dave mcbride

Agreed

Come on. The Giants season is OVER, and they get absolutely zilch for winning. The only valuable commodity they get for being abjectly terrible all year is incredibly valuable draft capital — and the first pick in every round is as valuable as it gets in that realm. Coaches are members of larger organizations, and they have a responsibility to that organization to look past the shiny object in front of them — an utterly meaningless win — and focus on how they can help make the organization that employs them better for the long term. There is only path for that, and it ain’t winning a game in week 17 that gets you to 3-13. I also *guarantee* you that pretty much every Giants fan agrees with me. As would every Jets fan who remembers missing out on Trevor Lawrence and settling for Zach Wilson. Lawrence is good-not-great but certainly possesses franchise-level talent. Zach Wilson is an absolute bust. The fact that NFL coaches aren’t “wired that way” (ie, accepting that it’s ok to figure out how to lose without it being blatantly obvious) is frankly their problem. I suspect Mayo will put his own interest above his employer’s next week, but perhaps he’ll surprise me.

Bad teams without a QB (and there are plenty) will ALWAYS be willing to trade up for the number one pick.

The Giants’ victory today was a fireable offense for Daboll — totally selfish, and I mean that. It calls to mind the Jets beating the Rams in 2020, which caused them to lose Trevor Lawrence for Zach Wilson. Are the Patriots a smarter organization than the Giants?

He did that vs the Jets in 2019 when their seeding was already set.

Welp!

It really should be a co-MVP situation. Both are deserving.

Jets have 132 total yards through 3 quarters.

That was tipped — those are so hard to catch because it totally upsets one’s hand-eye coordination at the last second. I never fault receivers for those “drops.”

Go for 2 if we get a td, right? Makes it a 3-score game.

Players improve and get worse over the course of a season, so this isn’t surprising.

Gardner being active suggests to me that the Jets kinda hate the Bills. I think they’ll play hard.

Bills inactives: elam samuel hamlin grable morrow cine austin johnson

I do agree about his high sack rate. The line is trash, but a lot of those sacks are on him. It’s the one flaw in his game.

I’d argue that in terms of WAR/VORP, he’s the equal of anyone. That should be the guiding factor, but of course it won’t be. It’ll go to either Jackson or Allen for sure.

Skewed by early results. In the last 6 games, they have given up 181, 202, 112, 181, 198, and 153 passing yards. In terms of total yards given up, they have averaged 267 over that 6 game stretch (and just 16 ppg). They are arguably playing the best defense in the NFL right now.

I think they’ll win too, but there is no guarantee and Flacco at this point is the sort of player who can gift the opposition 3 INTs. The Giants on the other hand do need to lose to retain the number one pick.

No. There are 22 starting players on a team and of course injuries etc. people need to take off the homer goggles and recognize how good he has been this season. They had a ton of ridiculous close losses that were in no way Burrow’s fault. It’s of course not all him, but his throwing and diagnosing this year has been off the charts great.

Their D needs to show that it can step up even just a little too. They need to be able to believe in themselves because losing confidence is a real thing. They were embarrassed by a terrible Pats team at home in bad weather (379 yards; 2 clinical drives to open the game). This after giving over 500 yards to the lionn and nearly 500 to the Rams, who failed to score 20 points in their next 3 games. LA had fewer than 200 yards at home last night too.

Disagree because I do believe they want Allen to win MVP. If he plays like last week, he will definitely not win it. To succeed, they can’t be vanilla on offense.

The issue is that both the Phins and Colts will be starting backup QBs today. There is a real path for Cincy although it’s still more improbable than probable.

I don’t see that. I do believe he is unbelievably good and of the same caliber as Allen. His season this year is the equal of Allen’s.

Honestly—and this won’t be popular—I think the MVP this season is essentially a three-way tie between Allen, Jackson, and Burrow. Burrow is having a ridiculously great season. With average qb play, that Bengals team would be 4-12 right now.

The Bills D did NOT give up 31 points to the Dolphins. You should check the box score and play by play of that game.

Rousseau is actually probably better from the LDE spot.