New York Giants players respond to Daniel Jones being benched amid disastrous season

The New York Giants are facing disapproval for their handling of benched backmost Daniel Jones, and according to Fox Sports NFL insider Jordan Schultz, that disapproval is coming from wrong the locker room.

'There is ''disappointment'' among immoderate #Giants players regarding however the Daniel Jones concern was handled implicit the past week, particularly with players alert it was chiefly a fiscal determination by the organization,' Schultz wrote connected X.

The struggling erstwhile first-round prime was demoted to 3rd drawstring this week aft the Giants fell to 2-8 with Sunday's overtime nonaccomplishment to the lowly Carolina Panthers successful Germany.

This comes aft the Giants gave Jones a four-year, $160 cardinal contract, lone fractional of which is guaranteed. That means New York tin merchandise him this offseason, thereby dropping his headdress fig to $22 cardinal from the $41 cardinal he'd correspond if helium remained connected the roster. 

'We're not idiots,' Schultz says 1 violative subordinate told him implicit the phone. 'They did it due to the fact that of money. So beryllium it. But Daniel has been each class, ne'er complained, and is present being wholly disregarded. The TEAM grounds is bad. You tin constituent fingers everywhere.

'To effort to blasted him is trash, and making him 3rd drawstring is anemic arsenic fu**.'

The squad present plans to commencement instrumentality favourite and section leader Tommy DeVito portion chap seasoned Drew Lock remains the backup.

But to perceive Jones' highest-profile teammate, he's remains the team's champion enactment for the clip being.

'He's the QB1,' All-Pro antiaircraft tackle Dexter Lawrence II said Tuesday. 'To me, he's the champion backmost connected the team.'

As Schultz explained, aggregate sources ranging from players, coaches and executives spot deep-seeded problems wrong the team.

'… The issues wrong the enactment spell acold beyond conscionable 1 person,' Schultz wrote.

Jones' agents did not instantly respond to DailyMail.com's petition for comment.  

For his part, caput manager Brian Daboll hasn't enactment each the blasted connected Jones, oregon astatine slightest not publicly.

'It's conscionable not connected Daniel you cognize that's connected me, that's connected an full violative performance,' Daboll told reporters. 'So again making this determination to effort to spark it to springiness Tommy an accidental again, helium did immoderate bully things erstwhile helium was successful determination and helium played arsenic a rookie. And I cognize he´s anxious for the opportunity.'

Both Daboll and Giants GM Joe Schoen could beryllium replaced this offseason without immoderate signs of improvement.

Jones, the sixth-overall prime of the 2019 NFL Draft, is having his 2nd consecutive mediocre play with New York. Over 10 games, he's tossed conscionable 8 touchdowns portion surrendering 7 interceptions and 4 fumbles.

The Giants could person options successful April's NFL Draft with Colorado backmost and Deion Sanders' lad Sheduer, Miami prima Cam Ward, Alabama's Jalen Milroe and Georgia's Carson Beck each apt successful play for New York.