‘Hard Knocks’ tease reveals Giants’ desire to trade for Jayden Daniels
NY Post
Although the Giants landed one LSU superstar during the 2024 NFL Draft, it appears they were angling for another.
In seemingly a preview of next week’s “Hard Knocks” featuring Big Blue, the third episode ended with a snippet of general manager Joe Schoen and head coach Brian Daboll expressing their interests in trading up the draft board to select Tigers quarterback Jayden Daniels.
“Daniels, you guys seen enough that you would trade up for him?” Schoen asked, while flanked by assistant general manager Brandon Brown and director of player personnel Tim McDonnell.
“Daniels? Yeah, I would,” Daboll replied.
Brown also nodded in agreement.
The Giants were previously shown meeting with the Heisman winner during late February’s Combine, with Daboll testing Daniels’ recall and play conceptualization.
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.