Giants believe they can become rags-to-riches story with right young quarterback pick
NY Post
So, if the Giants take a quarterback up high in the first round of the 2025 NFL Draft, does that provide a franchise reset of sorts? Does it recalibrate the urgency for general manager Joe Schoen and head coach Brian Daboll to right the ship and produce a winning season, after too much losing in 2023 and even more this season?
After all, a rookie quarterback, even one who is highly touted, usually needs a grace period to acclimate to the NFL. Most often, there are early struggles, for the player and the team, sometimes lasting a few weeks, sometimes multiple months, and it is not uncommon for the entire first season to evolve into a learning experience, taking lumps now for a better tomorrow.
The Giants would need an improbable glut of winning in the next seven games to come close to achieving last year’s lousy 6-11 record, given they are 2-8 heading out of a bye week that felt like a stay of execution on a season destined for the dumps. Adding Shedeur Sanders or Cam Ward or Jalen Milroe could be a long-term solution but perhaps not an immediate salve to all the wounds that have been inflicted in a losing streak that is alive and unwell at five games and counting.
Or maybe, if it is the right guy, the Giants can rise up and look like a competent team right away.
Almost a year to the day after a goaltender interference call against Kyle Palmieri lost the Islanders a game against the Blue Jackets that started their season’s death spiral, they were on the wrong end of another controversial call against those same Blue Jackets that might have had the same effect.
On the Queens side of town, the reno began in earnest almost as soon as Francisco Lindor grounded into the 4-6-3 double play. That ended a 4-0 loss before a rare sizable crowd at Miami’s loanDepot Park last Sept. 27, all of them there to witness the final death rattles of an epic baseball calamity.
Jaxon Smith-Njigba is being paid handsomely for his breakout season.
Next comes the harder part. Mostly because it can’t get any easier.
It was Kids Day at Madison Square Garden on Sunday, but for the Rangers, it’s been All About The Kids for months.
PORT ST. LUCIE — From the moment he was told he needed surgery on his left hamate bone, Francisco Lindor fixated on the recovery time. Trainers provided the Mets shortstop a six-week pathway to return to play, and Lindor was determined to hit every marker.
Dylan Garand knew the number off the top of his head. He knew that, between the regular season and playoffs, he’d logged over 160 games with AHL Hartford, and he was right. Before the Rangers recalled him Friday, Garand had served as the Wolf Pack’s goaltender 165 times.
SAN DIEGO — As you may have seen elsewhere in this newspaper (and also if you haven’t deleted me yet from your social media), I have a book coming out Tuesday called “The Bosses of The Bronx.” Much of it details the 37 years’ worth of antics, winning, losing, winning again and overall mania of George Steinbrenner’s time with the Yankees.
Don’t close the curtain on “Mean” Joe Greene.
The Knicks are on a five-game winning streak and flooded with concerns.
Dylan Garand knew the number off the top of his head. He knew that, between the regular season and playoffs, he’d logged over 160 games with AHL Hartford, and he was right. Before the Rangers recalled him Friday, Garand had served as the Wolf Pack’s goaltender 165 times.
SAN DIEGO — As you may have seen elsewhere in this newspaper (and also if you haven’t deleted me yet from your social media), I have a book coming out Tuesday called “The Bosses of The Bronx.” Much of it details the 37 years’ worth of antics, winning, losing, winning again and overall mania of George Steinbrenner’s time with the Yankees.
The Knicks are on a five-game winning streak and flooded with concerns.