After a heartbreaking defeat, Saquon Barkley is inconsolable, and the coaching staff is being scrutinized.
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Saquon Barkley, the running back for the New York Giants, has an official window of opportunity to decide his future.
Teams can designate franchise and transition players starting on Tuesday, February 20 and running through Tuesday, March 5 at 4:00 p.m. ET on Tuesday. And decisions about Barkley’s future in blue will be made within that two-week period.
Is it appropriate for general manager Joe Schoen to place Barkley on the franchise tag for a second straight season? What effects might that have on their relationship? And are the Giants willing to invest a running back worth $12.1 million with a 100% guarantee?
Though they spark intense discussion, everyone of those questions will eventually have a solution.
Some people think it’s crucial to keep Barkley in East Rutherford. Some, like Pat Leonard of the New York Daily News, think Barkley should be allowed to go and succeed somewhere else by the Giants.
On March 13, they ought to allow Barkley to become a free agent. Barkley doesn’t think he can be their Christian McCaffrey, therefore they should let him try to be someone else’s.
It would be best for both the athlete and the team to part ways.
Barkley did the right thing for the Giants last season when he didn’t have to, so letting him walk free would be the right thing to do. He could discover his actual worth on
The New York Post’s Paul Schwartz, a frequent Giants press secretary, believes Schoen won’t use the franchise tag on Barkley this time. And not because they see him as a broken-down car on a failing frame, as Leonard suggested, but rather because they want to give him another shot to succeed somewhere.