How Daniel Jones factor plays in Giants’ coach search

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Daniel Jones needs to learn a new playbook, and suddenly coaches are more excited to bring their designs to him.

The Jones Factor in the Giants’ coaching search is two-fold: How will the quarterback handle starting over after his promising rookie season? How does his presence impact the search?

If the job was open four months ago, a candidate could have interpreted being force fed the supposedly over-drafted and maligned Jones as a detriment. It is commonplace for a coach who takes over a bad team to draft a quarterback of his choosing, like Tom Coughlin-Eli Manning, Doug Pederson-Carson Wentz, Kliff Kingsbury-Kyler Murray and more.

But now? Giants co-owner John Mara isn’t met with…