New York Giants head coach Brian Daboll made a bold decision this week, benching quarterback Daniel Jones and elevating Tommy DeVito from QB3 to QB1.
The reasoning, Daboll said, is that DeVito gives the Giants their best chance to win. He reached that conclusion after watching two seasons worth of film over the course of the team’s bye week.
Given that certainty, DeVito should be entrenched as the starting quarterback over the final seven games of the season, right?
Well… Not so fast.
Although Daboll insists DeVito gives the Giants their best chance to win, he won’t commit to the quarterback beyond a Week 12 game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
“I’m not going to (say) what’s going to be. I’m going to focus on this week with Tampa. I’m going to try to do the best job we can to get (DeVito) ready to play so he can go out there and perform at the highest level he can,” Daboll told reporters. “Look, we’ll do what we think is best for this week.
“Part of that is Tommy being the quarterback and some of the things that he prefers or doesn’t prefer. But again, there’s new pieces around him from when he played last year. He’s got some new skill guys, some new offensive linemen, so we’ll do what we think is best for the offense.”
The locker room has already reacted negatively to Jones being benched, so starting a quarterback carousel might not be the best move for Daboll & Co. Skipping over Drew Lock was already curious enough, so you’d assume the regime was firm in their commitment to DeVito. But apparently, that’s not the case.
There’s a strange level of uncertainty after making such an impactful quarterback decision. And now Daboll is essentially saying it’s a week-by-week thing?
Just more curious personnel decisions coming out of 1925 Giants Drive.
