preseason win. Shireen mentioned that the regular
season record is held by the Patriots with 21 and 21. Also
happens to be the number of points scored last night by
the Patriots, but it wasn't enough
because the Giants thanks to a late field goal emerged with
the victory. Yes, yes. I don't know what the Giants current
win streak is but it's one more than it was before yesterday.
Yes, Giants.
The the look, the Giants are trying to establish something.
The Patriots are trying to
I don't know why I mean, no, I don't know how to feel about
the Patriots right now, but let's start with the Giants.
Let's begin with Brian De bois-guilbert kyung about
the performance of quarterback. Daniel Jones who was 6 for 10
for 69 yards against New England.
Yeah. That was some some good and
You know, some things we could we could have back. What was he
9:54? You know, we threw a couple vertical plays there.
A couple freerunners relative to the protection
but I thought he operated the offense. Well you let him down
on the first drive we stalled there in a Red Zone and
a good first start but certainly things are clean up.
And look, I think Jones needs more time in this new offense,
they have put him in a contract year by not picking up
the fifth year option. He needs to have a big year and again, you
want to balance getting ready versus getting injured,
but they need more of this. They need him out there. He
looked good in that opening drive. They got a field goal
with petered out, deep in the end zone or deep in
the Patriots end.
And you know, you look preseason is is
Almost impossible to use as a way to draw any broad
conclusions because you don't have adjustments, you don't
have crunch time in the fourth quarter, you don't see if
a team digs deep to get a victory because, you know, they
they finally figured it out. They finally cracked the code
on what the defense is doing. It's not like that. It's just
how do things look and so far. No reason to panic
if you're the Giants, but no reason to pencil yourself in
for the playoffs either.
Yeah. Mike. You know what the most encouraging thing was
I guess, it's discouraging and encouraging all at the same
time, he took some really hard hits. There were three three
hits. I know that that we're just really hard hits and he
had that neck injury last year and by
all accounts, he came out of that game just fine the neck
held up. Well, he probably needed to go through some of
that. I mean, I know he said after last night that he wasn't
thinking about it, but, I mean, come on,
you do think about it, at least a little bit until you get over
that. Hump of oh, Cam Get hit. Am I going to be okay? Yeah,
I'm fine.
So he got through that and that to me was very encouraging that
he took some of those hits and the neck look like it's okay
for this year and
and yeah it's a big year for him. It's a big year for Brian
De ball to establish his program.
And so they they looked pretty good on that drive. That
the starters played together and say, Quan Berkeley. Got some
snaps in and got some runs in so big year. For a lot of those
players. Hours on that giant Steam and and they got some
action in that first game.
Jimmy Garoppolo a name that gets tied from time to time to
the New York Giants. Obviously, if Daniel Jones would get
injured in the preseason and if Garoppolo hasn't already been
traded to the Browns, that's when things could heat up
there, the New England, Patriots questions of who will
be calling the plays off fensively. We saw last
night that early on, it was offensive line coach and
longtime defensive coordinator and former Lions head coach.
Matt Patricia then it was
Special teams coordinator now quarterbacks coach and in
between that Giants head coach Joe judge Hears A little from
Bill Belichick, who coined a new catchphrase last night when
being asked questions about who will be calling the plays when
the games count.
Hey Bill, we saw both met Patrician. Joe judge
taking turns on play, Call of Duty tonight, on the offenses
that the plan moving forward, having switch back and forth
and do plan on naming a
Cool guy or going with both?
Yeah, well you know we did this game with, we did a lot of
things in this game that are, you know, going to be
beneficial in the long run. So
was on a coaching staff playing time,
is it? Players played and so forth. And that's all
part of the process.
He was asking more and more questions about that. And
eventually he just said repeatedly, we're going through
a process and and look, maybe the process is just like it
would be for a player. I want to have some film.
I can analyze. I want to see how it goes
for these two guys. How does Matt Patricia do? He called
the place for Brian Hoyer to? How does Joe judge, do he called
the place for Bailey's app of the rookie? How do they look
how does it work? How does it affect the rest of the team
when one of them is
And plays. So that's
another way to use the preseason, even though,
you know, it's kind of weird.
It's kind of unprecedented.
But Bill Belichick gets the benefit of the doubt because
he's got those six Super Bowl rings to have judge and
Patricia still
not one of them emerging
as the guy who's going to call the plays,
Well Mike, you said it last night on the text string and
I actually stole it and put it in the post, but it is The
Apprentice football addition. Because that's what this feels
like that. They're both auditioning for this role and
maybe he's already made it a decision and told them both
what that decision is the way they operate. Who knows how
this is going to play out or what's been told or what's been
done behind the scenes? That's kind of the way the Patriots
do.
But you are right, if this was any other coach other than Bill
Belichick we be cool in. What is this? This guy doing, this
is absolutely nuts. What he's doing
with these to play callers. So at some point that got to make
the decision and have Mac Jones in there. Getting the plays
from whichever coach is going to be calling the plays
or maybe both. Maybe maybe they'll play this game
all year long and again Belichick gets the benefit of
the doubt because he's got those six Super Bowl champion.