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Giants QB Daniel Jones may have been shell-shocked in 2023

New York Giants quarterback Daniel Jones has been the subject of scrutiny since he was drafted in 2019. He’s gone through three coaching changes and an entire front office change in five years, but NFL metrics don’t really care about your circumstances.

Last season was Jones’ worst to date, even before he was injured.

But there may have been a specific reason for Jones’ regression in 2023. Giants legend Carl Banks feels he may have been “shellshocked” as the result of the beating taken behind one of the worst offensive lines in NFL history.

“And the other thing . . . is his mental state, right? He’s been beat up and I don’t have any doubt that he’ll go out and he’ll compete,” Banks said on the Bleav in Giants podcast. “But when the lights come on and the bullets start to fly, is he PTSD? Is he traumatized? Is he having flashbacks? Right? Is he shell-shocked because he took a lot of punishment and it impacted his judgment in the game?

“And that’s not an excuse. It’s fair and it’s not a lie. You know, when people say, well, you know, Daniel just can’t do this and you blame everything on the offensive line. Well, that’s how it works in the NFL. Quarterback to have time, (they) make good judgments. Quarterbacks get hit a lot, they make bad judgments.”

Banks said several things in that statement that everyone needs to see: PTSD, traumatized, and flashbacks. If you’ve ever been traumatized or had PTSD related to trauma, you know that when the trigger shows up, your body and brain slip into survival mode.

When that happens, a person has limited control over how their body responds. This means that a person could freeze up (a real problem for a QB) or run straight into danger to go through it (likely causing injury).

No one wants to say this can be his excuse but if Jones is having a trauma response because his line previously failed him resulting in hits he shouldn’t have had to take, that is absolutely not his fault. It’s an organizational failure and one that will negatively impact Jones for, potentially, the rest of his career.

Was Jones ‘shellshocked’ as Banks suspects? It’s hard to say. But it would certainly explain some of his reactions last year.



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Carl Banks calls for the end of personal attacks against Saquon Barkley

New York Giants Ring of Honoree and current radio analyst, Carl Banks, has had enough. He is calling for a cease-fire from Giant fans who have been lambasting Saquon Barkley since he signed on with the rival Philadelphia Eagles in free agency last week.

“Saquon Barkley has put this team on his back. He’s a New Yorker, once a Giant, always a Giant,” Banks said on the Bleav in Giants podcast. “And that fits him. And I hate the effing Eagles. I do.

“And I’m going to root for Saquon Barkley for 15 weeks. I’m going to wish him love and success for 15 weeks. The other two weeks, I hope he gets two yards. And if they see him in the third week, I hope he gets less yards than that.

“Other than that, the kid has been everything that you would want a star player to be within your organization and outside of your organization. And, you know, again, I’m not singling out all fans but some of the behavior, some of the rhetoric towards you.”

Barkley was not assigned the franchise tag this offseason, as he was last year, and became a free agent. He quickly inked a three-year deal with Philly worth a reported $37.5 million which added to the fans’ ire.

It was later learned the Giants did not make Barkley an offer nor a counteroffer once he became a free agent.

The Giants then moved on at running back, signing free agent Devin Singletary and angling towards a running back ‘by committee’ approach.

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Giants QB Daniel Jones ‘has to play better’ in 2024

New York Giants quarterback Daniel Jones regressed in 2023 before suffering a serious neck injury and, eventually, a season-ending ACL tear.

The step back came after Jones signed a four-year, $160 million contract that was widely panned by fans and NFL media alike. It has thrust the Giants into a precarious position as they hold the No. 6 overall pick in the 2024 NFL draft.

Despite all of that, general manager Joe Schoen remains committed to Jones as the team’s starter — when healthy. The team is hopeful he returns in time for training camp but there is a very real possibility that Jones misses games next season.

Whenever he does return, the leash will be short. Jones will have to play better from the jump, says retired Giants great Carl Banks.

“I am, for transparency, a big Daniel Jones fan. But I will be the first to say that he took a step back this past year,” Banks told Mail Sport.

“But I’ll also add context to that and say, I can understand why. His offensive line was awful. He took so many hits early. And people don’t want to understand that quarterbacks under duress — and I would challenge any individual who just continues to criticize the effectiveness of a quarterback who continues to get hit, I would challenge you to stand anywhere and get hit by a 2×4, about five times in a row and see if you can make great decisions.”

The Giants’ offensive line surrendered 85 sacks this past season, the second-most in NFL history. And all three of the team’s quarterbacks — Jones, Tyrod Taylor, and Tommy DeVito — suffered injuries as a result of the porous line. It was undeniably a factor in the poor quarterback play.

“It does impair your decision-making because I was one of those guys who was doing that to quarterbacks, so I know how it impacts them,” Banks said. “But he has to play better when he gets healthy. He will have to resume where he was starting to ascend to, and if he doesn’t, they’re gonna move on.”

That’s the nature of business in the NFL. Whether Jones is at fault or not, it’s a what have you done for me lately league. And with a potential out in his contract following the 2024 season, DJ had better find a way to make it work or his time in East Rutherford, as Banks suggests, will be up.

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New York Giants legends chime in on Saquon Barkley situation

New York Giants fans want the Saquon Barkley situation to end amicably and equitably for all parties — and it still may.

The star running back will stage his holdout and then likely report to the team in time for the 2023 regular season. He won’t, however, be any wealthier than he was when it began. Whether or not he will harbor any ill feelings towards the Giants going forward remains to be seen.

Two Giants Ring of Honorees — two-time Super Bowl champions Ottis Anderson and Carl Banks — both weighed-in on the Barkley affair this week and added some level-headed perspectives to the situation.

Anderson told the New York Post that Barkley only has himself to blame for how things unfolded. He said that Barkley should have pulled the trigger on the offer the Giants made him last fall (approximately $12-14 million per annum) instead of trying to squeeze more out of them.

Instead, he’ll be forced to play on the franchise-tag tender price of $10.1 million this year.

“I get where Barkley feels he’s at the point in his career where he wants that one big check, that one big contract, because everybody wants that, because you’re not sure you’re gonna get another one,’’ Anderson said. “Two years from now, he’ll be in his seventh year, and that’s when most teams let go of running backs. I wish him luck, but management is looking at it totally differently than how Barkley is looking at it.

“Management is saying you were great your rookie year, then you had two years or three years in between where you were injured and then you had a great year last year,” he continued. “So they’re looking at it out of five years you only had three good years.’’

Banks, speaking on his podcast with radio partner, Bob Papa, advised the Giants running back to take his medicine and make the best of it, even telling him to hire a branding expert to seek opportunities outside of football in the New York market to make the lost revenue he “left on the table.”

“Don’t be a principled fool,” Banks tweeted.



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5 reasons Giants legend Carl Banks is deserving of Hall of Fame

Banks was named a first-team All-Pro in 1987, racking up nine sacks in 12 games (the season was interrupted by a work stoppage that year).

Banks was a steady performer for his entire Giants career but was overshadowed at the time by Taylor and another Hall of Fame linebacker, Harry Carson.

In shining a new light on his career, many are discovering what Giants fans have always known — that Banks was great, too.

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Tom Coughlin among 8 Giants semifinalists for Pro Football Hall of Fame

Four former New York Giants players, one former coach, and former head coach Tom Coughlin have been included on a list of 60 semifinalists who will advance to the next round of consideration for the Pro Football Hall of Fame’s Class of 2024.

Running back Ottis ‘O.J.’ Anderson, quarterback Charlie Conerly, linebacker Carl Banks, and defensive back Everson Walls will be among a group considered to be among 12 Seniors and 12 Coach/Contributors advancing to the final stage.

Late Giants head coach Dan Reeves, a two-time AP NFL Coach of the Year, is also a semifinalist.

The results will be announced on July 27.

Coughlin coached the Giants for 12 seasons (2004-15) and was a two-time Super Bowl winner(XLII, XLVI). He also was the first head coach of the expansion Jacksonville Jaguars in 1995, taking the team to two AFC Championship Games. He had an overall NFL record of 182-157 over 20 seasons.

Anderson split 14 seasons between the St. Louis Cardinals (1979-1986) and Giants (1986-1992). He is a two-time Super Bowl champion and six-time 1,000-yard rusher. He was also named MVP of Super Bowl XXV.

Conerly played all 14 of his NFL seasons (1948-61) with the Giants. He won the NFL title in 1956 and passed for 19,488 yards and 173 touchdowns.

Banks was the third overall selection in the 1984 NFL draft out of Michigan State. He was a two-time Super Bowl champion during his time with the Giants (1984-1992). Banks also played one season in Washington (1993) and two in Cleveland (1994-95).

Walls played most of his NFL career (1981-93) with the Dallas Cowboys, where he was named to three first-team All-Pro teams, four Pro Bowls and led the NFL in interceptions three times while in Dallas. He finished his career with the Giants and Cleveland Browns and helped Big Blue to victory in Super Bowl XXV.

Also on the coach/contributor list is former Giants assistant/defensive coordinator Marty Schottenheimer and head coach John McVay.

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