Don’t worry about it. They knew. All of them.
Saquon Barkley and his agent, Ed Berry, knew that their private phone conversations with Giants general manager Joe Schoen might be used at some point in “ Hard Knocks .’’ and, while airing details about Barkley and a potential contract offer and impending free agency might have seemed as if the Giants breached a confidence, all parties involved were aware their words might find their way to the public domain.
And so, when Schoen on March 5 informed Berry and then Barkley that the Giants would not be using the franchise tag on Barkley again this year, both sides knew the ensuing conversation likely was not going to remain private. Schoen told Berry, “Here’s what I’m worried about, we offer him something, he gets a little pissed off because it’s not what he wants, and then some other team comes in a million over us, he feels disrespected so he goes. … I think he can still play, you gotta get the value right.”
Schoen asked Barkley if he would give the Giants an opportunity to match any offer received in free agency, asking the 27-year old running back if he would “give me your word.’’Barkley did want to return for a seventh season with the Giants but both sides were fairly certain a return was a longshot, unless no other NFL team was willing to sign Barkley for more than the $7 million per year threshold the Giants wanted to spend on a starting running back.
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