.Jordan Raanan, ESPN Staff WriterAug 1, 2024, 05:24 PM ETCloseJordan Raanan is a media reporter for NFL Nation at ESPN. Raanan deals with the New York Giants. You can easily observe him using Twitter @JordanRaanan. HACKENSACK, N.J.-- The big apple Giants co-owner John Mara stated he doesn't possess any regrets about authorizing quarterback Daniel Jones last year, even if the group teased along with locating his possible substitute this offseason.Jones, who signed a four-year, $160 thousand deal in 2013, possessed pair of goal passes and also six interceptions while playing in just 6 games due to neck and leg injuries, featuring a torn ACL in his best knee." Pay attention, I am actually still satisfied our team offered him that agreement because I believed he played definitely well for our company in '22," Mara stated throughout an occasion to unveil a landscape at the Hackensack Medical Facility to commemorate the group's 100th time. "In 2015 he acquired pain and also, let's be straightforward, when he was playing, our experts weren't shutting out anyone. Therefore allow's provide him an odds with a far better offending line and also some weapons around him and also observe what he may do." Publisher's Picks2 RelatedThe Giants truly inquired about relocating in to the top 3 of the draught along with their eye on a quarterback, specifically Drake Maye if the New England Patriots agreed to bring in a trade. However the rate confirmed as well steep.Instead, the Giants stuck to Jones and prepared LSU wide receiver Malik Nabers with the 6th total pick to provide him a tool on offense." I fidgeted concerning losing hope way too much to go acquire a quarterback," Mara mentioned. "I was actually prepared to let [general manager Joe Schoen and trainer Brian Daboll] perform that if that is what they wished to perform. Our team decided to remain with Daniel and add a weapon for him, and also I think that is actually going to exercise for us." Jones might have stayed, but it was an offseason of modification for the Giants. They enabled operating back Saquon Barkley as well as protection Xavier McKinney to walk through totally free agency. Barkley locked on with the rival Philadelphia Eagles McKinney along with the Green Gulf Packers.It was revealed on "Hard Knocks: Offseason along with the New York Giants" that Mara had not been completely aboard along with the choice to let Barkley leave behind. He accepted viewing Barkley land in Philly will create him drop sleep.Nonetheless, Mara failed to conflict." Each year there is going to be actually an employees selection that I am not one hundred% for," Mara said. "But in the end of the day, you permit the basic manager and the coach, specifically if they have a consolidated conviction, decide and then bitch regarding it later on." That was the decision they made. No, I wasn't fascinated it. I didn't want to shed him, yet I knew what their approach was and also you must allow all of them do their projects." Schoen as well as Daboll currently move into a crucial Year 3 with an overhauled roster doing not have superstar energy. They amazingly created the playoffs in their initial season, before straining to a 6-11 file in 2013. The Giants reworked their roster, exchanging for advantage rush Brian Burns, calling up Nabers and signing 3 potential beginning objectionable electrician (John Runyan Jr., Jermaine Eluemunor as well as Greg Truck Roten). Right now it is actually time to observe if it associates to a strengthened item on the field. Or perhaps it could take yet another year of restocking the lineup, consisting of at the quarterback placement." It is actually hard to verbalize my desires," Mara claimed. "Undoubtedly you would like to show notable remodeling over in 2015, but I'm certainly not visiting make any notable promises or needs or even anything like that. They recognize what I want to find. I have a considerable amount of peace of mind in this particular specific staff. The interaction is excellent as well as I think we have actually included some really good parts. It is actually time to show it." That doesn't automatically imply the Giants require to win a particular number of video games or create the playoffs to watch the time as an excellence. That is actually constantly additional of a taste of Mara once the season concludes.He still does not seem to see this as a long-term construct." I do not recognize just how to evaluate that. I desire to stroll off the field at the end of the time emotion like our experts are actually transferring the appropriate direction," Mara said. "We really are actually. Our team have an excellent structure below. Our team have every explanation to be positive." I expect our company to take a big progression this year.".