John Mara is placing the seek for a franchise quarterback atop the Giants’ to-do record.
“That’s obviously the No. 1 issue for us going into this offseason — to find our quarterback of the future,” Mara stated Monday, after his determination to retain normal supervisor Joe Schoen and head coach Brian Daboll. “Whether that be draft or acquiring a veteran will be up to them to decide.”
However Mara notably didn’t decide to avoiding the Daniel Jones cycle of failure by guaranteeing that Schoen and Daboll would stay of their jobs for 2 extra seasons.
The Giants fired head coach and play-caller Pat Shurmur after Jones’ promising rookie season and the 2019 first-round draft choose by no means seemed the identical. Mara infamously stated in 2022 that the Giants had accomplished all the pieces potential to “screw up” Jones.
Effectively, if the Giants are going to draft both Shedeur Sanders or Cam Ward with the No. 3 choose within the 2025 NFL Draft, shouldn’t that quarterback get not less than two years with the identical regime?
“I’m not going to put any kind of time limit on it,” Mara stated, “but I understand where you are going with that.”
If Schoen and Daboll are on the new seat, they might really feel motivated to behave out of self-preservation and drive a quarterback draft choose reasonably than make sincere scouting assessments.
Schoen and Daboll have a spotty document up to now on their quarterback evaluations: They determined to increase Jones on a four-year, $160 million contract, handed on drafting Michael Penix Jr. (Falcons) and Bo Nix (Broncos) within the 2024 draft earlier than each confirmed diversified ranges of promise as rookies.
Schoen signed Drew Lock to be their backup to Jones after which Daboll bypassed Lock for Tommy DeVito when Jones was reduce, after which went again to Lock over DeVito.
However the Jones determination is the largest miss that turned the course of the franchise on its head. By preserving Schoen and Daboll, are they absolved of that mistake?
“No,” Mara stated. “We made a decision at the end of the 2022 season based on how Daniel had played that we were going to sign him to that contract. I approved that.”
Drafting Sanders or Ward would’ve been a lot simpler if the Giants misplaced in Week 17 to the Colts and had the No. 1 total choose.
“If I had thought that we were tanking either one of those games, I would’ve fired everybody,” Mara stated. “We are never going to do that in this organization as long as I’m standing on this side of the grass.”
