Giants GM Joe Schoen couldn’t say Thursday whether or not he expects Saquon Barkley to be on the sector in Week 1 for the Giants.
“You’ll have to ask him,” Schoen stated on the workforce’s observe facility in East Rutherford. “I’m not sure. I don’t know what his plan is. I haven’t talked to him in probably three weeks.”
Asked if Barkley nonetheless desires to be a Giant, Schoen added: “I haven’t talked to him.”
If Schoen spoke to Barkley three weeks in the past, across the NFL’s homeowners conferences, that will be a brand new growth. That week in Phoenix, each Schoen and co-owner John Mara stated they hadn’t spoken with Barkley straight in 10 days.
Regardless, Schoen’s level appeared to be that they’ve made zero progress since tabling negotiations after inserting the $10.1 million franchise tag on his operating again in mid-March.
Barkley, 26, has not signed the franchise tag tender and subsequently shouldn’t be reporting to the workforce’s facility presently. There’s no telling how lengthy it will drag on.
“When we had the conversations with Saquon, it was known that we were gonna get to a certain point and then we were gonna move on and regroup at some other time,” Schoen stated.
The GM briefly grew terse and lower off one of many many Barkley questions throughout his pre-draft press convention.
“Nothing’s changed since we talked at the owners meetings,” he stated, repeating a phrase he’d used earlier. “There’s nothing new. I haven’t talked to him.”
Schoen’s replace on Barkley contrasted sharply together with his report that the “dialogue’s good” and ongoing with defensive sort out Dexter Lawrence’s brokers regardless of his absence.
“I’m just gonna get through the draft right now,” Schoen stated, when requested if he has a brand new supply in thoughts for Barkley. “My focus right now is solely on that. So there’s no rush right now. I just want to get through the draft, step back after that, see what the roster looks like and go from there.”
Schoen admitted it’s troublesome eradicating the non-public and human parts from these enterprise negotiations, but it surely’s required.
“No, not really,” he quipped, when requested if he’s good at it. “It’s tough. These guys are around, they work hard, we had a heck of a season last year, and you become close with them. And it’s hard but you have to separate it.”
“I’m not gonna say I’m good at it, because there’s a human element on both sides for them and myself,” the GM continued. “But there is a business side to it. And in a perfect world there’s no salary cap and you can make everybody happy and pay everybody.”
Schoen stated that a part of the job is a brand new problem since he didn’t actually must take it on throughout his first offseason.
“That’s something I haven’t been through before,” Schoen stated. “Last 12 months we didn’t actually lengthen individuals from our roster … So after going by way of a season with the gamers, after which this subsequent step of the method — whether or not it was extending or gamers leaving the group — the human ingredient, that half stinks.
“Because you do like all these guys, they put in a lot of work for you,” Schoen added. “So it’s tough to separate the business end from the human element … The way [Brian Daboll] and I are around the building and getting to know the players — maybe we do that more than most — you do become attached, for sure.”
With negotiations lower off for now, nonetheless, the one actual remaining deadline for the 2 sides to agree on a contract extension is July 17 at 4 p.m. Otherwise, Barkley must play on a one-year deal.
If the scenario sours past restore, the Giants and Barkley might organize a tag and commerce, too.
Barkley already turned down a multi-year supply averaging over $12 million per season twice in each November and January. Since then, Schoen has paid Daniel Jones on a four-year, $160 million extension, tagged Barkley and insisted the group is comfy with him on the tag in 2023.
There isn’t any apparent finish to this standoff in sight, which the Giants GM as a lot as admitted.
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