The NY Giants have just two wins on the year and another rebuild appears to be on the horizon. After Giants fans hoped to be headed toward improvement following a promising 2022 season under then-first-year head coach Brian Daboll, what's followed ever since has been nothing but disappointment.
Where did it all go wrong for the New York Giants exactly? Well, according to former NFL running back Maurice Jones-Drew during an appearance on The Dan Patrick Show, the Giants were forced to let go of too much talent after signing Daniel Jones and that's why things have gone off the rails.
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The question came about when Jones-Drew was asked to answer the show's poll question, which asked which NFL team was in the worst shape moving forward. The Giants were one of the choices and that's who Jones-Drew ultimately landed on.
"To me, it has to be the Giants and the reason being is you let go of two or three players in free agency that are playing well," Jones-Drew said, " McKinney and Green Bay... Obviously Saquan and Philly... You just can't let talent hit free agency and not bring 'em back. You just can't do that and a lot of that was because they paid Daniel Jones a ton of money."
Maurice Jones-Drew explains what NY Giants fans already knew
By now, no Giants fan is surprised to hear that the reason this team is in purgatory is that they spent too much money on a quarterback who didn't deserve it. Jones had a decent year in 2022 and that ended up screwing the G-Men for the foreseeable future.
As Jones-Drew alluded to, by paying Danny Dimes, the Giants had to let other talented players walk. He directly cited McKinney and Barkley, who are both doing well with their new teams. The Giants clearly should have paid Barkley instead of Jones but what's done is done.
New York is now pushing for the number one pick in the 2025 NFL Draft and if they get it, they'll have their pick between Colorado's Shedeur Sanders and Miami's Cam Ward to be their next attempt at a franchise quarterback.