PALM BEACH, Fla. — The New York Giants aren’t messing around with their quarterback situation. The new regime has made the pecking order abundantly clear: Daniel Jones is the starter and Tyrod Taylor is the backup.
No quibbling over semantics. No saying the QBs will compete or that everyone has to win a job or that this is a pure meritocracy.
Nope, Jones is the starter under new general manager Joe Schoen and coach Brian Daboll, with perhaps his biggest backer being ownership and John Mara.
“He’s shown enough when we’ve had the right pieces around him — when we’ve been relatively healthy — he’s shown enough talent to make us believe we can win with him,” Mara said last week at the NFL annual meeting in Palm Beach, Florida.
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Mara and the Giants believe Jones is a quarterback you can build around, even if they need to see it before putting up the money that proves it completely.
Schoen and Daboll followed the latest Mara endorsement by specifically referring to Taylor, who was signed as a free agent three weeks ago, as the “backup.” So barring an unexpected setback, Jones will begin the spring workouts, training camp and the regular season as the starter.
This is a make-or-break 2022 season for Jones, who is on the final year of his rookie contract. The Giants said they haven’t made a decision about whether to pick up his fifth-year option. They have until May 2.
It was just two years ago that Joe Judge took over as head coach and wouldn’t say the name of Jones (or any player for that matter) until he had them in the building and saw them on the field.
This is the opposite end of the spectrum — naming your starting quarterback in March.
“Yeah, [Taylor] came in as the backup,” Daboll said last week at the NFC coaches’ breakfast in Palm Beach. “Again,…
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