Jeff Diamond out there worrying....

.J. McCarthy’s progress
The Giants passed on an opportunity to select quarterback J.J. McCarthy in Round 1 of the 2024 NFL Draft. He landed with the Vikings, a team Diamond remains well-connected to.

“I think he’s had a really good spring and hearing Kevin O’Connell, the Vikings coach, talking about it and as you know I do a lot of media work surrounding the Vikings and I certainly have gotten good feedback on J.J.’s progress to this point. But he’s still entering training camp behind Sam Darnold,” Diamond said.

“I really expect that McCarthy will take over at some point during the regular season. I don’t think it’ll be Week 1 in the Meadowlands. I think that Darnold will get that start. I expect Darnold to be there probably for the first six, seven [games], maybe even a little bit more.”

MaroonBells wrote:



I think the Giants did the right thing.

The dead cap hit was going to be $69 million for this year, so although I agree he should get another year, he's 19% of their cap this season. Jones is a talented guy, get him more help and maybe he can rebound. I think another decent crop of QBs is on deck for 2025, so there was no need to pull the trigger on a QB this year. The issue is if he starts out slow, Giant fans will eviscerate the kid. It'll be beyond ugly at home games.

Next year the dead cap hit would be $22 million, a lot more manageable but still not pretty.