Heading into the 2024 season, the New York Giants wish to overlook about final yr’s catastrophe, after they went 6-11 and their $140M quarterback, Daniel Jones, performed in solely six video games, profitable only one.
Within the premier episode of HBO’s “Exhausting Knocks” on Tuesday (through Yahoo), Giants GM Joe Schoen backed Jones, noting that Kansas Metropolis Chiefs celebrity Patrick Mahomes couldn’t have gained behind the Giants’ offensive line.
“[In] Miami, we acquired three [expletive] follow squad guys enjoying for us. You may have Patrick Mahomes and he can’t [expletive] win behind that,” Schoen mentioned throughout the present, which chronicles the Giants offseason.
Final season, the Giants allowed an NFL-high 85 sacks. The subsequent-closest staff was the Washington Commanders and Carolina Panthers, who allowed 65 apiece.
Thirty of these 85 sacks got here with Jones at QB, that is another than Tua Tagovailoa who performed in all 17 video games. The fifth-year QB began six video games for the Giants, two of which he would endure an harm, forcing him out of the sport. Jones could be sacked on common, 5 occasions per recreation final yr.
Initially, Jones handled a pinched nerve in his neck throughout the 2021 season, inflicting him to overlook the ultimate six video games. Now final season, Jones handled one other pinched nerve in his neck, this time he solely missed three video games earlier than returning to the sector. His Week 9 return would not final lengthy as Jones tore his ACL on the primary play of the second quarter.
Jones, who’s additionally a speeding risk, acquired hit at a better charge than nearly each QB final season. Lots of his speeding makes an attempt ended with him trying to realize an additional yard and taking a giant hit to the pinnacle or neck.
Untreated neck accidents are the kind of accidents that have a tendency to finish careers. That is why Jones lacking the ultimate eight video games of the season would enable not solely his knee, however his neck to heal.
These eight video games allowed Jones the possibility to get better his knee harm, however it gave him the possibility to keep away from taking repeated punishment to his head and neck and permitting him to be totally prepared for the 2024 season.
The Giants tried to bolster their O-line with a number of offseason signings, together with free brokers Jon Runyan and Jermain Eluemonor.
With wanted offensive line assist, Jones and the Giants wish to keep away from a repeat of their 2023 season and try and make it again to the playoffs as they did in 2022.
