Daniel Jones' Rocky Preseason Debut with the Giants
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00:00One of the stories out of a 13-game slate on Saturday was not a good performance, a promising performance in Houston,
00:09but one that left us scratching our head and oftentimes laughing out loud.
00:14That was Daniel Jones in his preseason debut for the New York Giants.
00:18One of his first passes of the game was almost a safety.
00:22It was taken the other way for a pick six.
00:25He threw another interception, not all that much later on.
00:29Yeah, 138 passing yards, but two INTs and no passing scores.
00:35Buy or sell, Donnie, Daniel Jones is the worst starting quarterback in the NFL.
00:41It's not an easy answer because usually we're like, oh, well, there should be four or five opportunities
00:45where he can be a better quarterback than a lot of guys out here, and I don't know if that is.
00:49So technically I'll sell it because I'm just looking at maybe two quarterback names on here.
00:53The Will Levis of the Titans, we're not really too sure what we're going to get out of him this year,
00:58but he does have some pretty good compliments around him.
01:00I guess the other one would be Jacoby Brissett, who's supposed to be your day one starter in New England,
01:05but we're also talking about guys that haven't even secured that starting job technically at this point.
01:09I mean, probably Will Levis is going to get it by default, and Jacoby Brissett we've been told is that leader,
01:14but who knows how long he'll actually be.
01:16But from a season-long perspective, where you enter week number one and are supposed to be the starter for 17 weeks,
01:22not holding that placemat for three to four weeks before the rookie takes over,
01:26it probably is Daniel Jones at that point.
01:28Now you saw the 11 for 18, like, hey, look, he threw for over 100 yards.
01:31That's impressive, when technically it's not.
01:33Had three terrible decisions with the football, two wound up being an interception,
01:37and one actually got returned for a pick six, one of the worst throws you're going to see from a veteran quarterback.
01:42But his mobility was there.
01:44He's going to be able to do some things within that offense, but again, the ceiling on Daniel Jones, 15, 16 touchdown passes,
01:52it's absurdity that a starting quarterback would have that as sort of his ceiling here.
01:55So by default, on the starters, you expect to be day one through week 17, week 18 next year.
02:02You probably have to buy that he is the worst quarterback.
02:05But if it's just about lining up the top 32 quarterbacks, I probably would sell.
02:09But again, not from a vantage point where I have, like, five or six names that I can absolutely go to
02:14that I know are going to be worse than Daniel Jones.
02:16And he didn't exactly lift everybody's expectations, because as soon as those games kicked off,
02:20as soon as we got the highlights back in, it was like, oh, yeah, look at his pass by Daniel Jones.
02:24And nobody said, wow, that's kind of interesting.
02:26No, we all laughed and said, yeah, that's Daniel Jones.