Quarterback Joe Flacco became a free agent in March. Before re-signing with the Bengals, he explored his options.<\/p>\n
The Giants weren\u2019t one of them.<\/p>\n
Per a league source, Flacco had interest in the Giants. The Giants did not have interest in Flacco. <\/p>\n
At the time, the Giants had Jameis Winston under contract through 2026. He has since signed a two-year extension.<\/p>\n
Flacco, who played with the Ravens and current Giants coach John Harbaugh for more than a decade, eventually returned to the Bengals, on a one-year, $6 million deal. And the Bengals surely wouldn\u2019t have been willing to part with Flacco in the days since Giants quarterback Jaxson Dart suffered a knee injury; they need to have Flacco around, in the event starter Joe Burrow suffers another injury.<\/p>\n
Still, the Giants could have had Flacco in March. While they\u2019d never admit it, they could be privately kicking themselves that they didn\u2019t reciprocate his offseason interest.<\/p>\n
The Giants instead will proceed with Winston, backed up by J.J. McCarthy. They surely hope Winston plays well enough to hold the job. If he doesn\u2019t, McCarthy will surely get a chance at some point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Quarterback Joe Flacco became a free agent in March. Before re-signing with the Bengals, he explored his options.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":865636,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-865635","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\/865635","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=865635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/865636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=865635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=865635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}