This time final yr, NFL Movies and HBO’s “Arduous Knocks” have been embarking on a brand new enterprise to take followers behind the scenes of a workforce making ready for the offseason.
The topic workforce was, in fact, the New York Giants and the revolutionary thought labored nicely. It was revealing (maybe too revealing), informative and recent – and followers ate it up.
The idea could also be lifeless on the vine, nevertheless, after the debut season. The Giants are nonetheless answering questions on their course of a yr later and no workforce has but to volunteer for the second season.
“We hope it’s again. We’re speaking to a bunch of groups about it. However we’ll see what occurs. I imply, we’d like a keen participant on that one. We’re not going to pressure somebody to do this present,” NFL Movies VP Cossrow mentioned final month.
No workforce has come ahead due to the maelstrom it created for the Giants. It confirmed the interior workings of a call that may finally change the result of the 2025 NFL season and made the Giants appear like fools within the course of.
You realize, the one the place the Giants determined to let Saquon Barkley stroll in free company.
On Tuesday on the NFL mix in Indianapolis, the primary query hurled at Giants basic supervisor Joe Schoen was about his fateful determination to permit Barkley to defect to Philadelphia and cause them to the Tremendous Bowl. Whereas he’s glad for Barkley, the choice didn’t work out for New York.
Schoen was additionally requested if any workforce has known as him for recommendation about doing the present and although nobody has, he is aware of what he would inform them in the event that they sought his opinion.
Joe Schoen has not been requested by different NFL groups about his ideas on Offseason Arduous Knocks
If he was requested? “I believe I do know what I might inform them” pic.twitter.com/FYwBJaIgb8
— Giants Movies (@SNYGiants) February 25, 2025
The truth is, had the Giants stored Barkley, he wouldn’t have tilted the scales a lot for them. They gained three video games final yr. With Barkley, they could have gained just a few extra at greatest. With the Eagles, he grew to become the ultimate piece of a championship puzzle.
The Giants must have a strong offseason that yields outcomes and produces wins to lastly escape this shroud of ineptitude that has been hanging over them since they appeared on “Arduous Knocks”.
