{"id":26040,"date":"2025-06-30T02:43:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T02:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/26040\/"},"modified":"2025-06-30T02:43:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T02:43:08","slug":"daniel-jones-agents-went-to-absurd-lengths-to-get-contract-from-giants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/26040\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Jones\u2019 agents went to \u2018absurd\u2019 lengths to get contract from Giants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"PoWmOu\">There are many New York Giants\u2019 fans who still believe the four-year, $160 million contract the team gave Daniel Jones before the 2023 season was absurd. Now, one of the agents who represented Jones in those negotiations admitted <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MySportsUpdate\/status\/1939426891162652851\" rel=\"nofollow\">Athletes First went to \u201cabsurd\u201d lengths<\/a> to get that deal for the former Giants\u2019 quarterback.<\/p>\n<p id=\"EHuEjX\">A.J. Stevens of Athletes First said on the \u2018NFL Spotlight with Ari Meirov\u2019 podcast that the Jones\u2019 could be the \u201cmost memorable\u201d contract he has ever been involved in.<\/p>\n<p id=\"E8ntLZ\">Stevens told Meirov he built \u201ca 42-page manifesto I think the Giants called it that gave a history of the quarterback position since 2010-ish and eventually a proposal. So you had to read through 41 pages to actually see our first proposal to the Giants.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"HEdE4O\">Stevens knows what that looked like.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p id=\"DBjVOs\">\u201cIt was absurd at the time,\u201d he said. \u201cLooking back, it\u2019s still absurd.<\/p>\n<p id=\"QUcKt2\">It inevitably got us to the point where we did a buzzer-beater deal where there were seconds left before the deadline.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p id=\"Fr0BqI\">That deal, of course, did not work out well for the Giants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There are many New York Giants\u2019 fans who still believe the four-year, $160 million contract the team gave&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":26041,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[22964,21580,11651,1540,12192,4834,1075,204,22966,22967,17727,22965,22969,1232,62,447,67,132,68,22968,22963],"class_list":{"0":"post-26040","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-absurd","9":"tag-agents","10":"tag-big","11":"tag-blue","12":"tag-contract","13":"tag-daniel","14":"tag-from","15":"tag-front-page","16":"tag-get","17":"tag-giants","18":"tag-jones","19":"tag-lengths","20":"tag-new-york-giants-news","21":"tag-nfl","22":"tag-sports","23":"tag-to","24":"tag-united-states","25":"tag-unitedstates","26":"tag-us","27":"tag-view","28":"tag-went"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114770018832107439","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}