PALM BEACH, Fla. -- The New York Giants aren't messing around with their quarterback situation. The new regime has made the pecking order abundantly clear: Daniel Jones is the starter and Tyrod Taylor is the backup.
No quibbling over semantics. No saying the QBs will compete or that everyone has to win a job or that this is a pure meritocracy.
Nope, Jones is the starter under new general manager Joe Schoen and coach Brian Daboll, with perhaps his biggest backer being ownership and John Mara.
"He's shown enough when we've had the right pieces around him -- when we've been relatively healthy -- he's shown enough talent to make us believe we can win with him," Mara said last week at the NFL annual meeting in Palm Beach, Florida.