Giants blew so many chances to avoid their Saquon Barkley-Eagles nightmare
NY Post
Saquon Barkley would not be anywhere near approaching the NFL’s rushing record if the Giants re-signed him.
OK, now that everyone agrees on that point: It still was a significant mistake by the Giants to miss four different windows dating back to November 2022 to get a deal done with Barkley — most notably haggling over the NFL’s version of salary-cap chump change in July 2023 — and essentially deliver the eventual 2,000-yard rusher to the rival Eagles.
The trajectory of the Giants’ path changed on March 7, 2023, when the Giants opted to pay $82 million guaranteed on a $160 million extension to quarterback Daniel Jones rather than raise the guarantee in Barkley’s offer from about $19 million to about $24 million over three years and thus clear the franchise tag to be used on Jones to return for a prove-it season. Barkley was tagged.
“They forgot how they got to the playoffs in 2022,” one NFC executive told The Post. “It wasn’t because of the quarterback.”
Nothing changes for Jonathan Quick in the wake of Igor Shesterkin going on IR with an upper-body injury sustained in the third period in Florida on Monday, when Sam Bennett crashed into the Rangers franchise goaltender after a hit from Ryan Lindgren.
David Stearns has steadily dropped breadcrumbs to his player procurement strategy.
TORONTO — The Raptors were on the longest losing skid in the NBA.
Mike Vrabel has his eyes set on one job.
TORONTO — D’Angelo Russell has come full circle, traded from the Lakers to the Nets for a second time. But this time not as a hotshot prospect but a mature leader.
In a season already full of catastrophe, the greatest possible misfortune has befallen the Rangers at arguably the worst time.
Knicks and Rangers games on Optimum were set to go dark Wednesday as contract talks between the cable operator and MSG remained at an impasse ahead of a deadline before the ball drops.
The crazy reality created by this uncharacteristically bloated season is that the team seeded No. 5 in the NFC playoffs might just be the second-best team in the NFL.
Saquon Barkley would not be anywhere near approaching the NFL’s rushing record if the Giants re-signed him.
If the Rangers’ past year were to be compared to the typical cliché of a roller coaster, it would be the American phenom Kingda Ka at Six Flags Great Adventure.
I decided if I wrote about Rickey Henderson I would not use a statistic. We are assaulted with stats and metrics now, and while baseball is our most numbers-oriented sport, I do sense the analytics revolution has chilled too many fans and reporters from just talking about how certain players made you feel while watching them.