A former NESN reporter who said she left Boston because of her experiences with racism in the city is being slammed for calling out a speech quarterback Daniel Jones made a day before the Giants released him.
A former NESN reporter who said she left Boston because of her experiences with racism in the city is being slammed for calling out a speech quarterback Daniel Jones made a day before the Giants released him.
Elle Duncan, who worked as a reporter and host at NESN for two years before she jumped to ESPN in 2016, centered her ‘Taking the Elle’ segment Thursday around Jones’ emotional statement after being benched.
The SportsCenter anchor has said “the whole point” of the segment “is to point fun,” but fans and even a New York Giants executive have responded, saying Duncan took her remarks too far.
Duncan responded to her critics on Saturday, calling them “snowflakes.”
“It started flurrying this morning after a surprising amount of snow on my drive yesterday” Duncan posted on X. “I guess you could say I can’t seem to escape all these snowflakes.”
Jones, taken with the sixth pick in the 2019 NFL Draft, failed to live up to the first-round expectations with the Giants. After lousy performances so far in 2024, the team demoted him to fourth-string quarterback, the lowest possible slot on the depth chart.
Giants ownership honored Jones’ request to be released on Friday, a day after he took to the podium and gave his farewell speech.
