Giants’ quarterback conundrum begins with massive 2025 NFL draft questions
NY Post
First in a three-part series on the Giants quarterback issue. Coming tomorrow: Examining Sam Darnold and other proven or semi-proven requests.
These five words are irrelevant for the Giants and their fans and it is best to avoid saying them or thinking about them, for the sanity of all concerned.
“If this was last year …”
We will go ahead and use that phrase in the proper context and then banish it forever.
If the top quarterbacks in the 2024 NFL Draft were available this year, the Giants would be sitting pretty. They own the No. 3 pick in the 2025 draft and would have been assured of getting one of the three top-tier quarterback prospects.
The Giants had the No. 6 pick a year ago, watched quarterbacks come off the board 1, 2 and 3 — Caleb Williams, Jayden Daniels and Drake Maye — and selected wide receiver Malik Nabers.
In a different time, in a season to come, we may be inclined to wax poetic about the way this one played out. In a different time, in a season to come, the Nets will be seeking to stack wins and not losses, will be fighting for playoff seeding and not for a few extra ping-pong balls in the draft lottery this spring.
The NBA has an All-Star Game problem. Despite Adam Silver’s efforts to inject juice into the February showcase — including a format alteration to the 2025 game that is too confusing to attempt to understand before it’s inevitably changed again — there’s little interest in watching teams eschew defense for a series of layup line highlights. That also means the most entertaining part of the NBA All-Star Game is just like the Pro Bowl — debating over who should get a spot.