{"id":65923,"date":"2025-05-20T21:48:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T21:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/65923\/"},"modified":"2025-05-20T21:48:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T21:48:11","slug":"perception-exists-giants-front-office-preferred-shedeur-sanders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/65923\/","title":{"rendered":"Perception Exists Giants’ Front Office Preferred Shedeur Sanders"},"content":{"rendered":"

After three seasons attempting to make an inherited quarterback work, the Joe Schoen\u2013Brian Daboll regime will attempt to move their way off hot seats via the passer they drafted. Jaxson Dart<\/a> is now in place after Daniel Jones<\/a> did not come close to living up to his $40MM-per-year contract.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Dart-Giants connections began to emerge<\/a> shortly before the draft, as Shedeur Sanders<\/a>\u2018 freefall commenced. Coaches become involved in the process as the winter progresses, and Daboll was believed to be convicted in his belief Dart would be Big Blue\u2019s best available option (after the Titans repeatedly rebuffed the Giants\u2019 efforts to trade up to No. 1). Schoen has attempted to push back on the notion he gave in to his coaches\u2019 preference.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was an organizational decision,\u201d Schoen said during an appearance on Up & Adams (h\/t the New York Post\u2019s Ryan Dunleavy<\/a>). \u201cAny player that we take, it\u2019s a collaborative process and it\u2019s very detailed, and we believe in it. \u2026 Three coaches on staff (Daboll, OC Mike Kafka and QBs coach Shea Tierney) that have been part of the development of two pretty good quarterbacks in the league right now (Patrick Mahomes<\/a> and Josh Allen<\/a>), and when they are convicted on a player and the scouting staff is convicted on a player, typically you have the best chance for success in those situations.\u201d<\/p>\n

Schoen told Kay Adams that Dart was on the Giants\u2019 radar \u201cthroughout the fall,\u201d though a post-draft report indicated the Giants did more in-person work on Sanders compared to<\/a> the Ole Miss starter. Schoen is believed to have scouted just one Dart game in-person, while a previous report indicated the GM had \u201clived in Boulder\u201d as Sanders hype increased. A pre-draft report also indicated the Giants were split on Sanders<\/a>, potentially placing the divide between the front office and coaching staff. Enough information has come out pointing to Daboll playing the lead role in ensuring the Giants did not draft the Colorado QB.<\/p>\n

A perception exists within personnel departments the Giants\u2019 front office preferred Sanders, Dunleavy notes, before Daboll and his staff came to hold Dart in higher regard. The Giants spent more time with Sanders than any team spent with any prospect, Dunleavy adds. That would paint the picture of a mid-process pivot, as Dart certainly appeared to gain steam late. A pre-draft report tabbed Sanders as being the No. 2 QB on the Giants\u2019 big board<\/a> (behind Cam Ward<\/a>), but that could certainly have been a smokescreen effort considering the Dart trade-up, which helped key Sanders\u2019 freefall.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Some Daboll-Sanders friction is believed to have taken place during an install session. While Dart impressed Giants decision-makers during his install, Sanders not being as prepared became a point of contention. The Giants are, of course, not the only team to come away unimpressed<\/a> with Sanders\u2019 approach during the pre-draft process, as multiple teams took the QB off their boards<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Sanders having taken the strange step \u2014 for a player with his prospect profile, at least \u2014 of approaching team meetings like a recruit<\/a>, rather than as a job interview, certainly rubbed teams the wrong way. His slide from potential top-10 pick to No. 144 represents perhaps the most notable tumble in draft history. Sanders\u2019 actions may well have determined the Giants\u2019 QB future; that said, pre-draft offerings also had some teams ranking Dart ahead<\/a> of the two-year Colorado standout.<\/p>\n

Daboll and Schoen have worked together since 2018, when the former arrived as the Bills\u2019 OC. A report of tension between the two emerged earlier this offseason<\/a>, and it appears Daboll\u2019s QB pick will hold the current regime\u2019s future in his hands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After three seasons attempting to make an inherited quarterback work, the Joe Schoen\u2013Brian Daboll regime will attempt to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6107,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2067],"tags":[80,200,7,519,13,201,1917,56,2321,2469,6,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-65923","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-giants","8":"tag-2025-nfl-draft","9":"tag-brian-daboll","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-giants","12":"tag-jaxson-dart","13":"tag-joe-schoen","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-giants","16":"tag-newyork","17":"tag-newyorkgiants","18":"tag-nfl","19":"tag-shedeur-sanders"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114542366361353163","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}