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New York Giants: Saquon Barkley is wrong, Daniel Jones is not winning Super Bowls

By Joel Deering

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New York Giants running back Saquon Barkley tried to stop criticism of quarterback Daniel Jones by telling us to ‘wait until he wins two Super Bowls.’ Here is why he never will.

From the moment the New York Giants drafted quarterback Daniel Jones with the sixth overall pick in the 2019 NFL Draft, this team has faced a lot of criticism. After all, Dwayne Haskins, who many had ranked as the second-best quarterback, was still on the board. Many didn’t even have Daniel Jones going in the first round, let alone going sixth overall.

Despite the criticism, the New York Giants believe they have their next franchise QB. That includes their star running back, Saquon Barkley. Barkley was not shy about responding to criticism of his rookie QB.

"“Everyone has something to say and right now people are saying it was an awful pick,” Barkley said, according to Matt Lombardo of NJ.com. “But, when he wait ’til he wins two Super Bowls, they’ll be saying ‘what a great pick!’”“Daniel Jones went crazy in practice yesterday,” Barkley continued. “He had himself a day. I believe in him.”"

I have to give respect to Saquon Barkley for backing up his new franchise quarterback, but I also cannot wait to tell him just how wrong he is. Jones very well may be the Giants’ next franchise quarterback, but he sure isn’t going to win two Super Bowls.

How can I be so sure? Believe it or not, the college stats of Daniel Jones is how. I’m talking about one specific stat in particular, and that stat is completion percentage.

Daniel Jones was the starting QB at Duke from 2016 to 2018. Throughout his three years as the starting QB, Daniel Jones had a completion percentage of 59.9%. Why is that significant? Quarterbacks who didn’t have a completion percentage of 60% or higher in their college careers don’t win Super Bowls. It’s that simple.

Let’s take a look at the college completion percentage of every Super Bowl winning QB over the last 10 years.

Over the last 10 years, no quarterback who had a completion percentage lower than 60% in college has won a Super Bowl. It’s not just the last 10 years though. Let’s keep going.

We have to go all the way back to Super Bowl XXXV, which took place on Jan. 28th, 2001, to find a quarterback who had a college completion percentage of less than 60% and won a Super Bowl in the NFL. What can we take from this? Quarterbacks who aren’t accurate in today’s NFL don’t win.

Today’s NFL is a pass-happy league, and quarterbacks need to be accurate in order to help their teams win. Trent Dilfer may have been able to win a Super Bowl as a passer who wasn’t very accurate back in 2001, but you won’t see that in today’s NFL. The NFL has changed, and so has the way successful quarterbacks play.

It’s for this reason that I believe Saquon Barkley will be wrong about saying Daniel Jones will win two Super Bowls. We can wait for Daniel Jones to win two Super Bowls with the New York Giants, but we’ll be waiting a long time because it won’t happen.

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Maybe I’m being a little harsh by singling out Daniel Jones. However, it’s not just Daniel Jones I feel this way about. I felt the same way about Bills quarterback Josh Allen before he was drafted in 2018. His college completion percentage was 56.2%. I don’t believe he’ll ever win a Super Bowl, because he’s not an accurate QB in a pass-happy league.

Any QB who’s not an accurate passer won’t win a Super Bowl, let alone two, in today’s NFL. Daniel Jones happens to be in that category. Sorry, Saquon.

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