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The Giants Are Asking Fans Not to Film Anymore Jaxson Dart Interceptions
By Kyle Pagan
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After Jaxson Dart’s pick-six during training camp yesterday the New York Football Giants have placed new signs around the fan section telling people they can’t video tape during team periods. They don’t want anymore darts to DBs being recorded for the rest of camp. This is amazing:
I didn’t know East Rutherford, NJ was located in Communist China. This censorship from Supreme Leader Kim Joe Un should not be tolerated by Giants fans. Give the people what they want! More Jaxson Dart interceptions!
I’m surprised more teams allow fans at their training camp practices. The Eagles haven’t done it for so long that I’ve forgotten people are just allowed to show up and watch these guys every day. I wouldn’t even blink if in the next decade more teams will become like the Birds. Think about it, you have everyone in the stands out with their phones who can now upload clips to TikTok or Instagram in seconds with zero context. You’ve got rookies throwing interceptions on their first rep and they’re going viral. Daniel Jones and Anthony Richardson have one bad practice and clips are getting millions of views. Teams want control and they want to protect their franchise players every way they can. The Eagles can make it work because they have one open practice to fans (used to be multiple) and all the proceeds are donated to the Eagles Autism Foundation. That’s how I think most teams are going to operate in the future.
Like it or not the Eagles do a spectacular job of putting out what they want you to see. There will be a short period of time where the beats can film, typically during warm-ups that don’t offer much:
Then we’ll get tweets like, “Hurts had a sick completion to DeVonta Smith during 7-on-7’s!” and the Eagles social media team will edit up some awesome video we can go nuts over around dinner time. Rinse and repeat. If it works why fix it?
Even the people the Eagles invite to watch practice don’t even get footage out. Everyone seems to adhere by the rules. I’ve never been to a training camp practice at NovaCare, but I guess security are like hawks out there. The only ’embarrassing’ thing I can think of off the top of my head in the last couple of years was Cam Jurgens getting manhandled by Jordan Davis during a drill, and now that I’m watching it back I realize that was at public practice:
NovaCare is like a CIA blacksite. Completely off the grid. No information in and no information out. As long as they keep winning Super Bowls who cares.
Kyle writes blog posts and does Man on the Street-style videos all around Philadelphia. He graduated from Temple University (a basketball school) in 2015. contact: k.pagan@sportradar.com