 how are you welcome to New York doing well thanks for having me pleasure house camp been for you it's been good let's see we're about a weekend now and felt like I've learned a lot and seen seen a lot of different things you know figuring it out good days and bad days but overall it's been it's been good so trying to get in the routine trying to try to get the hang of it what you expected yeah I'd say it's about what I expected I mean it's you know similar to OTAs and similar to many camps in turn of in terms of the practices and just kind of the preparation of the practice it's just just longer days and just just more meetings stuff like that but it's it's good now the Giants publicly said there's no competition it's Eli's job but still you're the backup quarterback and eventually you're going to become the starting quarterback of this team so how is the relationship with Eli where you're trying to learn from him but probably the back of your mind you're thinking you know I'm also trying to replace this guy it's been great so far I think you know with Eli with with Alex with Kyle you know all the guys in that room I think we've you know we've done a great job helping each other and kind of you know me learning from them you know more than anything else but kept just kind of working together and making sure we're as a unit moving toward you know toward where we need to go as a team and you know doing our job as quarterbacks but you know with Eli in particular our relationship has been great I think he's you know he's an awesome guy he's helped me a whole lot with with anything that's come up and and it's been it's been great so far when was the first time how old are you the first time you met Eli first time I met probably my sophomore year at Duke and did you get to throw with him then or what was the situation yeah that was I didn't get to throw but I watched those guys work out they came down to Duke to see coach cut and to to work out to me they kind of like a little mini camp down there so I get to watch that send and sit in on some meetings and just be around them there so you're you're a very prototypical quarterback body type six four five everyone says you do all the fundamental things right this is obviously been a plan of yours for a good amount of time what what's the biggest challenge you face and this could be high school applying to schools whatever it was was there ever a time when you thought I don't know if this dream of being an NFL quarterback's gonna happen yeah I mean I think early on in high school I was a kid who grew really late so my first year playing varsity football was I was 135 pounds you know I was undersized and just kind of matured late and did you start or no I started yeah I started I got got banged around a little bit couldn't throw it but 40 yards and you know dealing with some of that but I think I learned a lot through that and then after my junior year it wouldn't get recruited very heavily I'd grown some but I was kind of going in that senior year I was gonna be a big year for me and I ended up breaking my wrist in basketball season didn't realize that till May so that knocked me out a lot of camps a lot of opportunities to be recruited so committed to Princeton it was the best best opportunity I had and through the through that season do call for me an opportunity to walk on with you know potential earner scholarship you know later on so I took that and what a scholarship actually opened up but I'd say kind of through that you know it's up and down that's not the same as you know going to be the starting quarterback in Michigan you know that is still a different path that must have presented some challenges yeah yeah no I mean I remember watching all the you know the recruiting rankings checking all the stars and you know watching those guys be caught up in that a little bit but it worked out and I'm here now it can be can be more thankful well your quarterback so that means everybody's gonna have a say especially when you get picked sixth overall so how was it to handle all the criticism that you get all the time people picking you apart because that's you're kind of just like a piece of me when you get drafted right everybody trying to find out what's wrong with Daniel Jones why he shouldn't be the sixth overall pick how did you handle that I mean for one I you know I realized that you know I was the sixth pick and to the New York Giants you know I wouldn't you know feel sorry for myself in that situation you know I mean I think that's a very fortunate situation people gonna have opinion to be that's their job and you know with the media whoever you know fans you know people are gonna have opinions but you know it I haven't played yet it's my job to you know prove prove the Giants right it's my job to play well and you know I'm confident I can do that and I you know realize there's a lot of work ahead but but I realize I'm in control of that now you're a really nice kid but are you thinking about how you want to stick it to all those people who said you shouldn't have been the sixth pick gonna be a motivator I mean maybe maybe you know I think some of that is there but but I don't think that's you know the first mode first motivation for me I think there's a lot of things things before that but do you hear when people one of the main things people say about you is that you're like Eli like that it has become at least for me and Don when we talked to people about what's going with the Giants what do you think of Daniel Jones you hear from people a lot of Eli and him and what I noticed that the most was when we did our you probably don't remember it because you were in a haze but we talked to you the day after you got drafted we did you did a phone with us and we hung up the phone and I was just like that kids Eli banding you know like from the way that you talk though how much you reveal and how much you kind of keep close to the best and just your general demeanor is that something did you emulate in that him or is it literally just a coincidence that you guys kind of have similar personalities well I mean I think it could it could come from from who were trained by with with coach God and that and you know as a as a kid he was certainly one of the guys I looked up to a lot you know him and Peyton and watching those guys play watching how they handle themselves but in terms of like a personality I think that's the coincidence largely but yeah did you did you hate going to Duke did I hate going because I hate Duke absolutely not you enjoyed it I enjoyed it sure you make a mistake positive wouldn't have preferred to go to Maryland and now I don't think so what was your favorite thing about being beside besides football where you did you get into the basketball team did you do the whole Duke experience I mean what was it like for you I did I got into the basketball you know being a Duke basketball fan and you know went to some of those games there's a lot of fun you didn't ever paint your face though did you I never paint my face never I didn't tend either or do any of that but I went to some games those are fun and you better not have to wait in a tent you're the quarterback of football team for God's sake but I mean there's a lot of people who can't get into yeah it's tough games but Duke was Duke was awesome place for me you know growing up in Charlotte just two hours from Duke and being in the area Duke's Duke was an awesome player were you hoping Zion would end up with the next I kind of was yeah I was but we got RJ I mean RJ you know yeah works definitely happy with that so I look forward to watching him talking to Daniel Jones here on the Michael K show it's hard to say I haven't even played your first pre season game yet but what when do you think you'll know you'll be ready I mean some people think that that you should play this year you're the sixth overall pick most picks that I play in their first year when do you think you'll know that you're ready I mean I think I think just the more more more reps you get I think you could you feel more and more confident and you know seeing you know I'm still seeing things a lot a lot of things for the first time seeing defensive looks and different pressures and and you know how they look against what we're running I mean I think I think just getting more and more reps I don't know if there'll be a you know a moment when I say I'm ready but I think just just the more and more reps I get the more confident I'll be I don't know how much you've talked to Eli about his rookie season but it was disastrous early on you know 0.0 quarterback rating against the Ravens has he talked to you about that about and trying to teach you what he went through in his rookie year maybe not maybe not specifically you know we talked about a little bit but but I mean I think you know our conversations now and you know what I'm learning now is more kind of specific to what we're doing here and you know practice getting ready for practice and you know I mean maybe we'll have that conversation but I think I think our you know our conversation what I'm learning now is more you know more focused on what we're doing here I was just looking at his hands see how big your hands are how big your hands I can't remember that's a solid full that's a solid full whatever the what are these called yeah no not now compared to an actual grown man that's how much when you grew you talked about growing during high school you obviously grew in height but was that was your hands growing a big part of it because that was always the part that I the second I was a kid I could always throw the ball pretty well as a little kid and then when I started using the bigger football and your hands aren't that big it's challenging now that is I always had bigger hands and then when I was small even when I was a freshman sophomore I'd size 15 feet so I thought I was gonna grow at some point which was which worked out but yeah I can always had big hands you rarely see the random guy walking on his five foot seven with the freakishly large you know size 15 which is beyond it really certainly wouldn't work out for sure I guess well remember Pedro Martinez at the freakishly long fingers that's why he was able to get the snap on the ball he wasn't a big guy at all right so it is kind of rare have you got to experience New York at all I've been in a few times great food have been to a few few different restaurants and yeah I got you have to go around a little bit but I wouldn't say I know it great yet so trying to still trying to figure it out I'd like to go back how weird was it when he looked over me and I just said I'm looking at your hands I don't know where you were going that's pretty strange retrospect that happened you work with Peter you never know what roads you're gonna go I know you know listen I covered due Kate awkward question about the size of his hands we talked about Eli Manning I'm excited for you to be here man I think it's an exciting story listen I it was very it had a lot of impact on my football fandom I'm a Redskins fan I was very curious about where you would end up have you gotten to build it do you have any relationship with Dwayne Haskins you guys kind of always be paired now in a certain way right kind of got to know him through the through draft process a little bit yeah I mean I wouldn't say I know him great but yeah I look forward to look forward to watching do you think about that because I thought that he is someone who I think people will probably measure his success in yours I think there's obviously a higher likelihood that he'll end up playing sooner than you will decide I hope because I I feel I know the ceiling for Case Keenum but people will compare you guys that's something that ever crossed your mind or no not really you know I think you know being in the same division I think it's a it's a it's a tradition traditional rivalry that goes back way before before us and I think that's a much bigger part of part of the game is certainly what I think are there any quarterbacks that you watch that that blow your mind still that like you're like you you can't even believe you're in the same league as these guys are they're insane I mean I've always lot I've always like watching watching the guys growing up but you know I think you know it brought Rogers and Brady all those guys and watching Eli practices is that way sometimes and how he can get through his reads how he knows exactly where he's going how he's seen you know things so many times he's just you know so quick with with how he thinks it's impressive is my home is too close to you in age that dude's a freak he does he's pretty yeah he's to do favorite non-fall thing to do probably play golf especially when the weather is nice not a great golfer yet still working on it do you have a handicap yet or no yeah don't even bother when you're if you're shooting a hundred right yeah once it's respect well yeah I can't tell you play you play in my handicaps 40 you know I'm about a 108 we'll see just such an Eli clone do you love Seinfeld like he does I don't I don't I don't even know Seinfeld you never watch Seinfeld at all what shows do you watch don't save him thrones obviously everyone watch games watch the game thrones we satisfy with the ending are you angry I wasn't angry I mean I think yeah I wasn't angry I mean I think you kind of knew you know we either John or Daenerys we're gonna die and and you know but the way it happened and it's still kind of like still kind of exciting to see no I was good I don't believe we have to be embarrassed those of us who are satisfied yeah I was totally good yeah I'm with you what about music music you know I don't know Kingsley on the revivalist kind of Southern Rock maybe what everyone called that yeah I guess so yeah Southern Pop Rock Southern Rock that's great about New York they all come through here every act comes through here either at the Garden or Barclays or so you're gonna get a chance to see a lot of great music while you're here because I think fans expect you to be here for like a decade and a half people are so many are gonna be here for a while good luck man yeah appreciate thank you thank you Daniel Jones