The Giants have not one, but two new quarterbacks

NY Giants Weekly

Gotham Sports Network

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🗓️ 26 March 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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After the New York Giants went into the abyss of quarterback play last year with Daniel Jones, Drew Lock and Tommy DeVito, the team learned a lesson. In the past week, the Giants signed both Jameis Winston and Russell Wilson to sure up a quarterback room that's lacked over the last several seasons. On this episode of NYG weekly, the guys discuss what the decision says about the team's leadership, what it likely means for the Giants' draft and why it was so important to learn from mistakes.

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0:00.0	NYG Weekly.
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0:18.6	Ethan Weiss and Nick here with you before we get into everything. We got to take care of the housekeeping. Follow us on Twitter. Follow me at Ethan G.S. And follow NYG Daily. Follow Nick and Nick Zararis. Subscribe to the pod. We're everywhere where you get your favorite podcast, iTunes, audio boom, Google, Play, Stitch Radio, Spotify. Subscribe, unsubscribe, unsubscribe, resubscribe, rate us five stars, leave us a kind of review. Gentlemen, we are convened here today because the New York Giants have not one, but two startable quarterbacks on their roster, and we're here to talk about it. Most recent news, Russell Wilson signing a one-year contract, James Winston here to back him up. Also on a one-year contract. Let's talk about your contract.
0:55.2	Through your contract, Weiss.
0:57.0	Yes.
0:57.7	You start.
1:00.8	You know, when we last spoke about adding a starting caliber quarterback,
1:06.1	one of the things I always talked about was a safe landing on the other side,
1:10.4	you know, not putting yourself in a
1:12.4	situation where you're in no man's land and trading, you know, draft picks, $100 million
1:17.8	contracts, this and that, blah, blah, blah. And I think the Giants made out well. Now, obviously,
1:24.4	pretty clear that Russell Wilson was not their first choice, was not their second choice. And who knows, maybe it's not their third choice either. But the money that they put
1:32.9	into their, put into Russell Wilson is not significant enough. I told you guys right before the
1:38.3	air. And anybody can fact check me on this. But according to Sports Track, who lists out all these contracts on a
1:45.2	yearly basis, when you take out the quarterbacks on a rookie contract, Russell Wilson,
1:53.1	in terms of his yearly salary, which is 10 million, I know there's incentives tied to a two,
1:57.4	but his yearly salary is the lowest starting quarterback salary in the NFL when
2:02.8	you take out rookie contracts. So again, I'm just putting that out there just to highlight
2:08.7	how this investment is so low. As for the quarterback, I don't know what Russell Wilson is at this stage of his career.
2:18.7	I think the way it ended in Pittsburgh was not good, specifically the last six games,
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