Speaker 1: Down the sideline, has a man passed caught slighton touchdown? Giants?
Speaker 1: What a throw that was by Daniel Jones and a
Speaker 1: catch by Terius Slayton name Heineke throws touchdown? What a throw?
Speaker 1: And Ricky Seals Jones? Is there? Good snap, good hold? Kick?
Speaker 1: As God Washington wins it. You know, I don't have
Speaker 1: a lot of sympathy fans sympathy for New York Giants
Speaker 1: fans in my lifetime. I grew up in New York,
Speaker 1: and in my lifetime, they've been to the Super Bowl
Speaker 1: two thousand seven, two thousand twelve, all wins went another year,
Speaker 1: two thousand of lost. Been to Super Bowl five times,
Speaker 1: um and you have four ws and all those wins
Speaker 1: are kind of famous super Bowl wins. So when Giants
Speaker 1: fans get fired up like they did tonight and the
Speaker 1: wake of a really painful thirty nine loss to the
Speaker 1: Washington football team, you know the text buddies, I'll give
Speaker 1: them their space to mourn the loss. But when I
Speaker 1: start seeing texts like nobody knows how to lose heartbreakers
Speaker 1: like the Giants, It's like, check your privilege. Bro. Dan
Speaker 1: Hans is here with Mark Sessler and Ricky Hollywood. Yeah,
Speaker 1: mark it. All that said, Giants fans have had a
Speaker 1: nice lifespan overall doesn't make what happened tonight any easier
Speaker 1: to swallow because that was a tough way to lose
Speaker 1: a football game. Well, I think it's a reminder that, like,
Speaker 1: because you know, I'm the same way. I grew up
Speaker 1: close to you, although I grew up in Connecticut, so um,
Speaker 1: zero street cred on anything New York wise. Um, it's
Speaker 1: kind of it's kind of a it's a bit of
Speaker 1: a bad beat because you just want to find what's
Speaker 1: your identity and Connecticut's just like you know Connecticut, right, Well,
Speaker 1: it's I think it's sure is it's portrayed as if
Speaker 1: I was, you know, traveling around town like in a
Speaker 1: horse and carriage, which is not the case. But um,
Speaker 1: I understand the whole, the whole concept. But you know
Speaker 1: I have I grew up around Giants fans and Jets
Speaker 1: fans too. That's the only two teams that were televised
Speaker 1: in our area. And my dad was a Giants fan,
Speaker 1: and I I also tonight, Um, I would say I
Speaker 1: have Giants fans who are older. Um, they're a little philosophical.
Speaker 1: They understand that there are edd and flows to you know,
Speaker 1: the franchise history, but they are ultra frustrated this evening.
Speaker 1: Logical Giants fans who looked at a g Men team
Speaker 1: that gave this game away what three times four times?
Speaker 1: I mean in in pretty incredible fashion. Um. I'm not
Speaker 1: sure that this game matters in the larger scope of
Speaker 1: what will happen this season, but on a more micro level,
Speaker 1: it was pretty insane to watch these two long time
Speaker 1: division foes punch for punch with two quarterbacks. We came
Speaker 1: in not knowing a lot about I know which one
Speaker 1: gets my fire going a little bit more. Um, I
Speaker 1: don't think it would be a surprise to you, but
Speaker 1: the g Men, they've got to be frustrated this evening
Speaker 1: they handed that game away. You know, I kind of disagree, Well,
Speaker 1: I agree with you of what you're saying is that
Speaker 1: you don't think it matters that much in the scope
Speaker 1: because neither of these teams will probably be playing and
Speaker 1: that's all I mean, I will not February February. Yes, right,
Speaker 1: I agree with you on that, But this is also
Speaker 1: a wide open division and I think nine wins can
Speaker 1: win this division. So this has a chance to be
Speaker 1: a major um game in terms of both the both
Speaker 1: of these teams, and Washington gets the w they need
Speaker 1: now the Giants and a game that they had. It's done.
Speaker 1: If Dexter Lawrence doesn't jump offsides there on the first
Speaker 1: field field goal attempt, the game is over. And that
Speaker 1: is you know, as a fan. And I'm not trying
Speaker 1: to pick on the Giants fans, so don't get after me.
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm just telling you what it was like
Speaker 1: to grow up. And I'm forty one years old. My
Speaker 1: team has never been to the Super Bowl in my lifetime.
Speaker 1: And you've had, uh, you have, you have a whole hand,
Speaker 1: you have five trips. That's all I'm saying. Um. But
Speaker 1: my point is like that is one of the worst
Speaker 1: things a fan can experience is the other team misses
Speaker 1: the field goal and you're celebrating in your living room
Speaker 1: and then you say, you hear there's a flag and
Speaker 1: it's jumping off sides right in the center of the line.
Speaker 1: Deskin Dustin Hopkins gets the second shot, and Hopkins puts
Speaker 1: it through, and that is good job by Washington. They
Speaker 1: showed resolve all night. The defense tightened up when it
Speaker 1: had to in the second half. Uh they got a
Speaker 1: little lucky, of course, because as Mark mentioned, the Giants
Speaker 1: killed themselves with mistakes all night. Maybe, uh, well, nothing's
Speaker 1: gonna be bigger than the Lawrence off side jump. But also,
Speaker 1: of course the Darius Slayton touchdown drop on a busted
Speaker 1: coverage earlier in the fourth quarter, which was the Giants
Speaker 1: chance that really sees control of that game. So you
Speaker 1: have those two huge mistakes, and then I thought Daniel
Speaker 1: Jones is really good in this game. Mark. I know, um,
Speaker 1: he's nobody's definition of a rising star in the league,
Speaker 1: but I thought he was. He didn't have a turnover.
Speaker 1: I thought he threw the ball very well, obviously if
Speaker 1: his receivers help him out. He has two touchdown passes
Speaker 1: in a three yard day in addition to nine on
Speaker 1: the ground. He was really good. But heine K is
Speaker 1: the guy that's gonna get the headlines because see his
Speaker 1: team won. And guess what, like I think, Tyler, why
Speaker 1: would you? Um? I don't want to get ahead of myself, Mark,
Speaker 1: but what are you gonna really put Ryan Fitzpatrick, the
Speaker 1: thirty nine year old guy back in if Heineke is
Speaker 1: showing signs of growth here, because in his third start
Speaker 1: he really looked competent. I think they might just because
Speaker 1: it's a Ron Rivera team and it always tilts towards
Speaker 1: the um you know, steady veteran. But but but that's
Speaker 1: a long way off, and I think that they you know,
Speaker 1: they vested in Taylor Heineke. They they investigated to find him.
Speaker 1: They brought him here. He's starting for a reason. Um,
Speaker 1: this is a special guy. There's something about him. I
Speaker 1: mean I saw an interview this week that last year,
Speaker 1: right before the Bucks playoff game, he had to email
Speaker 1: he was going, you know, he was taking college courses
Speaker 1: because his future was up in the air, and he
Speaker 1: had right he had final scheduled, um, you know for January,
Speaker 1: and had to email his teachers saying, excuse me, I
Speaker 1: need to delay my finals just a bit because I'm
Speaker 1: about to face Tom Brady and the Buccaneers and the playoffs.
Speaker 1: And the teachers were like that seems like a fair excuse.
Speaker 1: You can take the finals down there. He passed them,
Speaker 1: He passed the courses, So I think there's something about him.
Speaker 1: I mean, just kind of honestly watching I think one
Speaker 1: of my favorite ways is to watch interviews with players
Speaker 1: to get a final an idea of who they are.
Speaker 1: There is a fire to this dude, and I just
Speaker 1: love Taylor Heineke from that angle. I think also he
Speaker 1: gives them a lot on the ground. Um, he is
Speaker 1: a guy that you know, he went through some ups
Speaker 1: and downs in this game and he keeps getting back up.
Speaker 1: But for the Daniel Jones thing, because what quarterback, you know,
Speaker 1: three years in was getting hit with more criticism and
Speaker 1: especially in the New York area that Daniel Jones, because
Speaker 1: you're at this point you're even also looking across the
Speaker 1: way at Zach Wilson thinking Zach Wilson seems like in
Speaker 1: one game, despite all the hits, can do things that
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones can't even manage manage three years in, and
Speaker 1: he gives the ball away tonight he was clean. Um,
Speaker 1: he made a couple of big throws. You know, he
Speaker 1: had the fifty eight yard run that was negated. I mean,
Speaker 1: he is a factor on the ground. He's you don't
Speaker 1: ever think about him that way on a week to
Speaker 1: week basis, But you have your Josh Allen's, your Lamar
Speaker 1: Jackson's Tonight, what we saw from Daniel Jones was pretty
Speaker 1: saucy on the ground, so I don't know that. My
Speaker 1: thing is this, though, do you trust him to do
Speaker 1: that two weeks in a row. That that's just what
Speaker 1: we've not seen. But his highs or his highs and
Speaker 1: his lows are a problem. Yeah, the consistencies, consistent consistency
Speaker 1: is an issue. He's good until he's not. But like,
Speaker 1: think about it that the fifty six yard run negated
Speaker 1: by a holding that was very questionable. I mean, the
Speaker 1: Giants had no business losing this game. This is a
Speaker 1: killer loss for them. And then the Slaton drop absolutely
Speaker 1: as a ball he has to catch. Maybe it's six
Speaker 1: inches a little further than you wanted to be, so
Speaker 1: it wasn't as blatant a drop as you'll ever see,
Speaker 1: but it's right on the edge considering there's no one
Speaker 1: around him within twenty yards, if he if that throw
Speaker 1: is completed, if that penalty flag is picked up. Like
Speaker 1: everyone's talking about how Danny Dins just put together the
Speaker 1: best game of his career. So he was that close,
Speaker 1: and even when you take those things out, I thought
Speaker 1: he was very good. It's something to build on and
Speaker 1: for the Giants who are now entering Mustlin territory, I
Speaker 1: don't care if it's a seventeen game season, it's set
Speaker 1: of sixteen. If you start oh and three, you're pretty
Speaker 1: much cooked. Luckily, they have a home game against the Falcons,
Speaker 1: so they get a chance to um get their season
Speaker 1: back on track next week. But nothing is a given.
Speaker 1: The Giants aren't a great team. And mean, while they
Speaker 1: get look at it this way, Mark, if Dustin Hopkins
Speaker 1: does not get that second chance to make that field
Speaker 1: goal and it went from forty three after the Lawrence
Speaker 1: penalty there oh and two and heading to Buffalo next week,
Speaker 1: and I think they'd be heading to Buffalo, right, I
Speaker 1: think they'd be heading to Buffalo with questions about just
Speaker 1: how dominant their defense is because there were a number
Speaker 1: of big pass players given up. You know, Daniel Jones
Speaker 1: running for a number of big gains. Sequon Barkley had
Speaker 1: a big game himself. I mean, this is if you
Speaker 1: look at who Washington beat last year. Now Washington started,
Speaker 1: you know, talk about getting into a hole. They started
Speaker 1: two and five a year ago and won the division
Speaker 1: with a terrible record and a terrible we get, we
Speaker 1: get what was going on with the East last year.
Speaker 1: But it was coming all offseason was how dominant this
Speaker 1: Washington defense is. Their front is unstoppable in this game?
Speaker 1: And where was it last week? Where was it last week?
Speaker 1: So I think that let's go. I think they are
Speaker 1: young and they are sweaty. I don't think that we
Speaker 1: question those characteristics. But it's about stopping the run and
Speaker 1: rushing the pastor Also it's interesting because yes, uh young
Speaker 1: and sweaty. There's so much there, so much potential. But
Speaker 1: also when you really if you distill it, sometimes being young,
Speaker 1: especially in sports, isn't a great thing. Sometimes being sweaty.
Speaker 1: Sweaty is a big problem. I mean in a lot
Speaker 1: of areas. So um A couple other thoughts. Se Kwon Barkley,
Speaker 1: he had one big run, but I thought after the
Speaker 1: James Bradberry interception where you thought the Giants had a
Speaker 1: chance to to steal that game with about two and
Speaker 1: a half minutes to go, I thought to myself, after
Speaker 1: the Giants, I believe went three and out and then
Speaker 1: kicked the field goal, man, if they had the real
Speaker 1: se Kwon Barkley, the healthy guy, maybe they can close
Speaker 1: that game out there. So the fact that they can't
Speaker 1: really lean on him yet or he's not able to
Speaker 1: be that guy yet is hurting their offense right now?
Speaker 1: And then did you see Kenny Golladay after a fruitless
Speaker 1: possession in the fourth quarter, yelling at Danny Dimes on
Speaker 1: the sideline? This, this gal day free agency experience not
Speaker 1: off to a great start. He has not made the
Speaker 1: impact they expected. Sterling Shepherd has been by far their
Speaker 1: best receiver, right, I mean, their most productive white outs
Speaker 1: have been Shepherd and Slaton, who were already there. Holaday
Speaker 1: eight targets, three catches, thirty eight yards, Barkley did have
Speaker 1: I'm looking here sixteen touches, So that's not you know,
Speaker 1: that's you know, he's he's in cheing up here. I
Speaker 1: think they have a plan for him. But but you're right,
Speaker 1: he he you know, by nature, he's a little boom
Speaker 1: and bust also, and they've built their offense around him.
Speaker 1: So I do think, though, if you get this version
Speaker 1: of Danny Dimes, you know, next week, in the week after,
Speaker 1: if this is who we can become, you're in a
Speaker 1: different place. I just think that anyone with the same
Speaker 1: mind needs to see more evidence. You know what's he's
Speaker 1: a weird He's a weird one. I understand if you're
Speaker 1: a Giants fan or the Giants front office, you watch
Speaker 1: him play and I'd like, I think he has a
Speaker 1: good arm. I think he's got a great build. He
Speaker 1: runs like the Dickens mark. Yes he does. He can move.
Speaker 1: He is an unbelievable athlete. So it's kind of there.
Speaker 1: But now here we are in year three and he
Speaker 1: just needs to, like you're saying, he needs to stack
Speaker 1: some games and show that he can be that guy.
Speaker 1: But I thought for him this was a good start
Speaker 1: and with a little bit of luck, he would have
Speaker 1: been a huge story going into the weekend. But guess
Speaker 1: what that's not. It wasn't meant to be. But let
Speaker 1: me ask, how about I asked you a question though,
Speaker 1: because let's just say you didn't. You didn't You knew
Speaker 1: nothing about draft pedigree, um background, name, what's come before.
Speaker 1: You're watching Daniel Jones, you're watching Taylor Heineke. Who would
Speaker 1: you take? But you don't know that one is you
Speaker 1: know what it was undrafted and taking finals a year ago,
Speaker 1: and you didn't know the other was a first round pick.
Speaker 1: I would think, based on just this game that I
Speaker 1: would be in pretty good hands with either one because
Speaker 1: I thought they both played really well. And well, you
Speaker 1: might be in a lot of trouble with with you know,
Speaker 1: with either, but yeah, I might focusing based on this
Speaker 1: this game. I just think that to me, I think
Speaker 1: Jones is um athleticism. To me, jumps off the page
Speaker 1: or jumps off the screen. So it's just that's the
Speaker 1: frustration of it all. And and before we go, you
Speaker 1: know what we need to check in on. We've got
Speaker 1: to go behind the velvet ropes because my goodness, and
Speaker 1: people don't understand with the Kicker Club, it doesn't matter
Speaker 1: who won the game, because who cares? Who gives it
Speaker 1: about the final score? Mark, Sure, it's all about the kicking.
Speaker 1: It's all about what happened between the big yellow pipes
Speaker 1: about And this was a clinic, this is a master class.
Speaker 1: And you know, Hopkins got picked up there on the penalty.
Speaker 1: But guess what, when you walk off on a field
Speaker 1: goal for a win, you're popping bottles. And when you're
Speaker 1: Graham gonno, guess what, you just got your own private
Speaker 1: booth area where they send the girls. You know, some
Speaker 1: of the girls that work there, they get assigned to
Speaker 1: just hang out with the guys for the night. That's
Speaker 1: their job, popping bottles. They bring out the Ricky You
Speaker 1: know this because that's the role that's not and we're
Speaker 1: talking about the oversized novelty bottles with the sparklers on
Speaker 1: top of the real stupid stuff, just real dumb stuff.
Speaker 1: I mean Ricky one. You know, Dan and I were
Speaker 1: actually invited to one of these party. It was a
Speaker 1: Jay Glazer party and we were in a roped off
Speaker 1: section and there were there were various bottles there and
Speaker 1: we were we actually were not allowed to pour them ourselves.
Speaker 1: These girls had to come into the roped off section
Speaker 1: to pour them into our glasses. That's the kind of
Speaker 1: service you get at the case. I assume I've not
Speaker 1: been in there. Did you say we were with Rappaport?
Speaker 1: We were with Raps. Was that the night that Golden
Speaker 1: Tate studied buy me a drink and paid with a
Speaker 1: fifty dollar bill and didn't get the change? Now, you
Speaker 1: were not you were like in high school at this point.
Speaker 1: I don't you were not on the scenes or an
Speaker 1: you're a baby. No, we went with rap Sheet and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, because Ian is the NFL network insider that
Speaker 1: actually good things. I remember we got like a really
Speaker 1: nice private car. We all got Mophy's for some reason.
Speaker 1: The super Bowl is sutch a ridiculous event. Uh. And
Speaker 1: then we got to the event and it's Jake Glazier's
Speaker 1: big party and it was a pool side and I
Speaker 1: think it was in Arizona, and and we get our
Speaker 1: own quarter off the area right by the pools, Mark said,
Speaker 1: And we're enjoying it. We're having a fun um. But
Speaker 1: Ian rap sheet He's all, you know that wheels are
Speaker 1: always turning, the work can always turning, he says. And
Speaker 1: his his mind, he thought that we were put off
Speaker 1: in this velvet rope area with Ian so he wouldn't
Speaker 1: be able to mix it up at the party. And
Speaker 1: uh make you know, contacts do his thing get better?
Speaker 1: As an insider, that was Glazers little power move. Oh,
Speaker 1: I'll give you the private area where you can't get
Speaker 1: out and mill with the people and and get in
Speaker 1: on my insider credit. I've always love that. That's some
Speaker 1: real insider heat right there. It is where my head
Speaker 1: space was. I want to pour the string from myself
Speaker 1: only the sminkstress must do it for me. You know,
Speaker 1: it's no exactly no, I I I warmed up to
Speaker 1: the scenario very quickly without I wasn't trying to get
Speaker 1: information from anyone. So but Graham goodo went five for
Speaker 1: five just banging fifty plus yard ers through the pipes
Speaker 1: with these so um, you know, good game by Graham,
Speaker 1: great game. And if you have Graham and Fantasy, good
Speaker 1: for you. All right. Definitely, Joe Judge is a special
Speaker 1: teams coach. Let's just leave that there. You know that,
Speaker 1: Like Ricky is very bitter towards the Giants by the way,
Speaker 1: They're just they're fans are just I can't do it, Ricky.
Speaker 1: Just just know, no matter what happens from this point
Speaker 1: on with the Giants or your beloved Patriots, the Giants
Speaker 1: will always own you. Of course, and I because and
Speaker 1: Bill can never beat Eli and Coughlin. There's just no
Speaker 1: way to do it unless you could get a time machine. No,
Speaker 1: it can't be done. You're so right, And I totally
Speaker 1: totally agree with that, and that's why I don't want
Speaker 1: them to do well. But it's their fans that I can't.
Speaker 1: And I have a lot of family members. Most of
Speaker 1: my family members actually are Jets fans, So I like
Speaker 1: the Jets more than I do the Giants. Yeah, in
Speaker 1: my New York side of the family. Um, but yeah,
Speaker 1: so they've always been Jets fans, but the Giants, like
Speaker 1: just peep. Giants fans in general are just the absolute worst.
Speaker 1: Like go crimea river, Like now you're stepping on my
Speaker 1: toes a little bit as a New York are you
Speaker 1: gotta be careful here? I'm allowed to It's like I'm
Speaker 1: allowed to say because that's that's where I came from.
Speaker 1: That's who I am, um, and a lot of the
Speaker 1: people I care about our Giants fans. But you're an outsider,
Speaker 1: so like you know that that feels like piling on
Speaker 1: that's all. It's on tower and it's unfair. I don't
Speaker 1: appreciate it, to be honest. But just enjoy this, Ricky,
Speaker 1: because that's a nice If you are somebody that roots
Speaker 1: against the Giants, just know that Giants fans are not
Speaker 1: sleeping well tonight. And by the way, Giants fans are
Speaker 1: also Yankees fans, and Yankees they blew one too, the
Speaker 1: Orioles tonight who have losses, so carry less Sports Night,
Speaker 1: caring less about that result, but fair enough, really bad
Speaker 1: New York Sports Night losses and the Giants still suck.
Speaker 1: All right, So let's wrap it up again. Check out
Speaker 1: the week to Preview pod, which was from the new studio,
Speaker 1: the Chris Westling Podcast Studio in Hollywood Park. Get yourself
Speaker 1: up to date for all the games to come on
Speaker 1: Sunday and Monday, and yes, we'll be back Sunday night
Speaker 1: with Greg Rosenthal. A lot of I think we put
Speaker 1: it. It It was dense, the heat between Ricky. It's like
Speaker 1: a fo It was his explanation about why Ricky was
Speaker 1: not allowed to suddenly participate in the lock contest for
Speaker 1: the rest of the year. It was a winding and complaint.
Speaker 1: He didn't talk to you, guys. He just just like, no,
Speaker 1: you're out, Yeah, you're back in. Thank you guys. But
Speaker 1: that dense is such a great way to describe, and
Speaker 1: it's something to continue to track is the season goes along.
Speaker 1: Mark it is you know, it describes many things. No,
Speaker 1: I just like, really don't like Greg. It's like that simple.
Speaker 1: Well all right, well well well I'll never listen to this,
Speaker 1: but that that's revealed too many. Now, all right, good stuff.
Speaker 1: We'll be back Sunday night. Be there or B Square giants, fans,
Speaker 1: go watch your videos. Go out your tapes. You got
Speaker 1: a lot of good things to look back on, uh
Speaker 1: and maybe things to come. There'll be more glory to come,
Speaker 1: but not tonight. Washington character death later speA