Tiki Barber does not want the Giants to draft JJ McCarthy | Calls the Giants interest a smokescreen
Former New York Giants running back Tiki Barber has been pretty damn vocal lately. The former running back is not too fond of Michigan quarterback JJ McCarthy.
The New York Giants currently have Daniel Jones and the Italian Phenomenon Tommy Devito, but Tiki does not want McCarthy.
“Not happening. I’m just saying. Not happening,” Barber said Thursday. “I don’t want him. Not happening.”
Barber went on to call McCarthy a smokescreen.
“JJ McCarthy thing, I’m tired of hearing it. Stop with the JJ McCarthy thing,” Barber said. “His film doesn’t say he’s a first-round quarterback. His film doesn’t say, ‘I need to get rid of all my assets and go draft this guy,’ because a lot of what he does doesn’t translate. The scheme that he ran at Michigan — and maybe this is an indictment on the scheme and not necessarily on him — but it didn’t highlight the things that you need to do, second-, third-level reads, multiple combo routes that you have to get correct. He didn’t do any of that stuff. They were run-based, and he thrived in it because he was good at — that’s what Jim Harbaugh wanted him to do.
“The JJ McCarthy thing, to me, is a smokescreen. He’s getting inflated because Jim Harbaugh won’t stop talking about him. Now all of a sudden, he’s a top-four quarterback? I don’t buy it.”
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