The Giants don’t want to see Daniel Jones haunted like Sam Darnold.
Ahead of his team’s first of two “Monday Night Football” games this season, coach Pat Shurmur said he would turn down a request to wear a microphone feeding into the ESPN broadcast during the game, and he would like his players to follow suit to avoid any Darnold-like situations.
A Giants official said ESPN had not made the request for Shurmur or players as of Thursday afternoon.
“In the past my answer has been they will have mic’d certain players,” Shurmur said after a Halloween practice, “but in this case I’m going to say no.