.Jordan Raanan, ESPN Personnel WriterAug 1, 2024, 05:24 PM ETCloseJordan Raanan is a press reporter for NFL Nation at ESPN. Raanan covers the New York Giants. You may follow him by means of Twitter @JordanRaanan. HACKENSACK, N.J.-- The big apple Giants co-owner John Mara stated he does not have any kind of regrets concerning signing quarterback Daniel Jones last year, even when the team flirted along with locating his potential substitute this offseason.Jones, who signed a four-year, $160 thousand contract in 2014, had 2 goal passes and also 6 interceptions while playing in merely 6 activities as a result of back as well as knee accidents, including a torn ACL in his appropriate leg." Listen closely, I'm still happy our company offered him that deal because I experienced he played really properly for us in '22," Mara stated throughout an activity to introduce a landscape at the Hackensack Medical Facility to celebrate the staff's 100th season. "Last year he acquired hurt and also, let's be sincere, when he was playing, our company weren't shutting out anybody. Thus allow's provide him a possibility along with a much better offending line as well as some tools around him and view what he may do." Editor's Picks2 RelatedThe Giants seriously asked about moving into the best three of the draught with their eye on a quarterback, especially Drake Maye if the New England Patriots were willing to bring in a field. However the price proved too steep.Instead, the Giants stuck with Jones and drafted LSU pass receiver Malik Nabers with the 6th total pick to provide him a weapon on outburst." I fidgeted about giving up excessive to go obtain a quarterback," Mara mentioned. "I was actually readied to allow [overall supervisor Joe Schoen and also train Brian Daboll] carry out that if that is what they wished to carry out. We made a decision to visit Daniel as well as incorporate an item for him, and I think that is actually going to exercise for our company." Jones may possess kept, however it was an offseason of modification for the Giants. They permitted managing back Saquon Barkley and also safety and security Xavier McKinney to walk using free of cost agency. Barkley latched on along with the rival Philly Eagles McKinney with the Veggie Gulf Packers.It was actually disclosed on "Distress: Offseason along with the New York City Giants" that Mara had not been entirely aboard along with the decision to let Barkley leave behind. He confessed seeing Barkley land in Philly would make him lose sleep.Nonetheless, Mara failed to interfere." Annually there is going to be actually a workers decision that I am not one hundred% for," Mara mentioned. "However in the end of the day, you let the overall supervisor and also the trainer, especially if they have a consolidated principle, decide and afterwards bitch about it eventually." That was actually the decision they created. No, I had not been fascinated it. I really did not wish to drop him, but I comprehended what their approach was actually and you need to let all of them do their jobs." Schoen and also Daboll currently head into a vital Year 3 with a remodelled lineup lacking superstar energy. They incredibly made the playoffs in their initial season, before struggling to a 6-11 report in 2014. The Giants modified their lineup, exchanging for edge rusher Brian Burns, signing up Nabers and authorizing three possible beginning annoying electrician (John Runyan Jr., Jermaine Eluemunor and also Greg Van Roten). Today it's time to view if it correlates to an improved product on the area. Or possibly it might take another year of replenishing the lineup, including at the quarterback placement." It is actually difficult to articulate my expectations," Mara pointed out. "Clearly you desire to present significant remodeling over in 2015, however I am actually certainly not heading to create any kind of substantial assurances or needs or anything like that. They know what I want to view. I have a bunch of confidence in this particular staff. The interaction is actually excellent and I think we've incorporated some great pieces. It's time to reveal it." That doesn't always imply the Giants need to win a particular number of activities or create the playoffs to see the time as a results. That is actually constantly more of a sample of Mara once the season concludes.He still does not seem to be to see this as a lasting construct." I do not understand how to quantify that. I wish to walk off the industry at the end of the season emotion like our team're relocating the ideal direction," Mara claimed. "Our experts actually are. Our company possess a great groundwork here. We possess every factor to be hopeful." I expect us to take a significant advance this year.".