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Saquon Barkley Finally Tells His Side of Free Agency

July 24, 2024
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I feel like there are so many moving parts in this Giants vs. Saquon free agency drama and I’ll be honest, it’s kind of getting old. I’m glad training camp starts this week because I’d rather talk about the 6th linebacker’s chances of making the team instead of splicing closed captions together to hear if Joe Schoen said he would or might offer Saquon $12.5 mil a year to come back. Barkley’s interview with Dianna Russini from The Athletic (with ads) should be the final time we talk about it. Thank god. Shout out to HBO though. This whole ordeal is honestly the best thing that could happen to them when they decided to do an off-season version of Hard Knocks. In the end, the fans win and that’s all that matters for the NFL and their media partners. Conversation starts at 16:30:

Some things we learned:

Saquon would’ve been comfortable going back to the Giants at the $9-$10 million a year range before teams drove up the price. The Eagles ended up signing him in the $12.6 million a year range with $27 mil guaranteed:

Saquon never had the Giants in his top three free agency destinations. Most of that seemed to do with how Joe Schoen handled negotiations last year when the team franchise tagged him. He also said HBO made it look like the Giants and him were more involved this offseason then they really were:

The NFL is a business, but it’s a dirty business. Obviously you can’t pay major bucks for a running back. That’s how you end up in cap purgatory like the Cowboys are right now. But from Saquon’s perspective it seems like he was told one thing, given the run-around on another, the Giants paid Daniel Jones and a couple other guys, and then ended up tagging him at the deadline for $10 mil. If there was just a little better comms between Schoen and his people they might’ve been able to hammer out a deal that keeps him a Giant for less than what the Birds gave him. Once Giants fans wake up and understand Schoen was never going to pay him because he messed up by giving Daniel Jones $40+ million a year the quicker they’ll be able to move on. It’s healthier that way.

This might be one of the best descriptions of Jalen Hurts as a leader I’ve heard from someone who actually knows what goes on in a NFL locker room:

So when sports radio or your dad gets mad at Jalen for looking stoic on the sideline this season after a bad series remember these words. There are different layers to being a leader. I love having a dude who has overcome so much in his lifetime at different levels under center. I think Jalen is going to silence a lot of critics this season with Kellen Moore.

Saquon made a pros and cons list for places he’d want to sign during free agency. The only con on the Eagles side was “you might get hate” –

Can’t argue with that con. Ask former free agents DeMarco Murray, Nnamdi Asomugha, and Byron Maxwell.

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