have made neither Dart nor Winston available<\/a> to reporters, even though all players are required by league rules to be available during each game week.<\/p>\nAs explained by Leonard, a Giants P.R. staffer interrupted a \u201ccordial, non-football conversation\u201d between Dart and reporters at his locker, explaining that the backup quarterbacks won\u2019t be talking.<\/p>\n
The Giants later said requests to interview Dart and Winston could be submitted, and that the requests would be \u201cconsidered.\u201d The Giants have since denied multiple requests to interview the No. 2 and No. 3 quarterbacks from the NFC team in the country\u2019s largest media market.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe way we operate remains unchanged,\u201d the Giants said, via Leonard. “[W]e do not schedule weekly availability with the backup quarterback, regardless of their draft status or salary. The starting quarterback has a set weekly availability. However, if you\u2019re working on a story that specifically requires input from the backup quarterback, we are open to arranging a conversation.\u201d<\/p>\n
As Leonard notes, Giants backup quarterbacks have been consistently available to reporters in past years.<\/p>\n
Leonard also explains that the Giants have said Dart will be available after the Week 1 game against the Commanders, \u201cif he plays.\u201d The rules sweep more broadly; all players must be available after each game, whether they play or not.<\/p>\n
The team\u2019s approach is unconventional, and a bit bizarre. They\u2019re trying to limit access in order to prevent any questions or answers that could complicate the plan to ride with Russ, unless and until the change is made from Wilson to Dart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Russell Wilson is the Week 1 starting quarterback for the Giants. And he was available, as all starting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136298,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-136297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}