Giants exec slams ESPN's Elle Duncan after mocking Daniel Jones for reading statement prior to release

The New York Giants released Daniel Jones connected Friday. 

On Thursday, Jones opened his property league with a written statement, bidding farewell to the Giants.

"The accidental to play for the New York Giants was genuinely a imagination travel true. 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," Jones’s statement began. 

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Host Elle Duncan speaks during the 2024 espnW New York Summit astatine 1 Hotel Brooklyn Bridge connected May 9, 2024 successful Brooklyn, New York. (John Lamparski/Getty Images)

ESPN’s Elle Duncan mocked Jones for speechmaking disconnected a connection during a "Taking the Elle" conception connected "SportsCenter" Thursday, a conception she usually does connected Friday. 

"We usually reserve ‘Taking the Elle’ for Fridays but Giants backmost Daniel Jones conscionable did thing truthful inexplicable that we made an exception. After being benched this week, Jones took to the podium to accidental goodbye to the franchise and fans but with, like, 7 games near successful the season," Duncan said successful a mocking tone. 

"I’m sorry, you person to constitute this down? Didn’t you spell to Duke?" Duncan said incredulously.

"Do you guys deliberation helium had this saved successful his notes since, like, 2020? In each seriousness, DJ, I could person saved you similar 90 seconds. A re-write: ‘Sorry you paid maine $108 cardinal for 1 playoff win. And I look guardant to reviving my vocation arsenic Brock Purdy’s backup.’ The end," Duncan concluded. 

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

Giants elder V.P. of communications Pat Hanlon took objection to Duncan’s segment, portion besides taking a changeable astatine ESPN successful a station connected X. 

"That an #ESPN property would mock Daniel Jones’ connection contiguous is caput boggling. Given what has happened astatine that institution implicit past fewer years, code deaf," Hanlon wrote. 

Hanlon did not further elaborate astir "what has happened" astatine ESPN implicit the past fewer years. 

During ESPN's "First Take" connected Friday, Stephen A Smith said the Giants reached retired to ESPN to kick astir Duncan's segment.

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New York Giants elder vice president of communications Pat Hanlon reacts during signifier astatine Hanbury Manor. (Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports)

Tommy DeVito is successful enactment to commencement against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers connected Sunday. Drew Lock is the backup quarterback, with Tim Boyle apt serving arsenic the exigency quarterback. 

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