632 | Daniel Jones | Giants Player Profile & Projections
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Welcome to Talking Giants Player Profiles and Projections.
I'm your host, Bobby Skinner, with my co-host, Justin Penick,
and it is the final player profile and projection of the 2023 season.
And you know what that means.
For the fifth year in a row, actually fourth year in a row,
we did Eli the last one in 2019.
For the fourth year in a row, Daniel Jones.
Daniel Stephen Jones, the 6'5", 220, 26-year-old franchise quarterback
was drafted sixth overall and got a four-year,
$160 million contract from a regime that didn't draft him.
Justin, this fact is kind of insane and I think it speaks to resilience
and why I love him out of the draft and watching those Duke games
that made me like him so much and early on in his career
after he would take hit after hit from the blind side.
He's the first ever quarterback to have his fifth year option declined
and re-sign with the team that drafted him.
The first ever.
He's resilient, man.
All the crap that he's been through, he's come out of this on top
and there's still work to be done and there's still more games to be won.
Man, you've got to be happy for Daniel Jones to come out of this on top
where he was truly left for dead last year
with a regime that declined his option,
which was a death sentence every other time before that
and rolled out David Sills, Kenny Gould,
and Richie James as their starting receivers week one.
And there were people even inside the building, Bobby, that we talked to
that were pretty certain at the start of the season
that it's done, it's done.
That he's not coming back.
Yeah, so credit to him, you know, and the main barometer
and I was even listening, you know, it's funny,
I was listening back to Bleeding Blue from 2019
and David Powis and I were talking about after that Washington game,
after the Andrew Thomas Bowl,
we were talking about like, man, the perception on Daniel Jones changes
if you just win some games.
And man, we finally won some games
and I feel like most importantly, you saw him in a playoff stage
and that Philadelphia Eagles game doesn't exist.
It doesn't exist in my brain.
No, I'm not going to talk about it.
You saw him on a playoff stage
and man, he conquered the moment on the road,
which was really, really awesome.
And now to say I'm most excited for him,
as long as along with every other Giants fan,
I'm most excited for Daniel Jones
because now we've been clamoring for the coaching.
He's got the coaching, he's got the schematics,
continuity with D'Abel and Kafka, year two,
and now we got some dudes behind him.
We got Darren Wall, you got Paris Campbell,
you got Darius Slayton back,
you got Isaiah Hodgins back,
you got more guys that I'm not naming, Jalen Hyatt.
You got the dudes behind him and the horses,
the Haases, the Jimmys and the Joes
that we've also been waiting for Daniel Jones
to have for the last couple of years now.
And last year on this player profile,
the theme of it was like,
is this the last player profile of Daniel Jones?
And we were kind of like, yeah, this is it.
Like you said, we had heard from people in the building.
The camp went really bad.
And in reality, at this time last year,
you looked at this roster and said,
they're not going to win games.
But we were talking about,
what does Daniel Jones have to do to come back?
Because me and you, for large part,
like Daniel Jones, even last year,
we have talked about how we'll go through,
watch his film.
It's not bad.
There are some bad games in there the last couple of years,
like the Bucks game and the Rams game.
But overall, his film's pretty damn solid.
He's at least a solid quarterback in the NFL.
But with the new regime, we're like,
it's probably done though.
And we came to the conclusion,
we finally just said it,
is that, what does he need to do to be back?
And we're talking about, well,
be top 10 statistically, da, da, da.
And we're just like, you know what?
In reality, as meathead-ish as it is,
he has to win games.
He has to put them in a spot
where they aren't drafting a quarterback.
He has to put them in a spot
where they feel the need to re-sign him.
And that's exactly what happened, Justin.
They went out, they went to the playoffs.
He had an amazing first playoff game.
He did have a really bad second playoff game versus-
Doesn't exist.
It didn't show up very well for that game.
But he earned himself coming back,
even though the contract did set a new precedent for-
QBs in his tier.
Quarterbacks in his tier by about a percent or so.
But last year, Justin, in 2022,
he completed 67.2% of his passes,
3,200 yards, which was 200 yards per game.
Which, shockingly enough,
was a career low for him in yards per game.
You know, with Jason Garrett,
he had 220 and 210 the years before.
And then with Pat Shurmur, he had 250 yards per game.
When you lose games, you're throwing in the fourth quarter.
And they were behind too,
but they ran the ball a lot in the second half
and came back, which is funny.
Yeah, he had 15 touchdown passes
and then five interceptions on the ground.
He had 700 yards and seven rushing touchdowns.
So did have a career high in rushing.
But he also did something that,
you know, I talked about his rookie year
having 250 passing yards per game.
Well, he didn't do this as a rookie.
He had the lowest interception rate in the NFL.
But honestly, Daniel Jones had been taking care of the ball
a lot for a lot longer time than people had realized.
You know, essentially, I went back and looked at Justin.
After that 2020 Monday Night Football Tampa game
that was just a disaster,
disaster class from Daniel Jones.
His interception rate has been 1.3%
from between that game and then through 2021.
So not even counting last year,
which would have been third best this past season.
So the interception stuff had kind of went away
since the second half of his 2020 season.
Right, but I would say him even not turning the ball over,
like let's just look at last year,
him not turning the ball over
and keeping the offense on schedule
because the Giants offense,
and we'll talk about this too,
they were last in total explosive pass plays.
They were dead last 32nd,
which again, if you were to tell me
at the beginning of last year
that the Giants offense
would be dead last in explosive pass plays,
they would, I think they were 31st in 2021.
So the fact that they were 32nd in 2022,
you tell me that they won nine games
and they won a playoff game.
I'd say you're on crack.
We love crack on this podcast,
but him not throwing interceptions
and keeping the offense on schedule
because they were not explosive
was one of the biggest Ws of the 2022 season
and the 2022 offense.
He operated what they put on his plate near flawlessly
after the first two games of the year,
but let's just operate after that
because that's who the quarterback of the Giants is now,
is that player.
After those first two games of the season,
he operated what they put on his plate,
like I said, damn near flawlessly.
But with that was, like you mentioned,
he had the second lowest 20 plus yard attempts in the NFL.
Out of 40 quarterbacks, he was 39th.
Only Matt Ryan was lower and his arm was totally shot.
And it wasn't just by like a little bit.
The difference between him and 38th
is the difference between 38th and 17th
was 40th out of 40 and average depth of target at 6.4 yards.
But the reason why I don't go too crazy on that
is he wasn't passing up a bunch of deep shots.
Now you go back and watch film here and there,
but just like deep 20 plus yard air shots,
they didn't pass up a ton.
There's a couple.
There's one in Seattle that comes to my mind.
I'm trying to think of if there's any other one,
you know, outside of those first two games of the season.
But is there any that I'm missing?
But what he did pass up on, Justin,
and this is where we need to see improvement,
is those hole shots on the sideline.
He passed those up, almost like consistently passed those up.
And again, we don't know what he's being taught,
but you want to take those shots
and those are something that he has to do
to take the next step as a quarterback.
Like, I don't think there's these big steps
that he needs to take as a quarterback.
I think it's taking those shots
and looking for some of those tight window throws more often.
Yeah, for sure.
And, you know, when you take those hole shot throws,
you're becoming more explosive.
That's a priority that Mike Kafka has,
Brian D'Abel, that they've all talked,
Joe Shane, they've all talked about it all off season.
And that's why they've added the speed that they have
and the players that they have.
I've read this stat before on this podcast.
I will read it again,
and I feel like I've been talking about this for three years,
but it's the most important thing in football right now.
Record of teams based on where they finish
in explosive pass play rankings in game neutral situations.
If you were a top 10 team,
you had a winning percentage of 67.2%.
If you were in the middle 12,
you had a winning percentage of 47.55%.
If you were in the bottom 10,
you had a winning percentage of 35.4%.
The Giants, I believe, were the only team
that made the playoffs last year
that weren't in the top seven most explosive pass offenses
in the National Football League.
And I think that's poor Warren Sharpe,
and he put that out today.
Let's talk about that
and the way they ran this offense.
Because like I said,
he operated what they did flawlessly.
I would watch film of the games two, three times.
You would see one or two mistakes in the game.
And the mistakes weren't like,
oh my God, he threw it into the hands of a defender.
It's like he passed up on something he should have hit.
And his adjusted completion percentage
when you account for drops was 81%.
Guess what?
That's first in the NFL.
So he was putting the ball in the right spots
like on a damn near perfect level.
But like you said,
they didn't produce the explosives.
Now there's a couple of factors into that.
One could be just,
hey, Daniel Jones,
they don't like he's a conservative quarterback,
but there's other things into that.
They didn't have the receivers
to just go out there and win, right?
Because if you're playing man coverage,
you can just go out there and win
and create explosive plays without great protection.
But when you don't,
you kind of need protection up front
because what you gotta do
is you gotta put defenders in conflict
and then you gotta protect against sacks.
Well, guess what?
They did not protect Daniel Jones
because of Evan Neal and Glowinski and Feliciano
and left guard when Bredesen wasn't out there.
Daniel Jones had the second highest pressure
in the rush rate in the NFL at 42%.
There was 32 QBs with 100 or more dropbacks of pressure.
Daniel Jones will have the second highest percentage of that.
Is that from PFF?
Yes.
Okay.
He also had the third highest completion percentage
in that at 55.6%.
He had the lowest interception rate
by almost double than the next guy,
but he also wasn't this guy
who was creating pressure either, right?
There's quarterbacks like Justin Fields last year
who created pressure
along with the bad offensive line in front of him
because he was really good at avoiding sacks.
He was 12th best and pressure to sack percentage
despite being sacked the fifth most in the NFL.
He was sacked the fifth most in the NFL,
yet he was 12th best and pressure to sack percentage
in the NFL.
There's 10 QBs that were sacked more than 35 times.
Only Herbert was better at avoiding the pressure than him.
Only him.
So not only was he able to deliver the ball accurately
at the top of the league under pressure
while dealing with the most pressure,
he didn't make the mistakes that other quarterbacks made
and he also avoided the sacks better
than all the quarterbacks except for Justin Herbert.
He has become a lot better
at manipulating the pocket.
And now that they gave him an offense
that is operable,
that works like Brian Dable
and Mike Cafferty compared to Jason Garrett,
it really showed up.
And I think the thing that they added though
that helped with that the most, Justin,
was more push for him to be a scrambler,
which we did not see
for the first three years of his career really.
Yeah, 100%.
I think the schematics unlocked Daniel Jones
and you saw a career high on target percentage
and this is according to a pro football reference,
81% on target percentage,
which is about 5% higher
than his previous career best in 2021.
The bad throw percentage went down
about five to 6% down to 12.2,
where previously he was floating around eight,
somewhere around 18% throughout 2019 to 2021
and allowing him to run
and having his legs as a weapon.
And what's the most efficient play in football?
You've heard me ask this question before,
what is the most efficient play in the game of football?
QB scramble attempt.
When a QB drops back to pass
and then he decides to tuck it
and he's gonna run and he's gonna scramble
because you'll have guys running all over the field
and you're not accounting,
and on a pass play,
you're not thinking of a quarterback
that is going to do that.
And the fact that Daniel Jones can do that
and when he gets to his top speed,
he's so fast,
it unlocks, it does change the offense.
And Brian Dable said,
you're good at this,
I'm going to allow you to do it,
which I feel like not even Shermer really
fully allowed him to do it.
I'm like, okay, go and do it.
And a lot of fans were saying,
well, I don't want Daniel Jones running.
I kind of feel like it's a necessary evil
because he's just that good at it
and it's so necessary to do in the NFL.
I said it during the Saquon Barkley PPP,
but there was no QB running back combo
that combined for more 10 plus yard runs
than Daniel Jones and Saquon Barkley.
And Daniel Jones had the 12th most runs
of 10 plus yards in the NFL,
that changes your offense.
A 10 plus yard play is a 10 plus yard play.
It doesn't really matter how it comes.
Yeah.
I mean, they were the second highest rushing combo
in the NFL after Jalen Hurtson
and Miles Sanders, I believe.
But yeah, he averaged like,
so he had career highs in rushing, obviously,
but 27 yards per game came on scrambles,
which was twice the amount per year
than the Jason Garrett years
and eight more yards per game
than the Shermer years.
And he scrambled two more times per game,
but he also scrambled to throw too,
which we didn't see a ton before in his career.
So it's not just like rushing,
like he scrambled to throw
and that you saw that happen in the red zone a lot more
and where Isaiah Hodgins and Reggie James
were able to get some of their touchdowns.
Let's see more triple options.
Yeah, scrambling to throw
and then also scrambling to run,
which he did a lot more where,
again, I said he had a lot more rushing yards per game.
It wasn't from more of the option runs,
the design runs.
Like he averaged 17 more yards per game.
And that comes from the scrambling
than he did the year before.
Like that's essentially where all the rushing increase
comes from is the scrambling,
not the design stuff.
Because if there's one thing that Judge and Garrett
figured out a few games in the 2020
was the design rushing stuff for DJ.
For sure.
Where do you want to go?
Because there's some first and second down stuff
and unlocking Daniel Jones on early downs
and throwing more on early downs
should be a goal that we have this year.
And I have stats to back that up.
Do you want to talk about something
or do you want to, where do you want to go?
Because I want to get into his project.
I want to do the ad, talk about Manscaped
before we talk about what happens this season with him
with the new weapon.
So why don't you talk to us
about like first and second down stuff?
All right, sure.
So I'll talk to you about first and second down stuff.
Because we said on yesterday's PPP with Saquon Barkley
that Saquon Barkley's 2023
should not be based on volume.
It should be based on efficiency.
And what do we mean by that?
If he's going to be getting the ball less
then Daniel Jones is going to be getting the ball more.
And I want Daniel Jones throwing the ball more
on first and second down.
When the Giants kind of committed,
I'm putting committed in quotes,
when they committed to throwing the ball
on first and second down a little more
than they did in the first half of the season,
I would say it's weeks 13 to 17.
So here's Daniel Jones weeks 13 to 17
first and second down performance.
And you could be saying to yourself,
well, Daniel Jones needs Saquon Barkley
and without the running game,
Daniel Jones is crap.
And I think this stretch on first and second down
weeks 13 to 17 proves you wrong.
Playoffs too.
And the playoffs.
Daniel Jones weeks 13 to 17
first and second down performance.
He was fourth in EPA per play.
He was first in CPOE.
He was fourth in quarterback rating.
First in completion percentage.
Seventh in yards per attempt.
And oh yeah, doing all that
while 25th last in average air yards per attempt.
When Brian Dable let Daniel Jones operate
a drop back offense on early downs,
Daniel Jones produced.
And also little tad bit nugget.
And that's not including the playoff game
where he cooked either.
It does not include the playoff game.
And a little tad bit of a nugget.
His first down numbers are okay, Daniel Jones.
But his second down numbers are incredible.
He was first in the NFL in EPA and CPOE composite
all last year on second down second down.
He had a completion percentage of 74.5,
13 hundreds of his yards,
10 of his 15 passing touchdowns,
62 first downs more than any other down
and had yards per attempt 8.1.
There was no other down
where he averaged more than 6.4.
30 first downs on second down were third down.
He had 15 first downs.
First down eight fourth down four.
So I don't know what it was, Bobby.
We were even trying to think
even like a little bit before the show.
I don't know what it was on second down
where Daniel Jones just became
literally the most efficient QB on second down
out of the entire NFL.
I don't know what happened,
but it happened last year.
Yeah.
And overall, like,
I think he was 12th in EPA per game
last year for quarterbacks.
Yeah.
Or per play, not per game, per play.
EPA CPOE composite, he was 12th.
And it showed, right?
Like that's kind of where he was at in the NFL last year.
But he also stepped up,
got a lot better towards the end of the season.
Why don't you talk to us about manscaping
and we can talk about this season with Daniel Jones.
Yeah, let's do it.
I mean, what else do you have on notes and stuff?
Because I talked about the pressure, the scrambling,
average depth of target,
taking the hole shots and stuff like that.
But now we can,
is there anything else you wanted to really hit on?
Yeah, I guess another schematic thing
where we complained for years and years with Garrett
that nobody was ever open
and the numbers backed that up
with the aggressiveness percentage.
This is a stat on NextGen.
It was 18% in 2021, 17.6% in 2020.
That was near the bottom of the league.
This past year, even with some receivers that weren't great,
13.8% aggressiveness rate,
which was certainly in the bottom echelon of,
you want that number to be less
because then that means
that you're not throwing into tight windows
and your receivers are open.
You're throwing to open receivers,
which is what we've always wanted for Daniel Jones
because things have always been so difficult for him.
Let's talk about a line that we had
towards the end of the season on our mailbag.
And people, some people took it the wrong way,
but I think majority of people understood it.
Where we said,
we don't think Daniel Jones has improved greatly,
but he was always like this kind of quarterback,
but he had the worst coaching in the league.
And just in getting ready for this
and doing my notes for this,
it really brought back my hate for Jason Garrett
on how much he held back this dude.
How much he held back this dude.
Because everything is like a smile.
Everything, it's like 2019, cool, cool, cool, cool,
besides the turnovers.
And then it dips.
And then it comes back up once Brian Dable and Mike Kafka,
he just had better coaching around him.
Now he did get better in areas like we talked about.
I think the main thing that they made him better at
was more of an improviser,
which was scrambling to run,
which he added almost twice the amount per game
than he did with Garrett.
And then also scrambling to throw,
especially down in the red zone.
That's why they were one of the best red zone offenses
in the NFL.
So using his legs outside of the design stuff.
So that's where I think this coaching staff
got the most, really improved the most out of him,
was pushing him.
Improvise, improvise, man.
Not everything has to be perfectly
like we drew it up on the board.
When it is, cool.
But when it's not, don't be afraid to go and improvise.
And that's why we saw him be so amazing
in that Vikings game.
Despite the fact that his right tackle
was getting his ass kicked on a down in, down out basis.
It's the NFL, bro.
You see the best quarterbacks.
Every primetime game that you watch,
that's fun on Sunday Night Football
where there's primetime QB matchups.
It's these QBs that are improvising.
And I'm not saying that Daniel Jones
is gonna be running back there
like Rodgers and Mahomes and Lamar Jackson do,
but it's part of the game
and you gotta be able to do it somewhat.
And this coaching staff let Daniel Jones do it last year.
Hopefully he can continue to get better at it
with better weapons.
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Where does Daniel Jones need to get better just on film?
We talked about those whole shots
and I know it's like you're picking up this one thing,
but if he doesn't take those,
they're not gonna put more on the menu for him.
You have to take those when they are there.
And also now that you have Jalen Hyatt,
you gotta let that thing go.
You gotta just know.
You just gotta trust that I'm gonna let this thing go.
Cause honestly, cause Daniel Jones has really good arm talent,
but he doesn't have the elite arm talent
of the Josh Allen's, the Patrick Mahomes.
And I don't see him ever getting on that level
and that's fine.
But Jalen Hyatt, Justin, is the first player in four years
where Daniel Jones not having that elite arm talent
gives me like,
like those guys would probably get a little more out of Hyatt.
Which means for Daniel Jones,
you gotta be able to,
you gotta just pull the trigger on those types of throws.
You gotta put them on ropes.
You gotta put those in the holes on the sideline.
You gotta let, you know, let go of that ball earlier.
You gotta wait, you can't wait for him to stack a corner.
You kinda just gotta throw it to him.
So it's one, taking those whole shots, they're there.
But if you don't take those,
they're not gonna put the other stuff on the menu for you.
They're not gonna specifically put in the game plan.
So now that you have this Jalen Hyatt piece,
you gotta go and fix the stuff you did last year.
And we've seen him do it in camp a little bit too,
which is encouraging.
We've seen him have a great training camp.
But also, when they do put more on the menu for him,
cause they're going to.
If Evan Neal's improved,
and this was, you know,
the addition of Darren Waller, Hyatt,
and the other receivers, it's improved.
That when they put the stuff
that wasn't on the playbook last year back on,
you gotta hit the ----.
You just have to.
Cause if we, like you mentioned,
you can't duplicate what you did last year
every year of your career,
or you won't go very far.
No.
No, and this even includes the middle of the field too.
I feel, does hole shot,
for especially, I'm asking this,
cause maybe genuinely, I don't know.
And I'm sure there's some people listening to this,
that are wondering for themselves.
Hole shot is defined kind of like by the sideline.
Like you're kind of thrown between levels of defenders.
When you have a high, low read,
like two man game on the sideline,
and they have like a safety deep,
and then a corner clouding,
playing the flat type of thing.
So it's like you run a flat in a corner,
and the corner should be there,
but the safety is trying to close in on it.
I'm even thinking the middle of the field too,
with some of these 20 plus yard completions,
because Jones was 31st,
and 20 plus area yard completions,
with only one of 25 being completed
in the middle of the field,
as classified by like the NFL.
The NFL classifies like outside,
outside left, outside right, and then middle.
They don't get super specific with all their stuff.
Hyatt and Waller should be interesting to that,
because middle of the field is like,
that's a be a dude for receiver area of the field.
Yeah, which I mean, they have that.
Especially teams playing the Giants last year,
cause they were so run heavy,
they kept the middle of the field closed.
Like they didn't face a ton of middle field open stuff,
like a lot of teams did,
because of their heavy rush attack,
and only having one wide receiver
that you had to respect to even Darius Slayton.
But if Daniel Jones's spray charts,
do not get more diverse,
from a depth standpoint,
and then also to a target standpoint,
in terms of where he's targeting on the football field.
If that doesn't get more diverse,
then teams like the Eagles,
like we saw now I'm acknowledging the playoff game.
Teams like the Eagles in the divisional round,
are gonna figure out your offense.
They're gonna figure out
what you're doing on early downs.
They're gonna figure out the quick passing game.
You need to integrate,
and you need to get diverse on where you throw,
and where you target around the field.
So defenses need to account for more things happening.
Right?
Agreed 100%.
Let's talk about the new additions,
and how they fall into place for Daniel Jones.
Justin, if Darren Waller stays healthy,
I think it's really gonna change the perception
around the league on Daniel Jones.
I really do.
We've never gotten to see him with something like this,
and we've seen it in camp, Justin.
We saw it for one drive in the preseason.
I really do think him finally having a guy
who's just better than everyone else.
He's never had that in the receiving game.
I truly think it's gonna take his game to another level.
Even if Evan Neal doesn't improve,
which I think Evan Neal will improve,
where Evan Neal makes it like really, really good.
And then you, so if you keep Waller healthy, Justin,
he has that star.
I think the wide receiver room is fun enough,
and balanced enough,
to where you have the height and the slate and speed.
The height speed is crazy.
You have Paris Campbell, who's an upgrade over Richie James.
We'll see what Wandale's back.
You kind of have a chain mover in Cole Beasley.
Shep, we'll see you get out of him.
Hodgins is, you know, the reliable route runner,
who's gonna separate in the quick game versus man coverage,
and get open in the red zone.
I feel like you have enough pieces with this coaching staff.
My expectation for Daniel Jones,
if Darren Waller stays healthy,
is no debating.
Like, where I can, where I'm not gonna,
you know, you know me, I'm not gonna,
I don't get into these like,
oh, is Daniel Jones top 10, or 11th, or 12th?
Cause I'm like, he hasn't firmly put himself in there,
so I'm not gonna sit here and try and split hairs.
At the end of the year, I wanna be saying,
and I expect to be saying, he's top 10.
Like, without just not even having to argue about it,
just being like, no, he's top 10.
And I don't feel, I don't feel the need
to greatly defend myself, defend it,
because his play does it, and it's obvious.
And in 2024, there's a $45 million cap hit.
I know the cap's gonna go up, does every year,
but that's a big cap hit.
His cap hit this year is $21.75 million.
It's 9.5% of the cap.
45 million is 17.6% of the cap.
We've seen the giants, in contracts that they don't like,
they're willing to sit at numbers that are uncomfortable,
a la Leonard Williams, a la Dory Jackson.
Those guys are on the last years of their deals,
and maybe you would think that the team would extend them
and try and push money back.
If Daniel Jones has a year that we're hoping that he has,
maybe that $45 million number is brought down,
and maybe it's pushed back to some years.
And I'm hoping at the end of this,
we're saying, let's go.
Daniel Jones, you're in blue for a long time.
Get you here, even in your 30s.
Let's get the team more help, push money down the road.
This is what all the NFL teams are doing,
just pushing money down the road.
Let's not live with that $45 million cap hit next year.
Let's feel comfortable enough with Daniel Jones as a quarterback
that we can push that money back, and he's the guy.
Absolutely, absolutely.
And I expect it out of him.
I really do.
Let's win some games.
I'm not going to sit here and be like,
oh, if this guy, no, let's just,
the people who are healthy right now are healthy right now.
And if they stay that way for the majority of the season,
I truly do believe this,
that he's going to be comfortably in the top 10.
He needs to stay healthy too.
Yes, true.
He had an outlier year last year of staying healthy.
And he even got banged up in the Bears game
and played the next week later.
So we said it last year, Justin,
this is the end of player profile season.
I remember after the end of the 2019 one,
2021, like, don't be a dick.
Like, this guy's good.
Have some trust and faith in him.
Do not be nitpicky.
And then after that year,
it was like a lot of just breaking down
to who is it was a player.
And then after the hat, it was like,
this is probably it.
But now we are talking about like,
years and years and years ahead.
And I hope he's here for a long time.
I hope we never have to change Daniel Jones
being the player profile until we're sad and emotional
that he's gone type of stuff.
And we're old.
Yes, old, old and washed up talking giants.
Yep.
So Justin, any last words
before we end player profile season?
Thank you to the listeners.
I was going to thank people.
Really, this summer,
and our camp coverage and our PPPs,
we've hit milestones that
I didn't think Bobby and I really envisioned.
And this entire offseason,
we've hit milestones that
we really didn't entirely vision.
I don't do like projections
like some people in the company do,
but like Dave,
because of this offseason
and because of all of you,
I do know this,
that people that do make projections
at John Boy Media
have changed what they are expecting
out of talking giants this year.
And it's because of everybody that listens
and because of everybody
that rides and dies with us.
And it's all because of family,
the listeners, the family.
So thank you so much.
This has been such a fun summer.
I'm so ready for Dallas week one.
Let's ******* go.
Let's ******* kill them.
Let's win some games.
We appreciate you guys.
We'll see you tomorrow
for 53 man roster, boogie bash
and reaction, all that stuff.
We appreciate you guys.
We'll see you then until then.
Let's go big blue.

