Now we see if Giants QB is ready for that

The transfer of power did not occur with a profane marginal profanation, nor in the terrible moment of a broken bone, a knee blown or a shoulder in ruins, but via a soft whisper offered to the team's website. This is how one era ends and another begins. A simple ad. A peaceful proclamation.

"We are making a change," said Giants coach Pat Shurmur, "and we're going with Daniel as a starter."

Daniel Jones's apprenticeship lasts two games. The giants have been hammered by the Cowboys and humiliated by the Bills, and suddenly the future is near. The current situation of the Giants is not the fact of Eli Manning, but it will be him who will pay the steepest public price.

And now we see what the kid can do.

Are you going for that, kid?

You're ready?

"My job is to learn, to absorb everything I can. This is the opportunity that has been offered to me and I will make the most of it, "said Jones a little over a week ago, in front of his locker in the AT & T stadium, after having made a brief appearance late in the game against the Cowboys. .

"I'm a quarterback. And I want to be the best quarterback I can be.

He had no idea that a promotion on the battlefield could unfold so quickly because no one had done it. It was not the plan. If that were the case, Manning would not have been reduced to such a high number this year. In March, the Giants pledged $ 5 million and a salary of $ 12 million, which seemed to go against the rest of the operation, which consisted of rebuilding, reloading, retooling , reorganize.

During the summer, John Mara, one of the owners of the team, said: "I hope that Eli has a great year and that Daniel has never seen the field. It would be in an ideal world, you would like to see it. At the end of the day, the head coach will decide when and if Daniel will play this year. "

If has become so terribly fast, and where is the Raymond James Stadium in Tampa this Sunday. It was assumed that if the Giants changed quarter this year, it would happen in circumstances similar to those in which Manning replaced Kurt Warner 15 years ago, when the team determined that it was not in a title race (despite a record of 5-4 at the time). and chose to fully embrace the future.

No such delay this time. The teams have recovered from 0 to 2 starts before (no one can say it better than after Eli), so the stakes are very different from those of 2004 and much larger. The Giants will not want Jones to be able to create a spark to bounce the season, but it's clearly on the table now that the team changes players as soon as possible.

Are you going for that, kid?

You're ready?

"Daniel understands the challenge ahead," said Shurmur, "and he will be ready to play Sunday."

He was ready all summer, when his pictures were the most awaited of all cities. These training matches may have no value, but SOME ONE must play the quarterback, and Jones has been great. He made 29 of his 34 pass attempts for 416 yards and two touchdowns. It was enough to change the perception that many people had of Jones, that the Giants had taken with the choice n ° 6 in the draft, rather than to try to reinforce their defense, which perhaps had not yet were available when they resumed the selection at 17

In the end, although this decision is an opportunity for Jones to catch his star, this is a crucial moment to determine the type of GM Dave Gettleman. Gettleman surprised a lot of people when he skirted a quarter in the QB-rich draft of 2018 to push back Saquon Barkley, a dazzling star from the moment he first touched NFL football, but seemed destined to sink into a Barry Sanders type fugue without a sidekick to work with. Gettleman insisted that his choice was easier because he was not impressed by the 18-quarter category, and then doubled it by identifying Jones as his type.

Now he has his guy, like George Young had Phil Simms, as Ernie Accorsi had Manning, choices that filled the trophy cases at 1925 Giants Drive with four Lombardi trophies. If Gettleman is right, it will greatly contribute to determining his legacy.

And also if he is wrong.

"In the end, it's a decision that, in my opinion, was the best for this team at that time," Shurmur said. "This movement is more about Daniel's progress than Eli's."

So, nothing really matters about that. Are you going for that, kid?

You're ready?