After two horrible seasons which included a Fiasco from Saquon Barkley, an implosion of Daniel Jones, a record of 9-25, losing almost their job and making a co-owner John Mara Sound about his decision to keep them, the director general Joe Schoen and the head coach Brian Daboll needed something big.
They succeeded in the Tour 1 of the NFL 2025 draft.
The giants struck a home run, by withdrawing the double plunge from the obtaining of a defender who changes the situation to No. 3 to Abdul Carter considered as one of the two best prospects of the draft class, then by sliding in the first round to obtain the quarter of the potential franchise of the future that they tried to set up for at least the last two measures off the number 25.
This crazy and strange feeling that you may feel as a fan of the giants? The one you may not feel for a while and you can only have distant memories?
This is called hope.
After two laughter for the product, they put on the ground and for the way they ended up looking for the last off-season on `Hard Knocks ”, the giants needed to change the story that they were an awkward and lost franchise with a GM and a chief coach who was dead on foot, during their poorly designed.
Mission accomplished.
In Carter, they obtained a university football analyst respected by the player, Joel Klatt, “could have an even more important impact than Micah Parsons in the National Football League”.
Parsons, also from Penn State, has 52.5 bags in four seasons and did the Pro Bowl each year.
Carter joins Dexter Lawrence, Kayvon Thibodeaux, Brian Burns and a handful of competent veterans in a defensive front suddenly imposing seven for the Giants. Combine this with a second -handed secondary in free agency with the additions of the Paulson Adebo and Jevon Holland corner half and it seems that the defense improvements to which Mara insisted in January were made.
Mara also clearly indicated in January that “the number one number for us entering this offseason, was to find our quarter of the future”.
Taking the feat of improving the team for 2025 and finding a potential quarter of the future seemed a high task for Schoen in a year when the choices were considered to be thin in the project.
Schoen tried to get Matthew Stafford from the Los Angeles Rams. He flirted with Aaron Rodgers in a free agency. He signed Russell Wilson and Jameis Winston for – Hopefully – Improve the team in 2025 and hold the hot seat for a quarter of the future. He offered a pair of choice in the first round to the Tennessee Titans to go to No. 1 and select Cam Ward.
None of this brought Schoen the quarter-back of the future whose giants of the giants needed and that Schoen and Daboll needed to help convince the property they have on the right track.
There were rumors that the Saints of New Orleans loved Dart and could even take it at n ° 9. It did not happen.
When the Pittsburgh steelers have transmitted Dart and Sheder Sanders to No. 21, Schoen began to fervently support the remaining teams with Tour 1 selections to find a trading partner.
“We started after Pittsburgh,” said Schoen. “Maybe in range 22, 23, we started to try to go up. Many teams have just decided to stay and choose, so again, you try to make offers, you try to move away, and if the teams want to stay and choose, there is simply not much that you can do there to get ahead of the next team and start working on potential professions. »»
Give Schoen, very defined for his manipulation of some of the high-level decisions of the last two seasons, the merit of having read the quarter-back tea leaves correctly.
“This is the difficult part,” said Schoen. “There are 31 other teams, and sometimes we assume that everyone sees things like us.
“CHAPPEL to my pradication. They do an excellent job to do these calls around the league, and the Pro Scouting staff has done needs, so we have in a way the main priorities the teams need, so you get out. Hey, we have to be very professional in the room, not really.
Of course, all the excitement of what the giants accomplished Thursday evening will die on the vineyard if it does not work on the field.
If Wilson and Winston cannot bring the giants to a decent season while Dart learns the strings of the NFL. If Carter, who Schoen called “a special talent”, and his friends do not defend his appearance on paper as they could do.
Above all, however, he will die if Dart does not become the quarterrier that the giants need. Of course, it’s anything but a guarantee.
After years of work on the quarter in the last four draft lessons, in particular the last two, Schoen and Daboll finally decided that Dart was the guy with whom they wanted to go ahead. By the way, a decision which, according to them, was only finalized in some time on Monday.
Schoen said he was “rewarding” to finally have their guys after years of work.
“It was exhausting to be honest with you,” said Schoen. “We have been, whether it be here all week and you go on the road in the fall or throughout the Easter weekend, we are always on the road. Credit to coaches, my staff, the film they watch, the scouts of the region putting us in the right direction in the quarters to go see.
“I’m glad we were able to get a guy on which we are condemned and we love. So yes, it’s gratifying. I’m probably going to be able to decompress, but it was quite stressful there during the last 15, 20 minutes to try to do it.”
Why Dart? Why this quarter-rear? It must be more than the fact that he shares an Alma Mater and a link with Eli Manning. RIGHT?
“I think he has a lot of qualities that you are looking for in a good quarterly,” said Daboll. “It is difficult, making good decisions with football, pushes the ball on the field, has an athletic capacity,” played in a really difficult conference, “started there at the USC as a young guy. But did a very good job throughout this process of our meetings, our pension work, training sessions and the band that we appreciated.
“I like the way he plays. I like his competition fire. I like his precision. I like his abilities, again, to push the ball on the field. His athletic capacity to run with football. I think this guy has improved every year that he played. He is a leader. He was intelligent. He has the attributes we were looking for.”
More “things I think”
- It is quite surprising that Sanders is still on the table entering day 2 of the draft. It was quite hilarious by looking at Mel Kiper d’Espn seems to become more and more angry about this over the night.
- I was happy to see that the Giants pick up the fifth year option of Kayvon Thibodeaux, which makes Thibodeaux unlikely to be exchanged. GM Joe Schoen, in fact, said: “Kayvon will be here.”
- Dart is not a clone of Daniel Jones Milquetoast. Asked at a conference in a hurry if he thought that his personality corresponded to New York, he practically shouted “without a doubt” in the phone.
