EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ – Hey, scootch over. Make room on the Fire Brian Daboll Bandwagon. This team could easily be 4-3 and in the hunt, but absolutely brutal losses to the Cowboys and Broncos have the Giants at a sucky 2-5. In other news, the Blue Jays are in the World Series and are bringing some heftiness to their matchup with the Dodgers. And last, we’ll celebrate the surprising success of former top picks of the Giants and Jets, Dan Jones and Sam Darnold. Hurray for them!
Bounce Brian
While the D and the kicker are getting plenty of blame for the Meltdown at Mile High (TM), and rightly so, Daboll played this one scared down the stretch.
To me, the key point in the game was when the Broncos just scored and cut the lead to 3. Dart had just thrown an interception to give the Donkeys life and there was about 4 minutes left. But the defense was altitude gassed. Two key secondary players, Adebo and Holland, were out. The only way was to win this game on offense. You cannot run it twice and pray for a long third down conversion.
But of course, perhaps frightened by the Dart pick, Daboll’s wiener turtled out of sight, and that’s exactly what he did. How about a play-action pass on second down? Something low risk. The Broncos were selling out on the run. This was a formula for giving it right back and losing.
I also thought the Giants should have intentionally not scored on first down at the one. They needed to get the clock moving first. But I won’t fault him for that too much because he has to assume they would make the extra point. Still painful.
Brian has to go, and he should take Bowen and that Scottish kicker with him.
Baseball’s Big Back Comeback
The Blue Jays seem to be bringing back the fat baseball player from my youth. Vlad Guerrero and Alejandro Kirk are next in a long line of fatties including Greg Luzinski, Sid Fernandez, CC Sabathia, Steve Balboni, John Kruk, Bartolo Colon, and Hideki Irabu, the Fat Toad.
Who says you have to be in shape to be a professional athlete? The taco trucks in LA had better stock up.
Darnold and Danny Domination
As if it doesn’t suck enough to be a Giants or Jets fan these days, with brutal losses again for both teams, there are serious insult to injury situations with Sam Darnold and Dan Jones playing so well for other teams.
If you go by QBR, Jones is #1 in the league at 79.7 and Darnold is #3 at 78.5. Numbers one and three people, in the entire league. What a double kick to the balls. I did not think Jones was capable of this kind of play. I know I’m rarely wrong, but it does happen. Jones might be the league MVP and is surely the story of the season so far. I can’t believe I just typed that. I need something about 50 times stronger than “I just threw up in my mouth.” I just regurgitated a testicle and swallowed it again? I’ll workshop that one.
Darnold seems to have just needed time to develop and some solid coaching. Why can’t our teams find a decent coach?!?! At this point I think they need to hire someone with a track record of competence. Forget the unproven, up-and-coming coordinators, I’ll gladly settle for someone who won’t funk it up!
That’s it for me. Come back tomorrow for the Ward Who Is Angry, who may or may not be excited about Sam & the Seahawks.
