Giants' Brian Daboll discusses personality of QB Daniel Jones

New York Giants head coach Brian Daboll suggested Monday that fans rarely, if ever, get to experience the true personality of quarterback Daniel Jones.

"What you see all the time [in public] isn’t necessarily what you see all the time behind closed doors," Daboll said about Jones during an appearance on the WFAN "Boomer and Gio" program, as shared by Giants beat writer Bob Brookover of NJ Advance Media for NJ.com. "I think the players have a lot of respect for him and he’s got some jokes in there, too. But playing in this market and some of the things he’s gone through, I think [his personality] serves him well, too." 

For a piece published back in January, Kirsten Fleming of the New York Post labeled Jones as "totally boring" and "a plate of spaghetti with butter in a league filled with haute cuisine" while comparing the 2019 first-round draft pick to Giants legend Eli Manning. Manning's "Easy Eli" nature helped him guide the franchise to a pair of Super Bowl championships during his career, and Daboll noted Monday there's no one way for a signal-caller to act as an offense's CEO. 

"I’ve been around a lot of different quarterbacks and they’ve had a lot of different personalities," Daboll said while speaking about Jones. "Obviously the quarterback is the guy that drives the engine and I let them be themselves. He’s consistent. He works hard and his teammates really like him." 

Brookover mentioned that Jones is extremely guarded as it pertains to his personal life and off-the-field activities, and the 26-year-old seems happy to let star running back Saquon Barkley serve as the face of the Giants for social media and advertising campaigns. As Matt Ehalt of the New York Post pointed out on Monday, though, Jones recently went "undercover" as a sales associate at a local Hugo Boss store to have some fun with surprised shoppers: