I was happy with the McDaniels/Ziegler signing, still am... mostly, but Daboll was my first choice.
Watching the Giants this season convinces me he is the kind of coach who identifies the strengths of his players and modifies the system to maximize their production. Unlike McDaniels who seems locked into his system trying to hammer square pegs into the round hole.
Frustrating.
The Giants are probably going to franchise Daniel Jones and try to sign him long term. And playing against the Vikings defense probably makes most QBs look like HoFers, but man it would be nice to have a truly mobile QB who can also throw.
Jones is no Mahomes but he has top notch athleticism and seems to make good decisions when he has quality coaching.
ETA: #### Brady.
I don't agree with this at all. New England constantly adapted their offense to fit the weapons they had:
2006 pound away with Dillon/Maroney, spread around a terrible WR corp, trust the D
2007-8 bombs away to Moss, redefining slot WR in the NFL with Welker/Edelman and went 11-5 with Matt freaking Cassel at QB.
2009 Tebowmania, won a playoff game!
2010 turned Kyle Orton and Brandon Lloyd into a thing - Lloyd had 1400 yards, and never over 750 again in his career
2011 lost year with Rams but no one could fix Bradford
2012 He didn't create the two TE monster but rolled with it when he returned to NEP
2013-15 Feature TE passing game with full-on RBBC support
2016 back to pounding with Blount, slot WR/TE feature
I'll stop now
No I won't
2017 back to full JAG RBBC and feed Gronk/Cooks
2018 more JAG RRBC, full spread out the pass targets and James White nearly becomes a feature weapon
Ok now I'll stop
McD has been one of the premiere system minds of this era. He invented the slot WR era and made stars/borderline HOF/borderline stars out of guys that 10 year prior would have been one-and-done after rookie contracts. I mean he won a playoff game with Tim freaking Tebow at QB. The same QB that got run out of the position what, one year later?
He's definitely not pounding pegs. If anything he's looking for rounder pegs than Carr is/can be. I think McD is just a cold-blooded chameleon and he doesn't care who it is, he'll figure it out. Sounds like Davis is more behind this than anything else. This is one of the reasons I was most excited about getting McD because if he doesn't implode the team like he did in DEN he's one of the most adaptive/dynamic offensive forces we've seen recently. If Carr gets any decent support from the D we go 10-7 or better so McD showed he can work with him just fine.