All right. So the New York Giants screwed S
Marley last year, but they can wait and wait
and wait and they waited until they got Danny Jones
signed on the contract and then they ran down the
hallway as the story goes and they said, sorry
buddy, we're gonna franchise you and he was ticked
off and was thinking about holding out. He didn't
hold out, he didn't walk away from the money
. They kind of redid the contract with incentives,
blah, blah, blah. They apparently, according
to giant, outsiders are not gonna franchise him again
, which is their right to do. And it
would be a one year deal for about 12.2$12.1
million but here's the rub on it. Now,
the New York Giants did not trade him, uh
, back in the trade line, obviously, back
around Halloween last year where they could have gotten something
of value in return for him right now. You're
gonna let him walk away and get nothing. Here's
the problem, secondary problem for the New York Giants
. The Philadelphia Eagles are most likely gonna lose deandre
Swift. He's their star running back. He's not
gonna get franchised. So the Eagles are now in
the market for a running back. Shaquan Barkley played
at Penn State. It's kind of like a Philadelphia's
adopted football team. When it comes to college football
, they would love Squan Barkley in Philadelphia. The
da those Cowboys are going to walk away from Tony
Pollard. He's an unrestricted free agent, so they
need a running back. Say Quam Barkley clearly fits
what they do in Dallas, meaning the New York
Giants are gonna watch their best offensive player of the
last four years with the acknowledgment that he has missed
a lot of games due to injury, but he
is their best offensive player. He represents defense about
40% of their offense since he's been a New York
giant and they're not only gonna let him walk away
and get nothing in return. There's a very good
chance they watch him walk right into the arms of
an NFC East division opponent. Now, I may
not be the brightest guy. Many people in Philadelphia
told me that yesterday more on that later. But
why in the world would you allow your best offensive
player to not just leave for nothing but walk right
into the arms of one of two teams that you've
got to compete with for a division title? That's
a phenomenal question. I it's a great question mainly
because obviously, for everything that you just mentioned,
like you could have traded him last year and got
something too you weren't going to the playoffs last year
. You got a multitude of things for him,
picks, people like players, whatever it was,
you could have got something in. Now you get
nothing and now you're gonna go into the draft and
, and try to figure it out and here's why
I bring it up because, you know, we
like to give credit to the G MS that are
great at building teams, whether it's John Lynch in
San Francisco, Brett Veach in Kansas City, obviously
had a really good draft the last couple of years
without getting big name free agents, Kyra and Tyree
Kill didn't matter, won two Super Bowls. And
then I look at what's going on with the New
York Giants and Joe Shane going into year two with
the New York Giants. Now year three is coming
up and I'm saying to myself, it doesn't make
sense. You can tell me that we need to
devalue or we have devalued the running back position.
I I get it. I'm with you in that
and that's a factual statement. But why do you
allow your best player to walk out the door and
in this case, right into the arms of one
of the two teams that you need to beat and
you play twice a year in your division.