Poll results: Most Giants fans say starting Daniel Jones is the right move

Most Giants fans would start Daniel Jones against the Commanders in Week 2

The New York Giants 2024 season did not start how anyone envisioned. Few saw a rout at the hands of Sam Darnold and the Minnesota Vikings coming, and fans were predictably upset — to say the least.

And questions as to whether Daniel Jones should even start at quarterback in Week 2 against the Washington Commanders started before the echoes of the boos even faded from MetLife Stadium.

Head coach Brian Daboll confirmed that Jones would be the starter during his remarks this week, and added that there wouldn’t be any changes to the practice reps given to Drew Lock and Tommy DeVito. So we put the question to you, the Big Blue View community:

Is Daboll right to start Jones?

The majority of you replied that, yes, starting Jones is the right move.

I happen to agree that starting Jones is the right move, at least for now. Daboll is responsible to all 53 players in the locker room, and he can’t appear to panic after one bad game. He should do what he can to be a steady hand who is trying to put the team in the best position to win. And Jones has played the Washington Commanders well in his career, with a 5-1-1 record.

But the fact that this is even a question — let alone that 35% of respondents believe Jones should not start — is the bigger story. That coincides with a, frankly, stunning drop in fan confidence over the last week.

Giants fans largely believed their team would win 7 to 9 games this year. We wanted to check in and see if that has changed, and it certainly has.

Where 64% of fans thought the Giants would exceed the Vegas line of 6.5 wins, now 54% think the Giants will win between 4 and 6 games. That’s twice as many fans as a week ago, when just 27% believed the Giants would win 4 to 6 games.

But the shift in fans who think this will be a nightmare season with three (or fewer) wins. Just 2% of fans responded “0 to 3 wins” at the start of the season, and now that’s up to 31% of respondents.

The Giants’ loss to the Vikings — and how they lost — seems to have been crushing to fan morale. Not only are fans down on the Giants’ prospects for this year, they seem to have lost faith that Daboll and GM Joe Schoen are the right men to guide the franchise.

Just 22% of fans believe the Giants are heading in the right direction.

To put that in some perspective, 78 percent of Giants fans believed that the team was heading in the right direction on the morning of Sept. 8. Last year got off to a similarly ugly start, but fan confidence only hit a season low of 29% following Daniel Jones’ neck injury in the loss to the Seahawks.

It’s remarkable to see fan confidence plummet this dramatically in just a week.

The Giants come into this game as 1.5 point underdogs on the road per FanDuel Sportsbook — essentially a toss-up game that might even favor the Giants on a neutral field. And yet it doesn’t feel that way around the fandom.

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