BREAKING: New York Giants Reveal Starting Quarterback Decision Against New York Jets In Week 8

The New York Giants revealed their decision as to who would be the starting quarterback for the team in Week 8 against the New York Jets.

Starting quarterback Daniel Jones has missed the previous two games due to an ongoing neck injury. He was limited in practice this week, and there was hope he could return in time to play the Jets

According to Adam Schefter with ESPN, the Giants will start Tyrod Taylor against the Jets in Week 8.

Taylor led the Giants to a 14-7 win over the Washington Commanders in Week 7. The victory followed a near upset of the Buffalo Bills the week prior.

Some fans and pundits were hoping for a quarterback change following Taylor’s performance in the previous two games. Taylor said after the Commanders win, he’d work to perform wherever the Giants place him on the depth chart.

Taylor will have another chance to show the Giants coaching staff and all of New York that he deserves to be QB1 in Week 8.

NFL fans reacted to a significant report on the New York Giants’ plans with running back Saquon Barkley ahead of the upcoming trade deadline on Oct. 31. Barkley has been rumored as a potential player the Giants could trade before the deadline.

The 1-5 Giants appear to be sellers at the deadline. The Giants, who didn’t sign Barkley to a long-term contract this offseason, could trade the star running back to help in other more critical parts of an offense that will be held back for a few years from Daniel Jones’ contract extension.

“New York Giants running back Saquon Barkley told reporters at his locker Friday, “Sitting here, everyone knows how I feel. Everyone knows I don’t want to get traded. I don’t think anyone in their right mind would want to get traded anywhere. It’s not an easy thing to do.

You have to move. I have a family. I would love to be here. But like I said, it’s not in my control. My focus is to be the leader I can be for this team and get this thing on the right track.”

He’ll probably get what he wants. I was told the Giants aren’t planning on moving him.”

NFL fans reacted to Russini’s report on social media. The decision on what to do with Barkley is controversial among Giants fans.

Some fans think the Giants are wise to keep Barkley through the offseason. Others think giving in to a running back coming off an injury is dumb,

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It took a lot of blood, sweat, and perhaps even a few behind-the-scenes tears for the New York Giants defense, which over its first five games allowed an average of 30.6 points per game, averaged 9.2 missed tackles, generated just 12.8 pressures per game, and recorded only five sacks to get things turned around. But after vowing to tighten the screws on the operation and get back to playing their brand of football, the Giants defense is suddenly playing up to its level, doing so with a combination of youth (corners Deonte Banks and Tre Hawkins and inside linebacker Micah McFadden) and veteran leadership such as defensive linemen Dexter Lawrence and Leonard Williams, safety Xavier McKinney, and linebacker Bobby Okereke.

“I think there are quite a few factors,” Williams said when asked about the defense’s turnaround. “We have a young team, there are some rookies that are starting on the team that had to adjust to the speed of the game, like where their teammates are going to be on certain plays, all these adjustments. “It’s players from different systems, whether they are older or younger, they are coming into a new system and have to develop new ways of playing with each other. There are different ways people play with their front and backers, how they fit off of each other, and things like that.”

The youth movement alone has certainly risen to the occasion. Banks, the team’s first-round pick this past spring, is tied for eighth among his peerswho have played at least 200 coverage snaps, posting a 55.6 percent completion rate against him. Second-year linebacker Kayvon Thibodeaux, who got off to a slow start and who has been deployed in coverage probably a little more than anyone would have thought (39 snaps, per PFF), leads the team by a wide margin in the sack column with 5.5 and is second in quarterback hits (7) behind Lawrence (9).

And speaking of Lawrence, who received his big payday in the off-season, PFF has him ranked as the second-best overall defensive interior linemanthrough seven weeks, behind Jalen Carter of the Eagles, Lawrence’s 29 presses just six behind league leader Aaron Donald of the Rams. Related: Kayvon Thibodeaux’s “Weak for That” Over Dropped Interception According to Sports Information Solutions, defensive coordinator Wink Martindale, known for his penchant for the blitz, actually backed off that tactic for Weeks 4-6 when the Giants blitz percentages were season lows–nine percent against Miami and 19 percent against Buffalo, which would allow for the Giants to better stand up to the speed at receiver both teams boast.

Against the Commanders, Martindale was right back to throwing open the gates and letting his players hunt the quarterback against an offensive line that, coming into that game, had allowed the most sacks in the league. Commanders quarterback Sam Howell was blitzed on 63.6 percent of his dropbacks, going 12 of 25 for 161 yards with an interception. Williams said he and his teammates enjoy being set loose to go after the quarterback. “As a defender, we like to be known as hunters and people who get after it, and we are like a pack,” he said. “To instill that mindset in a defense and have that as a group creates a nasty mentality.

“One thing Wink always says a lot that I love is, ‘We always hold the pen last,’ and I like that because even if offenses are audibling or checking or motioning or anything like that, we feel like we have the pen last and we are going to make them do what we want them to do, and I like that mindset, it’s fun.”