The TV show “Community” has a joking hashtag “six seasons and a movie,” which actually did come true when Yahoo! picked it up for a sixth season and Peacock decided to make a feature-length film years after NBC canceled it in 2014.
For Daniel Jones, it looks like ‘six seasons and a release’ from the Giants, and he won’t even get to finish that sixth season on the field, as he has been benched in favor of Tommy DeVito.
But oh, what a ride.
“This guy's been in our lives for six years, and there were moments in which the nights out were great and crazy – remember that night in Minnesota? We were hanging from the chandeliers!” Evan said Monday. “You thought, ‘I’m gonna marry this one,’ and this is gonna be the one I’m with the rest of my life.”
“We knew that without success, something like this was inevitable,” was Tiki’s response. “It’s the perfect word. If the Giants were gonna keep losing one-possession games, if Daniel Jones was going to look gun shy at moments, if he was not gonna be able to make plays in the moments, eventually this was going to happen. And unfortunately, it did.”
And sadly, Tiki Barber, former Giant, saw this coming eventually because of that.
“There’s a lot of one-score games that they didn't win, and if they had, we wouldn't even be having this conversation; we'd be talking about, ‘oh, they can get to the playoffs and do something special when you get there in the second season,’” Tiki said. “But that never felt like a reality; it felt, like you said, an inevitability that at some point, you were gonna have to move on from Daniel Jones. You just didn't know how it was going to happen.”
How it happened was another poor showing in Munich and a loss to another two-win team, and now, it’s Tommy Cutlets’ show.
“It’s the next media availability I’m very interesting, because it’s the reaction I’m looking for,” Tiki, who is calling the Giants game this weekend, said. “Because if it’s like, ‘eh, whatever,” I don’t know if he’ll be successful, but if it’s like they love Tommy, he’s been grinding as the scout team QB and they love what he brings and they’re going to rally around them, then he has a chance – maybe not to be the QB in 2025 and 2026 and beyond, but to be successful.”
