This time final 12 months, NFL Movies and HBO’s “Laborious Knocks” have been embarking on a brand new enterprise to take followers behind the scenes of a staff getting ready for the offseason.
The topic staff was, in fact, the New York Giants and the revolutionary concept labored effectively. It was revealing (maybe too revealing), informative and recent – and followers ate it up.
The idea could also be useless on the vine, nevertheless, after the debut season. The Giants are nonetheless answering questions on their course of a 12 months later and no staff has but to volunteer for the second season.
“We hope it’s again. We’re speaking to a bunch of groups about it. However we’ll see what occurs. I imply, we’d like a prepared participant on that one. We’re not going to power somebody to try this present,” NFL Movies VP Cossrow stated final month.
No staff has come ahead due to the maelstrom it created for the Giants. It confirmed the inside workings of a choice that might ultimately change the end result of the 2025 NFL season and made the Giants appear like fools within the course of.
You realize, the one the place the Giants determined to let Saquon Barkley stroll in free company.
On Tuesday on the NFL mix in Indianapolis, the primary query hurled at Giants basic supervisor Joe Schoen was about his fateful determination to permit Barkley to defect to Philadelphia and make them the Tremendous Bowl. Whereas he’s pleased for Barkley, the choice didn’t work out for New York.
Schoen was additionally requested if any staff has known as him for recommendation about doing the present and although nobody has, he is aware of what he would inform them in the event that they sought his opinion.
Joe Schoen has not been requested by different NFL groups about his ideas on Offseason Laborious Knocks
If he was requested? “I believe I do know what I’d inform them” pic.twitter.com/FYwBJaIgb8
— Giants Movies (@SNYGiants) February 25, 2025
The truth is, had the Giants saved Barkley, he wouldn’t have tilted the scales a lot for them. They gained three video games final 12 months. With Barkley, they may have gained a couple of extra at finest. With the Eagles, he turned the ultimate piece of a championship puzzle.
The Giants must have a stable offseason that yields outcomes and produces wins to lastly escape this shroud of ineptitude that has been hanging over them since they appeared on “Laborious Knocks”.
