{"id":52421,"date":"2025-07-09T21:48:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T21:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/52421\/"},"modified":"2025-07-09T21:48:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T21:48:08","slug":"darius-slayton-is-still-defending-daniel-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/52421\/","title":{"rendered":"Darius Slayton is still defending Daniel Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"

Darius Slayton and Daniel Jones both came to the New York Giants<\/a> in the 2019 NFL Draft<\/a>. Slayton, a wide receiver drafted in Round 5, spent their six years together in New York defending the quarterback taken No. 6 overall.<\/p>\n

Jones is gone from the Giants, having moved on to the Minnesota Vikings<\/a> last season and now to the Indianapolis Colts<\/a>. Slayton, though, is still defending the quarterback.<\/p>\n

Appearing on the \u2018NFL Spotlight with Ari Meirov\u2019 podcast, Slayton insisted that Jones was not solely to blame for the struggles the team experienced during most of their time together.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt was definitely not an ideal situation,\u201d he began. \u201cAt the end of the day, he knows what the business is. I know what this business is. It\u2019s result-based. We weren\u2019t good enough the previous few years on offense. Typically, the tip of that spear is the quarterback.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Jones has a chance to win a starting job with the Colts.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI think that he [Jones] will be a successful quarterback in the league.\u201d Slayton told Meirove. \u201cThis league is largely about being in the right place at the right time.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The full podcast, during which Slayton also talked about returning to the Giants for a seventh season, is available below.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Darius Slayton and Daniel Jones both came to the New York Giants in the 2019 NFL Draft. Slayton,…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":52422,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[11651,1540,4834,39185,39187,204,1622,17727,22969,1232,39186,62,22884,67,132,68,22968],"class_list":{"0":"post-52421","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-big","9":"tag-blue","10":"tag-daniel","11":"tag-darius","12":"tag-defending","13":"tag-front-page","14":"tag-is","15":"tag-jones","16":"tag-new-york-giants-news","17":"tag-nfl","18":"tag-slayton","19":"tag-sports","20":"tag-still","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-view"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114825482149709916","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52421","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=52421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}