teamed with all those players over his six seasons, tied with Dexter Lawrence as the longest-tenured Giants. Wouldn’t he expect better results than a 31-63-1 record since 2019 with various combinations of those players together?
The Knicks face elimination Tuesday night.
It was a history-making week that changed very little in the NFL hierarchy.
The Rangers do not play again until Friday when the Penguins come to the Garden, but the next three days will be the most critical of a season that is fast becoming a sinkhole.
During my vacation the past few weeks, a plugged-in agent told me it was his sense that the Mets were not playing at the top of the starting pitching market for Corbin Burnes and Max Fried.
Amazingly, the Knicks haven’t faced an Eastern Conference opponent with a winning record since October.
You don’t need to be a fortune teller — just a Giants fan well-versed in Murphy’s Law — to see the future headline now.
The Jets dropped their third straight game and eighth in their last nine on Sunday, a 26-21 loss to the Seahawks that sends them to 3-9 this season.
Bills fans maybe had a little too much fun in the snow Sunday night as Buffalo defeated the 49ers, 35-10.
The Mets have identified their next starting pitching project.
The Knicks reached the three-quarter pole of the basketball season Sunday night, and if they wanted to celebrate the occasion, they couldn’t have asked for a better patsy. Right now, the poor Pelicans are everyone’s favorite Homecoming Game, Zion Williamson and Brandon Ingram bedecked in sweaters and strapped to the injured list.
Christian McCaffrey left Sunday’s game with a knee injury after he suffered what appeared to be a non-contact injury and it may be the reason his 2024 season ends.