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It sucks rooting for a football team that isn’t good at football. It sucks even more when people expect you to write about the football team that isn’t good at football. But with back-to-back wins for the first time all season, I finally have a reason to write about the New York Giants and Tommy DeVito is that reason.
Tommy DeVito with the 🤌 celebration pic.twitter.com/WwKSyOkvmv
— NFL (@NFL) November 26, 2023
Tommy Devito is the 25-year-old undrafted rookie quarterback out of Syracuse. A local Jersey boy who is the direct, unique result of growing up drinking the same tap water as The Situation. He seems like the type of person who excuses any annoying behaviors he has with ‘sorry, I’m just Italian” like Andrew Cuomo when he was called out for sexual harassment.
Apparently, DeVito turned down offers from Washington and New England to play for New York. And he just beat those two teams back-to-back. He is putting together a legendary rookie season.
Is Tommy DeVito better than Daniel Jones?
Daniel Jones won only one (1) of his 6 games this season. DeVito has twice as many in half the time.
With Jones as the starter, the team’s offense looked like they had never heard of the sport and had the rules explained to them about 4 minutes before the game started.
“Loyalty” is a death sentence in the NFL. I know Giants owner, John Mara, wants to kiss Daniel Jones on the mouth but there’s an Italian homewrecker out here in New Jersey messing up the marriage.
Sure, it sucks that the franchise QB suffered a season-ending injury but the starting job doesn’t belong to him. It can be lost if the backup outperforms him and Tommy DeVito is doing that. DeVito has 7 touchdown passes—5 more than Jones in literally half as many starts and with a team full of guys who had given up on the season.
DeVito is one of the best quarterbacks in the NFL when it comes to hitting open receivers. And I know that sounds like a meaningless stat to track but I’ve watched Daniel Jones throw some atrocious-looking balls at wide-open receivers’ cleats or behind them to ricochet into a cornerback’s waiting arms.
DeVito has the juice.
That Eli Manning ‘aw shucks’ lame, nerdy bullshit won the Giants two Super Bowls. We shall never forget. But the New York front office seems deadset on recreating Eli’s temperament and it doesn’t feel like this locker room loves DJ the way they loved Eli.
The offensive line allowed pass rushers right on through to Jones’s neck nonstop. They don’t respect that man. Tommy DeVito has that loud-ass, irrational New Jersey confidence this team needs.
Last season, Daniel Jones beat the Minnesota Vikings in the playoffs. Congrats to him for the accomplishment. But he’s injury-prone, afraid to air the ball downfield and despite being one of the best scrambling QBs in the NFL, he’s reluctant to take off and run as if he needs to prove to people he’s some great pocket passer—which he isn’t. Jones can enjoy the rest of his career as awkward Andy Dalton. It’s better than not being in the NFL at all.
Meanwhile, DeVito made wide receiver, Jalin Hyatt, win NFL Rookie of the Week.
VFL rookie Jalin Hyatt making early impact. Always open. 👀🍊 pic.twitter.com/dDFl2NZfE2
— Rockytopology (@rockytopology) November 26, 2023
Time to build around TD.
How would building around Tommy DeVito affect the Giants future?
As of right now, the Giants will end up with the No. 6 pick in the 2024 Draft. New England, Chicago, Washington and Arizona are all ahead of them and they all need quarterbacks. Plus, there will be even more teams looking to trade up above the Giants to take either Caleb Williams or Drake Maye.
Thankfully, Tommy DeVito is here so the Giants can wait to pick up a potential project QB in the later rounds to be groomed into a star under the DeVito learning tree. Tommy can teach them the fundamentals of the game like Gym, Tan, Laundry. Or how to avoid taking home a grenade.
Joe Olt out of Notre Dame is the best O-Lineman in the draft. Personally, I like the edge rusher, Dallas Turner, out of Alabama. I know Kayvon Thibodeaux has more than made up for his slow start but I firmly believe there is no such thing as too many great pass rushers. All of these top-of-the-line talents will be available wherever the Giants pick lands.
The Giants just need to get Tommy DeVito some help. Maybe they can draft Marvin Harrison Jr. or the tight end Brock Bowers but either way, it’s time to move on from Danny Dimes and build around Tommy Winning Streaks.
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