46 in the preseason Giants are expected to have their starters
play, even if it's just one series. No starters for
the Patriots expected at all
who and what Chris are you watching for in this one? As
your favorite team? Plays your former employer? Yeah. Well
listen I like both of these teams you know that I do. But
yeah the giant Simon
just life under Brian Day ball. I'm excited. I think that's why
they're playing the starters. You just Hey, we're going to
get used to the way I do. Things pregame all that, you
know. Hey, Daniel Jones, I want you to hear my voice in your
ear a little bit, how we call plays and how
the game's manage that way.
But, you know, as always in this, yeah, I want to see
Daniel Jones and the offense and just what it looks like.
Maybe he looks more comfortable.
What tricks do they got in the offense and then
I think after that
obvious, here and go into the like
the rookies, the rookies, that the Giants drafted to in
the top, 10 now cave on Thibodeau. A guy that you know, I wasn't
sure how great he's gonna be. I know he's opened some eyes and
Giants training camp and
I certainly hope I'm wrong. But
yeah him Evan Neal, you know, the Giants offense of line that
has been absolute the worst in football, the last few years.
So I think that's the thing I'm looking for more than anything,
you know, on the giant side of the ball. And you know what
about you at anything, jump out to you in this one. Well look,
I know there's a balance between getting you guys ready
and not getting them. Injured Nathaniel hack. It was talking
about that
yesterday. As it relates to the reality, that we probably won't
see Russell Wilson on Saturday night. Against the Cowboys,
your main priority is keeping your key players healthy. But
Daniel Jones
learning the duck behind a bowl offense
in a contract year.
How do you strike that balance of how much you want to see him
throughout the preseason? If it's just a series on on
Thursday night, what difference does it make? Like
like Aaron? Rodgers said, we played that sound yesterday.
What does that really do? How does that help? Jones
better prepare himself to have a big season in this new
offense, and every team's got to strike that balance
differently and you are constantly putting your guys at
risk for injury, especially quarterbacks who aren't touched
at all
in practice, ideally,
but are definitely in position to get touched in a preseason
game who can forget when Eli Manning against the Jets that
one time, got his face busted open in a preseason game. Yeah,
yeah, I mean, you're right. There's a, there's a fine
balance, I'm a little
bit old school in the
hey we only got so many. Any chances to go out there and
really hit and tackle and do that stuff. So let's let's do
that. That's where I find it a little curious with
the Patriots. I do,
I'm excited to see some of their young guys to taekwon
Thornton the second round wide receiver, you know, can fly.
But you know, I don't think
many people in football thought he was worth a second, round
pick
now, they got a running back out of South Dakota, State,
Pierre strong, who also can fly. I want to see him, but you
know what? Again, maybe correct me if I'm wrong. And maybe
I got to look this up a little bit more. But the
Patriots have been one of those teams that even in the first
preseason game. A lot of their starters play, you know, and
years passed. And I don't know, I just I wonder if there's
something to the offense you know, the new Shakedown of
the coaching on
the offensive side of the ball, is not quite, you know, all
running smoothly right yet and maybe Bill Belichick doesn't
want to put that out there and you know, and you know and you
know put more fuel on the fire here with that one. I just
curious to me, I'm just throwing it out there.
Therefore, talk here.
It's just weird that there's been all this optimism and hype
for Mac Jones. When you consider the transition,
the offense is going through and something that occurred to me
and it's got a little - lately. If you, if you, if you listen
up there, that where the offense seems to be struggling
and they think Matt Jones is
kind of taking a step back the last 10 days. Now again, I know
this is Media but I've also heard people like Willie
McGinest say it on the NFL Network Willie ain't
you know he ain't been there the whole time. He's talking to
somebody in New England. So that's where, you know, I just
that's where I kind of connect dots as we talked about earlier
in the show.
Let me spin this forward then because I'm looking at
the depth chart, Mac Jones, Brian Hoyer and rookie Bailey Zappa.
Jimmy Garoppolo gets cut September 10
by the 49ers and it becomes a free agent and no one is
rushing to make him a starter. Could you see Bill Belichick
bringing him back as a backup to Mac Jones and just kind of
a just in case I don't,
I don't say it.
We've discussed this before. I think they're they're a team
that doesn't want to deal with that. They don't want that
drama. They don't want, you know, as we talked about with
Sam Donovan, the baker Mayfield,
any dividing in the locker room? They
Even hey, the head coach is the man,
the quarterback is the commander of the offense and
we're going to get all the troops to buy into
the commander. Why they cut Cam Newton last. Exactly. So that's
that's where I find. I don't think that'll happen. Mike.
I if you can get him for nothing and if you have any
concerns whatsoever about Mac Jones and he knows the offense
and you're in this weird transition with Joe judge and
Matt Patricia in these key roles on the offensive side of
the ball, just a weird
time. It was any other coach. Yeah, doing all be going. What
the hell we'd be saying that. He needs to be fired, or, at
a minimum drug tested. It Bill, Belichick 6. Rings goes a long
way to getting you
some benefit of the doubt.