In 2024, offseason Hard Knocks succeeded because it failed. And that kept it from returning in 2025.

Basically, the Giants did a bad job of exercising their right to edit the episodes. Which made them far more compelling and raw and ultimately honest.

“One of the best, and most interesting, and most surprising shows we’ve ever made ,” NFL Films V.P./head of content Keith Cossrow said on the SBJ Sports Media Podcast , via Ben Fischer of Sports Business Journal .

But Cossrow blamed the decision of other teams to not touch the series with a 10-foot pole not on the Giants’ embrace of the Saquon Barkley drama but in social media’s reaction to it.

“When that one or two clips about Saquon got removed and isolated and blew up on social media, and as we’ve seen, have taken on a life o

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