{"id":429444,"date":"2023-03-08T13:22:17","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T18:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=429444"},"modified":"2023-03-08T13:22:17","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T18:22:17","slug":"qb-jones-ready-to-live-up-to-expectations","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/qb-jones-ready-to-live-up-to-expectations\/","title":{"rendered":"QB Jones ready to live up to expectations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"d3-l-col__col-8\">\n<div class=\"nfl-c-article__container\">\n<div class=\"nfl-c-body-part nfl-c-body-part--text\">\n<p>Quarterback <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/player\/daniel-jones\/\">Daniel Jones<\/a> knows he must now live up to the expectations that come after he<a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/giants-qb-daniel-jones-agree-to-four-year-160-million-contract\/\"> agreed terms on a four-year deal<\/a> worth $160 million with <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/team\/new-york-giants\/\">New York Giants<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Giants QB Daniel Jones on expectations that come with $160M contract: &quot;I&#39;ve always felt that responsibility&quot;<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BbsNdzyqbU\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/BbsNdzyqbU<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5obyxHjHr6\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/5obyxHjHr6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Around The NFL (@AroundTheNFL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AroundTheNFL\/status\/1633531182439866368?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 8, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve always felt that responsibility,&#8221; Jones said Wednesday, less than 24 hours after agreeing to the new contract.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"d3-l-col__col-8\">\n<div class=\"nfl-c-article__container\">\n<div class=\"nfl-c-body-part nfl-c-body-part--text\">\n<p>&#8220;Playing this position, especially for a team like the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/team\/new-york-giants\/\">New York Giants<\/a> and this city, you have that responsibility. I take that very seriously.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"nfl-c-body-part nfl-c-body-part--text\">\n<p>&#8220;It certainly doesn&#8217;t change. I certainly do feel that and it&#8217;s my goal to earn that every day and, in the offseason, while we&#8217;re preparing for the season, and then when we get to the season, you know, doing my best and preparing this team to win games and me to put us in a position to that. So yeah \u2013 I take that responsibility very seriously.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"nfl-c-body-part nfl-c-body-part--text\">\n<p>The 25-year-old Jones was atop New York&#8217;s list of priorities prior to the start of the new league year, which was a stark shift in focus compared to a year ago, when the Giants declined to pick up the Duke product&#8217;s fifth-year option and left the quarterback&#8217;s fate in his hands with only one year remaining on his rookie contract.<\/p>\n<p>He answered the call in 2022, posting a career-best 3,205 passing yards, a 15-5 touchdown-to-interception ratio, and finishing with 708 rushing yards and seven touchdowns, the most in his four-year tenure with the Giants.<\/p>\n<p>With Jones leading the way, New York surprised the NFL world, finishing 9-7-1 and reaching the playoffs, where the Giants upset the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/team\/minnesota-vikings\/\">Minnesota Vikings<\/a> with a win on Super Wild Card Weekend before failing to the eventual NFC champion Eagles in the Divisional Round.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quarterback Daniel Jones knows he must now live up to the expectations that come after he agreed terms on a four-year deal worth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":429445,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17652,17167,16794],"news_category":[16703],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"The New York Giants and quarterback Daniel Jones agreed terms on a four-year deal worth $160 million","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/429444"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/429444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429444"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=429444"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=429444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}