On Tuesday night at 9 p.m., “Hard Knocks: Offseason with the New York Giants” airs the first of its five-part series. Distractions, anyone?
There was a time when John Mara, the Giants owner and CEO, said in jest that he would be dead before the Giants would ever agree to HBO featuring his team on its popular and polarizing “ Hard Knocks ’’ series.
Maybe the Giants can learn a little bit from the Jets, who are two-time veterans of the pitfalls that come with “Hard Knocks.’’ The Jets’ most recent stint was last season, which devolved into months of controversy and angst after Aaron Rodgers“Some of the stuff in the offseason with Aaron, with ‘Hard Knocks,’ I feel like we lost track of some things,’’ Gardner said at the end of the 2023 season. “When there’s a lot of cameras and a lot of stuff going on, you can lose track of the main thing.
Who can forget when cornerback Antonio Cromartie, who was notorious for having eight children with numerous different women, being asked by an HBO producer to name all of his kids and it took him some 40 seconds to name them all? Don’t expect that kind of juicy soap operatic drama to drip from the Giants’ stint on the show. In a way, this is a soft landing on “Hard Knocks’’ because their five episodes were shot during the offseason. So there was no nonsense attached to locker room drama or game results.and the Giants scouting top college quarterbacks so aggressively it had to make injury-prone incumbent Daniel Jones wonder what his future is.
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