New York Giants head coach Brian Daboll benched quarterback Daniel Jones in favor of Drew Lock to begin the fourth quarter in Sunday’s humiliating loss to the Philadelphia Eagles.
Daboll claimed the choice was made to assist “spark” the struggling offense.
It was a curious resolution as a result of the coach had additionally pulled a number of of the group’s different starters by the point Lock took the sphere, after which no such spark was discovered. Lock appeared much less practical than Jones had earlier than him, and that’s saying one thing.
Regardless of the benching, Daboll instantly dedicated to Jones as his starter after the sport and reiterated that stance on Monday, telling reporters that DJ provides the Giants the very best probability to win.
“I feel he provides us the very best probability, primary,” he mentioned. “I believed there have been a whole lot of performs that he did precisely what he wanted to do after which look, there have been some performs the place it wasn’t simply on Daniel, it was a set of issues. It wasn’t only one individual, safety, or a route. It was a collective deal, and we’ll sit right here, we’ll watch the tape. We’ll do every little thing we will do to be higher this week.”
Daboll additionally shut down any potential notion that he could also be blowing smoke and will make the transfer to Lock, including that Jones will proceed to obtain all first-team reps in follow.
“No,” Daboll mentioned when requested about Lock getting extra reps. “Daniel, once more, I made that change when it was 28 to three, 11 minutes left within the fourth to attempt to create some sort of spark. Clearly, it wasn’t going nice. That’s not all on Daniel, belief me. So, once more, I informed him proper after the sport that he’s, what I informed you guys. He’s the starter, and we’ll work on enhancing the issues we have to enhance.”
It’s extra possible that the choice to bench Jones for Lock needed to do with damage potential relatively than really making a spark. The sport had been misplaced and Jones was taking a depraved beating.
And Daboll is true about one factor… Based mostly on the quarterback room, Jones does give the Giants their greatest probability to win. Sadly, that’s not a lot of an opportunity and there’s been little or no successful.
