Tuesday's trade deadline has come and gone, and the New York Giants roster looks... exactly the same as it did on Monday. For fans expecting a big-ticket move, it's frustration. For the others anticipating some addition by subtraction, it's head-scratching.
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Overall, it's another realization that general manager Joe Schoen and head coach Brian Daboll aren't the right tandem to right this ship. The G-Men are sitting at 2-7 for the third straight season, with no hope things will change anytime soon. It's truly a nightmare. We'll never truly know if the trade deadline silence was due to a lack of effort or lack of interest, but one late-day trade suggests the latter.
Reported by Adam Schefter late Tuesday afternoon, the NY Jets acquired cornerback Ja’Sir Taylor from the LA Chargers for a conditional seventh rounder in 2028 in one of the most forgettable moves of the day. The trade itself won’t garner much attention — Taylor was dealt from a team that actually needs secondary help — which says the quiet part out loud about Big Blue's ongoing struggles.
Struggling draft picks like Evan Neal and Jalin Hyatt, both early selections who haven’t panned out, were expected by many to be moved. Instead, radio silence. If Taylor could be had for a conditional seventh, how in the world did Schoen not offload his draft failures?
Giants’ deadline silence speaks volumes about Evan Neal and Jalin Hyatt
No matter how you slice it, not getting anything for either guy is brutal. Neal, the No. 7 overall pick in 2022, was supposed to be a cornerstone on the offensive line. Instead, he’s four years in, literally collecting dust on the bench, completely unplayable regardless of where they line him up.
He can't play outside. Can't play in. And the league obviously knows it, seeing as though he is quite literally untradeable.
And the same goes for Hyatt. The Biletnikoff Award winner out of Tennessee was supposed to be a downfield weapon. But he’s got 34 catches across 39 games, has yet to find the endzone, and can't get on the field. But even when he does, he can't make a play. It's bad.
This team has given him chances. He just hasn’t done anything with them. And now in a returner role, it's salvage-anything-we-can mode.
But that’s the issue. This isn’t just about Neal and Hyatt. This is about a front office that keeps whiffing on premium picks and a coaching staff that can’t develop talent. The fact that not one team — not one of 31 others — was willing to take a flier on either player says it all.
So if you’re wondering why the Giants stood still at the deadline, no need. They didn’t have anything worth moving. That’s not inactivity. That’s borderline irrelevance. And it’s the most criminal statement yet on the Schoen-Daboll era.