Daniel Jones bids farewell to Giants, shoulders blame for team's struggles: 'I’m 100% accountable for my part'

Daniel Jones isn’t utilized to conscionable sitting backmost and watching astatine New York Giants practices, but aft being demoted coming retired of the bye week, helium understands his clip arsenic Big Blue’s franchise backmost has travel to an extremity aft six seasons. 

This surely is not however Jones, the No. 6 wide prime of the 2019 NFL Draft, wanted his Giants tenure to extremity – a mislaid 2-8 play wherever his play has not justified him starting the remainder of the year. 

But caput manager Brian Daboll made it official, with Tommy DeVito elevated into the starting relation and Jones moved each the mode backmost to QB4 with the squad bringing successful seasoned Tim Boyle. 

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New York Giants backmost Daniel Jones during the Carolina Panthers game, Nov. 10, 2024, successful Munich, Germany. (AP Photo/Lennart Preiss)

Speaking for the archetypal clip since the move, Jones gave an opening connection to media members astatine the team’s installation successful East Rutherford, New Jersey, wherever helium was thing but a people act. 

 "The accidental to play for the New York Giants was genuinely a imagination travel true," Jones began. "I’m highly grateful to the Mara and Tisch families for the accidental to play here. The Giants are genuinely a first-class organization, and I person thing but genuine respect and appreciation for the radical who person built it and the radical who transportation connected that tradition. 

"I instrumentality afloat work for my portion successful not bringing much wins. No 1 wanted to triumph much games worse than me, and I gave everything I had connected the tract and successful my preparation. Of course, this play has been disappointing for each and of people I privation I could’ve done more. I’m 100% accountable for my part. I did not play good enough, consistently capable to assistance the squad get the results. The world of the NFL is it’s hard to triumph games and requires accordant show from everyone involved. We didn’t bash that good enough, truthful the thought to alteration thing happens and I understand.

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"I emotion the game, I emotion being a portion of the team, and I’m excited for the adjacent opportunity. I cognize there’s a batch of bully shot successful beforehand of maine and I’m excited astir that. To each the fans, I person heavy respect for your passionateness and emotion for the Giants. The fans are a immense portion of what makes playing for the Giants truthful special."

The penning was connected the partition for Jones aft his mishaps against the Carolina Panthers successful Munich, Germany were the past straws for Daboll, GM Joe Schoen and the remainder of the organization. 

Jones said that conversations were had betwixt Schoen and his agents, wherever the Giants’ GM explained what the determination was going to be. And Jones wasn’t going to beryllium backing up DeVito, arsenic helium has a $23 cardinal wounded warrant built into his declaration that would travel into effect if helium were to get hurt. 

That’s wherefore the Giants brought successful Boyle and are keeping Jones acold distant from thing that could perchance pb to an injury. Usually successful these cases – look astatine the Las Vegas Raiders with Derek Carr – teams volition let the subordinate to simply enactment location and hole for what’s to travel with their adjacent team.

For now, Jones is "still kinda processing" and wants to help.

New York Giants backmost Daniel Jones passes against the Washington Commanders, Nov. 3, 2024, successful East Rutherford, New Jersey. (AP Photo/John Munson)

"I’m doing the champion I tin to assistance Tommy prepare, assistance the squad hole and that’s what I’m going to bash close now. Processing that, I deliberation the determination was made and not playing," Jones said. 

As for that wounded guarantee, Jones didn’t accidental truthful directly, but it sounded similar helium was trying immoderate mode to enactment connected the tract for the Giants. He was asked if helium would waive the wounded warrant to get backmost connected the field.

"I privation to play. I privation to beryllium connected the field," helium said. "I deliberation I tried to bash arsenic overmuch arsenic I could to marque that imaginable and make a concern wherever we were some comfortable, but astir of those discussions went connected with my cause and with Joe. I privation to play, I privation to beryllium connected the field, but it’s an unfortunate concern broadside of the game.

"I got the wounded guarantee, truthful that’s that and I recognize it. They don’t privation to instrumentality immoderate risk. So, yeah, astatine that constituent it’s conscionable bash arsenic you’re told."

Despite his efforts, Jones volition proceed to beryllium successful the backmost during signifier sessions, and assistance retired wherever helium can. But he, similar everyone else, knows his NFL aboriginal is elsewhere, which is emotional, particularly erstwhile helium hears the enactment from his teammates. 

New York Giants backmost Daniel Jones attends a quality league aft a signifier league successful Munich, Germany, Nov. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Lennart Preiss)

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"I’ve created a batch of large relationships present with the guys here, and decidedly admit the support," Jones said, choked up. "But it’s astir the squad and what’s champion for the team. I cognize the guys volition beryllium acceptable to go, and Tommy volition beryllium acceptable to spell this week."

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