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Thursday night, defending Super Bowl Champions parked in the driveway, Malik Nabers, one of the best wide receivers in the NFL, out for the season. Darius Slayton, one of the wide receivers in the NFL, out until who cares.

The Giants, coming off a 5 turnover L to the New Orleans Saints, how would rookie Jaxson Dart survive the short week?

Hand the pig to Cam Skattebo.

Rookie running back, Cam Skattebo—stealing the job from Tyrone Tracy and Devin Singletary—had the best game of his career against the Eagles:

  • 19 carries
  • 98 rushing yards
  • 3 touchdowns
  • 2 catches
  • 12 receiving yards

With Saquon Barkley on the opposing sideline—fresh off nearly breaking the single-season record for rushing yards—and a lame ass Amazon documentary where his biggest life hardship was a standard, routine contract negotiation with the Giants—Cam Skattebo scored 3 rushing TDs—a feat Saquon never accomplished here.

Rookies Jaxson Dart and Cam Skattebo, willed the Giants to a 34-17 victory over the Eagles—combining for 156 rushing yards and 5 touchdowns—their controlled chaos and irrational confidence transformed the Giants from perennial losers to a squad capable of winning any game against any one.

Cam Skattebo is the polar opposite of Saquon Barkley.

When Sasquon was in a Giants uni, he cautiously tiptoed in the backfield—frequently tackled behind the line of scrimmage, unable or unwilling to take it up the gut and move the chains.

It’s cool that Saquon Barkley has interests outside of football.

Go be a “businessman” and make all the money and sell documentaries to manufacture a legacy for yourself and golf with Donald Trump—a man who would make Saquon caddy for him if Saquon had one less dollar in his bank account.

Good for him.

I understand why Saquon Barkley chose to sit out the final week of the season last year.

Instead of breaking the single-season rushing record, he wanted to be healthy for the playoffs.

And it worked out.

He won a Super Bowl.

Good for him.

But I want the guy who will play all 17 games with his shoulder falling out of the socket and blood coming out of his ears.

The New York Giants are losers.

A sick, aging owner who filled the front office with family members and friends. A coaching staff, appearing to have a very healthy work-life balance, once their practice is over, none of these coaches are locked in their home offices, coming up with new, innovative schemes and concepts. This is a coaching staff at ALL of their childrens games. Nobody on this staff is missing the father/daughter dance. They clock out and walk into the Severance elevator, never to think about football until they have to come in the next morning.

This team won 3 games last year.

Jaxson Dart and Cam Skattebo bring a new urgency to every play.

Jaxson Dart is out here launching himself headfirst into defenders’ helmets.

Sure, they play dangerously—but it’s the NFL. Every play is dangerous.

Cam Skattebo plays a position that comes without longevity. When you become an NFL running back, you are consenting to weekly, life expectancy-shortening car crashes. You can either embrace that and fight for every inch of that field—or you flail around in the backfield ducking and dodging physical contact so you don’t get injured and miss your double date with the Trumps, where Donald pats you on the head like a toddler and calls you “one of the good ones”.

Cam Skattebo is not long for this world. We must appreciate every moment we have with this maniac. Every cut to the sideline of him shaking his head in his helmet, swishing around the sounds of the ocean playing in his brain 24/7, is a blessing.

I’m already saving up to donate to his family’s GoFundMe in 2035.


Get Russell Wilson the fuck out of here

At the end of the 3rd quarter, Jaxson Dart tried to break the pocket, only to be knocked out in the backfield for a sack and a concussion test.

Russell Wilson came into the game for two plays. A handoff to Tyrone Tracy, 2 yards, and an incomplete pass into the dirt.

Punt.

Duh,

A chorus of boos for the Super Bowl champion.

I don’t see why either party would want to stay together.

Russell Wilson didn’t come here to get hated by fans whenever he’s on the field, although this is how fans have treated him the last 5 years, including his final season in Seattle. Russell Wilson is still a difference-maker (the bad way).

I’m sure Russ convinced himself he could keep the rookie on the bench all season. Just like Kirk Cousins in Atlanta last year (he was not good enough to keep the rookie on the bench either) and now the head coach is breaking NFL rules—checking on Jaxson Dart in the medical tent—desperate for his baby boy to come take Russell the fuuuck off the field.

At one point during the broadcast, Russ was shown speaking with Cam Skattebo. Cam wasn’t even pretending to listen. What is even the point of having him on the sidelines just annoying people with his corny, inauthentic good guy schtick?

The Giants should trade him to whatever local New Jersey church needs a youth pastor.


Brian Burns DPOY campaign

It’s so rare when the highest paid player goes out there every week and performs like the highest paid player.

Let’s take a look at Brian Burns’s Thursday night against the Eagles:

  • 7 tackles
  • 2 sacks
  • 2 QB hits
  • 2 tackles for a loss

After the game, Brian Burns was the NFL leader in sacks with 7 on the season.

Brian Burns is dominating the NFL despite having a defensive coordinator who refuses to ever call a blitz play, meaning the defensive line never has any help. It’s 4-on-5 or 6 every single pass attempt and Burns is winning more often than not. Shane Bowen, try as he might, cannot stop Burns from killing quarterbacks.

Also want to give a round of applause to Kayvon Thibodeaux. He’s been under a microscope since being drafted 5th overall in 2022, improving on his game every year, now becoming a run stuffer out of nowhere.

Thanks to Burns, Thibodeaux, Dexter Lawrence and Abdul Carter, all playing together (instead of selfishly hunting their own stats), the Giants defense has an identity and that identity had Jalen Hurts in hell.


The Eagles Offense is Ice Cold

The Eagles offense, lifeless—back-to-back weeks of stagnant, boring, nonexistent offense.

Philadelphia was 1-for-9 on 3rd down—converting one thanks to the Tush Push—a play where the Eagles get to turn the rules off for a few seconds.

But when they weren’t in dogpile formation, they were dogshit.

Eagles came into Thursday as 7.5 favorites. Gave up in the 4th quarter, letting Cam Skattebo murder them via a million little paper cuts.

The team is 4-2, flying into Minnesota next weekend and their 5th-ranked defense.  Vikings defensive coordinator, Brian Flores, is about to let all his frustration with the NFL out on Jalen Hurts.

Get ready for AJ Brown posts and deletes about loyalty and backstabbers and the power of the human mind.

The New York Giants may have just poisoned the Eagles season and it’s all thanks to two rookie sickos who live by the motto “I may concuss myself but my opponent will leave with more concussions”.

 

 


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