McMonigle: Joe Schoen, Brian Daboll must take quarterback with top draft pick
Before it became official that Joe Schoen and Brian Daboll would be back with the Giants next season, Chris McMonigle declared that if the two were to keep their jobs, it would mean that Big Blue absolutely had to draft a quarterback in 2025.
The Schoen/Daboll tandem was coveted because of what they were able to do with the Bills, and if they aren’t getting fired for two straight embarrassing seasons, then C-Mac says they have to do what they were brought here to do in the first place.
“If you are going to keep Brian Daboll and Joe Schoen, who specifically got a job because they drafted and developed Josh Allen, then you have to let them do it,” C-Mac said. “When you’re picking third in the draft and you don’t have a quarterback, there’s only one thing left to do.
“When you’re drafting third, you have to be bold. Go be bold…I don’t need Joe Schoen and Brian Daboll to draft the best player available. You look at next year’s schedule, that home schedule is a gauntlet. The Giants most likely aren’t going to be good next year. Do if you’re telling me the Giants are going to keep a head coach and GM that just orchestrated one of the worst seasons in franchise history because I believe in what they’re doing, and I draft some all-world, dual purpose shutdown corner, or trade back and draft a bunch of players and not a quarterback, and I have another bad year next year…if I’m not in the middle of developing a young quarterback…why would I keep them then?”
Some question whether or not Shedeur Sanders or Cam Ward are worth that high of a draft slot, as the Giants are picking third overall, but C-Mac says Daboll clearly believes in one of them given how closely the Giants have been watching the two this year, so it’s time to take a chance on one of them.
“I don’t know. You don’t know,” C-Mac said. “If Brian Daboll believes so, then do it. If you don’t have a quarterback, nothing else matters.
I don’t think Washington was in a position to draft a quarterback and change their entire team, and look what happened….look what’s going on in Denver.
“If you’re going to stick with these two, go get the young quarterback. At No. 3, there are a myriad of ways to do it.”
