This past week, the New York Giants have hired a general manager and a head coach off the payroll of the Buffalo Bills, partly because they believe that Joe Schoen and Brian Daboll can turn quarterback Daniel Jones into a franchise quarterback like they did with Josh Allen.
Well, something like that. The Giants say they simply hired the best candidates and their opinions — Jones was not necessarily the deciding factor.
Both men believe that Jones can become the player the Giants had hoped when they selected him sixth overall back in 2019. Jones had some early success but then stumbled after a myriad of negative circumstances befell him — injuries, poor coaching and a lack of sufficient talent around him.
Even owner John Mara admitted publicly that the team did everything to “screw this kid up.” But with the Buffalo contingent in charge now, they hope that Jones will prosper with some much seeded stability and tutelage.
Jones himself is not siting back and waiting for the cavalry. He plans on tapping into the Buffalo vein by reaching out to Josh Allen for some guidance.
Allen has become one of the game’s most prolific and dynamic players and possesses some of the same traits as Jones — size, mobility and a big arm.
“Going forward I plan to try to get in touch with him,” Jones told The Post about Allen. Quarterbacks have a close-knit society and the two know each other, a relationship that is about to get closer.
“Obviously Josh is a great player, he’s done a lot of great things in this league, and fun guy to watch, and a guy who’s had a lot of success,” Jones said.
What exactly does Jones plan on picking Allen’s brain about?
“I think just kind of general stuff on how they made it work so well. … How he went about building that relationship, and how he learned best and just made it work,” Jones said.
Many will argue that Jones is not Allen, not even close in some cases. But that won’t preclude him from looking into taking the same pat to success.
“My goal is not to be him, or try to emulate him. I understand I got my own skill-set, my own game, so I’ll try to be the be the best version of that, be the best version of myself,” Jones said. “Coach Daboll has said that to me, and I think that’s what he expects. I look forward to learning from Coach, and obviously there’s a lot of things he was able to teach Josh, and I’ll look forward to learning from that, and try to be the best player I can be.”
With Daboll at the helm, the Giants will almost assuredly be better offensively and that will benefit Jones. We’ve seen him do exceptional things on the field and now he’ll finally get the platform to put those traits on display full time.
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