Saquon Barkley wouldn’t be wherever close to approaching the NFL’s dashing file if the Giants re-signed him.
OK, now that everybody agrees on that time: It nonetheless was a major mistake by the Giants to overlook 4 completely different home windows courting again to November 2022 to get a deal finished with Barkley — most notably haggling over the NFL’s model of salary-cap chump change in July 2023 — and basically ship the eventual 2,000-yard rusher to the rival Eagles.
The trajectory of the Giants’ path modified on March 7, 2023, when the Giants opted to pay $82 million assured on a $160 million extension to quarterback Daniel Jones slightly than increase the assure in Barkley’s supply from about $19 million to about $24 million over three years and thus clear the franchise tag for use on Jones to return for a prove-it season. Barkley was tagged.
“They forgot how they got to the playoffs in 2022,” one NFC government advised The Submit. “It wasn’t because of the quarterback.”
