Daniel Jones represented the Giants’ best chance Thursday night. He was going to have to be a difference-maker vs. the 49ers. He wasn’t.
But Jones could have been the reason the Giants won the game.Maybe that is unfair and maybe it isn’t, but the Giants needed Jones to play like the $40 million-per-year player he’s paid to be and to outplay Brock Purdy, the 49ers’ second-year quarterback who was starting his eighth NFL game.
Purdy, who was “Mr. Irrelevant’’ in the 2022 NFL Draft as the 262nd and final player selected, was far more relevant than his $40 million-per-year counterpart. Four days earlier, in a stirring 31-28 comeback victory at Arizona, Jones brought his team back from deficits of 20-0 at halftime and 28-7 in the third quarter.He went from Danny Dead Man Walking to Danny Dimes on a dime. After the loss Thursday, he looked like Dejected Danny.Jones had nothing going offensively in the first half of that game against the Cardinals. The Giants had zero points, 81 total yards of offense and only five first downs.
Against Arizona, he went 17-for-21 for 259 yards with touchdown passes and rushed for 58 yards and a TD. He looked like the quarterback the Giants needed him to be Thursday night.
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