PHOENIX, Ariz. — Joe Schoen rejects the “D+” grade he received from Giants players based on a technicality.

The Giants GM said Monday at the Arizona Biltmore that he wouldn’t speak on his league-low grade in the NFL Players’ Association’s 2026 annual report cards due to the methodology of the annual poll that the NFL questioned and won a grievance against in February.

Schoen first was asked if he had any reaction to the grade and what steps he would take to correct and address it.

“Not really gonna talk about the report card,” Schoen said. “Obviously, they had some litigation where the league and the PA, and I’m not gonna — we just talked about that — I’m not gonna comment on it. I’m not gonna give validity to it.”

So he’s not giving validity to his players’ opinions?

“There’s a process in the way that they do it, and I’m just not gonna speak on it,” Schoen said.

When The News followed up for clarification on why the players’ opinions aren’t valid, regardless, Schoen said: “Is it a scientific survey?”

The News didn’t understand Schoen’s point and asked him to explain.

“Do your homework,” the GM snipped.

Schoen was referencing the NFL winning a grievance against the union in February that banned the NFLPA from publishing future player report cards.

According to a memo distributed to teams in February, an arbitrator found the report cards violated the collective bargaining agreement by “disparaging NFL clubs and individuals.”

The arbitrator concluded the report cards were “designed by the union to advance its interests under the guise of a scientific exercise,” in part because the NFLPA refused to share specific information about its methodology in collecting and assessing its player survey data.

NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy said in a statement at the time that the NFL remains “committed to working in partnership with the NFLPA and an independent survey company to develop and administer a scientifically valid survey to solicit accurate and reliable player feedback as the parties agreed in the CBA.”

The NFL players’ association, however, already had collected report card responses for the 2025 season. And when ESPN published them on Feb. 26, Schoen received a “D+” from his own players, the worst grade of any GM in the league.

No other GM in the NFL received a grade lower than a C, according to the full database of grades reported by ESPN. In fact, all but four GMs in the NFL received a B or higher.

The only four that didn’t were the Pittsburgh Steelers’ Omar Khan (C+), the Cincinnati Bengals’ Duke Tobin (C), the Cleveland Browns’ Andrew Berry (C) and Schoen (D+).

ESPN said the responses came from 1,759 players who were polled between Nov. 2 and Dec. 11 of 2025. However, the union did not disclose the specifics of its methodology, which comes out to an average of 54.9 players per team across the NFL’s 32 clubs.

Quibbling over semantics isn’t the point, though. This represents an opportunity for the players’ voices to be heard. And in years past, teams have upgraded locker rooms and cafeterias and other elements of their buildings and operations based on these results.

This feedback matters. Or it should anyway, especially to Schoen.

Instead, the GM with a 22-45-1 (.323) record is dismissing that his players think he’s doing a poor job.