The 4–1 Giants are the biggest surprise of the 2022 season. AlbertBreer on how a first-year coach, a rejuvenated quarterback and a star running back have turned things around for Big Blue
As Jones entered his fourth NFL season, Brian Daboll would be his third coach, bringing with him Mike Kafka, Jones’s fourth offensive coordinator. Joe Schoen would be his second GM, replacing the one who had spent the sixth pick of the 2019 draft on him. In May, collectively, Schoen and Daboll made the decision to decline the fifth-year option on Jones’s rookie contract, effectively setting him free after this year.
“I’ve really enjoyed working with Dabes—I think we have a great relationship, and I’ve learned a ton from him,” Jones says. “Obviously, it’s been great learning his system and just how he sees football, how he sees offense and what it takes to win and be successful in this league. And yeah, the contractual stuff, it is what it is, but I think focusing on the field, on what we gotta do every week to win games, that’s where my head’s been at. I think that’s where his is.
“I don’t know if there was one specific moment or anything that happened,” Jones says. “I think winning some of the games early on in the season, some of those tight games, where they weren’t all perfect and it came down to a possession at the end of the game, we found a way to get it done. I think that felt good for us. We hadn’t done as well with that in the past, so I think we realized it at that point and we continued to build confidence since.
It would’ve been easy to abandon that when Rodgers found a wide-open Marcedes Lewis for a two-yard touchdown to make it 17–3 midway through the second quarter. The Giants didn’t. And there was another level to it, too—the Giants lost Barkley, maybe their best player through four weeks, on the first play of the final possession of the third quarter and were left with Matt Breida and Gary Brightwell. Somehow, it resulted in the Giants’ going on a 91-yard touchdown drive, with both backups making key plays .
One such instance came when Barkley returned for the Giants’ final possession. On the second snap of a six-play, 61-yard drive, second-and-10 from the New York 40, Daboll and Kafka crossed up the Packers from a matchup standpoint by putting both the speedy Breida and Barkley in the game together, lining them up on each side of Jones in the shotgun. Forcing a corresponding adjustment freed up Barkley in the left flat.
“I think that’s fun, and our coaches have done a great job preparing us for that, getting a few of those plays in there.” But for now, they’re together. And there was no better evidence of that than Jones pushing through an ankle injury not just to play on Sunday, but also be a factor in the run game—he had 10 carries for 37 yards against the Packers. He also, through the fourth quarter, played with a nasty gash on his throwing hand that was bloody enough to leave its mark on center Jon Feliciano’s pants, right in the spot where Jones was taking snaps.
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