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Joke. Complete joke. Should have been there last week. Malpractice on the part of Giants brass to have DeVito dressed as the backup. They went into a game with a QB2 they didn’t trust to throw past the line of scrimmage. And it cost them the game, and potentially hurt us.

Seems like more than a one-year move. Hopefully Poona goes back with a pick to help with the cap, and we flip Elam for help at 1T.

Because the giants were incredibly unlucky. Remember, it’s an attempt to kick the FG and an attempt to concerning fourth down. The odds of making that kick almost certainly exceed the odds of converting on fourth down. So it was the correct call; it just didn’t work.

I really think the game plan against them is going to be to let Mixon get his yards, take away as much of the pass as we can, and try to hold them to FGs. Don’t bite on PA, deal with the paper cuts on the ground, and see how it goes from there.

If you watched the game, then you’d have seen a Jets offense that played like hot garbage and that wasn’t going to score a TD in that scenario. Let’s assume a made Giants FG and a subsequent touchback. The Jets get the ball in roughly the same position on the field with the same amount of time left on the clock as they did following the miss. Where did that lead them after the miss? To a place where they’d need a lucky heave into the EZ, rather than a makable FG, to avoid a regulation loss. It was the right call all day long.

With the way that game was going the FG bagged it absent a miracle. And, with the way the time worked out, Daboll made the right call. It was a Giants win absent a successful heave to the end zone with one second left. The issue with Daboll and Schoen in that game, to me, is going in with a slight QB (Tyrod) and a backup you don’t trust to actually throw the football. If they don’t trust DeVito, then Matt Barkley or another warm body should have been there. That was malpractice, and it probably cost them a win.

Did you see him get cooked by the back about -20-ish YL on the tunnel side? It was ugly. He ain’t it.

Then run it with Cook. I like Murray—a lot—but he has the acceleration of a golf cart. Or don’t run it at all from that location on the field.

I didn’t mind the throw to Diggs on the crosser. But for a nice play by the DB, that was going to realize big yardage. The other ones I can’t explain, though.

After last night I’m on the “try to trade for Pat Surtain” and “find a modest upgrade for Tyrell Dodson” trains. Dodson is brutal.

At least two tackles. The first one was important because that return looked like it might result in a big play.

How about running from under center so the very large and powerful man carrying the ball goes forward and has a head start? I cannot conceive why that guy is running out of shotgun on third and goal from the half yard line.

That’s exactly the madness of it. It’s worth risking injury to get a first down. But it’s not worth risking injury to get a touchdown. It’s incomprehensible.

The third down call there is more the one that I have an issue with. Although, on fourth down Diggs broke the huddle pretty quickly and it looked as if he was unhappy with the play call -

He ran a sneak in the next series.

And then a sneak in the next series.

You should maybe consider smoking crack. You might be one of those rare people for whom crack isn’t a cause of, but rather is a solution to, delusion. Solid points, as always. It’s leadership like Trump’s that uncovered the secret truth that airports were the key to winning the Revolutionary War. Groomer of what?

Hoax.

Hoax. But it’s starting to look like Clarence Thomas might be a tax cheat. You and I have to pay our fair share. Why doesn’t he?

Seriously. Who cares. A beer I don’t drink is doing business with a source of entertainment that I don’t watch. What. Ev. Er. They need to find something else to worry about, like Antifa. Or maybe pizza shop pedophiles. Or the whereabouts of JFK Jr.

I completely agree with you. The whole friggin thing is messed up right now. The offense is calibrated to protecting Josh’s health, grinding on the ground, and getting chunks with PA. Josh is a magician on PA, we (theoretically, at least) have the TEs to make it work and, with a healthy defense, it made sense. Now, we look like the iteration of our D that has the ball stuffed down its throat, that can’t get off the field on third down, and that has to blitz to win at the LOS. Maybe that works with Milano and White healthy. But with injuries at all three levels it didn’t last week. So now we have to open it up on the other side of the ball, play faster, and try to score some points early to make opponents a little more one-dimensional.

There’s an element of truth to this. Everyone is entitled to their views on economics, foreign policy, domestic priorities, etc. Not everyone is going to agree all the time, and that’s great. It’s the American way. Some of the views here, though, are bananas. The ideas that anyone who doesn’t like Trump is a communist, or that the 2020 election was stolen by an Antifa-fueled conspiracy, or that there is a pedophiliac cabal of thought leaders secretly puppeteering our society are just nuts. It’s amusing to read them, but sometimes in the sort of way that Florida Man is interesting. As in, it’s hard to believe that there are people who would have aerosol hairspray and a lighter handy to use as a flamethrower against a raccoon. But those people are out there. And, here. So the whole experience is fun, but sometimes for different reasons.

My theory is that teams will realize that they can run it right at us with the “anchors” we now have in the middle. Ankou can’t be any worse than Ford, Settle, and Phillips at 1T.

Nobody in the van by the river wants to do that in person?

Nothing is accomplished here, sort of amusement. We fling barbs at each other, I have something to do while I’m snapping a deuce or otherwise bored, and the world goes round and round.