He really was. I mean those numbers
are eye-popping that's ridiculous that an NFL
quarterback has to be under pressure like that he's under
pressure. Like that most weeks. It's why I defend him a little
bit.
I know he's never going to be Patrick Mahomes or Josh Alan
but I do feel for a guy that as soon as he gets the ball you
know instead of like the last few years where it's get
the ball in like oh crap, let me duck. Oh crap, let me duck now
he gets to go
you know set. Honey, gets the ball. He gets to Pat it once
and then he goes, oh crap. Let me duck. I mean, that's, that's
the Improvement we're talking about in the offensive line.
I mean, the Evan Neal, the rookie right tackle.
He got schooled by Demarcus Lawrence
and and even Michael Parsons who just got pressure in that.
But yes, Mike, I mean that was something that was really and
I think even if we just showed those clips again to Under
Pressure with nobody open downfield,
that's the double whammy. And it is in for Daniel Jones,
ability to run and move. They get they get Did last night
games, not even close his legs saved the day for three
quarters
and just him. Avoiding sacks and making the throw on
the move and doing that from here, you know, from time to time and
it just is it's tough to play quarterback and you know
I don't like that, the giant fans don't support him a little bit
more. I guess
that's what I'm trying to say. To
bothered me in the stands to that. People always want to put
it on him, it's not on him. The Giants offense. Ain't that good
there? Ain't anybody to be scared of. He doesn't have
a seating lamb,
or You know, a great offensive line or any of that. Cooper
Kush. Got Cooper Rush, got the throw with a great pocket. All
night. Daniel Jones
is under duress the whole night.
Here's Brian table, head coach the New York Giants on
the performance of his quarterback Daniel Jones last night
though. He's a good job that he made a lot of loose plays and
only had what about 80 yards. Rushing. I thought he hit did
a good job, keeping his eyes down field when he could get out.
You know, he made a couple plays there at the end,
you know, that we couldn't quite convert on it. Some
dropped passes,
you know, the last play that That digs picked off sales fell
down and it was a timing throw
you know, I was I think he's making progress,
you know, it's tough after a loss. You know. Nobody did well
enough and we understand that but
I think he's making progress and he fought he battled he
made some
made some really good players out there under some duress.
You know, point that you've made in the past that I still
pay attention to the Daniel Jones, has he really
accelerated the clock in his head? There was at least one
time last night where he was getting chased down.
It's like, dude, you got to realize you got to get rid of
them. Yeah, throw it away. You some throw it away, right away?
Yeah, because they're catching you are going to catch you
before. You can do it. And I don't know if he just freezes
up in that moment. If you can't do the spatial relationships
between who's coming after him
and how much time he has left.
But you just don't see that
that urgency to make a decision even if it is get out of
the pocket and throw the ball past the line of scrimmage out of
bounds. So it's not intentional. Grounding you take
the incompletion and you move on to the next play instead of
getting sacked. So I know it's a lot to process when you're in
the middle of that storm.
You know it as well as anyone you've been in the middle of
that storm, with all the stuff that's going on, the pre-snap
reads and the adjustments. And what's going to happen when
I get the ball? Can I trust this running back to pick up
a Blitzer if there? Is one. Is my offensive line going to
crumble? Is somebody going to be open the first guy? The
second guy,
the third guy. Now, somebody's coming after me. What am
I going to do? How much longer can I hold this ball? What do
I do now? What do I do now? What do I do now? I just feel like
Daniel Jones gets caught up in that Vortex of. What do I do
now? What do I do now? What
do I do now? I don't disagree. He's gotten better though.
I think that's the big thing. You know, we haven't seen,
you know, the Statue of Liberty, strip, sack fumbles,
like totally oblivious to the rush looking down the field
that hasn't been a thing this year, right? It's
Veteran a lot more, but he is,
he is, I think he's, you know, I'm sure Brian, Dave, all shown
him film of Josh Allen up there. And going, hey, I mean,
get out of Dodge, you know,
I'm sure. Brian Davis. Told him listen, we don't have a ton of
receivers in a ton of talent. You got to make some plays,
you're gonna have to do it, you know. And Mike. Yeah. You're
right. You sit there and watching. There's a lot where
you go. Oh gosh! Throw it away. I mean I'm hoarse because I was
yelling at Young At him last night going,
watch out throw with. I mean, I was doing that the whole night.
I really was but at the same time to when the offense
doesn't have much to offer and you know your legs and you
scrambling like this right here and maybe wait maybe somebody
will come open,
you know, that's the way you have to play play after play
after play. Yeah, you know, at times you cut it close there
but
that that that's it's not easy playing quarterback for the New
York Giants right now. It's not and you know, you couple that
with bad offensive protection and then a receiving Corps
that, you know what?
Noticeably not in the same class as CD glamour Noah Brown
like they don't look the same in person.
No one is scared of Sterling Shepherd. I hope he's OK after
his injury or the other has two characters. I know he's not so
but I just didn't know if you got the update you know, what
is the update? What is it? How bad I just need injury. Yeah
it's knee injury, likely out for the year. Yeah I mean it
was obvious when
he's just it just like he wasn't even doing anything
and he just fell down and grabbed his left knee.
It looks like I don't want to be ya. One of the folks who
diagnosis injuries based on what we see on TV,
but whatever it was,
it was nothing. It was just, you know,
jogging moving leg, got caught in the turf and something. Not
even that. Yeah, not even that it was, it looked like he got
shot in the knee that, you know? I mean, just like that
sudden,
right? I just went down down on the ground. Yeah, yeah. That's
a shame. It's a shame because he's the one guy that Daniel
Jones is comfortable with.
You could see that when he
Bowls or it's a big moment, they look for Sterling Shepherd,
you know? But I think that also says to the state of
the receiving Corps, they need guitarist, Tony back. Sterling
Shepherd is like, you want him to be your number three, option
in your offense. Not your number one go-to guy.
So that's also where, you know, again, I feel for Daniel Jones
and here is the injury,
you're right? I didn't I didn't see this. Wow, I mean, that's
just f*****. That's crazy. Yeah. Oh man. Yeah,
you're right no cut or anything. Just kind of looks
back in the knee. The knee goes. That's it,
that's a shame it really is but yes, the Giants. It's going to
be ugly for them all year long. This is the way they're going
to have to play. I mean, that's what I
was telling telling them fans in the stadium that last night.
Like this is ugly, it's a g Cano might be the best player
we got, we just got to ride him
and play that way and
it's going to be, you know, hopefully some more ugly
victories in the future. But the Giants don't have
the horses to think that they're going to be special in the NFC.
SE Kwang would beg to differ? Yeah, he's he's that guy. I'm
will you're right. He is but that's that's not enough to get
it done, you know, not compared to. When you talk about
the Cowboys. You got a few guys on offense, a few guys, on defense
the Giants, you know, it's limited when you start in
a naming names
well, and I'm looking at the receivers last night,
the targets, the reception's Sterling Shepherd. Led the way
with 10 targets and five catches for 49 yards, all three
categories.
That was the top
then you've got Take my Berkeley.
Then you start having to think, what's this first initial who's
this guy, Daniel Bellinger? I think right. There you go, like
that's there so obscure you have to. There you go. Thank
what's their first name. When you only get
the initial letter
and then there's Kenny Golem, right? And then you get to that
bottom, right? Three targets,
no catches. He had one in his hands and he was turning to run
late in the game. Yeah. Third down Ron. Before he secured it
and out. Went the ball. He could have. Extended the drive
there. So that was a killer and what a bad investment
from the former GM. Dave gediman, thank you for that.
And I remember, I remember when that happened. Chris, no one
else was in the, in the ballpark, right? Mike,
it wasn't even close, right? Beating against
are. It was just like, hey, we got this money and we got to go
get somebody, he's available, let's sign him. It's just
amazing. What a disappointment he's been
for the Giants and hey, to his credit. He got paid based upon
what he did with the Lions. Just isn't working with
the giants. Has been some chatter that maybe he could be traded,
but now they're going to
be. They need him. Then he could Ares Tony.
They need somebody to step up. It can't be David Sills, right?
Converted. I think he was a quarterback at West. Virginia
became a receiver, was undrafted when I saw his name
David cells. I remember thinking.
Surely that's not the guy. Yeah,
it is West Virginia, right hung around long enough to his
credit. He's worked his way into the rotation. He had four
targets last night as well, but
you mentioned him earlier. He fell down
on that route to.
Yeah. The or somebody mentioned it was a de Bois de Vincennes,
stepped out of his day ball, right?
So they just what can you do? I know we are
in the throes of the season. It's not like you can just push
a button and starting receiver walks through the door. No
you're right. This is going to be this is going to be them all
year, you know. This is you know unfortunately it's like
Hey, Dave gentleman left us a lot of gifts that are keep on
giving the whole year. That's what we got here. We got a lot
of crap on the roster. We do.
They're doing it right there. Making chicken
chicken salad in a row at a, you know, what? Right now,
with the way, Brian Day ball, and calf to cut, or coming up
with the offensive game plans, Wink Martindale, and his
defensive game plans, they're creative. They're keeping
a minute.
But you know you go through the defense. Mike, there's not much
difference there in that conversation. We talked about
Jones and SE Kwang Berkeley. They got to do it all on defense.
You know, there's no Marquee name to talk about.
There's nobody, they got close to Cooper Rush last night. He
never even enter that a scramble or moving the pocket
or throw a ball Under Pressure. Think about the game, think
about it, right? Mike when you sit, there you go,
you know? But you know, you are, right because I was
sitting there like, because without replay, I'm sitting
there going. All right, ladies. Let's make sure I'm
been keeping track of the things that are going the game
and I'm just going man. Every time Cooper Rush drops back,
it's perfect pocket. It's let me stand there and Pat and bake
a cake. Cake and then I'll throw to the guy that's open
so and the Giants are rebuilding football team
that's coached well and kind of
tricking us right now with their 2 and 1/2
and 1 record.
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