New York Giants make astonishing Daniel Jones decision amid nightmare season

Daniel Jones has been released by the New York Giants after losing his spot arsenic the team's starting backmost this week.

In the aftermath of their 5th consecutive defeat, the Giants announced connected Monday that Jones was being replaced by Tommy DeVito astatine backmost for their adjacent fixture against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

The 27-year-old, who has played successful 70 games for New York since being selected with the sixth wide prime astatine the 2019 draft, addressed his demotion successful beforehand of the media connected Thursday with a connection that had the code of a farewell speech.

And little than 24 hours later, Giants president John Mara has revealed the squad and Jones person mutually agreed to spell their abstracted ways.

'Daniel came to spot maine this greeting and asked if we would merchandise him. We mutually agreed that would beryllium champion for him and for the team,' Mara said successful a connection connected Friday.

'Daniel has been a large typical of our organization, archetypal people successful each way. His handling of this concern yesterday exemplifies conscionable that. We are each disappointed successful however things person worked out.

'We clasp Daniel successful precocious respect and person a large appreciation for him. We privation him thing but the champion successful the future.'

Brian Daboll's squad is enduring different miserable run aft winning conscionable 2 of their opening 10 fixtures and losing their past five, leaving them bottommost of the NFC East. Last play they finished 3rd with a 6-11 record.

Jones, who suffered a torn ACL astir precisely 1 twelvemonth ago, has failed to marque an interaction since returning from that injury, ranking 19th successful the league for passing yards with a specified 2,070 and 28th for walk completion connected conscionable implicit 63 percent.

'The accidental to play for the New York Giants was genuinely a imagination travel existent and I'm highly grateful Mara and Tisch families for the accidental to play here,' Jones told reporters connected Thursday. 

'The Giants are genuinely a first-class enactment and I person thing but genuine respect and appreciation for the radical who person built it and person helped transportation connected that tradition. '

'I've met truthful galore truthful galore peculiar radical and created relationships that volition genuinely past a lifetime. Thank you [to] each my teammates, coaches, and unit that person done truthful overmuch for maine these past six years.'

'There person been immoderate large times,' helium continued. 'But, of course, we privation determination person been much of those. I instrumentality afloat work for my portion and not bringing much wins.

'No 1 wanted to triumph much games worst than maine and I gave everything I had successful the tract and successful my mentation and I privation I could person done more.'