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Perhaps I missed the thread on this, but I'll start one right now.

Let me first off say, I am not a Giants fan or a Duke fan. Before the draft, I watched all of Jones' games against +.500 competition for the 2018 season, his statistically best one.

My overall view is, he's a good, not great NFL prospect.

PROS
- Three-year starter at Duke. He's an experienced quarterback. He played well enough and stayed healthy enough to maintain a starting job for 3 seasons.
- His 2018 season was hands down his best season.
- Looked great against Temple in the Independence Bowl (final full college football game), throwing for 423 passing yards and 5 touchdown passes, and had a rushing TD.
- Won the offensive MVP at the Senior Bowl.
- Interviewed extremely well. Seen as a hard-worker, intelligent, and a team player.

CONS
- His stats were relatively unimpressive. In 2018, his best season, he was ranked 72nd in FBS passer efficiency, and 91st in yards per attempt at 6.8 y/a.
- Looked great in the short passing game, but his vertical game was wildly inconsistent. This is where he struggled the most, especially on third downs.

Why did the Giants draft him so early? Gettleman loved the kid, and felt he would be a great replacement for Eli Manning. Both quarterbacks had the same head coach in college. In Gettleman's mind, you take a quarterback when you have the opportunity. You do not pass him up period, if you feel he's going to be an NFL superstar and fits your offensive system.

If you want to see Jones at his best, watch his tape against Pitt, Temple, and the Senior Bowl. You want to see him at his worst, see him against Clemson, Miami, and Wake Forest.

I do think he's better than his stats, but at the same time, his production in college and struggles in connecting with his targets in the vertical game give me great pause. Good luck to Giants Nation.
 

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Daniel Jones A.K.A. Pick Six.
 

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A guy who if he left last year or next would’ve gone undrafted?
 

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Do we have to?
 

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I'll reserve judgement until he actually plays. But I will say, it is really hard to be worse than Eli.
 

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Why did the Giants draft him so early? Gettleman loved the kid, and felt he would be a great replacement for Eli Manning. Both quarterbacks had the same head coach in college. In Gettleman's mind, you take a quarterback when you have the opportunity. You do not pass him up period, if you feel he's going to be an NFL superstar and fits your offensive system.
Gettleman got run through by the other GMs. Washington was always going to go for Haskins, and Denver, Miami, and Cincy were never going to take Jones, but someone got in his ear and he panicked. It very well could've been John Dorsey flummoxing him like he did with the ODB trade. I saw a story that since the Browns didn't have a first round pick, he was calling other GMs during the first round just to fuck with them. He probably told him he'd better take Jones at 6 because this slew of other teams were gonna grab him even though they weren't.

Quite frankly, Gettleman is an idiot who is in way over his head.
 

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Gettleman got run through by the other GMs. Washington was always going to go for Haskins, and Denver, Miami, and Cincy were never going to take Jones, but someone got in his ear and he panicked. It very well could've been John Dorsey flummoxing him like he did with the ODB trade. I saw a story that since the Browns didn't have a first round pick, he was calling other GMs during the first round just to fuck with them. He probably told him he'd better take Jones at 6 because this slew of other teams were gonna grab him even though they weren't.

Quite frankly, Gettleman is an idiot who is in way over his head.

If you saw Gettleman's post draft interview that says all you need to know about this guy. He doesn't really know his stuff.
 

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He said, "I saw Dwayne play in the Big 12...is it the Big 12 anymore...I don't even know. The Big 12 Championship Game" LOL Then he called Daniel Jones, "Jordan". Then they asked him about how much Cutcliffe had to do with the Jones pick and he said, "Cutcliffe, it's David right?"
 

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No let's talk

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I'm with @megalodon30 I'm going to wait to pass judgement to see how he develops.
I don't blame the Gmen going early with him.

Broncos, Skins and Bugnals can sit there any say, "nah we weren't going to take him that early" but push came to shove I believe one of them would have.
 

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Daniel Jones perfect in storm-shortened Giants debut

Daniel Jones' preseason debut was short but oh so sweet.

The New York Giants rookie signal-caller took over for Eli Manning in the first quarter of Big Blue's opener against the New York Jets. Manning got just one drive. Jones needed only one.

Jones, the much-ridiculed No. 6 overall selection, led New York on an eight-play scoring march on his lone drive of the evening. The rookie completed all five of his attempts to Cody Latimer, Golden Tateand Bennie Fowler for 67 yards. Jones was sharp on his designed throws and patient with his reads. His drive-clinching back-corner touchdown pass to Fowler was a thing of beauty.

The first-year thrower was set to come on for another drive, but the contest was suspended for nearly an hour due to severe weather. When Big Blue returned to the field, Jones was on the sideline and third-string QB Alex Tanney was under center.
 

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5 for 5 and a TD toss in his debut at QB, that ain't bad for a guy booed on draft night
 

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Yeah well you know it’s New York, so there is that.
 

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This guy is for real......
 

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Daniel Jones is the reason why we should get rid of preseason games all together. He puts together one short drive in a game where no one gives a shit and not even giving a quarter ass of effort. But because he plays for a New York team, he's all we're gonna hear about from every media outlet for the next week.
 

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Well all I know is I was hoping the Pats would have taken him. Three year starter, attended smart kid school, quality arm. But we did not so I move on..
 

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Everyone knows Jones can put up numbers against sub-par competition. When the real talent suits up across from him, he will falter. Giants screwed the pooch by A) drafting him and B) drafting him that high.


Ryan Finley will be the best QB to come out of this draft when we look back in 10 years.
 
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