New York Giants: ESPN analyst highlights "two huge concerns" he has ahead of 2022 season
ESPN analyst Louis Riddick has announced what he believes are ‘two huge concerns’ for the New York Giants heading into this season.
The New York Giants are in something of a grey area when it comes to their rebuilding as a franchise. They are entering the final year of quarterback Daniel Jones’ contract after taking him in the 2019 NFL Draft with the 6th pick to replace quarterback Eli Manning.
And having announced that they will not be taking up the 5th-year option on his rookie contract, this could very well be the last year that he is a member of Big Blue unless he has a miraculous season and convinces them otherwise.
Meanwhile, they appear to be building for whatever the next stage of their process is with their actions this offseason, appointing head coach Brian Daboll to replace Joe Judge whilst also using the 2022 NFL Draft to take two players in the first round in the form of defensive end Kayvon Thibodeaux and offensive tackle Evan Neal with the #5 and #7 pick respectively.
As a result they are both approaching the end of one cycle and the beginning of another at the same time, but what that means for this season we’ll just have to wait and see, but hopefully it will be better than what they have managed to produce in recent seasons, that has seen them fail to finish with a winning record since 2016.
If they are to do that though, at least according to Riddick, a lot of that is going to have to come as a result of the two big players in the backfield, quarterback Jones and running back Saquon Barkley. In an article for ESPN.com when talking about what his biggest worry was for the Giants, Riddick claimed that his concern came from what the new head coach would be able to do with their two primary offensive