The Giants were unable to complete Daniel Jones’ contract negotiations before the franchise’s tag deadline. So they let it all ride on pinky swears.
Daniel Jones got his new contract from the Giants last week, but he’s hit back. In the end, getting the deal done required a leap of faith.
Albert Brier reports new details about the process that led to Jones’ four-year, $160 million contract extension.
At some point during the negotiations, Jones’ costars Brian Murphy and Cameron Hahn ended up in a pig-drawing competition (which seems literally).
Both sides eventually agreed in principle to an incentive-laden deal but the deadline for the franchise was just minutes away. The plan was to put the label on Jones if the deal was not completed in time. The preference was to tag Saquon Barkley back instead if the deal went through.
At that point, the contract was not technically ready to be signed. Jones and the Giants could not settle all the details before the deadline even though the two sides were basically in agreement.
The end result was a pinky vibrator.
Daniel Jones and the Giants need a pinky shake to finish the stretch
“[Giants GM Joe] Schoen suggested they shake the deal, absent an actual contract,” Brier wrote. Murphy replied that a pinky swear and a hug would be better. So they locked up pinkies, hugged, and the deal was agreed with four minutes remaining.
So the Giants put their trust in Jones and his undead team, and they tagged Barkley before the deadline. And the official contract was signed with Jones.
It may not have been a conventional course of contract extension but it worked.
The next step is for Jones to prove that he was worth $40 million a year in the first place.
