The New York Giants sit at 2-7 and are on the cusp of one other shedding season, which appears sure now that they’re out of skilled quarterbacks for at the very least the subsequent month.
However they could have deeper points than that, it appears, after a pissed off Xavier McKinney revealed that the coaches and gamers could have a communications problem.
“Truthfully, it sucks. However, I don’t know, man. I don’t actually have many phrases. I feel that from a management standpoint, I don’t assume they’ve executed an important job of letting the leaders lead, and listening to the leaders and the captains,” McKinney stated, through ESPN. “However clearly it sucks shedding.”
McKinney wouldn’t get particular about who ‘they’ are or precisely what the problems are however when one other captain, left deal with Andrew Thomas, was pressed for his feedback, the sentiment wasn’t shared.
“I’d say you must ask Xavier that. I don’t know precisely the place he’s coming from or the place he’s feeling that, however for me personally, I feel we do a great job simply with the ability to talk with the workers. Something we want or any of our frustrations or no matter, any questions we have now, I really feel like they’re fairly open,” Thomas stated on Monday.
From a thousand ft up the difficulty appears to be like pretty easy. Thomas received paid this yr (he signed a five-year, $117 million extension in July) and McKinney didn’t.
Thomas is now a loyal soldier, particularly after lacking seven straight video games with a hamstring harm, and is right here for the lengthy haul whereas McKinney will not be within the staff’s long-term plans.
The Giants have chosen to let McKinney ‘sing for his supper’ — or additional set up himself — this season, earlier than they decide to maintain him within the fold with an extension.
McKinney, a second-round pick of Alabama again in 2020, shall be a free agent come March except the Giants do one thing between every now and then. It appeared throughout the offseason the staff should still be cautious of McKinney’s maturity stage after an off-field hand harm brought on him to overlook two months of the season final yr.
Plus, McKinney was a Dave Gettleman draft choose so we don’t know the place he stands within the Joe Schoen/Brian Daboll world regardless that he was named a staff captain earlier than the season.
On Monday, Daboll was requested for his tackle McKinney’s postgame feedback.
“We do the identical factor each week since we’ve gotten right here. We’ve got good communication,” stated Daboll.
“We meet each week. Good talks, undergo conditions, issues across the constructing. So, very snug with the management that we have now, how we talk with them and the way they convey with us. . . I’d say the conferences we have now each week, which we have now each Friday, the captains’ conferences, are good, productive conferences.”
With eight video games remaining, we’ll see if these ‘cracks’ reveal themselves additional. In any case, everybody within the constructing shall be enjoying, teaching and/or working for his or her collective and particular person Giants careers for the subsequent two months.
