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May 15, 2024 By  New York Giants, NFL

New York Giants: Fans React To Being Named To Hard Knocks

The New York Giants will be featured on Hard Knocks this season. However, it will be an offseason edition of Hard Knocks that will air on HBO and it will be five episodes starting on Tuesday, July 2.

It is very rare for the New York Giants to be featured on Hard Knocks. This comes as a good time for them to be featured on it. It will be the 100th season in Giants history. They finished with a 6-11 record a season ago. New York made the playoffs the previous season with a 9-7-1 record.

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Aug 1, 2023; East Rutherford, NJ, USA; New York Giant general manager Joe Schoen talks with defensive coordinator Don Martindale during training camp at the Quest Diagnostics Training Facility. Mandatory Credit: Vincent Carchietta-USA TODAY Sports

There will be a lot of headlines to watch for in this episode. One of the things to potentially watch for is what happened on draft day when they tried to trade up for quarterback Drake Maye. Another thing to watch for is what happened when Saquon Barkley left the New York Giants for the Philadelphia Eagles in free agency.

Another story to potentially watch for is the reaction during the 2024 NFL Draft when wide receiver Malik Nabers was selected sixth overall in the 2024 NFL Draft from the LSU Tigers. There will be some other things to watch when it comes to head coach Brian Daboll and general manager Joe Schoen. We will see if owner John Mara is featured at all during the Hard Knocks episode for the New York Giants.

New York Giants Fans Respond To Being On Hard Knocks

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Aug 1, 2023; East Rutherford, NJ, USA; New York Giant general manager Joe Schoen talks with defensive coordinator Don Martindale during training camp at the Quest Diagnostics Training Facility. Mandatory Credit: Vincent Carchietta-USA TODAY Sports

There are Giants fans who are looking forward to this edition of Hard Knocks. This isn’t the Hard Knocks that will be featured on HBO that is during the middle of training camp. As mentioned earlier, it will be the offseason edition and this is what the New York Giants fanbase had to say about it:

It may be a hard sell to people because Daniel Jones is still the quarterback and they are not wrong on that. However, they tried to move off of him in the offseason and are now stuck with him for now. The New York Giants did sign quarterback Drew Lock in the offseason to compete with him.

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Aug 26, 2023; East Rutherford, New Jersey, USA; New York Giants defensive coordinator Don Martingale (left) and head coach Brian Daboll and general manager Joe Schoen (right) talk before a game against the New York Jets at MetLife Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Robert Deutsch-USA TODAY Sports

Also, trading for Brian Burns from the Carolina Panthers is also something we need to find out what happened behind the scenes. This won’t be boring this Hard Knocks series, there will be a lot of stories to tell from the New York Giants’ side of things.

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Glenn Kaplan is a sports writer covering all things NFC East related and SEC related on Gridiron Heroics, mainly the New York Giants. He also writes for Wisconsin Sports Heroics.

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