Exclusive | Stephen A. Smiths viral Giants rant was based on made-up claim

Stephen A.Smith’s Giants rant was based on a glaring falsehood.

Despite Smith ranting on Friday’s edition of “First Take” that a member of the Giants staff had reached out to ESPN offices or executives about host Elle Duncan’s criticism of Daniel Jones, nobody on the team actually did so, The Post has learned.“The New York Giants, respectfully, shut the hell up,” Smith said of Duncan’s criticism of Jones on Friday.

“Y’all are awful as an organization.You won a Super Bowl in 2007, you won a super Bowl in 2011, outside of that, since 2011, that’s 13 years, the Giants have made the playoffs twice.

They’ve won one playoff game.“And you’ve got the nerve to sit up there and call the offices and complain to executives about somebody that went on national television to do their job.

Why don’t you do your damn job as an organization?”Though senior vice president of communications Pat Hanlon was critical of Duncan’s comments on X, nobody from the team reached out to ESPN offices or executives, as Smith emphatically claimed.Smith’s suggestion that the Giants did was either an exaggeration or a blatant lie.

ESPN declined to comment on the discrepancy.Duncan on Thursday had ripped Jones for writing his comments, that he delivered to the media after he had been benched by the Giants, down on a piece paper to read off of.

An emotional Jones was notably thankful to the Giants organization and his teammates when he spoke.Duncan quickly came under fire for her diatribe.“You guys think he had this saved in his notes since like 2020? In all seriousness, DJ, I could have saved you like 90 seconds,” Duncan said during one of her “Taking the Elle” segments.

“A rewrite: I’m sorry you paid me $108 million for one playoff win.And I look forward to reviving my career as Brock Purdy’s backup.

The end.”On Friday, Duncan doubled down.“It started flurrying this morning after a surprising amount of snow on my drive yesterday,” Duncan...