In a high-rent district filled with upwardly mobile, athletic-looking, twentysomething guys and gals giving off the vibe they might have played lacrosse or soccer at some Ivy League school, Jones fits in well. He is impossible to miss, a broad-shouldered and square-jawed specimen at 6-foot-5, routinely clean-shaven, never far removed from a fresh and not especially trendy haircut.
It is true that he was taken with the No. 6-overall pick in the 2019 draft, and that the selection was jeered by the masses, and that in his three seasons with the Giants he has never strolled the streets of his adopted Hudson County home knowing what it feels like to be with a winner. The Giants are 13-35 since his arrival. They are 12-25 with him as a starter. He took over for the benched Eli Manning, won his first two NFL starts as a rookie, and after four games the Giants were .500.
With his fourth NFL training camp approaching, Jones is on the hot seat, and he knows it. There is a new general manager, Joe Schoen, who was working in Buffalo when the Giants selected Jones out of Duke.who also was in Buffalo when Jones was drafted. They want it to work with Jones, but have no legacy or reputation on the line with him.
The hard work thus far has not panned out in victories or individual success. Perhaps Jones needs to work harder. He rejects that notion. If the Giants had protected Daniel Jones as fiercely as Daniel Jones protects his privacy, the franchise would be on the rise. He was embraced by his teammates in 2019 almost immediately — the younger players related to him in a more natural way than trying to align with Manning who was closer to 40 and married with four kids. His bandwidth is considerably weaker when Jones gets around the media.
At a table for two, Jones sat back, placed his phone down and glanced at it from time to time. He was not distracted, though, intent on making this time worthwhile for both of us.“Just the lack of success? Um, yeah, it weighs on me a great deal,’’ he said. “When you put a lot of time and effort into something and you don’t see the results, I think that’s tough when you’re doing anything. Playing football in the NFL, playing football in New York, I think there’s a heavy weight to that.
“Things I can’t control, you waste energy and effort and time worrying about those. I think there’s a lot of benefits to my situation and having learned a lot of football and seeing it through different eyes and heard different coaches, their different philosophies, I think it can be, it depends on how you look at it, but it can be a positive and it can help you grow.’’
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