{"id":913863,"date":"2026-10-02T20:38:42","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T20:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/913863\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T20:38:42","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T20:38:42","slug":"j-j-mccarthy-trade-to-giants-was-a-shock-and-an-opportunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/913863\/","title":{"rendered":"J.J. McCarthy: Trade to Giants was a shock and an opportunity"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Giants have not said whether J.J. McCarthy will be Jameis Winston\u2019s backup for this Sunday\u2019s game against the Cardinals, but there\u2019s a good chance that the 2024 first-round pick will get a chance to play quarterback for the team at some point in the near future. <\/p>\n

McCarthy was acquired in a trade with the Vikings earlier this week as the Giants work out a plan to move forward without Jaxson Dart for the rest of the season. McCarthy said on Friday that there are \u201ca multitude of things you could think of\u201d to explain why his time in Minnesota did not go as planned, but that the only thing that\u2019s important now is making the most of his current situation. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I got the call here, it was a shock<\/a>. I didn\u2019t anticipate it, but at the end of the day, it\u2019s an opportunity,\u201d McCarthy said, via Jordan Raanan of ESPN.com. \u201cIt\u2019s an opportunity to take advantage of. And I love these guys already and I can\u2019t wait to do it for them.\u201d<\/p>\n

It remains to be seen whether McCarthy\u2019s results will be markedly different than his time with the Vikings, but things had clearly soured in Minnesota and his best chance to find a long-term role as a starter in the NFL was going to come with a different team. The Giants may not be that team once Dart is able to play again, but a good showing will open a door for McCarthy somewhere in 2027 and beyond. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Giants have not said whether J.J. McCarthy will be Jameis Winston\u2019s backup for this Sunday\u2019s game against…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":913864,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-913863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=913863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/913864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=913863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=913863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=913863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}