The New York Giants are playing poker and bluffing with no chips in front of them.
Reports indicate Wilson and the Giants brass agreed to the amount of compensation Wilson would need to play for them in 2025. The sticking point is Wilson wants a two-year contract and the Giants only want to offer a one-year deal.
The Giants need to go ahead and give Wilson the second year, non-guaranteed, and call it a day. They need a veteran quarterback yesterday and by signing Wilson they get the best one on the market.
General manager Joe Schoen has got to stop thinking he is going to get Cam Ward. That ship is going to sail. Tennessee is not parting with the first pick of the draft and they will use it on the former Miami quarterback.
Shedeur Sanders is not good enough to select with the third pick, so the Giants need a veteran for a good two years. Get Wilson and be done with it.
Here are the Giants options.
The first is the aforementioned Wilson. He is a veteran who won a Super Bowl with Pete Carroll. He would have won two if they gave the ball to Marshawn Lynch on the goal line instead of throwing an interception.
The next Tier 1 choice is the aging Aaron Rodgers. Rodgers won the Super Bowl in 2011 and has diminishing skills. The Green Bay Packers drafted Jordan Love as Rodgers replacement and traded him while they could get something for him in return.
The New York Jets, meanwhile, did not even want to have Rodgers on their roster to try and trade him, and waived him when the league year opened on Wednesday.
The only other option aside from drafting a quarterback is to sign a Tier 2 quarterback like Jameis Winston or Carson Wentz. They might as well have kept Daniel Jones or extended Drew Lock.
Further, Rodgers is hanging his hat on the Minnesota Vikings. They are the most playoff ready of the four teams needing a quarterback. However, the Vikings are in no rush to make Rodgers an offer with a mostly-healthy JJ McCarthy coming back to start.
The offers Rodgers passes on now, are going to look real good when the Vikings tell him they are moving on without him. By the way, shouldn't Schoen want someone that wants them? Wilson spent enough time with the Giants and wants to play there.
The bottom line is Rodgers is not the answer and he is not the savior. Wilson, at least is the answer for now. He's younger and has more in the tank. Rodgers is running on fumes.
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For the Giants, it could be worse having Wilson in your huddle and throwing to Malik Nabers and Darius Slayton, and possibly Travis Hunter.
Make the deal, Joe. Don't keep the fan base waiting for a guy that obviously doesn't want to play for you.
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This story was originally published March 16, 2025 at 2:06 PM.
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