{"id":363274,"date":"2026-10-02T23:17:05","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T23:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/363274\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T23:17:05","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T23:17:05","slug":"j-j-mccarthy-ready-for-whats-ahead-of-him-after-giants-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/363274\/","title":{"rendered":"J.J. McCarthy ready for what’s ahead of him after Giants trade"},"content":{"rendered":"

He isn\u2019t the Giants\u2019 Quarterback of the Future or the Giants\u2019 Quarterback of the Present, but J.J. McCarthy is happy that the Giants are not only in his past.<\/p>\n

In his first interview since he was acquired earlier this week for a fifth-round pick to be Jameis Winston\u2019s backup<\/a> while Jaxson Dart is sidelined, McCarthy said it came as a \u201cshock\u201d to be traded by the Vikings less than three seasons after he was a first-round pick.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t anticipate it,\u201d McCarthy said, \u201cbut it\u2019s an opportunity to take advantage of.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"New Giants quarterback J.J. McCarthy (18) at practice on Friday. Robert Sabo for NY Post<\/p>\n

Some of shock quickly gave way to comfort when general manager Joe Schoen (who heavily scouted McCarthy before the 2024 draft) and head coach John Harbaugh (whose brother Jim was McCarthy\u2019s college coach<\/a>) called to make him feel wanted.<\/p>\n

\u201cI loved this place from the second I walked in here,\u201d McCarthy said. \u201cMade of the right stuff. Just being able to be here now, it\u2019s full circle. The (franchise) tradition is something I value tremendously.\u201d<\/p>\n

McCarthy didn\u2019t want to look back at \u201cthe multitude of things you can think of\u201d to explain why it didn\u2019t work out for him<\/a> with the Vikings. Not when he has so much to learn to get up to speed with the Giants offense.<\/p>\n

\"New Giants quarterback J.J. McCarthy (18) at practice on Friday. Robert Sabo for NY Post<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel really good,\u201d McCarthy said. \u201cOffensive football is all the same concepts for the most part. It\u2019s about getting the verbiage down, and I feel like I\u2019m picking it up pretty quickly. I\u2019m focused on the next thing. Where I\u2019ll end up is where I\u2019ll end up when the time gets there.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He isn\u2019t the Giants\u2019 Quarterback of the Future or the Giants\u2019 Quarterback of the Present, but J.J. McCarthy…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7660,9,2683,11,10,22,319],"class_list":["post-363274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-j-j-mccarthy","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-giants","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}