A Giant Mistake – Philadelphia Sports Nation

A Giant’s Blunder Will Make Eagles Greatness In 2024.

In 2024 America, reality TV is peaking. That’s a key reason why, after 20 years, this season of HBO’s NFL reality show Hard Knocks is one of its most popular, with an audience of around 4.4 million people.

This season, the wildly popular HBO series produced an off-season series of episodes that follow New York Giants General Manager Joe Schoen through the NFL player negotiations, roster management, and the 2024 NFL Draft — highlighting their nearly hundred years of existence started by Tim Mara for a $500.00 investment in 1925. The Giants have always been part of the Mara family.

Usually, any TV series on the New York Giants would be as interesting to Eagles fans as a time-lapse series on the creation of the Dallas Cowboys.

The show is complete with Giants’ talent evaluation, salary negotiation, NFL Combine scouting, and minute-by-minute access into the New York Draft Room as they navigate the expanded $255.4 million per team 2024 salary cap rise of north of $30 million from 2023. Sound repulsive?

Hold the phone.

One recurring plot that the reality series continues to return to is the ongoing negotiation with their star offensive player — twenty-seven-year-old running back Saquon Barkley. Unable to come to a deal with the All-Pro Philadelphia phenom running back who played at Penn State in college and in whom in 2023 — the Giants placed an adjusted franchise tag with a value of $10.1 million fully guaranteed and up to $11 million, including incentives deal. The tag was adjusted to include a $2 Million signing bonus.

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The Eagles added the former New York Giants Running Back Saquon Barkley. In college at Penn State, Barkley ran for almost 3,900 yards, had nearly 1,200 yards receiving, and over 500 yards in kickoff and returns. He was a 2-time Big Ten Running Back of the Year, six-time Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week, and still holds school records for most rushing yards as a freshman, a sophomore and the most total yards in a game.

As the #2 draftee by the New York Giants in 2018, Barkley was offensive rookie of the year and a Pro Bowler twice.

Stumbling through all of the nauseating, negative Eagles slights was well worth it to see Joe Schoen’s horrified New York Giants’s Assistant GMs and scouts watching ESPN’s coverage of Barkley arriving at the Novacare Complex and becoming a Philadelphia Eagle.