Daniel Jones Is Signing With the Minnesota Vikings
Five Days After Being Booted by the Giants, Daniel Jones Has Found a New Home With the Minnesota Vikings
Danny Dimes Took No Time Finding a New Home
Not even two days after clearing waivers on Monday afternoon, following his release from the Giants on Friday, former #6 pick in the 2019 NFL draft Daniel Jones has found a new team to keep slinging the ball around, the Minnesota Vikings.
As reported earlier today by major NFL news outlets, Jones is set to sign with a Vikings team with Sam Darnold and Nick Mullens as QB1 and 2 in their current depth chart.
Daniel Jones to the Vikings, per @Schultz_Report 🚨 pic.twitter.com/iozgRoiqmy
— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) November 27, 2024
Given he’ll be joining the team shortly, it is expected Jones will get his first taste of Vikes football, besides that time the Vikings defense had a small pity party for Jones earlier this season by joining the team’s practice squad before making a move to the 53-man roster, where he’ll surely duke it out with Mullens to back up Darnold for the remainder of the team’s NFL schedule.
Great Move for the Vikings
Looking at this move rationally, it makes perfect sense for Minnesota to snatch up a player like Danny Dimes.
If Daniel Jones’ stats can return to the level he showed in the 2022 season, where he put up several personal-best stats, the Vikings could humbly brag about getting quite the steal.
Now that I think about it, in that 2022 season, Jones would take the Giants to the playoffs and upset the Vikings, betting odds favorites to win in the wild-card round game. Hopefully, his new team has forgotten about that little faux pas.
Daniel Jones to the Vikings makes the most sense for both Jones and the organization
He gets to learn from KOC (best QB coach in the league) and the Vikings get a compensatory draft pick in a year where they only have 3 picks
Love this move pic.twitter.com/Pks7PsCyMp
— Edge (@SomethingEra2) November 27, 2024
Getting the chance to learn a new system led by Vikings HC Kevin O’Connell, who has shown a hidden talent for turning formerly typecasted passers into stars (you know I’m right, Darnold), Jones could become a sneaky good part of Minnesota’s remaining NFL games this season.
After the Storm Comes the Snowy Calm
I’ll just go out and say it. I’ve always been taking jabs at Jones and his playing abilities. And don’t get me wrong, I’m not about to go into a whole “Let’s Love Danny” schtick. But let me be the first to admit this. Maybe it wasn’t that Jones wasn’t pulling his weight. Maybe, just maybe, this was all his former team’s fault.
Going from having people (Hi, I’m people) talk about his Giants contract potentially being the worst in NFL history to getting a chance to redeem himself at 27 years old with a coach that can get the best from him, as well as playing in a team with Justin Jefferson at WR1, I’m willing to give Jones the benefit of the doubt here.
Daniel Jones after a week with Kevin O’Connell: https://t.co/1XeiEaqxgG pic.twitter.com/Vgvysnp6uc
— Myron Medcalf (@MedcalfByESPN) November 27, 2024
Funny how life works; while both New York teams are currently living their best “pile of crap” era, Darnold and Jones, former Jets and Giants QBs, are now sitting happily with a team bound for a playoff appearance this season.
Yeah, funny. Unless you’re the Jets or Giants, you’re just a joke.
