Talking about replacing Eli Manning seemed a lot easier for Daniel Jones when it was a hypothetical. In the spring and summer, the rookie quarterback spoke confidently _ almost brashly _ about one day winning multiple Super Bowls and steering the franchise for years to come.
Then "one day" came.
On Wednesday, he had to talk about it in actuality... as the starting quarterback for the New York Football Giants. That, it appeared, was quite different. The weight of the task at hand was almost visibly pressing on him as he awkwardly searched for words, stammered, and uh-ed and um-ed his way through his news press conference bearing his new title. He looked every bit the 22-year-old kid, just a few months removed from his Public Speaking 101 class at Duke.
