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Speaker 1: The New York Giants defeat the LA Chargers twenty one to eighteen. Jackson Dart, in his first ever NFL start, walks away with the victory. I am John Schmelt, Tiki Barbra withs in just a moment, Bob Papa still with me.
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Speaker 2: Up here in the booth of MetLife Stadium.
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Speaker 1: We are waiting Brian Dable and of course the rest of the Giant players downstairs for all the postgame reaction in Bob All the talk was about Jackson dark getting the start today, and understandably so. But you should never look to one player as being your savior, especially your rookie. And we talked extensively on the pregame show how he was gonna need some help and in this game, Bob he got it. Giants running backs ran for one hundred and seven yards in this game. The defense provided two takeaways to return the ball inside the red zone inside the ten yard line in fact of the LA Chargers. So Jackson Dart then added his own little twist with his running ability, some creative passes on the move, and you put all that together, that's the Giants walk away with the upset victory.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, you're going against the team that's three and zero.
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Speaker 4: As I said during the broadcast, this is a team that since the start of last year when Jim Harbaugh took over leading the NFL, allowing just seventeen points six points per game. They allowed less than twenty points in twelve games over this timeframe. The Giants get twenty one against him red zone. The Giants got a red zone touchdown and two red zone touchdowns in this game. This team was good on third downs since I mean, you went against a really good team with a top flight quarterback and you needed everybody to con trip and the Giants other than the end of the first half where Abdual Carter jumped off side and then Deontay Banks, I'm not sure what he was doing on that to allow that score. Yeah, they played a pretty sound game. Yeah they gave up the fifty four yard touchdown, and you don't dismiss it. But they're gonna make plays. This is a really good team. They're undefeated for a reason.
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Speaker 2: Maybe the Wando dropping the end zone where he could have came.
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Speaker 4: Out to catch h You gotta, you know, you gotta, that's in your hands. You can't let that guy knock it out.
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Speaker 3: You cannot.
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Speaker 4: But that's why the Giants are one and three, right, They're not three and one. However, Jackson Dart used his legs.
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Speaker 3: Yep. Yeah, just like any rookie making his first start.
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Speaker 4: He took a couple of sacks in this game that in a few weeks he's not gonna take, and in years down the road he's not gonna take. It was all new to him. It wasn't the preseason. It's Jesse Minter's defense. It's the Chargers, and you gotta just love what they did and the heart that they played with. Even at the end of the game, the way Cordell fly, he didn't try to defend that pass to Johnston. He was aware of the situation, not trying to pick it off, not trying to bat it. Let the guy catch it, and I'm gonna make sure I tackle him in bounds and the clock is gonna run out. And you know, kudos to the Giants for an really and special teams. Gillan with that sixty nine yard punt was big for the fifty yards net on that play correct. There was a lot of little things in this game that really added up. And then what can you say. Cam Scattaboo is dynamite, He's much, He's got a lot better vision, and he gets a lot skinnier than people think with his power game. There's a great team win against the Chargers team that was undefeated. And again I want to go back to the defense.
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Speaker 1: The two takeaways, the Giants finished plus two in tonover ratio. Abdul Carter was a constant presence in the backfield on passing downs. Brian Burns, the big sack Dexter Lawrence. I thought Bob took another step. He was a little bit better in this game. Again, he had the interception, he had some pass pressure up the middle on a couple of plays. So I thought the defense and again they're going against an offensive line that's missing a lot of their guys, especially once Joel went out with with an ankle injury.
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Speaker 2: But I don't care.
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Speaker 1: You did what you needed to do. I know they gave up some rushing yards. You gotta fix that. But I thought that pressure on Herbert was probably as consistent as we've seen this.
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Speaker 2: Group bring pressure on the quarterback all year.
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Speaker 3: Absolutely.
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Speaker 4: I thought Dexter Lawrence this was his best game, and I think his fourth game. I think he's finally got his Sea legs under him a little bit. Abdual card. I mean Brian Burns, you know, with a marquee game like this, even the way he played against the Chiefs, Brian Burns has headed to a Pro Bowl season. He's gonna finally get a chance to go to the Pro Bowl. And Cavon Thibodeau played well. I mean, this is a real you know who really had a good game too. John Drew Phillips played a really good game. A lot of passes defended, made the sliding interception. There's a lot of things that you take from this game, and you feel excited about going to play now in the New Orleans saying it's a team that you have an opportunity to go in there, You're fighting in your weight class. Hey, you can't cry over spilt milk. You think about that Cowboys game. You theoretically could be two and two right now, but you're one and three. But you know what now, you punched out, you went up in weight class, and you beat at somebody outside of your weight class.
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Speaker 3: Take care of business next week.
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Speaker 6: Let's go downstairs now, have some turnovers on defense, but I think young man played well within himself, made a huge play when he needed to to feel on that third round play. So happy we got them right for you.
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Speaker 7: Guys to turn to the rookie, for you to make that decision to go to Jackson, we want a lot for you guys to make the decision to.
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Speaker 3: Go to Jackson this early in the year and for you to respond though.
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Speaker 8: With the victory at he said, against this team, and what does it mean? And I feel like, you know, vindication at all for the move we went.
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Speaker 3: We're pray good.
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Speaker 6: Want to know, you know, we closed it out this game. You know, missed the closing out a couple of weeks ago, so there was some improvement in that area. Yeah, I thought the running backs ran higher. We only had two of them up they both ran Hirer and Motor and Scott line played pretty well. But again, defensive, I thought we created uh some pressure on Herbert. They hit us on a couple of explosives there in the second and you know the long run. So look, it's good to get a win. I'm happy for our players. I'm happy for our coaches. They put a lot of time and effort and energy into us. Jackson has you know, all quarterbacks do. But you know, for a young player to come out here in his first game against the three and oh team with Herbert as quarterback and the defense, you know, the way they were playing, I think it says a lot about our guys. I think it says a lot about six.
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Speaker 3: How's it feel for you to get this one?
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Speaker 6: I'm happy, I'm happy. I'm I'm happy to I'm happy to get a win, that's the goal. But I'm more happy for the assistant coaches, the players. You know, we put a lot of effort into this. Haven't got the results we want. We're close, you know, one game, not close in other games. But credit goes to, you know, the guys that are staying there late at night, the players that are busting their cans. I'm problem. I'm proud of all the guys that contributed, which is not just the guys that were out there, it's the practice squad guys. It's but get a lot of credit to our guys and try to build off of this next week. I know six is probably gonna be sore. I mean, he gutted it out. Sounds a tough son of a you know what, he's tough, But I knew that coach.
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Speaker 4: You talk a lot about the red zone offense.
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Speaker 8: He had a couple of chances again today.
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Speaker 6: Well, whether we had that two for four or what was it that wasn't two for five? Not good enough? I mean we were trying to run it in uh. I thought we had a chance on the corner there with Scott. I made a nice play. You know, work in progress. We've been we've been working our tails off on it. Wanted to try to you know, run the ball in this week, so we'll keep working on it. That will go a long way. We're getting down there. Got to continue to improve in that area.
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Speaker 9: When when when Malik went down, you know, everyone goes around him to see him carted off.
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Speaker 8: I'm sure it was a very difficult thing for everybody the.
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Speaker 9: Time anybody gets injured this you know, a guy like him obviously such an important player. When when do you think your team needed to show you something or show themselves something after that? That can be a jarring thing in a close game like that.
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Speaker 6: No, I mean the grown man that compete their tails off the professional football game. Injuries happened. Certainly not happy about it, whether it's Malik or anybody else, But unfortunately, this is a business of injury, and I feel terrible for a Malik's injury. We'll see where it's at. You know, he's an important piece of our team. But the guys that played behind them, you know, it's like last year when slay went in Seattle and the week after that whatever. Maybe everybody gets paid to do a job and it's the next man up.
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Speaker 10: You mentioned the completion of THEO and how big of a moment that was.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, was there any.
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Speaker 10: Hesitation at all to the call pass?
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Speaker 6: And you know, it's interesting with that play, it was a little bunch play. We've worked it one way for you know, I don't know ten years. That's we're running a play. And uh, you know, Dark Dart sees me in the locker room right before I come out here. He's like, you know on that play we ran thel and I talked about that what it was yesterday the day before and if we get this look, I want you to sit. We normally don't really sit on it. So that's a credit to two young players playing the game and having confidence in a critical time to do what they talked about where they're studying film and look, I got a lot of confidence in our rookie quarterback. But he's a rookie quarterback. So there's gonna be mistakes that be made. We know that there'll be more next week. There was some this week. It's not gonna be perfect. I've went through this before seven years ago, whatever may be. But the way he extended plays. You know that penalty on John I think what they call on John Michael seven yard run or whatever it was. Who was it on Dan? Okay, that was a big one because that was a huge play. But you know the run in in the end zone. Kids a competitor, it's not gonna be perfect. I'm sure he'll be the first one to tell you there's a lot that he can do better. We got to continue to help him do it better.
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Speaker 8: But like his traits.
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Speaker 6: I like his toughness. I'm glad we got him. I'm sorry, I'll get you in a minute.
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Speaker 11: Da you mentioned it, but a tough sort of it, you know what, There's no question he is.
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Speaker 3: But he took a lot of shots. He took a lot of shots.
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Speaker 2: Saying how do you kind of balance that competitiveness?
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Speaker 6: I trust him, you know, I think something. I mean, there's different shots you take. You know, we watch them every week. There's gonna be shots when you run through. I mean that play that they jumped off sides or off sides was it a fourth down or whatever it was. The crowd was going crazy. You hit it for two yards, you know, there's different shots you don't want to take, is you want to try to minimize him. But part of what I love about him is what he did in college. Yeah, he's tough, he's a competitor. So I'm glad he's our own quarterback. Yes, and there's gonna be a lot of growing pains, I'm just telling you. But his job is go out there and do what we need to do to win as a quarterback, whether it's running a bunch, you know, make a big third down play. Again, there's a lot of things to improve on though from him, and he'll be the first to tell you so. But let's give credit to the other guys around him. How the backs ran the receiver's block, we ran the ball more. I don't know what do we run for?
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Speaker 8: I don't have it.
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Speaker 6: We run for what?
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Speaker 8: Dan? You know?
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Speaker 6: No, you don't know, okay, one sixty one, Okay. So I'll take that stuff to improve in the red zone, stuff to improve in the passing game. And credit to the defense for closing it out getting two big turnovers, you know, Dexter rumbling down there. You know, I thought Jude did a good job. But again, it's one game. Our goal is to win that one game one week. I'm happy. We did certainly a lot of things to clean up. You know, we're close in other games, not close in other ones. But the goal is just to continue to improve. And I'm happy for the players and the coaches.
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Speaker 3: What about your pass rush today?
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Speaker 4: What about the way what about the way they.
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Speaker 3: Got after after Herbert and you just talked about that a little bit.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, that's what I expect from him. A lot of good players up there, and I told them that the night before. I think that the biggest thing in this game is going to be how our guys play. And I'll give you know. I saw Burns after and I saw him during the during the game. He is spent. I'm not, you know, not saying it's the flu game, but that young man is spent. I mean he looks the part right now.
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Speaker 12: Mexas interception and return. How much were you hoping he was gonna.
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Speaker 8: Take it all the way?
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Speaker 6: What do you think?
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Speaker 8: Yeah?
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Speaker 6: I was hoping. I don't even think would we get a field goal out of that?
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Speaker 7: So Jackson's toughness, was there any conversation with the hands that look like he was limping pretty good.
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Speaker 6: The first time he ain't got to come out.
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Speaker 8: Did you got some to tways talk about it though? Or they limit anything with him?
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Speaker 6: Or no, it's we didn't run him much. I mean we ran him on scrambles, so we stayed away from that in terms of I would say for the most part, because there was stuff that we did a few things at the end there to that with all we needed to do get an extra blocker. I'm sure he'll be sort tomorrow. But you know, I don't know. We got the holding penalty, But for that guy to go however far it was, I think that just shows his grit. But I'm not surprised.
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Speaker 8: On TV afterwards, you were pretty pumped up. You went up to him after the game. Did what was your message?
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Speaker 6: And he went at them when it was.
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Speaker 8: What after the game? You went out, like they showed it on TV.
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Speaker 3: You went up to him, whispered it in his ear, slapped him on the chest.
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Speaker 8: What was your message him at that?
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Speaker 6: In that moment, I probably said that great f and win like that?
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Speaker 8: What did you guys figure out defensively today? Was it just your path stretch? Leaning on them so frequently?
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Speaker 6: And Aptols specifically seemed like he was just terrizing. Well, what do you mean? What do we figure out?
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Speaker 8: What does that mean?
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Speaker 6: Seemed like you had answers to what they were bringing you in the passing game all day and are like comparison to what just like how we played defensively today is addressing defend or as what do you mean? That's why I'm asking you.
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Speaker 3: Why did your defense play well today?
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Speaker 6: They played hard and I thought they did their job. Again, it wasn't perfect. We gave up a big one at the end of the half. We gave a big one backed up, but I thought, you know, it starts up front, controlling a line of scrimmage, getting pressure on the quarterback. Again, they had a couple of big runs that that hurt us. You know, we got to get that fixed because that'll get you. And I would say at the end of the half that fourth and two, you know saying earmuffs stay off side, and we just got to do a better job of that and some of our young guys and keep on working with them. Thought the defensive coaches did a good job. I thought the players played hard. They made some plays in terms of the back end of breaking up plays, and they got after the quarterback a little bit, which always helps. So what does that answer?
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Speaker 8: Good?
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Speaker 13: Okay, interception excuse me?
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Speaker 14: How big was Burns quarterback hit and Phillips's interception at the end.
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Speaker 8: Of the game. That was huge?
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Speaker 6: Yeah, huge. Guys played tough, all the guys, not just you know, the defense, special teams, offense, coaches did a good job one game. You know, we try to win. We try to win every week, and we fell short a number of weeks. And it really doesn't matter what you do next week. You got to get ready to play, compete, you know, make plays during the game, play good situational football. May not many secret recipes to win in this league. It's hard. You gotta do a good job all the way around.
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Speaker 15: Big was the game on the ground? From how big was the game on the ground? From from camp today seventy nine to to to kind of compliment to kind of compliment in his first in his first time, Well, I just say, look.
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Speaker 6: The run game was important, control the game, and you know we can do we can do better at it too. Again, that's a tough, tough defense every three and oh for a reason, And they were one of the better teams in the red zone for a reason. They showed that we knew it would be a challenge, just like next week will be a challenge the week after that. But you know, credit our guys. They played, they played their tails off, they played together. But be over in a few hours and we'll get ready to play next week.
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Speaker 1: We'll take time out, we'll come back and react. Jackson Dart will go to the podium as well. All that and more when we return. The Giants defeat the Chargers in this game twenty one to eighteen, will be right back.
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Speaker 1: The Giants, who have been unfortunately a team that has gotten off the slow starts a lot this year. First opening drive of the game and frank with the last couple of years, Jackson Dart drives him right down, runs it in for the touchdown for his first ever career touchdown as an NFL player. The Giants took a seven to nothing lead and they will not relinquish that lead for the remainder of this game. Back here on Giants extra point. John Schmel, Bob Papa, Tiki Barber, and guys, we just heard from Brian Dable at the podium. We are waiting for Jackson Dart to arrive to speak to the media as well. But Tikky, you can just hear Brian Dable and the way he talks about Jackson Dart and it's the competitiveness and the toughness that seems to really be.
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Speaker 2: The stuff that got him.
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Speaker 3: Craze is effusive.
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Speaker 18: If they are going to whoever they is are going to put Jackson Dart on him, then he's going to take credit for when Jackson Dart wins him a football game. And ultimately, it just feels different. It is different. I was choking with Evan and my crew for Wfan that Mike Kafka is going to get a head coaching job because of the season that Jackson Dart is going to have. Think how different the play calling was in the red zone with the QB draw throughout the game. It's just you can do so much more when you have a quarterback who is quick with his decisions to get rid of the football when he doesn't have a read that he likes in a passing game, he'll take it down and go run. Had fifty plus yards rushing today, and the energy around this team is different with him at quarterback.
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Speaker 3: And so was it the right time?
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Speaker 18: Who knows? At the right time they got to win today. So it was the absolute right time for this team and for Jackson Dart.
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Speaker 1: You know, Bob, he's gonna figure out the you know, reading the defenses, putting the foot in the dirt as soon as in the drop and throwing the ball on time and evading some of those sacks and getting the ball out a little bit quickly. But Brian dam when he first named Dart the starter, he mentioned it. In fact, we had it in our game open that he's gonna make loose plays.
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Speaker 2: That's how Brian Dabel talked about him.
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Speaker 1: And this game was full of loose plays from Jackson Darts, whether it was scrambles and runs for first downs or scrambles, and then on the way up in the pocket, he's completing passes over the middle. Those loose plays made a big, big difference in this game.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I would say that we saw more balls thrown in intermediate middle than we did the first three games of the season.
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Speaker 3: He uses his legs to avoid pressure.
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Speaker 4: He could see over the defense and look, you're right, some of these sacks he took. He's gonna look back on it at the end of the year or five weeks from now. He's gonna be like, I can't believe I took those sacks, Like, what was I looking at six of them today?
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Speaker 3: It's just a learning.
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Speaker 4: He walked into three of them, yep, right, I mean, didn't move, just stood there.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, took them right.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: And one time he didn't see the hot coming off the edge he got wallat.
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Speaker 3: But all in all, he brought the team life.
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Speaker 4: Even on the fourth and goal, he made a play and Wandell Robinson. I know the safety came in and knocked the ball out, got a catch, but you expect an NFL receiver with two hands on the ball to secure that thing and talk it away and protect it and make sure you don't let that safety nine.
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Speaker 3: So even on that.
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Speaker 4: Play, and that's one of those loose plays, right, That's one of those loose plays.
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Speaker 2: So he had a decision. He could have run that play.
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Speaker 18: He took the better option, which is throwing at the wandel Robinson who had both hands on it, and he dropped it correct. Even though it was technically a pass breakup. You got to catch that in the NFL, you got to secure that. But I think he brings an energy of life. You know, Charlie, Charlie White Senior was on my podcast earlier this week, and you know, his son was the is the oc at Old Miss And you know when we had him on the show, you know, like we were talking about this and he said, I guarantee you Jim Harbaugh is not happy with this quarterback change. They wanted to play the Giants with Russell Wilson and my brother in law, who's a big Chargers fan, he said the same thing. He's like, I'm really nervous now with Darden there because Wilson kind of is in one spot and Jackson dark gave the Giants' abilities to make those loose plays. And look at the Giants on third down, John, the Giants are awful this year on third down.
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Speaker 3: They were seven of fifteen in the game, right almost.
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Speaker 1: And by the way, two or five in the red zone is actually a market improvement of where they were before this.
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Speaker 18: Right, Look, the red zone will improve. They've got to get their operation good down there, better down there. Their decisions, because this was the last one, was an ego decision. It was we are going to run the ball in and Dave's even said it in this press conference press availability.
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Speaker 2: They wanted to run the ball into the end zone.
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Speaker 18: He probably had a there were better options to get a touchdown down there.
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Speaker 3: It just didn't didn't pan itself out.
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Speaker 18: But the fact that they opening drive red zone easy play called touchdown was awesome.
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Speaker 2: They had Darthun's just a playmaker.
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Speaker 1: He makes plays, even if it's maybe not what the play told him it's supposed to be. He'll figure out a way to turn something into a positive.
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Speaker 8: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: I mean on that third and ten where I think is where he heard his hamshion because he made like.
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Speaker 3: An awkward move and he stumbled a little bit of his way.
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Speaker 4: But the other thing, you know we talked about is, you know, the Giants, they gave up two big runs, but they were able to force the Chargers, who were a good third down team, to four of twelve in this game. And listen, Brian Burns, Kevon Thibodeau, and Abdul Carter combined for twelve hits on Herbert A statue.
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Speaker 2: Only two sacks does not tell the story.
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Speaker 4: No, because they forced him to check it down, they forced him to throw it early. Some of those incompletions were because he had to get rid of the ball. Yes, and we felt the Giants pass rush have a presence in this game as well.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 18: They they get on the field, all three of them together, and it's obvious what Shane Bowen wants to do. Force the opponent's offensive line to block man on man across the board.
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Speaker 2: So Abdul Carter usually is on the on.
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Speaker 18: The center, so he forces the center to have to take him and not double team Decks or whoever, and one of those guys is going to win.
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Speaker 4: And how many how many stunts did they run? One two with Carter and Burns.
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Speaker 1: That's how Burns got his sack on the next to last Chargers drive.
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Speaker 4: I mean, it's it's not fair for an offensive. Now, those guys stunt.
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Speaker 18: Right, you got Decks stunting out and you got a t a t te coming with the inside uh you know loop by Brian Burns and just tracking down justin Herbert who had zero chance on that big third down to make a play.
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Speaker 1: Final one on Dart and Brian Dables asked about this. You have that final third and five, the Giants could have run the ball, forced the Chargers take their last time out. Instead, they decided to throw it, and Davill told us that at some point after the game, Jackson Dort had told him and THEO Johnson had talked about that specific play. I'm guessing against that specific coverage and instead of THEO Johnson continues right across the field, he had him sit down to find that hole in the zone. And that's what he did. An tiki that does show a level of work and commitment to some of the details that you want to see from a.
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Speaker 18: Interesting I've seen that play a lot in the NFL, but it takes a really aware tight end to do this. In fact, the Jacksonville Jaguars with Evan Ingram over the last couple of years, he's no longer there, but it's an.
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Speaker 3: Option route basically.
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Speaker 18: So the tight end just reads whatever the coverage is and so if it's man, he runs across the field, he tries to run away from the linebacker who he has an advantage in coverage on. If it's zone, just find a hole and sit down. And then it's on the quarterback to kind of interpret and read what's happening there. And that's exactly what occurred there. They dropped back into this little shill, this same kind of defense you saw with Darius Slayton catch those two in the curl, You drop back into a shell, You find the void, buy some time to your guys set.
00:26:09
Speaker 3: And then you and you hit him.
00:26:10
Speaker 18: Belly made a great catch there and and got it down for the big for huge first down to allow them to ice this game.
00:26:16
Speaker 1: Okay, and the other thing I want to bring up here to guys, we haven't mentioned he yet in the post game, we should and I joked with with the Tiki Bob in the category of the Giants can of nice things, there was bad news in this game. Uh on a free play, Yeah, probably the best offensive player. Not probably, Well, he is the best offense, their best offensive He's one of the best offensive.
00:26:37
Speaker 3: Players in the league.
00:26:37
Speaker 18: So it's not even like he might talk about how bad this is for the Giants top five wide receiver. It gives other guys an opportunity. Bo Collins now has got to become more important than Jalen. Hyatt has to find a role that that's meaningful on this team.
00:26:53
Speaker 3: But losing the league Neighbors, there's no sugar coating it.
00:26:55
Speaker 18: He is He's a dominant player in this game, and without him, their offense suffers. It loses a massive big playability. And the first thing I thought was, I hate this turf, man. This turf is just it injures so many people over the years, and that look like that, I know, but it just it still feels like it's this turf.
00:27:16
Speaker 2: And usually it's like a change of direction thing with that right not usually, but.
00:27:21
Speaker 18: He stopped, he stopped the plant to jump off his right leg. You could see it in the replays. It is buckled. It's just like when you tear your achilles. You see a buckle happen in the musculature, and you just he didn't even try to catch the ball.
00:27:34
Speaker 2: He just reached immediately for his knee.
00:27:36
Speaker 3: How you knew what that was?
00:27:37
Speaker 1: Quick time out. We'll come back here from Jackson Dart again. The Giants with their first victory of this season. They proved the record to one and three defeat the Chargers twenty one to eighteen. We're from Jackson Dart and the rest of the players downstairs. When we return right after this.
00:27:47
Speaker 5: You're listening to Giants Extra Point on the WFAN Giants Radio Network.
00:27:53
Speaker 19: This is Jackson Dart and you're listening to Giants Football on the Fan w FA N and w FA n F New York.
00:28:02
Speaker 1: All right, we're back here on Giants Extra Point. The Giants defeat the Los Angeles Chargers twenty one to.
00:28:08
Speaker 2: Eighteen for their first victory of the year.
00:28:10
Speaker 1: Or awaiting Jackson Dart down on the podium to address the media and guys again. Now, the Giants had two New Orleans next week to take on the Saints. They much needed to win. Here against a very very good Chargers team, a team victory for the New York Football Giants and Tiki. We didn't have here for the first segment, and that was kind of the point I was making. We talked about not allowing or forcing Jackson Dart to be a savior as a rookie quarterback, and he got a lot of help from his boys, whether it was the running game, the defenders, the takeaways, take your pack.
00:28:39
Speaker 18: I gotta tell you, the biggest thing was the offensive line. We didn't mention them. That's a great point. They did not present a problem for the first time and forever. It feels like with this Giants team, Andrew Thomas Healthy is just a difference maker up front. It obviously helped in the run game. You saw him controlling those edges. Camp Scattabho had a couple of big runs out that way.
00:29:00
Speaker 3: Also in a.
00:29:00
Speaker 18: Past game, you never really felt that with a four man rush that Jackson Dart was in trouble. Now, as Bob mentioned earlier, he did get caught on one of those those blitzes. That's probably his own blitz That's why he didn't see it coming from the backside. He thought the guy dropping was giving him time and he got crushed. But I like what this offensive line has done. They weren't a conversation point. And it's the first time you can say that in a long time.
00:29:24
Speaker 2: Which is amazing.
00:29:24
Speaker 1: Because you see the six sack number in you're probably like, oh man, the offense line of the rough day.
00:29:28
Speaker 2: But they but they didn't. They really didn't know.
00:29:29
Speaker 4: I mean there was a couple of them, right, But some of it was coverage, yeah, and some of it I think was not seeing things.
00:29:36
Speaker 3: And there was one or two of them where he's got to throw it away.
00:29:39
Speaker 4: And even you know, Russell Wilson came in and took one of those sacks and he just looked completely overwhelmed right as the pressure was coming up front. But you know, how about the fact that the Giants ran it as well as they did. This is listen, this is a defense since the start of twenty twenty four that's giving up the fewest points per game, third best third down since Jesse Mencher came as the defensive coordinator unto Harbor. So a team that had only had twelve games where they allowed less than twenty points, right in twelve of those games, right, you went in and you scored twenty one against him. They only gave up ninety five yards rushing a game. Yeah, so like you did it against a legit team, you know. And you could tell me that Alt went out and Beckton wasn't playing and all that others, but I'll tell you the league neighbors got hurt.
00:30:31
Speaker 2: Yeah that's true.
00:30:32
Speaker 3: So you know, right, you did a good job against your defense.
00:30:35
Speaker 1: And Bob tip your cap because it was the Giants defense that put them in position for ten of those points, right. Ten of those points came off of the Drew Phillips interception that was a touchdown, and then three points came off to Dexter.
00:30:47
Speaker 2: By the way exception.
00:30:47
Speaker 18: That's the important thing to also mention is that the Giants have just not been good at turning the ball over in the last three years or two years really, and to get two turnovers DEXes, which people have been complaining about his slow start to the season, well he showed himself today. They had five oh year last year exactly, he had two today, almost took it into the end zone. Obviously, it only resulted in three points, which is, you know, disappointing when you're on the two yard line or four yard line after Dex's interception, but the interception was also enormous.
00:31:14
Speaker 2: Drew Phillips hugely aware of what.
00:31:16
Speaker 18: Was happening as that play, that pick play was being diagnosed. He got back Justin Herbert just threw it blindly offensive pass interference and he returns it down into the tight Rhditorio.
00:31:26
Speaker 1: And Bob mccrawl said this during the broadcast. They were pressing the wide receivers at the line of scrimmage. When you press, see what happens you guy. Guys run into each other. In fact, I think a Conkie trip because he ran into his tight end who was trying to set the pick on the plats.
00:31:38
Speaker 18: That's right, and so you give him credit for understanding what was happening. I think also Shane Bowen did things a little bit differently here.
00:31:44
Speaker 3: He conceded some things.
00:31:47
Speaker 18: Justin Herbert was very content to run that bench route, that little, you know, six to eight yard out route. They were given it to a conceiving it to him and if you're gonna throw it, we're gonna tackle you. I think the other big thing, as a put in addition to with the offensive line that we brought up this Giants defense tackled better than they have in previous games, and they made the stops in front of him. Hell, the last play of the game where Cordell Flott gets in position to tackle Quintin Jefferson right after the catch, I think it's Quentin Deffson, maybe Johnson. Quintin Johnson right right after the catch. Clock runs out. Game's over. Otherwise he gets out of mountains. They have a chance for hail Mary.
00:32:22
Speaker 4: You know when we look at these games, right, you know, you look at it. You want perfect, right, nothing is perfect. You know you think about Banks taking a bad angle on a third and nineteen and allowing Herbert to run for twenty four. Obviously they really, you know, the interior did a good job. You can't let Hampton go fifty four yards for a touchdown.
00:32:41
Speaker 3: That's a that's a breakdown.
00:32:43
Speaker 4: But you won a game where your longest play from scrimmage on offense was eighteen yards, right, right, Yeah, their longest play from scrimmage was eighteen yards today.
00:32:53
Speaker 3: But you ran the ball. You're stuck with the run.
00:32:56
Speaker 4: Even when scattab who only got two and he's unbelievable at getting yards.
00:33:00
Speaker 3: When it looks like there's nothing.
00:33:01
Speaker 2: But the running backs were only a three yards per carry, but it didn't matter.
00:33:04
Speaker 8: Didn't matter.
00:33:05
Speaker 2: They had twenty thirty two totes.
00:33:08
Speaker 3: That's what.
00:33:09
Speaker 1: There's thirty two carries for one hundred and seven yards, right, that's by the running backs.
00:33:12
Speaker 3: How often do you get to do that? And scagory in the game.
00:33:15
Speaker 4: There's a lot of time in this game where Herbert wasn't on the field because the Giants were on these fourteen play grinding drives.
00:33:21
Speaker 3: The penalty, you get a first down and.
00:33:24
Speaker 2: You could need that now with Neighbor's not playing.
00:33:25
Speaker 1: If the injury turns out to be what the reports are, you're gonna need that running game the rest of the year to play that one.
00:33:30
Speaker 18: To your point, to Bob's point there, the Los Angeles Chargers ran fifty six plays.
00:33:34
Speaker 3: Think about that.
00:33:35
Speaker 2: That's today's NFL fifty six plays.
00:33:38
Speaker 3: The Giants ran.
00:33:38
Speaker 1: Sixty nine TV the example, I think believe the Cowboys ran ninety plays against the Giants in Week two if I remember correctly.
00:33:46
Speaker 3: Big difference.
00:33:46
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was overtime too, that was overtime as well. That's a fair Poe.
00:33:49
Speaker 4: But you know, Peky made a really good point though, we know Slayton is a good player. We've seen Wan Dell play well. Should have caught that touchdown pass. But now there's gonna be a real opportunity here as Dark gets more and more familiar with reading coverages and defenses and everything else. It's put up or shut up time for Jalen Hyatt because he's gonna be asked now to do some more things and we're gonna find out if he can play or not in the National Football League.
00:34:20
Speaker 20: Right.
00:34:20
Speaker 4: I'm not saying he needs to replace the leak neighbors, but they need the collective now to step up in production. You're gonna use the tight ends a.
00:34:28
Speaker 3: Little bit more. Speaking of how about the play by man hurts on the punt.
00:34:31
Speaker 18: Great play at the end of the great play trips him up, just barely trips him up and prevents him from picking up another twelve.
00:34:38
Speaker 3: To fifteen yards or so.
00:34:40
Speaker 18: Great play by I'm coverage by your backup tight end and you bring in on short yardage and tight red zone situations.
00:34:47
Speaker 4: So you know the Giants are gonna need Hyatt to finally step up. We're gonna find out. It's put up or shut up time for him, and uh everybody's gonna have to do a little bit more with no mo leaku neighbors, because it's gonna be hard to win games on this profile when your longest play from scrimmage's eighteen yards, because you're not gonna get two turnovers every game. You're not gonna start inside the five yard line twice in a game often, so they're gonna have to figure out a way using the tight ends and however they readjust their passing game. But people are gonna have to step up and help because losing neighbors is catastrophic.
00:35:24
Speaker 1: Yeah, and by the way, Dabill brought this up to you talk about the run game of leaning into that you talk about a few times. Jackson Dart's gonna be sore this week. Jackson Dort's gonna be sore this week. I don't know if that was him taking hits to the hamstring. I'm not sure which one of those days ever referring to. I think it probably is everything. But you do wonder now how big of a role at least next week Jackson Dark can play in the designed run game.
00:35:45
Speaker 2: He can still scramble a little bit.
00:35:47
Speaker 21: We saw it.
00:35:47
Speaker 1: He still ran a little bit in the second half, Tiki, But you're wonder in that design, we didn't see one read option in the entire second half of this game.
00:35:54
Speaker 18: True, and they probably could have utilized it, especially on that drive where they're trying to run out the clock in the four minute offense and Jim Harball is using his timeouts. They were they were designing these run dogs off the edges time after time after time. If you do one zone read and force them to either sit back in that or keep it and go around the edge, then Jackson Dart probably picks up a huge gainer and ends the game way before they had to.
00:36:20
Speaker 4: And Chicky, you know, from being a young player in the league to an older player in the league, young guys bounce back a lot quicker.
00:36:29
Speaker 18: You feel so much better when you're young than when you're thirty eight years years old.
00:36:33
Speaker 4: Here, if you think he's gonna give any opportunity now to have Russell Wilson come back in and start.
00:36:38
Speaker 1: Oh no, no, no, no, no, no, he's gonna play. I'm not saying he's not gonna play. I'm not sectually how much he's gonna be able to run. That's all I'm saying. All Right, we are with Jackson start at the podium. But we do have some players sound from the locker room. Uh, Connor, why don't we get Abdul carterp He had a great game. He was credited for five quarterback hicks even though we did not have a sack. He was certainly disrupted throughout the entire game. That's your abdual quarter to talk to the media.
00:37:00
Speaker 2: In the locker.
00:37:01
Speaker 8: You gotta lock in, you gotta focus.
00:37:03
Speaker 11: We gotta see all the things that we did we're not so good this week, to improve on it and you better next week's.
00:37:10
Speaker 3: Effect.
00:37:11
Speaker 11: Like I'm happy, all I do, all I care about is winning, So I'm happy about this. But like I said, just one game. We gotta continue to stack stack and winning stack days. They've been ready for the next week.
00:37:20
Speaker 10: You've had a tight bond with Jackson since you guys got here the day after your draft. Just curious what kind of advice you've given them. Heard you've been talking to them a lot. You guys both go back and forth.
00:37:30
Speaker 11: I'll always tell him to stay ready because you never know what your time that's going off.
00:37:33
Speaker 3: This time that's called and came up for us.
00:37:34
Speaker 11: But that's our conversations, making sure we both stay on top of our game, doing our jobs at the best of the best.
00:37:40
Speaker 10: Withe somebody had said that you guys were the future, and you kind of corrected them and said, you guys are part of the present.
00:37:46
Speaker 3: Future is now.
00:37:49
Speaker 20: This is the first time I'm giving up the first time I'll effect you.
00:37:57
Speaker 12: I'm sure effective, but I feel like we be even more of that.
00:38:00
Speaker 8: I feel like we're still missing opportunities out there. But like I said, we're gonna watch.
00:38:03
Speaker 6: The coming out to see what we did wrong.
00:38:05
Speaker 9: Did you feel like you were around harder to get the show?
00:38:09
Speaker 3: Do you think the same?
00:38:10
Speaker 22: Think the stage?
00:38:13
Speaker 6: Why why are you having such success with.
00:38:15
Speaker 23: The like stunts inside coming off yet start?
00:38:18
Speaker 8: I get a credit to my teammates.
00:38:20
Speaker 11: If somebody does their job at a high level, which opens it up for me, and if I do my job opens it up for them.
00:38:26
Speaker 3: So it's like I said, it's a team game.
00:38:27
Speaker 8: It's the best team on.
00:38:29
Speaker 24: Any advice, any advice to duckson the next time we gets an interception.
00:38:33
Speaker 11: I feel like did a great job. He was moving out there and stumbing towards end. But that was a big time player, you know.
00:38:39
Speaker 1: He psykes me, how many times have we gotten on these post game shows to get this to your first year? But Bob could attest to this. You know, the Giants were banged up on the offensive line. The other team ran all these twisting stunts, and the tackles couldn't block anybody, and the quarterback was running for the lives of the whole game.
00:38:52
Speaker 2: And that's why they only scored eighteen points.
00:38:55
Speaker 1: The shoes on the other foot today the way you're hearing Carter talk about how they got after Justin Herbert again.
00:39:00
Speaker 18: And then they took advantage of Joe a going down early in this game with an ankle injury.
00:39:04
Speaker 2: I believe contecting uh being.
00:39:07
Speaker 18: Out for this game obviously Rashaun Slater because they's done for the year early in this game, Uh declus. They took advantage of it at left tackle and Joe Alt's plays. In fact, one of those pressures, you know, Abdul Carter just ran right around him, so speed rushing and have just speed dip speed rushing and and see you later. And so you give them credit for taking advantage. Again, the sack totals aren't there. There was only two of them, but it doesn't show the impact that they had on this on this Chargers offense, who up until you know today, have been one of the most explosive and dominant offenses in the in the league.
00:39:41
Speaker 3: And so you give them credit because.
00:39:43
Speaker 2: They they they they took, they took what was.
00:39:46
Speaker 18: In front of them and forced the Chargers to earn every little thing. Say for those couple of big plays, the Chargers had to earn everything that they put out on this field today.
00:39:57
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean listen, I didn't hear anybody I and hear anybody qualifying things when Andrew Thomas got hurt. During the course of seasons, the Giants offensive line got run over and they had you know, josh A Zudu or other people, ty Phillips or whatever playing left tackle. So the heck with it man tough against the Giants for years.
00:40:18
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, absolutely, you know how many times in the past, Bot, But we sat here going into a game. Oh you know, there's starting left tackles out, this guy's banged up, and then the Giants get one sacked to the quarterback.
00:40:27
Speaker 2: Those were billion yards.
00:40:28
Speaker 3: And this is the other thing.
00:40:29
Speaker 4: You know, after the Giants drafted Abdul Carter, there were people out there that were saying, you know, well, the Giant should probably trade cave On Thibodeau.
00:40:37
Speaker 2: Not smart people.
00:40:37
Speaker 8: No.
00:40:38
Speaker 4: In fact, with the Giants there was they picked up his fifth year option because he is a bargain.
00:40:42
Speaker 3: Now next year under contract. You know what you do.
00:40:44
Speaker 4: You worry about that two years from now, right but right now you have the formation of between Dexter, Lawrence Abduall, Carter, Brian Burns and cave On Thibodeau.
00:40:55
Speaker 3: If they can all stay healthy. Now you have a disruptive group.
00:40:59
Speaker 2: With they two schools or Lee.
00:41:00
Speaker 1: That's the other part of this, right you can use those guys because you're up to scores in the fourth quarter, which one's last time the Giants.
00:41:06
Speaker 3: Are up two scores the fourth quarter.
00:41:07
Speaker 18: DJ Davidson played well too, a couple of pressures, just quick pressures up beat in the center, and so their defensive front has been better, I think better today than they were in the first couple of weeks.
00:41:20
Speaker 1: Davis had a good play in that one run play, forced Hampton inside on that one round.
00:41:23
Speaker 18: But in order for this Giants team to beat some of the better teams in the league, and again the Chargers are a good team. But to beat the Eagles coming in in the upcoming weeks, they're gonna have to be dominant, uh in that first and second level defensively, otherwise the team are gonna take advantage.
00:41:38
Speaker 1: All right, let's uh hear from Andrew Thomas downstairs. The Giants offensive line did.
00:41:41
Speaker 3: Not have Andrew Thomas for a huge fumble recovery.
00:41:46
Speaker 1: That was a huge fumble, absolutely right, So let's hear about that and a whole lot more from Andrew Thomas after the game.
00:41:52
Speaker 11: Why do you think you guys finished this when they've been so many times where you guys have played in the game and not finished.
00:41:56
Speaker 3: It made it different today?
00:41:57
Speaker 23: And it's just we made those plays today and you know the previous games we didn't.
00:42:02
Speaker 8: That's that's important.
00:42:03
Speaker 3: How do you feel coming out of them? Good?
00:42:04
Speaker 8: It was?
00:42:05
Speaker 23: It was a tough one fall through. Glad to be out there with my teammates and continue to improve and get better so I can help us out.
00:42:12
Speaker 3: What do you think the way Scataboo ran the ball.
00:42:15
Speaker 23: Tough as usual? That's just how he is. He brings that juice star offense and continue to do that.
00:42:20
Speaker 3: There is a blueprint for the Giants to win.
00:42:23
Speaker 11: I imagine it to play with the lead and let Burns, Carter Thibodeau decks key off they had I think they had twenty quarterback pressures today.
00:42:31
Speaker 3: Is that kind of what you saw today? Is that the blueprint?
00:42:33
Speaker 23: Yeah, we know our front is dominant, but again selfishly as office line and I want to be dominant as well.
00:42:39
Speaker 8: Like I want us to be out to run the fall.
00:42:41
Speaker 23: We want to protect and allow Jackson to get the ball to the receivers and who knows where our teams will go from there if we can do that.
00:42:48
Speaker 25: How different was the style of offense obviously with him pe more running quarterbacks? But was it like kind of learning that this week and doing it today?
00:42:56
Speaker 23: It was a little different. We've had some Pep runs in before. I don't want to work some stuff in the offices, and so it wasn't having too much in a bdjusin I would say on the adjustment PRIs.
00:43:06
Speaker 8: More. We definitely pick on some front.
00:43:08
Speaker 23: Just morning and Thomas, but obviously was working so I would continue to do that.
00:43:14
Speaker 4: That's Andrew Thomas. So let me set the stage for you here, Johnny. It's thirteen to ten giants, right, We're in the third quarter. There's six twelve to go on the third quarter, and there's an aborted snap, and Andrew Thomas recovers the ball at the Giants one yard.
00:43:32
Speaker 2: And it was bouncing around a little bit too.
00:43:34
Speaker 4: By the way, it doesn't show up in the stat sheet, right, But here's what happens. They fail on third and thirteen. Now Jamie Gillen hits a booming, lining sixty nine yard pot drives it. They got eleven yards on the return. Of course you're gonna get eleven yards on the return on a sixty nine yard pot.
00:43:53
Speaker 1: It was a terrible return by still by the way took We took way too long to run all.
00:43:57
Speaker 2: It comes down and makes a big play tackle.
00:43:59
Speaker 4: So so you go from potentially them having the ball to one yard line and taking the lead in the game to you punting it, covering it, changing the field position. And then on third and six, Phillips gets the interception, returns it to the three, and dart with the shovel pass to THEO Johnson and now you're up. You get the two points, you're up twenty one to ten. If Andrew Domas doesn't recover that fumble, you could be losing in this game seventeen to thirteen. Instead, you play good special teams, you make a play on defense, you scoring goal to goal Andrew Thomas, that play might have saved this game.
00:44:38
Speaker 1: We don't have the feature anymore, but that's a good argument for making that the turning point of the game if we had that feature in.
00:44:43
Speaker 18: Oh, I'll tell you it is the turning point at the game because that the Chargers kind of took back some of the momentum right before half, right the huge play to Quinton Johnson, the touchdown that made it a one possession game coming into the second half. The Giants, you know, they punted, you know twice until that, until that situation that Bob's talking about, didn't they get a touchdown and all of a sudden they are now back in control.
00:45:08
Speaker 4: So Thomas recovers the fumble, you get a really good punt by Gallon, good coverage, defense, gets a pick, wreturns it inside the five. You score a touchdown. That is the three phases of football. We're helping you win a football game. And Andrew Thomas may have saved the game. We're covering that ball at the one yard all.
00:45:26
Speaker 2: Right, quick time out we're still awaiting Jackson Dart.
00:45:28
Speaker 1: I'm sure the trainers and Ronnie Barnes are all over that dude after this game. I was probably taking him so long to get to the podium. Quick time out, we'll be back. Giants defeat the Chargers at twenty one to eighteen.
00:45:38
Speaker 5: You're listening to Giants Extra Point on the Wfan Giants Radio network.
00:45:44
Speaker 2: We're back Jackson Dart at the podium.
00:45:46
Speaker 8: Jacks, were you surprised that.
00:45:47
Speaker 20: All of that, They've put the ball up and they put the trust in you to throw in that situation?
00:45:52
Speaker 19: No, I wasn't, because you know, I wanted the ball in my hand, you know, No, I think back on the game. Obviously I haven't watched the tape, but you know there's mistakes that I made that I want back in the passing game and I want to be cleaner.
00:46:07
Speaker 8: So I was. I was grateful.
00:46:09
Speaker 19: You know, they did have the confidence of me to you know, give me the ball there, and I just knew that situation, you know, the guys out there with me that we were going to make a play.
00:46:17
Speaker 8: Your move.
00:46:18
Speaker 26: Nobody else got you out of some tough situations today.
00:46:20
Speaker 8: Would you say that the way you play today is kind of a the way you like to balance it out in terms of using your legs.
00:46:26
Speaker 19: And also, yeah, I mean I would like to be a little bit you know, more efficient in the passing game, you know, creating a little bit you know, a few more expulsive plays. But you know, they had a really good plan for us, so you got to give them a ton of credit. And they've played, you know, really good defense these past three weeks and we knew that coming into this game. And you know, you know, the vertical passing game down the field just really just wasn't there because of how they played. And you know, they're very disciplined, so you know, we were able to take some things underneath and you know, things like a little sticky in coverage, you know, just try to make some players and all that.
00:47:00
Speaker 12: So how will does offense change for you?
00:47:02
Speaker 3: And overall, if Malak's injury is long term.
00:47:05
Speaker 27: Is heared?
00:47:06
Speaker 19: Obviously prayers to him, you know, I don't we don't. I don't think that we know exactly what happened. So you know, he's gonna be one of my first phone calls to check on him. But Malik is I've said it like Malik's one on one. So when you have a guy like that on the field, you have all the confidence in the world that he can just be a dominant game changer. But I thought, you know, you know, from that moment, you know, obviously it's really hard scene. You know, one of your best friends go down, but we were able to to rally and I thought guys made some good plays. But you know, obviously, just prayers to him and yeah.
00:47:44
Speaker 15: What's kind of the one through your mind and that as you watched it. So I'm just on Malik still, what was going through your mind in that situation?
00:47:53
Speaker 19: You know, obviously it just hurts, you know, because you know it's the worst part of this game is the injuries. So you know, you hate to see you know, your teammate, your brother go down and look in pain like that. But you know, I'm just gonna be praying for him, and you know, I got us back through it all.
00:48:09
Speaker 28: You know what it's like, you know what it's like to gut and type, Well, what was going through your head as you're standing on the sidelines as the clock expires and you realize you're getting pad the first time holding me.
00:48:23
Speaker 19: I was waiting for the hit zero because you know obviously that Dallas game. You know, I in my mind, I thought we were gonna have that one. So I was just staring at the clock, you know, I was waiting for it to countdown. But you know, John running was right next to me, and that was a cool moment to have with him. And yeah, it was just you know, special to get the first one and let's just start.
00:48:43
Speaker 9: You know what it's like to as a quarterback to get him did and get hit.
00:48:47
Speaker 3: But could you tell it all from.
00:48:49
Speaker 9: What your guys on defense were doing to justin and you know how important was that and getting resulting.
00:48:53
Speaker 19: Yeah, I thought our defense, you know, carried us through this game. Thought our defense offensive line you know, played at you know, a really elite level. And you know there's a quarterback when when there's pressure like that and there's guys always in the backfield, no matter who you are, the game just speeds up. And you know, they have a really good team up there and have played really good. So you know, our d line knew that they had to be play at a dominant level for us to win. And just you know, really credit to those guys for stepping up and making a lot of plays.
00:49:27
Speaker 3: With Dable after the games?
00:49:28
Speaker 8: Could you very emotionally?
00:49:29
Speaker 7: You have to know this was a made decision for him to go to you, So did that?
00:49:32
Speaker 8: Don you feel how much this meant to him? You get this this way?
00:49:35
Speaker 2: Yeah?
00:49:36
Speaker 19: You know, like I said that, we've been really close in these past weeks, and it's hard, you know when when you feel like you should win, you have plenty of opportunities to win, and there's just plays where you know, we just didn't make and uh, you know, I think everybody just in the locker room feel that way too, Like we know that we have really good players on our team, so I think it was just, you know, this is just a big like confidence builder for us as a team to you know, have a win like this where it wasn't easy, it wasn't clean, and we had to fight, you know, just like the other weeks, but this time we finished. So you know, I thought our coaches did a really good job. And you know, obviously Dave was just excited to get a win.
00:50:16
Speaker 8: Like what was that a race? Like? And what do you what do you say to the like would you take him?
00:50:20
Speaker 28: Yeah?
00:50:20
Speaker 19: I mean me and Daves just have a special relationship, you know, he's he's the guy that believed in me from day one, and you know, I think it does say a lot. You know that he he made the decision and have the confidence in me, and you know, even just giving me the ball and those situations on that third down to make a play. So, you know, I think that when I know that, when you have a coach who you know, you know has your back, you know, I'm gonna go out there and do everything that I can for him to to win.
00:50:47
Speaker 11: What us coming into your your first NFL win, first NFL start, coming into the stadium, there were a lot of young kids.
00:50:55
Speaker 3: Andrew Jersey Camp going backwards.
00:50:58
Speaker 8: And Anakin Sky. What does it mean for you.
00:51:01
Speaker 11: To see young kids now emulating you so early in your life.
00:51:05
Speaker 19: It's it's really cool because you know, I was one of those kids, you know, you know, like Russell Wilson was, you know, a guy who you know I had, you know, one of his first pairs of cleats when they came out, you know, and you know, when you grow up and there's guys that you look up to, you you try to emulate things. You know, in the backyard when you're just playing around, you know, with your friends. So, uh, it's cool to see that. You know, it definitely gives me a feeling of you know, you just want to play really good to make people happy. And and obviously when because you know there's a lot of people who you know, take time out of their day and and take the sacrifice. You know, the tickets are not always the cheapest, and you know they're here to support us, and I think it just means a lot. You know, it definitely means a lot to me to see that support, and you know, it makes you definitely go harder.
00:51:55
Speaker 29: Forced off the field for the concussion examining.
00:51:59
Speaker 19: I mean I was pissed. I mean, I don't want to see anybody try to sprint seventy yards as hard as you can and then you gotta run back and get ready for the next play like you're gonna be tired.
00:52:10
Speaker 8: So that's all it was.
00:52:12
Speaker 19: I was just tired, and obviously you just I never want to come out.
00:52:14
Speaker 8: Of the game.
00:52:17
Speaker 2: Yes, Scot's a baller, you know.
00:52:19
Speaker 19: I just think that we play very similar like mentality wise. I may be smarter in the open field, are taking some hits and whatnot, But uh, when you have a guy like that who you know, just kind of brings the juice every single day and gives it his all the guys around him want to play harder, so and then off the field, you know, we just have a really cool connection.
00:52:38
Speaker 8: The hamstring.
00:52:39
Speaker 6: How much did you have to fight through pain or adjust your game like mid game playing through it?
00:52:44
Speaker 19: And in fact, I really had to adjust my game. It's just kind of football like, you know, you're gonna take a little bit of a step or you know something, You're not gonna feel perfect throughout a game, and you know, I'll be just I'll take this week and recover and I'll be ready to go.
00:53:07
Speaker 1: Jackson Dar at the podium after the game. The Giants defeat the Chargers twenty one to eighteen. Player press conferences are brought to you by MetLife, the official insurance company of the New York Giants. And Bobby talked about that long run where he was tired. They took him off with the concussion. I was thought someone's gonna ask him about the almost stiff arm punch to the side of the helmet hut his way down. Obviously he was healthy after that, thankfully, but and he did say he had to take fewer hits in the open field. Obviously he was getting hit by defenders way too much of this game.
00:53:34
Speaker 3: Yeah, you can't.
00:53:35
Speaker 4: I mean, stiff armer is one thing like swiping at a guy's helmet because especially with your throwing hand, I mean, you could get your hand caught in the face mask.
00:53:43
Speaker 3: Anything can happen, right.
00:53:45
Speaker 4: Tiki, we were talking about early in the second quarter, Giants were on a drive and it looked like on it looked like on second and goal at the seven, Scataboo was gonna go in for a touchdown. Yes, and Cam Hart a heck of a play, great tackle by him.
00:54:02
Speaker 3: To stop him.
00:54:03
Speaker 4: He went really low as someone who scored the most second most rushing touchdowns and Giants history, I guess Brandon Jacob.
00:54:11
Speaker 3: He would come pill for those from me.
00:54:13
Speaker 4: But my question to you is what's the teaching point here for Cam Scataboo that Tiki Barber learned as the Giants all time leaving rushing.
00:54:22
Speaker 18: So first of all, he leaves his feet a lot, and some of it helps him because he'll jump through cuts and you know it's it's a lot of traffic in the middle of the field and he'll squeeze his way through land on his feet and then be able to leverage himself back down into a power position and get yards. So it's not always bad, but when you're in a one on one situation, you should never ever try to leave your feet, unless it's one of those hurtling over our guys that we see these wide receivers and running backs do. And the reason is because when you're on an angle like that, the minute you leave your feet, you've lost control and all it takes is a tiny swipe and you're on the ground. What he should have done is realize that this defender who's trailing him slightly is going to go low, so he himself should get really low. Let that defender hit his shoulder, like, lean into him instead of trying to run away from him. Lean back into him. Take the contact, which you're he's gonna run through. He runs through contact from two hundred and eighty pounds defensive line. He's so sure he's a low center gravity, but it doesn't even matter. He's gonna run through that contact. So initiate the contact yourself, stunt that that that tackle attempt, and then walk into the end zone. He'll look at it and he'll he'll say, jumping is what what cost him that touchdown?
00:55:38
Speaker 4: Right, because then and then he you know, and he also was trying to stiff farm there right at that point. But you're saying you're out of control. You know he's trailing, he's coming in. He you know, he's not gonna come high because he knows he's gonna lose. Right in that situation, you just get low and almost lean into him. Take the contact, and you're gonna bounce off him. He ain't wrapping you, right. It was one of the things it took me a while to learn that.
00:56:00
Speaker 18: Probably didn't figure that out toil my six or so year in the league, but I realized that initiating contact would often free me up because you're you're shocking the defender. You know he thinks I'm trying to run away. You just bang into him and just keep you know you're gonna keep running after it. Just bang into him, stop him, and then run away from him. They're gonna fall down around your ankles. But he's so strong with his if his feet are on the ground, there is no dB in the league. It's gonna tackle him one on one. Giants football, I'm sorry taking you more, finish, No, No, that's it.
00:56:29
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00:57:09
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00:57:11
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00:57:24
Speaker 1: Truck or SUV Ford Official Truck and SUV of the New York Football Giants. Jackson Dark's first touchdown pass as a member of the Giants and for the fans that did not watch the game, imagine the old Mahomes Travis Kelcey shovel pass inside.
00:57:37
Speaker 2: That's pretty much what that was.
00:57:38
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm sure that came out of the Mike Cafta playbook coming over from Kansas City.
00:57:42
Speaker 18: Did they set that play up the entire game? They had one play early in the game, same formation, they tossed it out to Camps Gataboo, same side toss. They faked the pitch right well, no, no, the same side toss to camps Gataboo.
00:57:53
Speaker 3: He picked up on a five or six yards or so.
00:57:55
Speaker 18: They did another one later in the game where they faked the toss and threw a lant route and then ultimately they brought it back one more time, fake the toss and then threw the shovel pass. So Kafka is able to layer the play calling with Jackson Dart because there's so many different things that he can do. You're not doing that in the first three games of the year because Russell is not that that that sixth skill position player threat that Jackson Dart is.
00:58:20
Speaker 1: Bob, But give me your final thoughts here on this game and your brief look ahead to h New Orleans next week.
00:58:27
Speaker 2: When we can you can go get some nice gumbo.
00:58:29
Speaker 3: Yeah, New Orleans.
00:58:30
Speaker 4: Look, they played Buffalo tough for a while today, but they have a quarterback who has never won a game in the NFL, Spencer Raler. They're challenged a little offensively. I don't know if they're gonna make a switch to Tyler's shot, but just keep this pass rush going, run the football. Jackson Dart's gonna learn a lot from this, and look, just enjoy it. Man, enjoy it, like the Giant fans have been through so much agony, and you know, you had the loss of the Cowboys, the stinker last son, the stinking offensive performance against Washington, and today every facet of the team chipped in.
00:59:07
Speaker 3: Was it perfect? No, we know they're a flawed team, but man, enjoy it.
00:59:12
Speaker 4: You know, I was talking to a bunch of people on the sideline before the game, you know, with ownership and other people, and you know, you just you were hoping, like give hope to the fan base, and you moved up into the first round, you drafted Jackson Dart and today was the start of what is hopefully optimism because it's been so down in Dour for the last two years, and now you got something to sink your teeth into It wasn't perfect by any stretch, and Jackson Dart's gonna learn from this experience. But today you've got a complete team effort against an undefeated football team. And you know what, Enjoy your dinner tonight, Enjoy rasing your friends at work tomorrow that your Giants beat the Chargers and everything else. And you know what, for the first time in a long time, Giant fans can be proud of their.
01:00:07
Speaker 3: Football team with the effort they got.
01:00:09
Speaker 4: And I'm excited about what I saw, and I'm excited about what could be next for them.
01:00:15
Speaker 2: Bob, we'll talk to you next week.
01:00:17
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01:01:52
Speaker 1: Back here on Giants extra point right here on the fan again. Giants defeat the Charges for the first win twenty one to eighteen. You just heard from Dexter Lawrence. We're gonna have audio from him downstairs in just a moment. We'll hear from Brian Burns. Paul Deatino joins us as well, and of course get on the line. We will take your calls at eight eight eight, eight oh eight, one zero, one to nine as the Giants again get their first win of the season. As Jackson dar gets a win in his first game starting for the New York Football Giants. Let's go downstairs. Dexter Lawrence addressed the media after the game.
01:02:21
Speaker 16: I got my hand on the ball earlier in the game, but it got called back, and this one he just threw it right over my head. I put my hands up, Dallas, I missed it, and this and this week I got it and tried to go score.
01:02:35
Speaker 20: Oftentimes, when defensive linemen get a deflection like that, the lands in their hands, teammates and screaming for the ball.
01:02:40
Speaker 2: Was there anyway he would go to give that thing up. Nobody was close to me.
01:02:44
Speaker 16: I'll tell everybody, I'm the fastest.
01:02:48
Speaker 20: How close did you think you were gonna get to the goal line?
01:02:51
Speaker 2: I thought I was gonna score.
01:02:52
Speaker 16: I knew he was gonna go low, but I couldn't catch my feet quick enough. But yeah, and then then I just went down.
01:03:00
Speaker 20: About the other defensive line where they kind of give you a real nice Griben whinning when you got caught up the three.
01:03:05
Speaker 16: Nah, I need I needed to catch some win.
01:03:09
Speaker 3: For the defense to close this game out. What does that mean?
01:03:12
Speaker 14: Uh?
01:03:12
Speaker 21: After being in this position before and not being able to.
01:03:15
Speaker 16: Do Uh, that's that's everything. You know, we we asks for that. You know, we actually be on the field when it matters most. And you know, and this week we just took advantage. You know, the whole game, we was on each other about speaking through the game about situational awareness and understanding what plays need to be made right here and giving the offense short fields to play on, and the whole the whole game we was speaking and and and and when you speak on stuff like that, things, that's what happens.
01:03:41
Speaker 3: Is it actually important because it was darker, it's not mean you're.
01:03:43
Speaker 6: Playing with it.
01:03:44
Speaker 3: The quarterback.
01:03:45
Speaker 8: You know, I think I think regardless. I think that's regardless.
01:03:48
Speaker 12: Of the fact.
01:03:48
Speaker 16: You know, you wanna that's how you wanna play.
01:03:51
Speaker 3: As with defense, when you get opportunities and they.
01:03:53
Speaker 16: Inside their five, their team, you wanna hold them there.
01:03:56
Speaker 8: So the offense can get short. No matter who's that quarterback.
01:03:58
Speaker 3: Did you think it doctor?
01:04:00
Speaker 8: I think it's tough.
01:04:01
Speaker 3: He's tough.
01:04:01
Speaker 2: He too. He took some hits and but he got back up and.
01:04:05
Speaker 12: Made the players we needed to let us whood.
01:04:07
Speaker 8: That's what matter most.
01:04:08
Speaker 3: Is this the vision?
01:04:09
Speaker 25: You know, like you guys just pass rush stift guys up front.
01:04:15
Speaker 16: Yeah, you got a lot, you got a lot of ballers up front. You got a lot of guys that's that's getting paid to do this, to go to go out here and dominate every game. And you know we put that, We put that pressure on ourselves. We wanted and we encourage, we embrace it. We we don't shy away from it. And I know we just gotta continue to be consistent and show up every week and prepare the right way. And that's what we did this week, and we came out.
01:04:37
Speaker 12: With a w how much more baseball?
01:04:39
Speaker 3: How much more baseball? Get next?
01:04:41
Speaker 19: When you'll lead for fifty minutes of the game for the past press to be off like he played from the hat.
01:04:46
Speaker 3: The Johnston usually do that ship. I mean, it's just we're just playing ball, man.
01:04:51
Speaker 16: You know, we we gotta I think we gotta do better of holding the momentum. You know, when when things happen like that big room, I can't let that happen.
01:05:02
Speaker 3: Little things like that.
01:05:03
Speaker 2: But at the end of the day, you as a defense.
01:05:05
Speaker 16: You want to be dominant, and no matter what the ball is spotted, no matter how it's spotted, no matter where, did like you want to go out there dominant.
01:05:13
Speaker 1: Of course is first start to have a three yard field than seventy eight eighty years down.
01:05:18
Speaker 3: Even if you want an interception ever.
01:05:19
Speaker 1: Game, do you take some pride in the fact that you were able to make it easier on Jackson and the offense.
01:05:23
Speaker 3: No, for sure.
01:05:24
Speaker 16: And I mean, like I was saying, like the message through the whole game was if they here, keep them here. Let's let's get an offensive short field, because we know how important that is for anybody, any quarterback, to have.
01:05:35
Speaker 3: A short field.
01:05:36
Speaker 16: So I mean that was so we talked through the whole game. Whenever they was in their team. It's side their five, like, let's hold them here, let's keep them here, get an offense a short field.
01:05:45
Speaker 25: Imagine you mentioned just this week wanted to be consistent of coming out today and doing it.
01:05:49
Speaker 3: I think consistent.
01:05:50
Speaker 16: I was speaking consistent throughout the year, right, like with a dominant, dominant performance.
01:05:54
Speaker 25: Did anything click?
01:05:55
Speaker 24: Maybe since that Dallas game is you know, the last couple of weeks eating up to today.
01:06:02
Speaker 8: I can't.
01:06:02
Speaker 16: I can't say. I think we just continue to prepare the right way. And that's the most important thing. We were communicating better and we learning each other more, and I think that's the biggest thing. We just gotta understand the importance of situational defense and offense. And that's and we're gonna outcomes gonna happen like this.
01:06:24
Speaker 9: That is not a perfect game.
01:06:25
Speaker 7: You guys from the league.
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Speaker 27: Here touring a c L.
01:06:30
Speaker 6: What did you think about you guys responded to that?
01:06:32
Speaker 11: Respond to it?
01:06:33
Speaker 8: Yeah, prayers up to him for sure.
01:06:36
Speaker 2: Uh.
01:06:37
Speaker 16: It hurts to see a socier go down, but you know, we gotta I think your injuries happened in this game. You know, we play a dangerous game and it's unfortunate, but I think you know, we got we got guys that got to step up.
01:06:53
Speaker 1: That's Dexter Lawrence. After the game, Paul, you're the chance to talk to him. The defense, I imagine had to have been and we're here from Brian Burnes a little bit in the postgame show as well. I gotta imagine the defense, especially that front, and we heard from a duel Carter previously had to be feeling pretty good about themselves with the way.
01:07:07
Speaker 2: They helped close this game out. They really were.
01:07:09
Speaker 20: You talk about the nine quarterback hits, the twenty total pressures that next Gen Stats registered the Giants, four uh and six sacks as well. I mean the guys downstairs were basically saying that the only.
01:07:22
Speaker 1: Only two sacks the six sacks were for the Chargers. Oh yes, I'm looking I'm looking at the wrong numbers.
01:07:26
Speaker 3: Okay, that's okay.
01:07:28
Speaker 2: I'm getting excited about it because it was so good. They had a ton of pressures it. Yeah, correct, they did.
01:07:33
Speaker 20: And and really what it came down to is they were talking about how each other worked together so well that it was a unified effort and everybody knew what the other guy was doing.
01:07:44
Speaker 2: They were on the same page.
01:07:46
Speaker 20: Yes, that correct, and we talked about this on Big Blue Kickoff Live, heard every weekday from twelve thirty to one thirty on Giants dot Com. We talked about this on the show that the Giants defense might take three or four games before they hit their stride.
01:08:02
Speaker 2: They hit their stride today.
01:08:03
Speaker 1: Well, it also helps that you're missing Joe Walton, you're missing Rashaun Slater, and you're missing.
01:08:07
Speaker 20: Understri So yes, but they made they made enough of big plays that they had to make right and.
01:08:12
Speaker 2: They gave it into me and Tek. You were talking about this, Bob earlier.
01:08:15
Speaker 1: They gave the chipal to the Giants offense twice inside the five yard That's what you need from of your defense if they're.
01:08:20
Speaker 3: Gonna carry feld.
01:08:21
Speaker 18: Position and turnovers are such an important part of winning in the NFL, and the Giants won that battle today. You know, Bob mentioned it earlier, and it was such a great point about the change of fortune from the fumble down backed up on the one yard line that Andrew Thomas recovered, then the enormous punt from from Gillam who got the ball sixty seven yards down the field. Ultimately it is only eleven yard return, then you get the turnover, and then you score, and so like that moment though, that that little two or two and a half possession change for the Giants is what won them this game.
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Speaker 1: All right, eight won zero one nine will get more audio from the locker room, but we are going to take your calls for the next forty minutes or so right here on Giants extra point again. Giants defeat the LA Chargers twenty one to eighteen. Harvey and Dixon's will lead us off today, Hovey.
01:09:13
Speaker 14: By, how are you long?
01:09:17
Speaker 30: You know?
01:09:18
Speaker 14: Eddie? Hello? Coach Robinson one seven Grambling. Either get a better player or get a player better, and I've always robbed coach, and the Giants are doing both and I love it.
01:09:29
Speaker 26: Man.
01:09:29
Speaker 14: That's why I leave Shane and Dabel alone for next year. Please, I don't want to hear any more of that. Secondly, I said, put Jackson Darden when the line is stabilized. I'll tell you what they've stabilized the last two weeks and everybody Thomas sam said, Thomas was the key if he stayed. You know. John Jacob Schmidt's you know, is basically getting better because he was pushed around early in the Omega. Sorry, yeah, Schmid's was pushed around a lot. And then you may I like to throw these outs. You can discuss it. And you guys mentioned about the turf. Carl alluded to it. You you alluded to it. This teff is not an old turf. This is a new turf two years ago.
01:10:09
Speaker 3: Of course two years ago. It's new turf.
01:10:11
Speaker 2: But it's just turf. I mean, grass is what.
01:10:13
Speaker 18: Yeah, I would love to see grass, and I think ownership would love to sea grass too.
01:10:17
Speaker 1: It's just with all the events and the two teams playing, but it was very hot played on those Well, the trades are terrible. I'm not talking about the trades. The trades were fine until they weren't.
01:10:28
Speaker 14: Remember remember the Super Bowl between the Eagles and the Chiefs. They did hyber turf field and I was slipping all over the place. So yeah, that's right.
01:10:39
Speaker 18: Yeah, they do have to figure something out. I know this is a new turf, it's not the same one that everybody was complaining. The guard here and they were mad about it and everybody they had two guys heard or whatever it was. But you can't help but think that when a guy plants hard as Malik neighbors did to jump and his in his A C. L gives that it's it's turf related that doesn't doesn't necessarily happen on grass fields. But to his other points, the reason the Giants offensive line was stabilized is because Andrew Thomas is healthy and they have veterans on that front from John Runyon and obviously h Van Roten and then the Jermaine and Luminor. There's guys who have been together now for a year plus and you're starting.
01:11:24
Speaker 3: To see some continuity.
01:11:26
Speaker 18: And you saw it mostly in the run game, the drive and the push on some of those inside zones. I mean, you're just trying to get three yards in a cloud of dust, that old cliche, and Campskataboo gets behind his pads and pushes it for another two yards, and so first down you're get in six yards.
01:11:40
Speaker 3: It makes it so much.
01:11:41
Speaker 18: Easier for Mike Kafka to call plays on second and short and third and short as opposed to second to third and long.
01:11:47
Speaker 1: Yeah again, I thought I thought the offensive line did a nice job. You had the John Michael Schmid's hold on that one dart scramble which I did not get a good angle on a replay, but it did look like he tried the defensive boy tried to disengage and he kind of had the little I.
01:11:58
Speaker 18: Mean, you're always gonna get that when the correct defender tries to pull away and there's holding on every play, by the way, let's just let's just let's just acknowledge that. But when a defender smartly pulls away and and you're obstructing him from pulling away, then you're gonna get called for it.
01:12:14
Speaker 1: Accord again Pro Football Focus as their early things out. Andrew Thomas no pressures in this game again last week, no pressures in the twenty snaps he played, and he did play the whole game this week, by the way. That was a question we had whether or not he'd be able to go to the whole game. Andrew Thomas did go the entire game. Unless I don't think he came out and and he plays that. I don't remember boving and I they had three pressures each for alumin Or and Van rot In, one pressure for for JJ for JMS. So Giants offensive line did a really nice job in this game.
01:12:42
Speaker 3: Uh.
01:12:42
Speaker 2: One of the point Harvey that he was going to talk about, I forget that he that he said.
01:12:45
Speaker 18: All is Andrew Thomas and John Michael Schmidt. Uh and then and then obviously the turf that we were alluding to.
01:12:52
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think we hit everything.
01:12:53
Speaker 2: All right, Let's get back to the phones and go to Robbie and Lennox.
01:12:55
Speaker 22: He's up next, Robbie, Robby, Hey, guys, well, it's nice to but followed Dot Harvey and lax So who called a touch Harvey in Long Island, who called me the most dogs by NHL guy on the stand the last thirty eight years to bank you harm anyway.
01:13:08
Speaker 26: You know, guy, I was jumping up and down today like a little I'm sixteen years old. My first game behind the Poles in nineteen seventy two. We had to look high to the Yankee stadium. But anyway, listen, you know they played a really really like very inspired game. There's things that I want to ask you about, specifically, Okay, Dabel's decision not to kick the field goal I thought was just really ridiculous to go for it, especially their failures in the red toe, and that's specifically a problem for me. But I'll ask you guys at falling guy.
01:13:36
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Robbie, real quick, the way the way I look at that, and I think that's a very hard conversion.
01:13:42
Speaker 2: They were with a three and a half yard line something like.
01:13:44
Speaker 1: That, yeast and I lean field goal there, But I think the thinking was six points doesn't give you enough of an advantage. You're still losing on a touchdown. Yes, previously a field goal would tie it, but it wouldn't win the game for the for the Chargers, I just don't think they believe the difference Tiki and then Robbie, you can finish between six points and three points wasn't enough not I think that's right. But they also thinking how well, a say for the two big plays Robbie, you know, the.
01:14:13
Speaker 3: Big touchdown to the and in the run.
01:14:17
Speaker 2: Oh dude, he's going to be a stud for years. He's dude. He's a big dude the way he with that speed right right.
01:14:26
Speaker 18: But anyways, other than those two big plays, rob the defense played phenomenal, right.
01:14:31
Speaker 2: And so trusting defense, Yeah, so you I.
01:14:35
Speaker 18: Think you're trusting the defense to make big stops, uh coming down the line, and.
01:14:40
Speaker 3: Ultimately they did.
01:14:41
Speaker 18: They gave up that big run to the balls at the forty yard line, forty five yard on whatever it is, but then on third down you get the Brian Burns sack, which gets the ball back to the Giants and ultimately wins in the game.
01:14:51
Speaker 2: All Robbie finished.
01:14:53
Speaker 26: Yeah, I've been listening to Bob right. I couldn't believe it up here in CBS and Albany. He didn't even show the game, so I gave it to CBS stition already. I could not believe I'm going to find out why the Giants weren't for in television. So I usually think the game, but I just want to tell you. I'll tell you something. My friends listen to radio today for the first time, and I've been listening to radio forever. I'm a radio guy. You do a radio show up here, right, and it's amazing to me. Listening to Crow and Bob is sweet and special and I was so great to hear them. And thank you guys for all the years. Thank you to wf AN for all the years I've spoken on the station. And it's beautiful. Thanks Smoky. I feel like an old man. You and Lose are hilarious. It's like two generations. It's hilarious.
01:15:30
Speaker 2: I love it.
01:15:31
Speaker 26: Thank you, I love it, Thank thank you.
01:15:33
Speaker 18: I appreciated. So isn't it nice to get callers they're happy? I feel nice, so nicety to complain blame whoever they get by.
01:15:42
Speaker 1: By the way, these are some of the most ridiculous pro football focused pressure SATs I've ever seen.
01:15:48
Speaker 2: And again these are preliminary. These will change.
01:15:51
Speaker 1: They have the Giants with a fifty eight percent win rate in this game. Wow, fifty eight percent forty three percent pressure. And the reason, hey, people might well, why is the win rate higher than the pressure? Well, you could win, but Herbert gets the ball out before the pressure gets there.
01:16:04
Speaker 2: Does an impact the play?
01:16:05
Speaker 1: Some individual numbers Abdual Carter five quarterback hits, nine pressures, Burns six pressures, three quarterback hits, Keevon Thibodeau five pressures, two quarterback acts, and then two pressures for Dexter Lawrence. And he's actually lucky he didn't get called for a blow to the head on a quarterback's not a player eler in this game, so I guess they didn't give the QB.
01:16:24
Speaker 2: Hit for that one, right, But just that's what you envision. Yeah, you could feel like you could feel.
01:16:29
Speaker 18: This Chargers offense has been one of the best in the NFL. We talk about their trio of wide receivers who have been dominant. Keenan Allen coming out of nowhere at thirty three with three touchdowns in each game, didn't feel like they ever had a chance to be explosive. Now they had the one big play, but other than that, there wasn't a lot of we are in control from the Chargers offense, and you give credit to the Giants defense. They forced the Chargers have to operate in five to eight yard yard frames and they were to control it. So Shane Bowen's taking a lot of flak this year for how I don't know, expose the defense has been at times, you gotta give him credit for the defense he designed against one of these one of the top offenses in the league this weekend. The Giants had a few mistackles, we know that, but for the most part they made the but they made more than they missed, and there were some that were one on one hits, flat out hits. For example, even Drew Phillips on Johnston on the last pass play, he nailed him right in his tracks.
01:17:32
Speaker 2: He wasn't getting away.
01:17:33
Speaker 18: And that's a big that's a huge, big play because if they if he gets out of bounds, they're on the whatever it was for that was flat, that was flawed on that flat making that tackle. If it's flawed, if whatever it is, whoever, doesn't matter, the fact that he gets them down and bounds ends the game. If they get out of bounds, they have a Hail Mary from.
01:17:51
Speaker 3: The fifty yard.
01:17:52
Speaker 20: What I really want to say is that Robbie was talking about the fourth down play where the Giants wound up going for it. Yeah, one thing to keep in mind, and I know it's it's a second guest kind of thing, but you know, if you're mad about them going for it, remember the ball hit Wandell Robinson right in both hands. That's a good point too, Okay, good point to hit him in both hands, and on my chart, it goes down as a drop.
01:18:12
Speaker 3: Yeah, you've got to make that catch.
01:18:14
Speaker 18: I'm interested to rewatch it because you could see the calculation happening in Jackson Dart's mind, because he scrambled a little bit in the pocket. He was he was heeing and halling back and forth, and I stay in the pocket. He finally escaped the pocket and he's moving right and he could have run. I mean it would have he would have taken a hit, but he could have tried to run it in. Instead, he made the smart play and threw it to one of two guys that were there. THEO Johnson was right behind Wandell Robinson, and he put it up high so that it'd be away from the defender. Wandell just dropped it.
01:18:43
Speaker 1: Yeah, I have to look at it again. I don't Maybe he did not have to put quite as much air.
01:18:47
Speaker 18: On well, no, he The problem is there was no velocity, so the balls in their it just took so long to get there. It's but it's hard to know how to throw that ball until you've done it multiple times. You have to not not zip it, but put it firm enough so that it sticks to your hands as opposed to having to snatch it out of the The last thing.
01:19:07
Speaker 1: You want to do, too, is whoever his momentum is going forward, you don't want him to airmail it over the guy's head either, so he's trying to take something off of it.
01:19:13
Speaker 18: It's just a throw you don't practice. You never practice that throw, so it's hard to make it in real time.
01:19:19
Speaker 1: All right, let's go to Justin and Dobbs Ferry, he's up next, hide justin.
01:19:23
Speaker 27: Hey, what's going on?
01:19:24
Speaker 30: Guys?
01:19:24
Speaker 27: An amazing win, will take a win, but that red zone off It's like we're just saying you can't go down twice with Dexter Lawrence into the two three yard line, come away with three points and two red zones. It almost cost was a game. I don't know where we go with receivers now. Is there somebody available or are we bringing back Odell? What's the playing here?
01:19:42
Speaker 3: Yeah?
01:19:43
Speaker 18: Look, I don't think that they're gonna go search the wire, but I do think that this is a humongous opportunity for Jalen Hyatt. Jalen Hyatt has been this enigma for his entire career. Three years here, and he's gonna get an opportunity now. I think Bo Collins, who made this team surprisingly as an undrafted free agent out of you know, North Carolina, uh Notre Dame, He's gonna get a chance to step into it now. Neither one of those guys or a league neighbors. Right, They're not the elite ball snatcher. They're not gonna be the one on one, you know, go get this pass, but they are gonna get the opportunity because who else can you turn to right now? I think Darius Slayton will pick up some of the slack. Wando Robinson didn't have a ton of targets in this game. But to me, it's got to be one of those guys Jalen Hyatt or the rookie Bo Collins who are gonna step into a much bigger role.
01:20:34
Speaker 1: I could see a few Johnson, especially in the middle of the field with the like, but of course he's not gonna be a downfield right He's.
01:20:40
Speaker 18: Gonna he's gonna replace the catches in the targets of course, because steel Johnson is turning into after a tough first game, you know, his anaugural game, he's turning into a pretty reliable, you know target for this for this offense. But when we think about what Molikue neighbors was, that is the one of the elite deep threats in the league, and that's underneath threat deep threat, you know, mid range threat. The Giants don't have that right now, and they need someone to step in and fill that void.
01:21:07
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01:22:52
Speaker 2: Here's Theo Johnson talking to the media after the game.
01:22:55
Speaker 8: Just take me through a huge win for you guys. How's a team feeling right now?
01:22:59
Speaker 3: How are you feeling right now? The big victory this year?
01:23:01
Speaker 31: Yeah, I mean phil great. You know, it's great to see the energy in that stadium. We just got to keep building, keep doing what we did today.
01:23:09
Speaker 32: Take me through your touchdown and and you know, being the electricity between you and Jackson. Dart explained to me how that felt in his home crowd.
01:23:16
Speaker 31: Yeah, it was great. We called the play two times in a row. Uh we alerted on the first one, so I was kind of pissed. I'm like Dann, we we missed out on that one. Wanted to wanted to try it again, and uh, you know, just great execution on on everyone's part.
01:23:29
Speaker 32: What you know between you between Cam, it's young, young offensive crew. But explain to me what you guys do that are creating so many opportunities for you on the offense to get in the goal.
01:23:42
Speaker 8: Get Cam.
01:23:44
Speaker 3: Uh just got it.
01:23:45
Speaker 31: Oh yeah, I mean we got a young offense. But you know we have the right people. Everyone's just wired the way the right way, wants to win. Works really hard, you know, our practices are tough, and and then everyone cares and invests himself. So it's just a matter of time. And it just happened to be today, And it just takes one win to you know, get rolling.
01:24:07
Speaker 3: And finally just you know, getting this momentum.
01:24:09
Speaker 32: Now I'm getting one win under your belt going off to New.
01:24:12
Speaker 3: Orleans, Like, take me through what this week is gonna feel like?
01:24:16
Speaker 32: For you guys, because they're gonna be an extra energy, both burst of energy for you guys.
01:24:21
Speaker 8: Yeah, I think that.
01:24:22
Speaker 31: Like I said, it just takes one win to kind of propell you forward. So you know, one can easily turn to the two, two can turn the three. So you know, we just gotta do keep our process, keep doing what we've been doing, and just use this momentum to our advantage.
01:24:36
Speaker 2: All right, he scored the touchdown in the red zone.
01:24:38
Speaker 1: We've talked about the play, that one that Robinson could not come up with the catch in the end zone. Well, the Robinson talked to the media after the game. I'm sure he talked about that and a whole lot more along one.
01:24:47
Speaker 3: That got called back.
01:24:48
Speaker 7: Like you see the end of those rounds that what do you think as a team?
01:24:51
Speaker 24: Partially, I'm like, he's gonna be hard because he's a quarterback. But at the end of the day, I'm like, you know, he's that's a dog right there. He's gonna lay his body on the line for at the end of the day, he just wants to win.
01:25:02
Speaker 3: To be fair, all winds probably aren't created equal, Right, You're zero and three here, Like, what.
01:25:07
Speaker 8: Did this meant? What does this mean to this group?
01:25:08
Speaker 3: Like how important was that for you guys?
01:25:10
Speaker 24: I think it was really good just to you know, lift us back up a little bit, get that confidence back and at the.
01:25:15
Speaker 3: End of the day, see what this feels like.
01:25:17
Speaker 23: So we continue on going.
01:25:18
Speaker 9: When there was you guys feel like, I don't know how much were able to see, but could you tell how much younger defensive front was falling justin you know, you guys put points in one.
01:25:28
Speaker 3: Yeah, we definitely could tell.
01:25:30
Speaker 24: I say, especially that was kind of like a method this whole week, and they talking to the beyond there like you know, you're ready for this one and it's gonna be.
01:25:36
Speaker 3: Probably guess a good matchup for us and.
01:25:39
Speaker 23: You going out there to show.
01:25:41
Speaker 7: I could see how emotional Table was, like he's like baar, hugging Jackson everything, Like what was his emotions like with you guys after the game?
01:25:47
Speaker 3: Was the message after.
01:25:48
Speaker 24: This should just keep going? I say, we gotta taste this first take three, so now we got to continue to build.
01:25:54
Speaker 7: Could you tell how much it's meant to him?
01:25:56
Speaker 2: Was a lot swirling this way?
01:25:57
Speaker 24: Yeah, I mean I think anybody that's been gone through that and a lot of people are talking about about you. I think it definitely been good once you got that win, and it's kind of a little bit of waylifted often and now we're just gonna make him look you more.
01:26:09
Speaker 1: Right, all right, there's one the Robins and the Theo Johnson. After the game, Paul, you have a little red zone breakdown you want to do for us.
01:26:16
Speaker 20: Well, the deep red zone is the coaches like to call it is when you get down to the ten yard line. And the Giants had three opportunities from the ten yard line are in and of the snaps that they were able to execute, they had eight running plays, three passing plays plus the shovel, which is a passing place.
01:26:32
Speaker 2: So make that number four. Almost it's almost like a run designed it is. Yeah, correct, it is not your typical drop back and throw it from the pocket. No, I appreciate you splitting it out.
01:26:41
Speaker 8: He is.
01:26:42
Speaker 2: I do think it's different.
01:26:43
Speaker 20: But clearly we knew that the Chargers defense, and we had talked to our guests from Los Angeles who told us that they were stout in the interior of that defensive line. And quite honestly, it's not like the Giants ran for one hundred and fifty yards today.
01:26:57
Speaker 1: I know the running backs were twenty two I'm sorry, right, thirty two carries for one hundred and seven yards.
01:27:03
Speaker 15: Now.
01:27:03
Speaker 20: They did what they had to do to keep the Chargers defense. Honest, I say Tiki all the time. It's about knowing that you can run the ball in certain spots when you need to just to keep the chains moving.
01:27:16
Speaker 18: Situation credit fishing right, you don't need You're not running to create big plays. You're just running to keep your offense balanced and then go and making the defense think about we might have to bring some extra pressure, which the Chargers did a lot of from the slot. They would bring uh you know, the corner or or the will linebacker off the slot just to stop the Giants run. And that was created because the Giants kept running the ball effectively.
01:27:40
Speaker 20: And then what we saw when the quarters got tight down near the goal line, the Chargers interior d which is incredibly stout.
01:27:48
Speaker 18: They were stout enough to say, Giants, you're not running the ball. It look they're very much of ben don't break defense. That's why they've given up the least amount of points of the last year and a half in the NFL. I think it is eighteen or whatever whatever the number is the best red zone defense in the league. And it's because they been They don't break and then when they get down tight, they make plays. And so it was a challenge for the Giants the first you know, score the QB draw. If you're scouting the Giants, you're not You're not even practicing against that. And so it was a It was a weapon that Mike Kaffick was able to deploy because of who was under center. It was also from fifteen yards out right, exactly right, So it's not even the tight red zone it was. It was an out, way out red zone.
01:28:27
Speaker 2: And by the way, you have to.
01:28:28
Speaker 1: Look at some of the red zone issues in the second half when that running part of Jackson Dart's game wasn't necessarily in the equation as much either because the hamstring injuries.
01:28:36
Speaker 18: Right right, The offense came because the defense got stops and turnovers and got them in point brick, point blank range. For the THEO Johnson shovel that we were just alluding to.
01:28:46
Speaker 2: All Right, Richard in Manhattan's back, Richard, what's going on?
01:28:48
Speaker 3: It's up, Richard.
01:28:50
Speaker 30: Gets the game ball. He had total control of this game. This reminded me of pascells. Pawcells used to control sims, control the check quarterbacks. He knew how to control the game now. The only call I didn't like. I didn't mind him going fourth down and is skewing the field goals there. But on third down? Why was he so conservative running it up the middle? If you're I agree that was fair. That was a bad call down.
01:29:16
Speaker 18: Well, if you're right, I think if you're Richard, if you're running it up the middle, Candada, cam'scatabi right, don't don't dive it. You know, a QB lead, Uh? You know, have Cam lead and then and Jackson Dark come behind him. It just made no sense because everybody knew it was likely heading there. You might as well have hand it to the kid who can probably break a few tackles. I would have loved to have seen them get on the edges. The challenge with running to the edges down in the really tight red area is that the quarters shrink really quickly, and so sometimes the handoff gets complicated.
01:29:47
Speaker 3: So I get it.
01:29:48
Speaker 2: Inside zone is what you're on. But QB inside zone I didn't love. Can I speak to your parcels?
01:29:53
Speaker 3: Comment?
01:29:55
Speaker 20: When Phil's when Phil Simms, thank you. Richard started for the Giants. Joe Zarchik had gotten hurt. It was a month into the season and Bizarchik was badly being beaten up because the offensive line was terrible. Phil was supposed to red shirt his first year. He was not supposed to play, and he knew that, but they decided they had to go with him because Pizarchik was basically being put together scout Scotch Dape. So he starts against Tampa, wins four games in a row to start his Giants career, and five out of his first six.
01:30:27
Speaker 2: How about that.
01:30:28
Speaker 20: But here's the thing, Ticky, his numbers were more pedestrian than you can imagine, because here it was Ray Perkins.
01:30:35
Speaker 3: In those days.
01:30:36
Speaker 20: It wasn't Parcels, but of course Parcels, it comes from the Perkins tree. They took that offense and they took it down into the mud and said, Phil, you're not gonna do anything to lose the game. We're just gonna rely on a really good defense and we're gonna try to methodically move the ball.
01:30:54
Speaker 2: And that was the philosophy its giants used today.
01:30:58
Speaker 1: Absolutely, we're at a point that second quarter, I think Jackson Darted one more pass attempt than he had rushing ataps exactly. I think it was seven passes and six runs. At one point in the second quarter it was maybe with six passes of five rushers. I don't remember exactly right, but they ran a lot and Look, Dart only finished thirteen of twenty for one hundred and eleven yards.
01:31:15
Speaker 2: Now, he didn't put the ball in the danger.
01:31:16
Speaker 18: To his credit sixty five percent, he took sacks instead of throwing the ball.
01:31:20
Speaker 2: He took five. Wilson took one as well, and then he had ten carries for fifty four yards.
01:31:24
Speaker 3: Right, those ten carries were meaningful.
01:31:27
Speaker 2: He didn't lose the game.
01:31:28
Speaker 1: He got the ball a couple of those short passes in that Corol area to Slaton where had a.
01:31:31
Speaker 2: Couple run after the catch. He didn't make any big mistakes. You'd rather have him.
01:31:35
Speaker 1: Look, you don't want to take five sacks, but better taking five sacks than throwing the ball up in the coverage a few times.
01:31:40
Speaker 18: Yes, the beauty of this is that it gives you something really positive, a victory to build off of. Yes, obviously it wasn't perfect, it wasn't ideal. You're never gonna play the perfect games has been said multiple times already, but for a team that needed a lift in an energy injection, Jackson Dart provided. Even though he's twenty two or three years old whatever.
01:32:02
Speaker 1: That yea, he is in this style with the way he played right the running a lot of as Brian Dave will call them loose plays, I'll call them out of structure plays.
01:32:10
Speaker 2: You're not gonna win consistently every week playing that way. But here's the thing. Only to do is win today. And this is what they had to do to win today.
01:32:18
Speaker 1: And as he gets more experienced, Tikie, he's gonna get better at the reading out the defense, getting his foot on the back of the drop and getting the ball out quickly. He's gonna get better at that stuff. But until that happens, and that could take some time for quarterbacks. These types of games where he can run, he can scramble, he can throw on the move, do those type of things. How about broke he brook like three tackles on that one play where he bounced outside.
01:32:40
Speaker 2: Crazy stuff like that.
01:32:41
Speaker 1: That's gonna help you make one or two plays where maybe you didn't make those plays in the Dallas game, But you won't make the plays because darn has those types of special plays.
01:32:50
Speaker 2: Where you can squeak out a couple of wins. Talked about during the pregame show about don't force it. Right, he didn't force it.
01:32:56
Speaker 20: He forced a couple of runs and he did go forward. He never slip feet first. Right, he didn't do that yet. Right, he still hasn't learned. He will, he will, he will, at least he had.
01:33:05
Speaker 3: That one player.
01:33:06
Speaker 1: We dove forward, and it is Illosh Allen doesn't get it. Josh Allen doesn't slide feet first either. But again, he's also two hundred and fifty pounds.
01:33:13
Speaker 18: Yeah, yeah, he's spilt like a big running back as opposed to you know, sometimes a quarterback.
01:33:18
Speaker 20: But you know what, I don't think he threw what your analytics people John will call an interceptible.
01:33:23
Speaker 2: Ball, turnover worthy playing. No, I don't think he had any of those in this game.
01:33:27
Speaker 3: I agree with that.
01:33:28
Speaker 1: I think, well, I don't know who you're gonna give the fumbled snap credit to, but yeah, I don't know if that's his fault of Schmid's whatever. But again, I'm with you, he never put the ball into Harm's way in the air. I think that's absolutely right. Eight one zero one nine. Let's go back to the phones and say what's up to Dan in Huntington, Dan, what's going on?
01:33:48
Speaker 3: Hey? Dan?
01:33:49
Speaker 21: Hey guys, I'm my way home from the game. Great to get at w Finally, I want to pick the beautiful day. Yeah, yeah, you know, yes, third down call with Jackson Dart running up the middle. You know when they went when they went for I love them going for a fourth. I questioned the third down call, but what about the first two runs? The scotted who up the middle? I mean, at that point, everyone knows scouted who's getting the ball. The Chargers are sitting on that run up the middle. Why not a play action pass on first down there? I just feel like, you know, the whole second half, everyone knew scouted who was getting the ball. You know, I think they could have gotten that would be conservatives Dart, but they could have been a little more creative than, you know, than just running the.
01:34:25
Speaker 3: Ball up the middle.
01:34:26
Speaker 18: I agree, I agree, But I think what Dave's was trying to do there, and and Mike Kofka, because he's calling the plays, is create a precedent, thanks and an attitude. He said it after the game and in the press conference, he wanted to run the ball in the en zone. He wanted to score the hard way, the old school way. And again it's kind of lookheaded. It's like, you know, he played football. You play football. We get our big guys and we smash each other. That is Paulatino football, by the way.
01:34:54
Speaker 3: It feels like that. But that's I think that's what he was going for.
01:34:57
Speaker 18: I mean, the identity of this of this game for Theons was we're gonna smash mouth football. On offense, Camp Scattabuo got twenty five carries on the day. You don't see that in the NFL very often. We're gonna play great defense and you force you as a as a as an offense to to deal with our pass rushers and our and our stoutness up front. And that was just an example that he wanted to drill in and I think he gave me to drop j.
01:35:22
Speaker 1: I think it's also trying to avoid the negative play right, Dark took five sacks. You run a play action, he takes sack all of a sudden. The running games off the take.
01:35:28
Speaker 18: Because you know pressures coming, you know that the Chargers are putting, you know five or six guys, probably six or more in the into a pressure type situation. They're coming on the negative side of the line of scrimmage and that's going to force your quarterback to make a quick decision that he might not be prepared to do.
01:35:45
Speaker 1: And it gets cloudy in there. There is not a lot of space and there are a lot of bodies. You know, Daniel Jeremiah talk to us in the pregame show. He says, there's a forest. They want to build a forest. And when the quarterback throws at the Chargers defense where you can hit a lot of branches, Yeah, when you throw the football and there's when you're in that you know height red zone. There are a lot of branches and a lot of bodies and not of theader room to operate.
01:36:04
Speaker 2: And I think they're trying to avoid Paul some of those negative plays.
01:36:07
Speaker 20: Let me throw a bouquet of flowers to the Kafka for a second, because we talked about the secondary of the Chargers being very complex, very multiple, and we know they're gonna play deep and they're gonna take away the big play, which they did and they did.
01:36:21
Speaker 2: But here's the thing.
01:36:23
Speaker 20: After a couple of early throws which Dart did not put in harm's way. The guys were not open.
01:36:28
Speaker 1: And he threw them away and Neighbors did draw passing thetheins on one of the yes.
01:36:32
Speaker 8: Yes.
01:36:32
Speaker 20: After that, everything was short to medium range the Giants on the day.
01:36:38
Speaker 1: No, again, that doesn't mean they were warrant deep options on those plays, but they but they knew to go to the short stuff, right, and I think by going to a couple early long throws which Dart did not put in Harm's way at least I told the Chargers, you know what, we got to think about it.
01:36:53
Speaker 2: We can't just cheat up and press up on the.
01:36:56
Speaker 20: Line and decide that we're just gonna sell out and start wheezing you with the line of scrimmage. I thought that was actually a significant part of Kafka's game play.
01:37:05
Speaker 18: Yeah, it was, and you could tell it was instructed right. Only take the shot if it's there and you feel like you have an advantage. There were a couple I thought he could have thrown downfield, but it would have taken a very accurate fifty or sixty yard throw, and it's almost better that he didn't take those shots.
01:37:23
Speaker 2: Yeah.
01:37:23
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01:37:40
Speaker 2: We'll take a quick time out.
01:37:41
Speaker 1: We'll come back from Brian Burns, who had not the game clinching sack, but certainly a huge sack at the end of this game to get the Chargers off the field. Maybe we'll squeeze in one more call and we'll wrap things up. The Giants defeat the Los Angeles Chargers twenty one to eighteen. We'll be right back with more on the fan.
01:37:58
Speaker 33: This is Brian Burns and you're listening Toans Football on the Fan w f AN and w Fan FM.
01:38:04
Speaker 1: New York Giants football is brought to you locally by Ford One performance and capability at every turn. Get behind the wheel of a new Ford truck or SUV. Ford Official Truck and SUV of the New York Giants. Brian Burns a huge sack at the end of this game to bring Justin Herbert down on a third and long got the Giants defense off the field helped the Giants secure this victory. Brian Burns addressed the media after the game in the locker room. Let's hear what he had to say.
01:38:29
Speaker 20: Brian, the passwush today was a very, very potent. I'm sure this is kind of what you would expected from the very get go in the.
01:38:35
Speaker 8: Season, right, Yeah, yeah, yeah, it was good. Everybody ate respectfully and it was a good, good day.
01:38:41
Speaker 20: The sack that you had the third down with about two and a half minutes to go, that forced down to pluck the football incredibly important play. Look like you extra extra emphasis.
01:38:50
Speaker 8: From here and now and up.
01:38:51
Speaker 33: Yeah, I thanks for that one. We had that play called earlier and they kind of hit us for a big game.
01:38:58
Speaker 8: But I told coach to running back and he trusted me. I trusted him.
01:39:01
Speaker 20: Could you contrast the feelings of holding this one and walking it down on the final seconds with a three point lead as opposed to what happened to Dallas?
01:39:10
Speaker 5: Uh?
01:39:10
Speaker 8: He said, how's it feel different?
01:39:12
Speaker 2: Yeah?
01:39:13
Speaker 33: You know the plays that that we we we lacked baking in Dallas we made today. So you know that that's ultimately w why we got this dub. You know that sacks you know, it was some crucial run stops that we had, and then you know the way Scatt was running the ball.
01:39:29
Speaker 8: It's just these plays is what we needed in Dallas. But we you know, corrected it and we got in the day.
01:39:33
Speaker 20: So talking to scattered go on the field, he said he knew it was gonna be blinded out.
01:39:37
Speaker 8: Can tread.
01:39:38
Speaker 20: She's probably figured to be a little scoring defensively. You you guys know that going there. Do you have to pick it up an extra couple of notches to know you have to hold down Justin Hubbard.
01:39:47
Speaker 8: I mean, yeah, that's in the back of your mind.
01:39:49
Speaker 33: But at the same time, it's like, uh, that always be on our mind, whether we have that situation or not.
01:39:55
Speaker 8: You understand, Y're always always be on on our mind.
01:39:57
Speaker 33: As a defense to take the ball away, making these the ball offense in you know, just out play the other defense. So the emphasis on on taking the ball away and making the game easy and starting fast should always be there.
01:40:09
Speaker 8: But it was definitely the other day.
01:40:10
Speaker 12: Probably think you couldn't tell like that Justin looked a little after you hit him.
01:40:14
Speaker 8: He would a pretty frustrated slam cum.
01:40:16
Speaker 33: Yeah, I mean yeah, every quarterback gonna feel that way. So we got a lot of hits on him. Honestly, you know, he is gre He's a great quarterback. You know, you have to affect a guy like that, especially with the weapons that he has. You gotta affect a guy like that and try to keep him in a box. So I feel like we did that for the most part. You know, we changed it up a little bit. Uh At Duel got a lot a lot more rushers on the edge. I was inside a lot more, you know, uh, roaming around, So it was a different look, but it was uh successful.
01:40:43
Speaker 20: Is there anything better where when you scoop the quarterback get frustrated?
01:40:46
Speaker 8: Huh?
01:40:47
Speaker 9: Is there anything better as a defensive rusher, you your quarterback get frustrated?
01:40:51
Speaker 33: At I thought I gonna answer that, But frustration is good, yes, Chris.
01:40:57
Speaker 20: How was the athletic system up dexta lawrence on the tip bowl?
01:41:00
Speaker 8: The interstruption that and then you didn't know he got it the race to the end zone. You didn't realize. Nah, I didn't realize during the player. I've seen it on the the screen afterwards. I was in there fighting, so I didn't know what happened.
01:41:09
Speaker 33: But I mean Dex is amazing, bro Like, so you know what I'm saying, I credit a lot of uh success me at duing KT also today because you know, just from him being a leader, just from him you know, showing us and crafting us in certain ways in certain aspects of our Russius and also just the attention that he demands.
01:41:28
Speaker 8: You know what I'm saying, He's freeing us up a lot. I just wanna free him up, you know what I mean. That's wanna get as.
01:41:33
Speaker 3: A d I think it directs me probably our quarterbacking is first start.
01:41:37
Speaker 15: Getting pople on receptions to the defense, Yes, multiple receptions to the defense, to bring it down to your life, to give them a short deel.
01:41:46
Speaker 32: But how did it feels the defense to be able.
01:41:47
Speaker 8: To help them out out so great?
01:41:49
Speaker 33: You know that was the plan coming in, you know, like I said, I plan should always be taking them all the way, but you know, especially in his first start, to wanna make.
01:41:55
Speaker 8: It as easy as possible and keep the momentum on outside. And I feel like we did that, so it feels great or you know, helping in that way. All right.
01:42:02
Speaker 25: You mentioned you mentioned making the plays at the end of this game that you guys weren't able to two weeks ago. Just what did you guys do in the time between now and then to be able to make those plays?
01:42:10
Speaker 8: And it's really just a game of interest though, Like it just come down to making the play.
01:42:14
Speaker 33: It's not really something that I mean, you can tighten up on the details, but as far as when it comes to making that play, you just gotta make it, you know what I'm saying.
01:42:21
Speaker 8: Like that could have easily been a sack.
01:42:23
Speaker 33: I'm not gonna say easily, but that could have been a sack I could have missed, you know what I'm saying. It could have been a completion and I should have had that. But I made the play, you know what I mean. So it just come down the game of interest. Man, it's just every e every given Sunday, it's different run to see you forget some of.
01:42:35
Speaker 3: Winning the game.
01:42:36
Speaker 5: Like that's a pretty good team that carried over, Like you guys always said, we're a good team.
01:42:41
Speaker 3: We're gonna get done, flack Shade, it's.
01:42:43
Speaker 8: What you need to see it, right, So like, yeah, I enjoyed the game. I enjoy I enjoyed the win.
01:42:48
Speaker 33: Uh I still have enough uh understanding you know just throughout my years that that game was still sloppy in a lot of ways.
01:42:58
Speaker 8: And it's okay though, but cause that end of the day, we got to go. You know what I'm saying, I understand that.
01:43:02
Speaker 33: So we still need to get back to the drawing board and fix up those things because it may not be like that Nick times.
01:43:07
Speaker 3: Christis Jackson's physicality when he is running.
01:43:11
Speaker 8: That scares me.
01:43:11
Speaker 33: Actually, I love it. It gets us hype, you know what I'm saying. I love when he dropped his shoulder and everything like that, but I sometimes like him to just take the slab.
01:43:22
Speaker 1: That's Brian Burns. After the game, I'm gonna show some love to the defense here. This is in reverse order. We're gonna start with that Brian Burns sack and then two other big defensive plays by the Giants defense today.
01:43:31
Speaker 4: Shotgun set third and nine for the Chargers, forty six bunch formation right, Herbert back to throw Chase by Burns.
01:43:40
Speaker 17: Sucked by Burns at the thirty yard line, loss of sixteen.
01:43:45
Speaker 3: Spider Man does it again. Herbert called signal.
01:43:49
Speaker 4: Shotgun set three receivers bunched right, takes the snap back to throw fires one right, intercepted.
01:43:58
Speaker 3: By Drew Felps, but they're gonna get called for interference.
01:44:01
Speaker 4: Phillips across the forty thirty five down the left sideline fifteen and tripped up at the three yard line.
01:44:08
Speaker 3: Hervert from the shotgun looks right, fires at white battle.
01:44:11
Speaker 17: The flock intercepted by Dexter Lawrence. He's running down the left side to the fifteen.
01:44:16
Speaker 30: Ten five and he is duck down at the one by Herbert.
01:44:20
Speaker 17: Sexy dexty Lawrence for his first career interception and the Giants will have it first and a A one.
01:44:27
Speaker 2: Three huge game changing plays by the defense.
01:44:30
Speaker 1: I should note on that Phillips interception there was an interference penalty, but it was on the offense, so the interception held and a pressure Brian Burns on that play forced Herbert to get rid of that ball maybe a little bit sooner than he wanted to.
01:44:42
Speaker 2: He had a quarterback hit on the play.
01:44:44
Speaker 1: And look, Tiki, the Giant's only had two hundred and fifty yards of offense in this game.
01:44:48
Speaker 22: I know it.
01:44:49
Speaker 2: They got out game by seventy five.
01:44:50
Speaker 18: Yard true, but they ran sixty nine plays, as we talked about earlier, compared to what the Chargers ran, and while they were, they weren't fully efficient, but they were and keeping an explosive offense off the field. And sometimes you have to game plan in unique ways. It's not we're just gonna outscore them, it's let's frustrate them to the point where they they can't operate as efficiently as they have been.
01:45:12
Speaker 1: And that only works if your defense plays well. It's the point if your defense is not getting off the field, you can't play.
01:45:17
Speaker 2: That way right.
01:45:17
Speaker 18: And you got to give the defense credit because they made impactful plays the three or four that you just played, but they also didn't bend and really give up the huge plays that the Chargers have been relying upon.
01:45:29
Speaker 3: These first three weeks of the season. Remember during the pregame.
01:45:32
Speaker 20: Show we talked about Dexter Lawrence and said, when is he going to be impactful and be really dexter a this year?
01:45:38
Speaker 2: Well guess what he was now this week.
01:45:40
Speaker 20: That is the first Giants defensive tackle interception since twenty seventeen, when Snacks Harrison picked off picked off Alex Smith who did a shovel to Kelsey. He bobbled it, popped it up in the air and Snacks caught it, and that is the first Giants defensive lineman interception since twenty twenty when Nico Lallos, who was an.
01:46:03
Speaker 2: Edge rusher, had an interception.
01:46:06
Speaker 18: If you can believe that, don't even know remember that one Dex also was that was a pressure for Decks. He probably didn't get it because of the interception, but he got through clean too. The into the backfield and forced Justin Herbert to make a tough throw and he tipped it up to himself and took it down into the.
01:46:21
Speaker 3: Tight red area.
01:46:22
Speaker 1: Yeah, and again those are the types of the game changing defensive plays. The Giants need that defensive front to make if they want to win football games. Moving forward, eight it oh eight one zero one nine eight eight ita eight one zero one nine.
01:46:35
Speaker 2: Let's go to Vincent, New Jersey. He's on next.
01:46:40
Speaker 26: Great game today. Let's go happy to get a win.
01:46:43
Speaker 14: We're just we were there.
01:46:44
Speaker 29: It was so exciting to watch.
01:46:47
Speaker 14: Star is definitely the truth, and we're happy with that. I just have a quick question for you guys.
01:46:51
Speaker 26: I'm just curious from a strategic standpoint this, especially for U Tiki, why do they keep going to the shotgun within the ten, within the five yard line instead of just going under center and pounded it in with skataboat.
01:47:03
Speaker 18: Honestly, I think it's because quarterbacks these days aren't used to being under centers. They thought when they were backed up coming out, you know the sequence that we talked about where they you save the fumble, Andrew Thomas recovers the fumble and then they punted sixty seven yards and ultimately it led to an interception that didn't led to their final touchdown. Quarterbacks just aren't used to it. It never did it, adn't. He never did it at ole Miss and it's it's different. It seems simple.
01:47:28
Speaker 3: It really does.
01:47:29
Speaker 18: Like you cause you and your head, you can like remember yourself as a kid doing it, you know, with your friends, like a snap it to me. And but the mechanism is so hard for in the NFL because these centers get low because they're looking up, their butts are coming down trying to identify schemes. It forces the quarterback to sometimes go down low and then he's back up high. And so it's just easier to do it out of shotgun. But in certain situations it's you need the ball quickly to the back. Therefore you go under center shotgun, it just takes longer to get the ball to the running back.
01:48:01
Speaker 20: Taking the deep red zone has been a problem. They haven't been able to get that push in the running game to punch it in. How much do they miss not having a real full back.
01:48:11
Speaker 3: I don't know if it's the full back. I think some of it is scheme.
01:48:15
Speaker 18: The Giants have really for the last couple of years been heavily dependent on duo running. So what's duo running. Duo running is basically a power run without a puller. So you get two interior offensive linemen blocking the three technique, yet the other two on the other side blocking you know, the nose tackle, and you just want to get pushed. The easier way is to run inside zone. Inside zone is when the offensive line moves, you know, slants right or left, and you sometimes you bring a puller to kick out the backside. The challenge with inside zone, though, when you're in the tight red area is that defensive linemen are geared up to just create chaos and so you're gonna get leakage. It just gets really difficult. It's why, you know, you know, twenty years ago, when I was playing Brandon Jacobs and I we would do these tight red zone and short yarded situations out of bunches because it would force you to declare, you know, a coverage like you'd have to put someone over top of one of these wide receivers and then you'd run power right. So a bunch of left and you run a power to the right side with some motion. It's just harder to scheme all that stuff in today's NFL. I'm just glad Greg Cormela and Jim Finn are not listening to you right now. Well, I mean the position has gone away because the offense has become spread, right, it's useful in certain situations. You know, Scott Matt what's his name, Matt Matlock, Matt Locke for for the Chargers. He's a three hundred and three hundred pounds full back. He basically was a former D lineman, but they they bring him in for those situations. But trying to be their version of Patrick Carter. But he's a D lineman, you know what I mean, just kind of playing full back. All right, I want to squeeze in one more call before we go. Let's go to John and has the new jersey. John, what's going on.
01:49:59
Speaker 12: Man, Hey, guys, So I watched this game on a flight, entertaining and annoying everyone around me as I'm trying to stifle my reactions.
01:50:08
Speaker 26: Was kind of funny.
01:50:10
Speaker 3: I love it.
01:50:12
Speaker 26: So I love the game.
01:50:16
Speaker 12: Dart was what I expected, you know, today as a rookie. The the Twitter trolls are just it's amazing. They're already know people are already out there. Oh, he shouldn't be making these mistakes. He you know, he's trash. I'm like he looked back at first year stat Yes they are. It's it's it's sickening. But look back at Eli's first year stacked and talking about pedestrian like Simms, this guy.
01:50:38
Speaker 1: Went choose pedestrians actually friendly? Yeah, I would say, John I was. I would say pedestrian would be a nice way to put in his first year.
01:50:45
Speaker 2: The only good, the only thing that matters is winning though yeah doesn't matter.
01:50:49
Speaker 18: I thank you, John, appreciate it. John Jackson Dark completed sixty five percent of his passes. He only threw for one hundred and eleven yards. He didn't make any mistakes. He took sacks, which is which is.
01:50:59
Speaker 3: I don't know.
01:50:59
Speaker 18: It gets frustrating. And discouraging, et cetera, because it sometimes puts you behind the chains. But you felt like he was always in control. There was never a moment in this game with Jackson Darted quarterback where you felt like, man, he's swimming.
01:51:12
Speaker 2: He has no idea, he's just trying to tread water.
01:51:15
Speaker 3: He looks lost. I never felt that, and that's encouraging. He's a rookie and this is his first start.
01:51:20
Speaker 18: Granted it's at home, but it was also against a very good Chargers defense.
01:51:24
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's why in the pregame I think I used the phrase three or four times, do not think your rookie quarterback's gonna come in here and save you.
01:51:31
Speaker 3: That's not what this is going to be.
01:51:33
Speaker 2: The Chargers are awesome defensively.
01:51:35
Speaker 1: You could tell, and again I want to keep this positive here, but you could tell when Jackson Dard had to drop back and read the defense down the field. I'm not sure he knew what he was looking at, right, And but that's okay. You don't expect that in a rookie's first game.
01:51:52
Speaker 2: It's okay because he didn't panic.
01:51:53
Speaker 1: Correct he didn't and as sometimes he held the ball a little bit because he wasn't sure where to go within him. By the way, we all have to rewatch the game that no one was open, I don't know, we have to relook at It was one play early where neighbors was open. I think on a sale round. He didn't see him. Whatever, But that's fine. That should be expected for a rookie quarterbacks first game. The fact that he didn't panic. He had pretty good pocket presence. A couple of times, maybe he ran out of a clean pocket here or there, but for the most part, he didn't panic when there was guys in his face.
01:52:20
Speaker 2: That's what you want.
01:52:21
Speaker 1: And now, does the other stuff have to get better if you want long term sustained success.
01:52:25
Speaker 2: Absolutely, but it should be. He's a hard worker, he cares, and he's smart. So be patient.
01:52:31
Speaker 1: Give the kids some time they get better at that stuff. In the meantime, let the stuff he can do carry you to some of these things. I agreed, And that's what That's what this giant game plan is going to be going forward. You know, Day's made it clear right this is this is an opportunity for this kid, and it's one that they desperately feel like they needed.
01:52:47
Speaker 18: The play calling is just different with Jackson Dart. We said it when we first started the post game. It feels different. He's a dog in so many different ways, and he encourages and and I think motivates his team in ways that, regardless about Russell Wilson was he couldn't do. Jackson dartt is starting the future of his career with here at the New York Giants, and I think it's off to a good start, if for nothing else, and the fact that he won a football game, which is something that Giants had trouble doing for the last three years.
01:53:16
Speaker 3: Yep, Paul.
01:53:16
Speaker 1: Final thoughts as we head into the game next weeks, since well, there's.
01:53:19
Speaker 20: No doubt it is a gut punch to see what league neighbors get hurt in this game. And we know that as happy as we are for Jackson Dart, he now has to navigate an extra hurdle as a rookie quarterback, knowing that his most explosive player is not going to be available for quite a while and the rest of that wide receiver room, and we talk about this all the time, guy's got to step up and make plays above the ex's and the o's. Well, Dart is not gonna be in a position as he's moved forward to say I'm gonna throw it up in that area because I think that Neighbors can make a play. Because I don't know that there's another receiver on this team that you can do that with.
01:53:58
Speaker 2: Right, who's the other fifty to fifty ball guy. There isn't one really.
01:54:01
Speaker 18: I mean, maybe Bo Collins can develop into that because he's a bigger guy, but there isn't a proven one yet. And that's been a big part of what Daves wants, especially when you get man looks on the outside taking your loss down heading into next week. I mean, it's you got one win, you gotta start trying to stack them. You know, not that the Saints are, you know, one of the premier teams in the league, but it's it's a game that the Giants should feel like they're supposed to win.
01:54:25
Speaker 2: It's on the road. It's always tough to win down there. Historically, it's been tough.
01:54:29
Speaker 18: And I hate, you know, using history to judge anything, but it's been tough for the Giants down there. This is a get take what you learned and you grew from in Week four here and a big win against the Chargers.
01:54:41
Speaker 3: And take it on the road with you.
01:54:42
Speaker 1: And by the way, the Giants had their big spark at home starring the rookie quarterback. This week, we'll see if the Saints try to do the same thing with Tyler Shook. This week, we'll see if Spencer Ratler goes back behind center for them. In week number five, they lost thirty one nineteen to the Bills. Rattler through for about one hundred and thirty or forty yards. They hung around for a minute. But the Bills are just a superior team. Yeah, probably the best team in football right now.
01:55:04
Speaker 18: Yes, And given the Chargers loss to the Giants here, but they hung around, so they didn't they're not quitting.
01:55:09
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Speaker 1: Giants defeat the Los Angeles Chargers twenty one to eighteen. I only call them the San Diego Chargers once I wanted to be zero. I didn't call him John Harbor, though I did call him Jim Harper every time, which was a good one. So I was one out of two on my little ticks that I thought I would screw up today, So everybody, for our entire crew, from Bob Bappa, Carl Banks, Howurd Cross Paulled, the Tino Tiki Barber, and our entire crew behind the scenes. Excellent work as always. Gordon Damer, coming your way next right here on the Fan.
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Speaker 1: The New York Giants defeat the LA Chargers twenty one to eighteen. Jackson Dart, in his first ever NFL start, walks away with the victory. I am John Schmelt, Tiki Barbra withs in just a moment, Bob Papa still with me.
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Speaker 2: Up here in the booth of MetLife Stadium.
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Speaker 1: We are waiting Brian Dable and of course the rest of the Giant players downstairs for all the postgame reaction in Bob All the talk was about Jackson dark getting the start today, and understandably so. But you should never look to one player as being your savior, especially your rookie. And we talked extensively on the pregame show how he was gonna need some help and in this game, Bob he got it. Giants running backs ran for one hundred and seven yards in this game. The defense provided two takeaways to return the ball inside the red zone inside the ten yard line in fact of the LA Chargers. So Jackson Dart then added his own little twist with his running ability, some creative passes on the move, and you put all that together, that's the Giants walk away with the upset victory.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, you're going against the team that's three and zero.
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Speaker 4: As I said during the broadcast, this is a team that since the start of last year when Jim Harbaugh took over leading the NFL, allowing just seventeen points six points per game. They allowed less than twenty points in twelve games over this timeframe. The Giants get twenty one against him red zone. The Giants got a red zone touchdown and two red zone touchdowns in this game. This team was good on third downs since I mean, you went against a really good team with a top flight quarterback and you needed everybody to con trip and the Giants other than the end of the first half where Abdual Carter jumped off side and then Deontay Banks, I'm not sure what he was doing on that to allow that score. Yeah, they played a pretty sound game. Yeah they gave up the fifty four yard touchdown, and you don't dismiss it. But they're gonna make plays. This is a really good team. They're undefeated for a reason.
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Speaker 2: Maybe the Wando dropping the end zone where he could have came.
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Speaker 4: Out to catch h You gotta, you know, you gotta, that's in your hands. You can't let that guy knock it out.
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Speaker 3: You cannot.
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Speaker 4: But that's why the Giants are one and three, right, They're not three and one. However, Jackson Dart used his legs.
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Speaker 3: Yep. Yeah, just like any rookie making his first start.
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Speaker 4: He took a couple of sacks in this game that in a few weeks he's not gonna take, and in years down the road he's not gonna take. It was all new to him. It wasn't the preseason. It's Jesse Minter's defense. It's the Chargers, and you gotta just love what they did and the heart that they played with. Even at the end of the game, the way Cordell fly, he didn't try to defend that pass to Johnston. He was aware of the situation, not trying to pick it off, not trying to bat it. Let the guy catch it, and I'm gonna make sure I tackle him in bounds and the clock is gonna run out. And you know, kudos to the Giants for an really and special teams. Gillan with that sixty nine yard punt was big for the fifty yards net on that play correct. There was a lot of little things in this game that really added up. And then what can you say. Cam Scattaboo is dynamite, He's much, He's got a lot better vision, and he gets a lot skinnier than people think with his power game. There's a great team win against the Chargers team that was undefeated. And again I want to go back to the defense.
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Speaker 1: The two takeaways, the Giants finished plus two in tonover ratio. Abdul Carter was a constant presence in the backfield on passing downs. Brian Burns, the big sack Dexter Lawrence. I thought Bob took another step. He was a little bit better in this game. Again, he had the interception, he had some pass pressure up the middle on a couple of plays. So I thought the defense and again they're going against an offensive line that's missing a lot of their guys, especially once Joel went out with with an ankle injury.
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Speaker 2: But I don't care.
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Speaker 1: You did what you needed to do. I know they gave up some rushing yards. You gotta fix that. But I thought that pressure on Herbert was probably as consistent as we've seen this.
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Speaker 2: Group bring pressure on the quarterback all year.
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Speaker 3: Absolutely.
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Speaker 4: I thought Dexter Lawrence this was his best game, and I think his fourth game. I think he's finally got his Sea legs under him a little bit. Abdual card. I mean Brian Burns, you know, with a marquee game like this, even the way he played against the Chiefs, Brian Burns has headed to a Pro Bowl season. He's gonna finally get a chance to go to the Pro Bowl. And Cavon Thibodeau played well. I mean, this is a real you know who really had a good game too. John Drew Phillips played a really good game. A lot of passes defended, made the sliding interception. There's a lot of things that you take from this game, and you feel excited about going to play now in the New Orleans saying it's a team that you have an opportunity to go in there, You're fighting in your weight class. Hey, you can't cry over spilt milk. You think about that Cowboys game. You theoretically could be two and two right now, but you're one and three. But you know what now, you punched out, you went up in weight class, and you beat at somebody outside of your weight class.
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Speaker 3: Take care of business next week.
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Speaker 2: We'll be right back.
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Speaker 6: Let's go downstairs now, have some turnovers on defense, but I think young man played well within himself, made a huge play when he needed to to feel on that third round play. So happy we got them right for you.
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Speaker 7: Guys to turn to the rookie, for you to make that decision to go to Jackson, we want a lot for you guys to make the decision to.
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Speaker 3: Go to Jackson this early in the year and for you to respond though.
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Speaker 8: With the victory at he said, against this team, and what does it mean? And I feel like, you know, vindication at all for the move we went.
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Speaker 3: We're pray good.
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Speaker 6: Want to know, you know, we closed it out this game. You know, missed the closing out a couple of weeks ago, so there was some improvement in that area. Yeah, I thought the running backs ran higher. We only had two of them up they both ran Hirer and Motor and Scott line played pretty well. But again, defensive, I thought we created uh some pressure on Herbert. They hit us on a couple of explosives there in the second and you know the long run. So look, it's good to get a win. I'm happy for our players. I'm happy for our coaches. They put a lot of time and effort and energy into us. Jackson has you know, all quarterbacks do. But you know, for a young player to come out here in his first game against the three and oh team with Herbert as quarterback and the defense, you know, the way they were playing, I think it says a lot about our guys. I think it says a lot about six.
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Speaker 3: How's it feel for you to get this one?
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Speaker 6: I'm happy, I'm happy. I'm I'm happy to I'm happy to get a win, that's the goal. But I'm more happy for the assistant coaches, the players. You know, we put a lot of effort into this. Haven't got the results we want. We're close, you know, one game, not close in other games. But credit goes to, you know, the guys that are staying there late at night, the players that are busting their cans. I'm problem. I'm proud of all the guys that contributed, which is not just the guys that were out there, it's the practice squad guys. It's but get a lot of credit to our guys and try to build off of this next week. I know six is probably gonna be sore. I mean, he gutted it out. Sounds a tough son of a you know what, he's tough, But I knew that coach.
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Speaker 4: You talk a lot about the red zone offense.
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Speaker 8: He had a couple of chances again today.
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Speaker 6: Well, whether we had that two for four or what was it that wasn't two for five? Not good enough? I mean we were trying to run it in uh. I thought we had a chance on the corner there with Scott. I made a nice play. You know, work in progress. We've been we've been working our tails off on it. Wanted to try to you know, run the ball in this week, so we'll keep working on it. That will go a long way. We're getting down there. Got to continue to improve in that area.
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Speaker 9: When when when Malik went down, you know, everyone goes around him to see him carted off.
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Speaker 8: I'm sure it was a very difficult thing for everybody the.
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Speaker 9: Time anybody gets injured this you know, a guy like him obviously such an important player. When when do you think your team needed to show you something or show themselves something after that? That can be a jarring thing in a close game like that.
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Speaker 6: No, I mean the grown man that compete their tails off the professional football game. Injuries happened. Certainly not happy about it, whether it's Malik or anybody else, But unfortunately, this is a business of injury, and I feel terrible for a Malik's injury. We'll see where it's at. You know, he's an important piece of our team. But the guys that played behind them, you know, it's like last year when slay went in Seattle and the week after that whatever. Maybe everybody gets paid to do a job and it's the next man up.
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Speaker 10: You mentioned the completion of THEO and how big of a moment that was.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, was there any.
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Speaker 10: Hesitation at all to the call pass?
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Speaker 6: And you know, it's interesting with that play, it was a little bunch play. We've worked it one way for you know, I don't know ten years. That's we're running a play. And uh, you know, Dark Dart sees me in the locker room right before I come out here. He's like, you know on that play we ran thel and I talked about that what it was yesterday the day before and if we get this look, I want you to sit. We normally don't really sit on it. So that's a credit to two young players playing the game and having confidence in a critical time to do what they talked about where they're studying film and look, I got a lot of confidence in our rookie quarterback. But he's a rookie quarterback. So there's gonna be mistakes that be made. We know that there'll be more next week. There was some this week. It's not gonna be perfect. I've went through this before seven years ago, whatever may be. But the way he extended plays. You know that penalty on John I think what they call on John Michael seven yard run or whatever it was. Who was it on Dan? Okay, that was a big one because that was a huge play. But you know the run in in the end zone. Kids a competitor, it's not gonna be perfect. I'm sure he'll be the first one to tell you there's a lot that he can do better. We got to continue to help him do it better.
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Speaker 8: But like his traits.
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Speaker 6: I like his toughness. I'm glad we got him. I'm sorry, I'll get you in a minute.
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Speaker 11: Da you mentioned it, but a tough sort of it, you know what, There's no question he is.
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Speaker 3: But he took a lot of shots. He took a lot of shots.
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Speaker 2: Saying how do you kind of balance that competitiveness?
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Speaker 6: I trust him, you know, I think something. I mean, there's different shots you take. You know, we watch them every week. There's gonna be shots when you run through. I mean that play that they jumped off sides or off sides was it a fourth down or whatever it was. The crowd was going crazy. You hit it for two yards, you know, there's different shots you don't want to take, is you want to try to minimize him. But part of what I love about him is what he did in college. Yeah, he's tough, he's a competitor. So I'm glad he's our own quarterback. Yes, and there's gonna be a lot of growing pains, I'm just telling you. But his job is go out there and do what we need to do to win as a quarterback, whether it's running a bunch, you know, make a big third down play. Again, there's a lot of things to improve on though from him, and he'll be the first to tell you so. But let's give credit to the other guys around him. How the backs ran the receiver's block, we ran the ball more. I don't know what do we run for?
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Speaker 8: I don't have it.
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Speaker 6: We run for what?
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Speaker 8: Dan? You know?
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Speaker 6: No, you don't know, okay, one sixty one, Okay. So I'll take that stuff to improve in the red zone, stuff to improve in the passing game. And credit to the defense for closing it out getting two big turnovers, you know, Dexter rumbling down there. You know, I thought Jude did a good job. But again, it's one game. Our goal is to win that one game one week. I'm happy. We did certainly a lot of things to clean up. You know, we're close in other games, not close in other ones. But the goal is just to continue to improve. And I'm happy for the players and the coaches.
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Speaker 3: What about your pass rush today?
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Speaker 4: What about the way what about the way they.
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Speaker 3: Got after after Herbert and you just talked about that a little bit.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, that's what I expect from him. A lot of good players up there, and I told them that the night before. I think that the biggest thing in this game is going to be how our guys play. And I'll give you know. I saw Burns after and I saw him during the during the game. He is spent. I'm not, you know, not saying it's the flu game, but that young man is spent. I mean he looks the part right now.
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Speaker 12: Mexas interception and return. How much were you hoping he was gonna.
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Speaker 8: Take it all the way?
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Speaker 6: What do you think?
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Speaker 8: Yeah?
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Speaker 6: I was hoping. I don't even think would we get a field goal out of that?
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Speaker 7: So Jackson's toughness, was there any conversation with the hands that look like he was limping pretty good.
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Speaker 6: The first time he ain't got to come out.
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Speaker 8: Did you got some to tways talk about it though? Or they limit anything with him?
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Speaker 6: Or no, it's we didn't run him much. I mean we ran him on scrambles, so we stayed away from that in terms of I would say for the most part, because there was stuff that we did a few things at the end there to that with all we needed to do get an extra blocker. I'm sure he'll be sort tomorrow. But you know, I don't know. We got the holding penalty, But for that guy to go however far it was, I think that just shows his grit. But I'm not surprised.
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Speaker 8: On TV afterwards, you were pretty pumped up. You went up to him after the game. Did what was your message?
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Speaker 6: And he went at them when it was.
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Speaker 8: What after the game? You went out, like they showed it on TV.
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Speaker 3: You went up to him, whispered it in his ear, slapped him on the chest.
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Speaker 8: What was your message him at that?
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Speaker 6: In that moment, I probably said that great f and win like that?
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Speaker 8: What did you guys figure out defensively today? Was it just your path stretch? Leaning on them so frequently?
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Speaker 6: And Aptols specifically seemed like he was just terrizing. Well, what do you mean? What do we figure out?
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Speaker 8: What does that mean?
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Speaker 6: Seemed like you had answers to what they were bringing you in the passing game all day and are like comparison to what just like how we played defensively today is addressing defend or as what do you mean? That's why I'm asking you.
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Speaker 3: Why did your defense play well today?
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Speaker 6: They played hard and I thought they did their job. Again, it wasn't perfect. We gave up a big one at the end of the half. We gave a big one backed up, but I thought, you know, it starts up front, controlling a line of scrimmage, getting pressure on the quarterback. Again, they had a couple of big runs that that hurt us. You know, we got to get that fixed because that'll get you. And I would say at the end of the half that fourth and two, you know saying earmuffs stay off side, and we just got to do a better job of that and some of our young guys and keep on working with them. Thought the defensive coaches did a good job. I thought the players played hard. They made some plays in terms of the back end of breaking up plays, and they got after the quarterback a little bit, which always helps. So what does that answer?
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Speaker 8: Good?
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Speaker 13: Okay, interception excuse me?
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Speaker 14: How big was Burns quarterback hit and Phillips's interception at the end.
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Speaker 8: Of the game. That was huge?
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Speaker 6: Yeah, huge. Guys played tough, all the guys, not just you know, the defense, special teams, offense, coaches did a good job one game. You know, we try to win. We try to win every week, and we fell short a number of weeks. And it really doesn't matter what you do next week. You got to get ready to play, compete, you know, make plays during the game, play good situational football. May not many secret recipes to win in this league. It's hard. You gotta do a good job all the way around.
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Speaker 15: Big was the game on the ground? From how big was the game on the ground? From from camp today seventy nine to to to kind of compliment to kind of compliment in his first in his first time, Well, I just say, look.
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Speaker 6: The run game was important, control the game, and you know we can do we can do better at it too. Again, that's a tough, tough defense every three and oh for a reason, And they were one of the better teams in the red zone for a reason. They showed that we knew it would be a challenge, just like next week will be a challenge the week after that. But you know, credit our guys. They played, they played their tails off, they played together. But be over in a few hours and we'll get ready to play next week.
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Speaker 1: We'll take time out, we'll come back and react. Jackson Dart will go to the podium as well. All that and more when we return. The Giants defeat the Chargers in this game twenty one to eighteen, will be right back.
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Speaker 1: The Giants, who have been unfortunately a team that has gotten off the slow starts a lot this year. First opening drive of the game and frank with the last couple of years, Jackson Dart drives him right down, runs it in for the touchdown for his first ever career touchdown as an NFL player. The Giants took a seven to nothing lead and they will not relinquish that lead for the remainder of this game. Back here on Giants extra point. John Schmel, Bob Papa, Tiki Barber, and guys, we just heard from Brian Dable at the podium. We are waiting for Jackson Dart to arrive to speak to the media as well. But Tikky, you can just hear Brian Dable and the way he talks about Jackson Dart and it's the competitiveness and the toughness that seems to really be.
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Speaker 2: The stuff that got him.
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Speaker 3: Craze is effusive.
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Speaker 18: If they are going to whoever they is are going to put Jackson Dart on him, then he's going to take credit for when Jackson Dart wins him a football game. And ultimately, it just feels different. It is different. I was choking with Evan and my crew for Wfan that Mike Kafka is going to get a head coaching job because of the season that Jackson Dart is going to have. Think how different the play calling was in the red zone with the QB draw throughout the game. It's just you can do so much more when you have a quarterback who is quick with his decisions to get rid of the football when he doesn't have a read that he likes in a passing game, he'll take it down and go run. Had fifty plus yards rushing today, and the energy around this team is different with him at quarterback.
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Speaker 3: And so was it the right time?
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Speaker 18: Who knows? At the right time they got to win today. So it was the absolute right time for this team and for Jackson Dart.
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Speaker 1: You know, Bob, he's gonna figure out the you know, reading the defenses, putting the foot in the dirt as soon as in the drop and throwing the ball on time and evading some of those sacks and getting the ball out a little bit quickly. But Brian dam when he first named Dart the starter, he mentioned it. In fact, we had it in our game open that he's gonna make loose plays.
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Speaker 2: That's how Brian Dabel talked about him.
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Speaker 1: And this game was full of loose plays from Jackson Darts, whether it was scrambles and runs for first downs or scrambles, and then on the way up in the pocket, he's completing passes over the middle. Those loose plays made a big, big difference in this game.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I would say that we saw more balls thrown in intermediate middle than we did the first three games of the season.
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Speaker 3: He uses his legs to avoid pressure.
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Speaker 4: He could see over the defense and look, you're right, some of these sacks he took. He's gonna look back on it at the end of the year or five weeks from now. He's gonna be like, I can't believe I took those sacks, Like, what was I looking at six of them today?
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Speaker 3: It's just a learning.
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Speaker 4: He walked into three of them, yep, right, I mean, didn't move, just stood there.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, took them right.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: And one time he didn't see the hot coming off the edge he got wallat.
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Speaker 3: But all in all, he brought the team life.
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Speaker 4: Even on the fourth and goal, he made a play and Wandell Robinson. I know the safety came in and knocked the ball out, got a catch, but you expect an NFL receiver with two hands on the ball to secure that thing and talk it away and protect it and make sure you don't let that safety nine.
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Speaker 3: So even on that.
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Speaker 4: Play, and that's one of those loose plays, right, That's one of those loose plays.
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Speaker 2: So he had a decision. He could have run that play.
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Speaker 18: He took the better option, which is throwing at the wandel Robinson who had both hands on it, and he dropped it correct. Even though it was technically a pass breakup. You got to catch that in the NFL, you got to secure that. But I think he brings an energy of life. You know, Charlie, Charlie White Senior was on my podcast earlier this week, and you know, his son was the is the oc at Old Miss And you know when we had him on the show, you know, like we were talking about this and he said, I guarantee you Jim Harbaugh is not happy with this quarterback change. They wanted to play the Giants with Russell Wilson and my brother in law, who's a big Chargers fan, he said the same thing. He's like, I'm really nervous now with Darden there because Wilson kind of is in one spot and Jackson dark gave the Giants' abilities to make those loose plays. And look at the Giants on third down, John, the Giants are awful this year on third down.
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Speaker 3: They were seven of fifteen in the game, right almost.
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Speaker 1: And by the way, two or five in the red zone is actually a market improvement of where they were before this.
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Speaker 18: Right, Look, the red zone will improve. They've got to get their operation good down there, better down there. Their decisions, because this was the last one, was an ego decision. It was we are going to run the ball in and Dave's even said it in this press conference press availability.
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Speaker 2: They wanted to run the ball into the end zone.
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Speaker 18: He probably had a there were better options to get a touchdown down there.
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Speaker 3: It just didn't didn't pan itself out.
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Speaker 18: But the fact that they opening drive red zone easy play called touchdown was awesome.
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Speaker 2: They had Darthun's just a playmaker.
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Speaker 1: He makes plays, even if it's maybe not what the play told him it's supposed to be. He'll figure out a way to turn something into a positive.
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Speaker 8: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: I mean on that third and ten where I think is where he heard his hamshion because he made like.
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Speaker 3: An awkward move and he stumbled a little bit of his way.
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Speaker 4: But the other thing, you know we talked about is, you know, the Giants, they gave up two big runs, but they were able to force the Chargers, who were a good third down team, to four of twelve in this game. And listen, Brian Burns, Kevon Thibodeau, and Abdul Carter combined for twelve hits on Herbert A statue.
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Speaker 2: Only two sacks does not tell the story.
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Speaker 4: No, because they forced him to check it down, they forced him to throw it early. Some of those incompletions were because he had to get rid of the ball. Yes, and we felt the Giants pass rush have a presence in this game as well.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 18: They they get on the field, all three of them together, and it's obvious what Shane Bowen wants to do. Force the opponent's offensive line to block man on man across the board.
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Speaker 2: So Abdul Carter usually is on the on.
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Speaker 18: The center, so he forces the center to have to take him and not double team Decks or whoever, and one of those guys is going to win.
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Speaker 4: And how many how many stunts did they run? One two with Carter and Burns.
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Speaker 1: That's how Burns got his sack on the next to last Chargers drive.
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Speaker 4: I mean, it's it's not fair for an offensive. Now, those guys stunt.
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Speaker 18: Right, you got Decks stunting out and you got a t a t te coming with the inside uh you know loop by Brian Burns and just tracking down justin Herbert who had zero chance on that big third down to make a play.
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Speaker 1: Final one on Dart and Brian Dables asked about this. You have that final third and five, the Giants could have run the ball, forced the Chargers take their last time out. Instead, they decided to throw it, and Davill told us that at some point after the game, Jackson Dort had told him and THEO Johnson had talked about that specific play. I'm guessing against that specific coverage and instead of THEO Johnson continues right across the field, he had him sit down to find that hole in the zone. And that's what he did. An tiki that does show a level of work and commitment to some of the details that you want to see from a.
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Speaker 18: Interesting I've seen that play a lot in the NFL, but it takes a really aware tight end to do this. In fact, the Jacksonville Jaguars with Evan Ingram over the last couple of years, he's no longer there, but it's an.
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Speaker 3: Option route basically.
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Speaker 18: So the tight end just reads whatever the coverage is and so if it's man, he runs across the field, he tries to run away from the linebacker who he has an advantage in coverage on. If it's zone, just find a hole and sit down. And then it's on the quarterback to kind of interpret and read what's happening there. And that's exactly what occurred there. They dropped back into this little shill, this same kind of defense you saw with Darius Slayton catch those two in the curl, You drop back into a shell, You find the void, buy some time to your guys set.
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Speaker 3: And then you and you hit him.
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Speaker 18: Belly made a great catch there and and got it down for the big for huge first down to allow them to ice this game.
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Speaker 1: Okay, and the other thing I want to bring up here to guys, we haven't mentioned he yet in the post game, we should and I joked with with the Tiki Bob in the category of the Giants can of nice things, there was bad news in this game. Uh on a free play, Yeah, probably the best offensive player. Not probably, Well, he is the best offense, their best offensive He's one of the best offensive.
00:26:37
Speaker 3: Players in the league.
00:26:37
Speaker 18: So it's not even like he might talk about how bad this is for the Giants top five wide receiver. It gives other guys an opportunity. Bo Collins now has got to become more important than Jalen. Hyatt has to find a role that that's meaningful on this team.
00:26:53
Speaker 3: But losing the league Neighbors, there's no sugar coating it.
00:26:55
Speaker 18: He is He's a dominant player in this game, and without him, their offense suffers. It loses a massive big playability. And the first thing I thought was, I hate this turf, man. This turf is just it injures so many people over the years, and that look like that, I know, but it just it still feels like it's this turf.
00:27:16
Speaker 2: And usually it's like a change of direction thing with that right not usually, but.
00:27:21
Speaker 18: He stopped, he stopped the plant to jump off his right leg. You could see it in the replays. It is buckled. It's just like when you tear your achilles. You see a buckle happen in the musculature, and you just he didn't even try to catch the ball.
00:27:34
Speaker 2: He just reached immediately for his knee.
00:27:36
Speaker 3: How you knew what that was?
00:27:37
Speaker 1: Quick time out. We'll come back here from Jackson Dart again. The Giants with their first victory of this season. They proved the record to one and three defeat the Chargers twenty one to eighteen. We're from Jackson Dart and the rest of the players downstairs. When we return right after this.
00:27:47
Speaker 5: You're listening to Giants Extra Point on the WFAN Giants Radio Network.
00:27:53
Speaker 19: This is Jackson Dart and you're listening to Giants Football on the Fan w FA N and w FA n F New York.
00:28:02
Speaker 1: All right, we're back here on Giants Extra Point. The Giants defeat the Los Angeles Chargers twenty one to.
00:28:08
Speaker 2: Eighteen for their first victory of the year.
00:28:10
Speaker 1: Or awaiting Jackson Dart down on the podium to address the media and guys again. Now, the Giants had two New Orleans next week to take on the Saints. They much needed to win. Here against a very very good Chargers team, a team victory for the New York Football Giants and Tiki. We didn't have here for the first segment, and that was kind of the point I was making. We talked about not allowing or forcing Jackson Dart to be a savior as a rookie quarterback, and he got a lot of help from his boys, whether it was the running game, the defenders, the takeaways, take your pack.
00:28:39
Speaker 18: I gotta tell you, the biggest thing was the offensive line. We didn't mention them. That's a great point. They did not present a problem for the first time and forever. It feels like with this Giants team, Andrew Thomas Healthy is just a difference maker up front. It obviously helped in the run game. You saw him controlling those edges. Camp Scattabho had a couple of big runs out that way.
00:29:00
Speaker 3: Also in a.
00:29:00
Speaker 18: Past game, you never really felt that with a four man rush that Jackson Dart was in trouble. Now, as Bob mentioned earlier, he did get caught on one of those those blitzes. That's probably his own blitz That's why he didn't see it coming from the backside. He thought the guy dropping was giving him time and he got crushed. But I like what this offensive line has done. They weren't a conversation point. And it's the first time you can say that in a long time.
00:29:24
Speaker 2: Which is amazing.
00:29:24
Speaker 1: Because you see the six sack number in you're probably like, oh man, the offense line of the rough day.
00:29:28
Speaker 2: But they but they didn't. They really didn't know.
00:29:29
Speaker 4: I mean there was a couple of them, right, But some of it was coverage, yeah, and some of it I think was not seeing things.
00:29:36
Speaker 3: And there was one or two of them where he's got to throw it away.
00:29:39
Speaker 4: And even you know, Russell Wilson came in and took one of those sacks and he just looked completely overwhelmed right as the pressure was coming up front. But you know, how about the fact that the Giants ran it as well as they did. This is listen, this is a defense since the start of twenty twenty four that's giving up the fewest points per game, third best third down since Jesse Mencher came as the defensive coordinator unto Harbor. So a team that had only had twelve games where they allowed less than twenty points, right in twelve of those games, right, you went in and you scored twenty one against him. They only gave up ninety five yards rushing a game. Yeah, so like you did it against a legit team, you know. And you could tell me that Alt went out and Beckton wasn't playing and all that others, but I'll tell you the league neighbors got hurt.
00:30:31
Speaker 2: Yeah that's true.
00:30:32
Speaker 3: So you know, right, you did a good job against your defense.
00:30:35
Speaker 1: And Bob tip your cap because it was the Giants defense that put them in position for ten of those points, right. Ten of those points came off of the Drew Phillips interception that was a touchdown, and then three points came off to Dexter.
00:30:47
Speaker 2: By the way exception.
00:30:47
Speaker 18: That's the important thing to also mention is that the Giants have just not been good at turning the ball over in the last three years or two years really, and to get two turnovers DEXes, which people have been complaining about his slow start to the season, well he showed himself today. They had five oh year last year exactly, he had two today, almost took it into the end zone. Obviously, it only resulted in three points, which is, you know, disappointing when you're on the two yard line or four yard line after Dex's interception, but the interception was also enormous.
00:31:14
Speaker 2: Drew Phillips hugely aware of what.
00:31:16
Speaker 18: Was happening as that play, that pick play was being diagnosed. He got back Justin Herbert just threw it blindly offensive pass interference and he returns it down into the tight Rhditorio.
00:31:26
Speaker 1: And Bob mccrawl said this during the broadcast. They were pressing the wide receivers at the line of scrimmage. When you press, see what happens you guy. Guys run into each other. In fact, I think a Conkie trip because he ran into his tight end who was trying to set the pick on the plats.
00:31:38
Speaker 18: That's right, and so you give him credit for understanding what was happening. I think also Shane Bowen did things a little bit differently here.
00:31:44
Speaker 3: He conceded some things.
00:31:47
Speaker 18: Justin Herbert was very content to run that bench route, that little, you know, six to eight yard out route. They were given it to a conceiving it to him and if you're gonna throw it, we're gonna tackle you. I think the other big thing, as a put in addition to with the offensive line that we brought up this Giants defense tackled better than they have in previous games, and they made the stops in front of him. Hell, the last play of the game where Cordell Flott gets in position to tackle Quintin Jefferson right after the catch, I think it's Quentin Deffson, maybe Johnson. Quintin Johnson right right after the catch. Clock runs out. Game's over. Otherwise he gets out of mountains. They have a chance for hail Mary.
00:32:22
Speaker 4: You know when we look at these games, right, you know, you look at it. You want perfect, right, nothing is perfect. You know you think about Banks taking a bad angle on a third and nineteen and allowing Herbert to run for twenty four. Obviously they really, you know, the interior did a good job. You can't let Hampton go fifty four yards for a touchdown.
00:32:41
Speaker 3: That's a that's a breakdown.
00:32:43
Speaker 4: But you won a game where your longest play from scrimmage on offense was eighteen yards, right, right, Yeah, their longest play from scrimmage was eighteen yards today.
00:32:53
Speaker 3: But you ran the ball. You're stuck with the run.
00:32:56
Speaker 4: Even when scattab who only got two and he's unbelievable at getting yards.
00:33:00
Speaker 3: When it looks like there's nothing.
00:33:01
Speaker 2: But the running backs were only a three yards per carry, but it didn't matter.
00:33:04
Speaker 8: Didn't matter.
00:33:05
Speaker 2: They had twenty thirty two totes.
00:33:08
Speaker 3: That's what.
00:33:09
Speaker 1: There's thirty two carries for one hundred and seven yards, right, that's by the running backs.
00:33:12
Speaker 3: How often do you get to do that? And scagory in the game.
00:33:15
Speaker 4: There's a lot of time in this game where Herbert wasn't on the field because the Giants were on these fourteen play grinding drives.
00:33:21
Speaker 3: The penalty, you get a first down and.
00:33:24
Speaker 2: You could need that now with Neighbor's not playing.
00:33:25
Speaker 1: If the injury turns out to be what the reports are, you're gonna need that running game the rest of the year to play that one.
00:33:30
Speaker 18: To your point, to Bob's point there, the Los Angeles Chargers ran fifty six plays.
00:33:34
Speaker 3: Think about that.
00:33:35
Speaker 2: That's today's NFL fifty six plays.
00:33:38
Speaker 3: The Giants ran.
00:33:38
Speaker 1: Sixty nine TV the example, I think believe the Cowboys ran ninety plays against the Giants in Week two if I remember correctly.
00:33:46
Speaker 3: Big difference.
00:33:46
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was overtime too, that was overtime as well. That's a fair Poe.
00:33:49
Speaker 4: But you know, Peky made a really good point though, we know Slayton is a good player. We've seen Wan Dell play well. Should have caught that touchdown pass. But now there's gonna be a real opportunity here as Dark gets more and more familiar with reading coverages and defenses and everything else. It's put up or shut up time for Jalen Hyatt because he's gonna be asked now to do some more things and we're gonna find out if he can play or not in the National Football League.
00:34:20
Speaker 20: Right.
00:34:20
Speaker 4: I'm not saying he needs to replace the leak neighbors, but they need the collective now to step up in production. You're gonna use the tight ends a.
00:34:28
Speaker 3: Little bit more. Speaking of how about the play by man hurts on the punt.
00:34:31
Speaker 18: Great play at the end of the great play trips him up, just barely trips him up and prevents him from picking up another twelve.
00:34:38
Speaker 3: To fifteen yards or so.
00:34:40
Speaker 18: Great play by I'm coverage by your backup tight end and you bring in on short yardage and tight red zone situations.
00:34:47
Speaker 4: So you know the Giants are gonna need Hyatt to finally step up. We're gonna find out. It's put up or shut up time for him, and uh everybody's gonna have to do a little bit more with no mo leaku neighbors, because it's gonna be hard to win games on this profile when your longest play from scrimmage's eighteen yards, because you're not gonna get two turnovers every game. You're not gonna start inside the five yard line twice in a game often, so they're gonna have to figure out a way using the tight ends and however they readjust their passing game. But people are gonna have to step up and help because losing neighbors is catastrophic.
00:35:24
Speaker 1: Yeah, and by the way, Dabill brought this up to you talk about the run game of leaning into that you talk about a few times. Jackson Dart's gonna be sore this week. Jackson Dort's gonna be sore this week. I don't know if that was him taking hits to the hamstring. I'm not sure which one of those days ever referring to. I think it probably is everything. But you do wonder now how big of a role at least next week Jackson Dark can play in the designed run game.
00:35:45
Speaker 2: He can still scramble a little bit.
00:35:47
Speaker 21: We saw it.
00:35:47
Speaker 1: He still ran a little bit in the second half, Tiki, But you're wonder in that design, we didn't see one read option in the entire second half of this game.
00:35:54
Speaker 18: True, and they probably could have utilized it, especially on that drive where they're trying to run out the clock in the four minute offense and Jim Harball is using his timeouts. They were they were designing these run dogs off the edges time after time after time. If you do one zone read and force them to either sit back in that or keep it and go around the edge, then Jackson Dart probably picks up a huge gainer and ends the game way before they had to.
00:36:20
Speaker 4: And Chicky, you know, from being a young player in the league to an older player in the league, young guys bounce back a lot quicker.
00:36:29
Speaker 18: You feel so much better when you're young than when you're thirty eight years years old.
00:36:33
Speaker 4: Here, if you think he's gonna give any opportunity now to have Russell Wilson come back in and start.
00:36:38
Speaker 1: Oh no, no, no, no, no, no, he's gonna play. I'm not saying he's not gonna play. I'm not sectually how much he's gonna be able to run. That's all I'm saying. All Right, we are with Jackson start at the podium. But we do have some players sound from the locker room. Uh, Connor, why don't we get Abdul carterp He had a great game. He was credited for five quarterback hicks even though we did not have a sack. He was certainly disrupted throughout the entire game. That's your abdual quarter to talk to the media.
00:37:00
Speaker 2: In the locker.
00:37:01
Speaker 8: You gotta lock in, you gotta focus.
00:37:03
Speaker 11: We gotta see all the things that we did we're not so good this week, to improve on it and you better next week's.
00:37:10
Speaker 3: Effect.
00:37:11
Speaker 11: Like I'm happy, all I do, all I care about is winning, So I'm happy about this. But like I said, just one game. We gotta continue to stack stack and winning stack days. They've been ready for the next week.
00:37:20
Speaker 10: You've had a tight bond with Jackson since you guys got here the day after your draft. Just curious what kind of advice you've given them. Heard you've been talking to them a lot. You guys both go back and forth.
00:37:30
Speaker 11: I'll always tell him to stay ready because you never know what your time that's going off.
00:37:33
Speaker 3: This time that's called and came up for us.
00:37:34
Speaker 11: But that's our conversations, making sure we both stay on top of our game, doing our jobs at the best of the best.
00:37:40
Speaker 10: Withe somebody had said that you guys were the future, and you kind of corrected them and said, you guys are part of the present.
00:37:46
Speaker 3: Future is now.
00:37:49
Speaker 20: This is the first time I'm giving up the first time I'll effect you.
00:37:57
Speaker 12: I'm sure effective, but I feel like we be even more of that.
00:38:00
Speaker 8: I feel like we're still missing opportunities out there. But like I said, we're gonna watch.
00:38:03
Speaker 6: The coming out to see what we did wrong.
00:38:05
Speaker 9: Did you feel like you were around harder to get the show?
00:38:09
Speaker 3: Do you think the same?
00:38:10
Speaker 22: Think the stage?
00:38:13
Speaker 6: Why why are you having such success with.
00:38:15
Speaker 23: The like stunts inside coming off yet start?
00:38:18
Speaker 8: I get a credit to my teammates.
00:38:20
Speaker 11: If somebody does their job at a high level, which opens it up for me, and if I do my job opens it up for them.
00:38:26
Speaker 3: So it's like I said, it's a team game.
00:38:27
Speaker 8: It's the best team on.
00:38:29
Speaker 24: Any advice, any advice to duckson the next time we gets an interception.
00:38:33
Speaker 11: I feel like did a great job. He was moving out there and stumbing towards end. But that was a big time player, you know.
00:38:39
Speaker 1: He psykes me, how many times have we gotten on these post game shows to get this to your first year? But Bob could attest to this. You know, the Giants were banged up on the offensive line. The other team ran all these twisting stunts, and the tackles couldn't block anybody, and the quarterback was running for the lives of the whole game.
00:38:52
Speaker 2: And that's why they only scored eighteen points.
00:38:55
Speaker 1: The shoes on the other foot today the way you're hearing Carter talk about how they got after Justin Herbert again.
00:39:00
Speaker 18: And then they took advantage of Joe a going down early in this game with an ankle injury.
00:39:04
Speaker 2: I believe contecting uh being.
00:39:07
Speaker 18: Out for this game obviously Rashaun Slater because they's done for the year early in this game, Uh declus. They took advantage of it at left tackle and Joe Alt's plays. In fact, one of those pressures, you know, Abdul Carter just ran right around him, so speed rushing and have just speed dip speed rushing and and see you later. And so you give them credit for taking advantage. Again, the sack totals aren't there. There was only two of them, but it doesn't show the impact that they had on this on this Chargers offense, who up until you know today, have been one of the most explosive and dominant offenses in the in the league.
00:39:41
Speaker 3: And so you give them credit because.
00:39:43
Speaker 2: They they they they took, they took what was.
00:39:46
Speaker 18: In front of them and forced the Chargers to earn every little thing. Say for those couple of big plays, the Chargers had to earn everything that they put out on this field today.
00:39:57
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean listen, I didn't hear anybody I and hear anybody qualifying things when Andrew Thomas got hurt. During the course of seasons, the Giants offensive line got run over and they had you know, josh A Zudu or other people, ty Phillips or whatever playing left tackle. So the heck with it man tough against the Giants for years.
00:40:18
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, absolutely, you know how many times in the past, Bot, But we sat here going into a game. Oh you know, there's starting left tackles out, this guy's banged up, and then the Giants get one sacked to the quarterback.
00:40:27
Speaker 2: Those were billion yards.
00:40:28
Speaker 3: And this is the other thing.
00:40:29
Speaker 4: You know, after the Giants drafted Abdul Carter, there were people out there that were saying, you know, well, the Giant should probably trade cave On Thibodeau.
00:40:37
Speaker 2: Not smart people.
00:40:37
Speaker 8: No.
00:40:38
Speaker 4: In fact, with the Giants there was they picked up his fifth year option because he is a bargain.
00:40:42
Speaker 3: Now next year under contract. You know what you do.
00:40:44
Speaker 4: You worry about that two years from now, right but right now you have the formation of between Dexter, Lawrence Abduall, Carter, Brian Burns and cave On Thibodeau.
00:40:55
Speaker 3: If they can all stay healthy. Now you have a disruptive group.
00:40:59
Speaker 2: With they two schools or Lee.
00:41:00
Speaker 1: That's the other part of this, right you can use those guys because you're up to scores in the fourth quarter, which one's last time the Giants.
00:41:06
Speaker 3: Are up two scores the fourth quarter.
00:41:07
Speaker 18: DJ Davidson played well too, a couple of pressures, just quick pressures up beat in the center, and so their defensive front has been better, I think better today than they were in the first couple of weeks.
00:41:20
Speaker 1: Davis had a good play in that one run play, forced Hampton inside on that one round.
00:41:23
Speaker 18: But in order for this Giants team to beat some of the better teams in the league, and again the Chargers are a good team. But to beat the Eagles coming in in the upcoming weeks, they're gonna have to be dominant, uh in that first and second level defensively, otherwise the team are gonna take advantage.
00:41:38
Speaker 1: All right, let's uh hear from Andrew Thomas downstairs. The Giants offensive line did.
00:41:41
Speaker 3: Not have Andrew Thomas for a huge fumble recovery.
00:41:46
Speaker 1: That was a huge fumble, absolutely right, So let's hear about that and a whole lot more from Andrew Thomas after the game.
00:41:52
Speaker 11: Why do you think you guys finished this when they've been so many times where you guys have played in the game and not finished.
00:41:56
Speaker 3: It made it different today?
00:41:57
Speaker 23: And it's just we made those plays today and you know the previous games we didn't.
00:42:02
Speaker 8: That's that's important.
00:42:03
Speaker 3: How do you feel coming out of them? Good?
00:42:04
Speaker 8: It was?
00:42:05
Speaker 23: It was a tough one fall through. Glad to be out there with my teammates and continue to improve and get better so I can help us out.
00:42:12
Speaker 3: What do you think the way Scataboo ran the ball.
00:42:15
Speaker 23: Tough as usual? That's just how he is. He brings that juice star offense and continue to do that.
00:42:20
Speaker 3: There is a blueprint for the Giants to win.
00:42:23
Speaker 11: I imagine it to play with the lead and let Burns, Carter Thibodeau decks key off they had I think they had twenty quarterback pressures today.
00:42:31
Speaker 3: Is that kind of what you saw today? Is that the blueprint?
00:42:33
Speaker 23: Yeah, we know our front is dominant, but again selfishly as office line and I want to be dominant as well.
00:42:39
Speaker 8: Like I want us to be out to run the fall.
00:42:41
Speaker 23: We want to protect and allow Jackson to get the ball to the receivers and who knows where our teams will go from there if we can do that.
00:42:48
Speaker 25: How different was the style of offense obviously with him pe more running quarterbacks? But was it like kind of learning that this week and doing it today?
00:42:56
Speaker 23: It was a little different. We've had some Pep runs in before. I don't want to work some stuff in the offices, and so it wasn't having too much in a bdjusin I would say on the adjustment PRIs.
00:43:06
Speaker 8: More. We definitely pick on some front.
00:43:08
Speaker 23: Just morning and Thomas, but obviously was working so I would continue to do that.
00:43:14
Speaker 4: That's Andrew Thomas. So let me set the stage for you here, Johnny. It's thirteen to ten giants, right, We're in the third quarter. There's six twelve to go on the third quarter, and there's an aborted snap, and Andrew Thomas recovers the ball at the Giants one yard.
00:43:32
Speaker 2: And it was bouncing around a little bit too.
00:43:34
Speaker 4: By the way, it doesn't show up in the stat sheet, right, But here's what happens. They fail on third and thirteen. Now Jamie Gillen hits a booming, lining sixty nine yard pot drives it. They got eleven yards on the return. Of course you're gonna get eleven yards on the return on a sixty nine yard pot.
00:43:53
Speaker 1: It was a terrible return by still by the way took We took way too long to run all.
00:43:57
Speaker 2: It comes down and makes a big play tackle.
00:43:59
Speaker 4: So so you go from potentially them having the ball to one yard line and taking the lead in the game to you punting it, covering it, changing the field position. And then on third and six, Phillips gets the interception, returns it to the three, and dart with the shovel pass to THEO Johnson and now you're up. You get the two points, you're up twenty one to ten. If Andrew Domas doesn't recover that fumble, you could be losing in this game seventeen to thirteen. Instead, you play good special teams, you make a play on defense, you scoring goal to goal Andrew Thomas, that play might have saved this game.
00:44:38
Speaker 1: We don't have the feature anymore, but that's a good argument for making that the turning point of the game if we had that feature in.
00:44:43
Speaker 18: Oh, I'll tell you it is the turning point at the game because that the Chargers kind of took back some of the momentum right before half, right the huge play to Quinton Johnson, the touchdown that made it a one possession game coming into the second half. The Giants, you know, they punted, you know twice until that, until that situation that Bob's talking about, didn't they get a touchdown and all of a sudden they are now back in control.
00:45:08
Speaker 4: So Thomas recovers the fumble, you get a really good punt by Gallon, good coverage, defense, gets a pick, wreturns it inside the five. You score a touchdown. That is the three phases of football. We're helping you win a football game. And Andrew Thomas may have saved the game. We're covering that ball at the one yard all.
00:45:26
Speaker 2: Right, quick time out we're still awaiting Jackson Dart.
00:45:28
Speaker 1: I'm sure the trainers and Ronnie Barnes are all over that dude after this game. I was probably taking him so long to get to the podium. Quick time out, we'll be back. Giants defeat the Chargers at twenty one to eighteen.
00:45:38
Speaker 5: You're listening to Giants Extra Point on the Wfan Giants Radio network.
00:45:44
Speaker 2: We're back Jackson Dart at the podium.
00:45:46
Speaker 8: Jacks, were you surprised that.
00:45:47
Speaker 20: All of that, They've put the ball up and they put the trust in you to throw in that situation?
00:45:52
Speaker 19: No, I wasn't, because you know, I wanted the ball in my hand, you know, No, I think back on the game. Obviously I haven't watched the tape, but you know there's mistakes that I made that I want back in the passing game and I want to be cleaner.
00:46:07
Speaker 8: So I was. I was grateful.
00:46:09
Speaker 19: You know, they did have the confidence of me to you know, give me the ball there, and I just knew that situation, you know, the guys out there with me that we were going to make a play.
00:46:17
Speaker 8: Your move.
00:46:18
Speaker 26: Nobody else got you out of some tough situations today.
00:46:20
Speaker 8: Would you say that the way you play today is kind of a the way you like to balance it out in terms of using your legs.
00:46:26
Speaker 19: And also, yeah, I mean I would like to be a little bit you know, more efficient in the passing game, you know, creating a little bit you know, a few more expulsive plays. But you know, they had a really good plan for us, so you got to give them a ton of credit. And they've played, you know, really good defense these past three weeks and we knew that coming into this game. And you know, you know, the vertical passing game down the field just really just wasn't there because of how they played. And you know, they're very disciplined, so you know, we were able to take some things underneath and you know, things like a little sticky in coverage, you know, just try to make some players and all that.
00:47:00
Speaker 12: So how will does offense change for you?
00:47:02
Speaker 3: And overall, if Malak's injury is long term.
00:47:05
Speaker 27: Is heared?
00:47:06
Speaker 19: Obviously prayers to him, you know, I don't we don't. I don't think that we know exactly what happened. So you know, he's gonna be one of my first phone calls to check on him. But Malik is I've said it like Malik's one on one. So when you have a guy like that on the field, you have all the confidence in the world that he can just be a dominant game changer. But I thought, you know, you know, from that moment, you know, obviously it's really hard scene. You know, one of your best friends go down, but we were able to to rally and I thought guys made some good plays. But you know, obviously, just prayers to him and yeah.
00:47:44
Speaker 15: What's kind of the one through your mind and that as you watched it. So I'm just on Malik still, what was going through your mind in that situation?
00:47:53
Speaker 19: You know, obviously it just hurts, you know, because you know it's the worst part of this game is the injuries. So you know, you hate to see you know, your teammate, your brother go down and look in pain like that. But you know, I'm just gonna be praying for him, and you know, I got us back through it all.
00:48:09
Speaker 28: You know what it's like, you know what it's like to gut and type, Well, what was going through your head as you're standing on the sidelines as the clock expires and you realize you're getting pad the first time holding me.
00:48:23
Speaker 19: I was waiting for the hit zero because you know obviously that Dallas game. You know, I in my mind, I thought we were gonna have that one. So I was just staring at the clock, you know, I was waiting for it to countdown. But you know, John running was right next to me, and that was a cool moment to have with him. And yeah, it was just you know, special to get the first one and let's just start.
00:48:43
Speaker 9: You know what it's like to as a quarterback to get him did and get hit.
00:48:47
Speaker 3: But could you tell it all from.
00:48:49
Speaker 9: What your guys on defense were doing to justin and you know how important was that and getting resulting.
00:48:53
Speaker 19: Yeah, I thought our defense, you know, carried us through this game. Thought our defense offensive line you know, played at you know, a really elite level. And you know there's a quarterback when when there's pressure like that and there's guys always in the backfield, no matter who you are, the game just speeds up. And you know, they have a really good team up there and have played really good. So you know, our d line knew that they had to be play at a dominant level for us to win. And just you know, really credit to those guys for stepping up and making a lot of plays.
00:49:27
Speaker 3: With Dable after the games?
00:49:28
Speaker 8: Could you very emotionally?
00:49:29
Speaker 7: You have to know this was a made decision for him to go to you, So did that?
00:49:32
Speaker 8: Don you feel how much this meant to him? You get this this way?
00:49:35
Speaker 2: Yeah?
00:49:36
Speaker 19: You know, like I said that, we've been really close in these past weeks, and it's hard, you know when when you feel like you should win, you have plenty of opportunities to win, and there's just plays where you know, we just didn't make and uh, you know, I think everybody just in the locker room feel that way too, Like we know that we have really good players on our team, so I think it was just, you know, this is just a big like confidence builder for us as a team to you know, have a win like this where it wasn't easy, it wasn't clean, and we had to fight, you know, just like the other weeks, but this time we finished. So you know, I thought our coaches did a really good job. And you know, obviously Dave was just excited to get a win.
00:50:16
Speaker 8: Like what was that a race? Like? And what do you what do you say to the like would you take him?
00:50:20
Speaker 28: Yeah?
00:50:20
Speaker 19: I mean me and Daves just have a special relationship, you know, he's he's the guy that believed in me from day one, and you know, I think it does say a lot. You know that he he made the decision and have the confidence in me, and you know, even just giving me the ball and those situations on that third down to make a play. So, you know, I think that when I know that, when you have a coach who you know, you know has your back, you know, I'm gonna go out there and do everything that I can for him to to win.
00:50:47
Speaker 11: What us coming into your your first NFL win, first NFL start, coming into the stadium, there were a lot of young kids.
00:50:55
Speaker 3: Andrew Jersey Camp going backwards.
00:50:58
Speaker 8: And Anakin Sky. What does it mean for you.
00:51:01
Speaker 11: To see young kids now emulating you so early in your life.
00:51:05
Speaker 19: It's it's really cool because you know, I was one of those kids, you know, you know, like Russell Wilson was, you know, a guy who you know I had, you know, one of his first pairs of cleats when they came out, you know, and you know, when you grow up and there's guys that you look up to, you you try to emulate things. You know, in the backyard when you're just playing around, you know, with your friends. So, uh, it's cool to see that. You know, it definitely gives me a feeling of you know, you just want to play really good to make people happy. And and obviously when because you know there's a lot of people who you know, take time out of their day and and take the sacrifice. You know, the tickets are not always the cheapest, and you know they're here to support us, and I think it just means a lot. You know, it definitely means a lot to me to see that support, and you know, it makes you definitely go harder.
00:51:55
Speaker 29: Forced off the field for the concussion examining.
00:51:59
Speaker 19: I mean I was pissed. I mean, I don't want to see anybody try to sprint seventy yards as hard as you can and then you gotta run back and get ready for the next play like you're gonna be tired.
00:52:10
Speaker 8: So that's all it was.
00:52:12
Speaker 19: I was just tired, and obviously you just I never want to come out.
00:52:14
Speaker 8: Of the game.
00:52:17
Speaker 2: Yes, Scot's a baller, you know.
00:52:19
Speaker 19: I just think that we play very similar like mentality wise. I may be smarter in the open field, are taking some hits and whatnot, But uh, when you have a guy like that who you know, just kind of brings the juice every single day and gives it his all the guys around him want to play harder, so and then off the field, you know, we just have a really cool connection.
00:52:38
Speaker 8: The hamstring.
00:52:39
Speaker 6: How much did you have to fight through pain or adjust your game like mid game playing through it?
00:52:44
Speaker 19: And in fact, I really had to adjust my game. It's just kind of football like, you know, you're gonna take a little bit of a step or you know something, You're not gonna feel perfect throughout a game, and you know, I'll be just I'll take this week and recover and I'll be ready to go.
00:53:07
Speaker 1: Jackson Dar at the podium after the game. The Giants defeat the Chargers twenty one to eighteen. Player press conferences are brought to you by MetLife, the official insurance company of the New York Giants. And Bobby talked about that long run where he was tired. They took him off with the concussion. I was thought someone's gonna ask him about the almost stiff arm punch to the side of the helmet hut his way down. Obviously he was healthy after that, thankfully, but and he did say he had to take fewer hits in the open field. Obviously he was getting hit by defenders way too much of this game.
00:53:34
Speaker 3: Yeah, you can't.
00:53:35
Speaker 4: I mean, stiff armer is one thing like swiping at a guy's helmet because especially with your throwing hand, I mean, you could get your hand caught in the face mask.
00:53:43
Speaker 3: Anything can happen, right.
00:53:45
Speaker 4: Tiki, we were talking about early in the second quarter, Giants were on a drive and it looked like on it looked like on second and goal at the seven, Scataboo was gonna go in for a touchdown. Yes, and Cam Hart a heck of a play, great tackle by him.
00:54:02
Speaker 3: To stop him.
00:54:03
Speaker 4: He went really low as someone who scored the most second most rushing touchdowns and Giants history, I guess Brandon Jacob.
00:54:11
Speaker 3: He would come pill for those from me.
00:54:13
Speaker 4: But my question to you is what's the teaching point here for Cam Scataboo that Tiki Barber learned as the Giants all time leaving rushing.
00:54:22
Speaker 18: So first of all, he leaves his feet a lot, and some of it helps him because he'll jump through cuts and you know it's it's a lot of traffic in the middle of the field and he'll squeeze his way through land on his feet and then be able to leverage himself back down into a power position and get yards. So it's not always bad, but when you're in a one on one situation, you should never ever try to leave your feet, unless it's one of those hurtling over our guys that we see these wide receivers and running backs do. And the reason is because when you're on an angle like that, the minute you leave your feet, you've lost control and all it takes is a tiny swipe and you're on the ground. What he should have done is realize that this defender who's trailing him slightly is going to go low, so he himself should get really low. Let that defender hit his shoulder, like, lean into him instead of trying to run away from him. Lean back into him. Take the contact, which you're he's gonna run through. He runs through contact from two hundred and eighty pounds defensive line. He's so sure he's a low center gravity, but it doesn't even matter. He's gonna run through that contact. So initiate the contact yourself, stunt that that that tackle attempt, and then walk into the end zone. He'll look at it and he'll he'll say, jumping is what what cost him that touchdown?
00:55:38
Speaker 4: Right, because then and then he you know, and he also was trying to stiff farm there right at that point. But you're saying you're out of control. You know he's trailing, he's coming in. He you know, he's not gonna come high because he knows he's gonna lose. Right in that situation, you just get low and almost lean into him. Take the contact, and you're gonna bounce off him. He ain't wrapping you, right. It was one of the things it took me a while to learn that.
00:56:00
Speaker 18: Probably didn't figure that out toil my six or so year in the league, but I realized that initiating contact would often free me up because you're you're shocking the defender. You know he thinks I'm trying to run away. You just bang into him and just keep you know you're gonna keep running after it. Just bang into him, stop him, and then run away from him. They're gonna fall down around your ankles. But he's so strong with his if his feet are on the ground, there is no dB in the league. It's gonna tackle him one on one. Giants football, I'm sorry taking you more, finish, No, No, that's it.
00:56:29
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00:57:09
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00:57:11
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Speaker 1: Truck or SUV Ford Official Truck and SUV of the New York Football Giants. Jackson Dark's first touchdown pass as a member of the Giants and for the fans that did not watch the game, imagine the old Mahomes Travis Kelcey shovel pass inside.
00:57:37
Speaker 2: That's pretty much what that was.
00:57:38
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm sure that came out of the Mike Cafta playbook coming over from Kansas City.
00:57:42
Speaker 18: Did they set that play up the entire game? They had one play early in the game, same formation, they tossed it out to Camps Gataboo, same side toss. They faked the pitch right well, no, no, the same side toss to camps Gataboo.
00:57:53
Speaker 3: He picked up on a five or six yards or so.
00:57:55
Speaker 18: They did another one later in the game where they faked the toss and threw a lant route and then ultimately they brought it back one more time, fake the toss and then threw the shovel pass. So Kafka is able to layer the play calling with Jackson Dart because there's so many different things that he can do. You're not doing that in the first three games of the year because Russell is not that that that sixth skill position player threat that Jackson Dart is.
00:58:20
Speaker 1: Bob, But give me your final thoughts here on this game and your brief look ahead to h New Orleans next week.
00:58:27
Speaker 2: When we can you can go get some nice gumbo.
00:58:29
Speaker 3: Yeah, New Orleans.
00:58:30
Speaker 4: Look, they played Buffalo tough for a while today, but they have a quarterback who has never won a game in the NFL, Spencer Raler. They're challenged a little offensively. I don't know if they're gonna make a switch to Tyler's shot, but just keep this pass rush going, run the football. Jackson Dart's gonna learn a lot from this, and look, just enjoy it. Man, enjoy it, like the Giant fans have been through so much agony, and you know, you had the loss of the Cowboys, the stinker last son, the stinking offensive performance against Washington, and today every facet of the team chipped in.
00:59:07
Speaker 3: Was it perfect? No, we know they're a flawed team, but man, enjoy it.
00:59:12
Speaker 4: You know, I was talking to a bunch of people on the sideline before the game, you know, with ownership and other people, and you know, you just you were hoping, like give hope to the fan base, and you moved up into the first round, you drafted Jackson Dart and today was the start of what is hopefully optimism because it's been so down in Dour for the last two years, and now you got something to sink your teeth into It wasn't perfect by any stretch, and Jackson Dart's gonna learn from this experience. But today you've got a complete team effort against an undefeated football team. And you know what, Enjoy your dinner tonight, Enjoy rasing your friends at work tomorrow that your Giants beat the Chargers and everything else. And you know what, for the first time in a long time, Giant fans can be proud of their.
01:00:07
Speaker 3: Football team with the effort they got.
01:00:09
Speaker 4: And I'm excited about what I saw, and I'm excited about what could be next for them.
01:00:15
Speaker 2: Bob, we'll talk to you next week.
01:00:17
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01:00:59
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01:01:52
Speaker 1: Back here on Giants extra point right here on the fan again. Giants defeat the Charges for the first win twenty one to eighteen. You just heard from Dexter Lawrence. We're gonna have audio from him downstairs in just a moment. We'll hear from Brian Burns. Paul Deatino joins us as well, and of course get on the line. We will take your calls at eight eight eight, eight oh eight, one zero, one to nine as the Giants again get their first win of the season. As Jackson dar gets a win in his first game starting for the New York Football Giants. Let's go downstairs. Dexter Lawrence addressed the media after the game.
01:02:21
Speaker 16: I got my hand on the ball earlier in the game, but it got called back, and this one he just threw it right over my head. I put my hands up, Dallas, I missed it, and this and this week I got it and tried to go score.
01:02:35
Speaker 20: Oftentimes, when defensive linemen get a deflection like that, the lands in their hands, teammates and screaming for the ball.
01:02:40
Speaker 2: Was there anyway he would go to give that thing up. Nobody was close to me.
01:02:44
Speaker 16: I'll tell everybody, I'm the fastest.
01:02:48
Speaker 20: How close did you think you were gonna get to the goal line?
01:02:51
Speaker 2: I thought I was gonna score.
01:02:52
Speaker 16: I knew he was gonna go low, but I couldn't catch my feet quick enough. But yeah, and then then I just went down.
01:03:00
Speaker 20: About the other defensive line where they kind of give you a real nice Griben whinning when you got caught up the three.
01:03:05
Speaker 16: Nah, I need I needed to catch some win.
01:03:09
Speaker 3: For the defense to close this game out. What does that mean?
01:03:12
Speaker 14: Uh?
01:03:12
Speaker 21: After being in this position before and not being able to.
01:03:15
Speaker 16: Do Uh, that's that's everything. You know, we we asks for that. You know, we actually be on the field when it matters most. And you know, and this week we just took advantage. You know, the whole game, we was on each other about speaking through the game about situational awareness and understanding what plays need to be made right here and giving the offense short fields to play on, and the whole the whole game we was speaking and and and and when you speak on stuff like that, things, that's what happens.
01:03:41
Speaker 3: Is it actually important because it was darker, it's not mean you're.
01:03:43
Speaker 6: Playing with it.
01:03:44
Speaker 3: The quarterback.
01:03:45
Speaker 8: You know, I think I think regardless. I think that's regardless.
01:03:48
Speaker 12: Of the fact.
01:03:48
Speaker 16: You know, you wanna that's how you wanna play.
01:03:51
Speaker 3: As with defense, when you get opportunities and they.
01:03:53
Speaker 16: Inside their five, their team, you wanna hold them there.
01:03:56
Speaker 8: So the offense can get short. No matter who's that quarterback.
01:03:58
Speaker 3: Did you think it doctor?
01:04:00
Speaker 8: I think it's tough.
01:04:01
Speaker 3: He's tough.
01:04:01
Speaker 2: He too. He took some hits and but he got back up and.
01:04:05
Speaker 12: Made the players we needed to let us whood.
01:04:07
Speaker 8: That's what matter most.
01:04:08
Speaker 3: Is this the vision?
01:04:09
Speaker 25: You know, like you guys just pass rush stift guys up front.
01:04:15
Speaker 16: Yeah, you got a lot, you got a lot of ballers up front. You got a lot of guys that's that's getting paid to do this, to go to go out here and dominate every game. And you know we put that, We put that pressure on ourselves. We wanted and we encourage, we embrace it. We we don't shy away from it. And I know we just gotta continue to be consistent and show up every week and prepare the right way. And that's what we did this week, and we came out.
01:04:37
Speaker 12: With a w how much more baseball?
01:04:39
Speaker 3: How much more baseball? Get next?
01:04:41
Speaker 19: When you'll lead for fifty minutes of the game for the past press to be off like he played from the hat.
01:04:46
Speaker 3: The Johnston usually do that ship. I mean, it's just we're just playing ball, man.
01:04:51
Speaker 16: You know, we we gotta I think we gotta do better of holding the momentum. You know, when when things happen like that big room, I can't let that happen.
01:05:02
Speaker 3: Little things like that.
01:05:03
Speaker 2: But at the end of the day, you as a defense.
01:05:05
Speaker 16: You want to be dominant, and no matter what the ball is spotted, no matter how it's spotted, no matter where, did like you want to go out there dominant.
01:05:13
Speaker 1: Of course is first start to have a three yard field than seventy eight eighty years down.
01:05:18
Speaker 3: Even if you want an interception ever.
01:05:19
Speaker 1: Game, do you take some pride in the fact that you were able to make it easier on Jackson and the offense.
01:05:23
Speaker 3: No, for sure.
01:05:24
Speaker 16: And I mean, like I was saying, like the message through the whole game was if they here, keep them here. Let's let's get an offensive short field, because we know how important that is for anybody, any quarterback, to have.
01:05:35
Speaker 3: A short field.
01:05:36
Speaker 16: So I mean that was so we talked through the whole game. Whenever they was in their team. It's side their five, like, let's hold them here, let's keep them here, get an offense a short field.
01:05:45
Speaker 25: Imagine you mentioned just this week wanted to be consistent of coming out today and doing it.
01:05:49
Speaker 3: I think consistent.
01:05:50
Speaker 16: I was speaking consistent throughout the year, right, like with a dominant, dominant performance.
01:05:54
Speaker 25: Did anything click?
01:05:55
Speaker 24: Maybe since that Dallas game is you know, the last couple of weeks eating up to today.
01:06:02
Speaker 8: I can't.
01:06:02
Speaker 16: I can't say. I think we just continue to prepare the right way. And that's the most important thing. We were communicating better and we learning each other more, and I think that's the biggest thing. We just gotta understand the importance of situational defense and offense. And that's and we're gonna outcomes gonna happen like this.
01:06:24
Speaker 9: That is not a perfect game.
01:06:25
Speaker 7: You guys from the league.
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Speaker 27: Here touring a c L.
01:06:30
Speaker 6: What did you think about you guys responded to that?
01:06:32
Speaker 11: Respond to it?
01:06:33
Speaker 8: Yeah, prayers up to him for sure.
01:06:36
Speaker 2: Uh.
01:06:37
Speaker 16: It hurts to see a socier go down, but you know, we gotta I think your injuries happened in this game. You know, we play a dangerous game and it's unfortunate, but I think you know, we got we got guys that got to step up.
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Speaker 1: That's Dexter Lawrence. After the game, Paul, you're the chance to talk to him. The defense, I imagine had to have been and we're here from Brian Burnes a little bit in the postgame show as well. I gotta imagine the defense, especially that front, and we heard from a duel Carter previously had to be feeling pretty good about themselves with the way.
01:07:07
Speaker 2: They helped close this game out. They really were.
01:07:09
Speaker 20: You talk about the nine quarterback hits, the twenty total pressures that next Gen Stats registered the Giants, four uh and six sacks as well. I mean the guys downstairs were basically saying that the only.
01:07:22
Speaker 1: Only two sacks the six sacks were for the Chargers. Oh yes, I'm looking I'm looking at the wrong numbers.
01:07:26
Speaker 3: Okay, that's okay.
01:07:28
Speaker 2: I'm getting excited about it because it was so good. They had a ton of pressures it. Yeah, correct, they did.
01:07:33
Speaker 20: And and really what it came down to is they were talking about how each other worked together so well that it was a unified effort and everybody knew what the other guy was doing.
01:07:44
Speaker 2: They were on the same page.
01:07:46
Speaker 20: Yes, that correct, and we talked about this on Big Blue Kickoff Live, heard every weekday from twelve thirty to one thirty on Giants dot Com. We talked about this on the show that the Giants defense might take three or four games before they hit their stride.
01:08:02
Speaker 2: They hit their stride today.
01:08:03
Speaker 1: Well, it also helps that you're missing Joe Walton, you're missing Rashaun Slater, and you're missing.
01:08:07
Speaker 20: Understri So yes, but they made they made enough of big plays that they had to make right and.
01:08:12
Speaker 2: They gave it into me and Tek. You were talking about this, Bob earlier.
01:08:15
Speaker 1: They gave the chipal to the Giants offense twice inside the five yard That's what you need from of your defense if they're.
01:08:20
Speaker 3: Gonna carry feld.
01:08:21
Speaker 18: Position and turnovers are such an important part of winning in the NFL, and the Giants won that battle today. You know, Bob mentioned it earlier, and it was such a great point about the change of fortune from the fumble down backed up on the one yard line that Andrew Thomas recovered, then the enormous punt from from Gillam who got the ball sixty seven yards down the field. Ultimately it is only eleven yard return, then you get the turnover, and then you score, and so like that moment though, that that little two or two and a half possession change for the Giants is what won them this game.
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Speaker 1: All right, eight won zero one nine will get more audio from the locker room, but we are going to take your calls for the next forty minutes or so right here on Giants extra point again. Giants defeat the LA Chargers twenty one to eighteen. Harvey and Dixon's will lead us off today, Hovey.
01:09:13
Speaker 14: By, how are you long?
01:09:17
Speaker 30: You know?
01:09:18
Speaker 14: Eddie? Hello? Coach Robinson one seven Grambling. Either get a better player or get a player better, and I've always robbed coach, and the Giants are doing both and I love it.
01:09:29
Speaker 26: Man.
01:09:29
Speaker 14: That's why I leave Shane and Dabel alone for next year. Please, I don't want to hear any more of that. Secondly, I said, put Jackson Darden when the line is stabilized. I'll tell you what they've stabilized the last two weeks and everybody Thomas sam said, Thomas was the key if he stayed. You know. John Jacob Schmidt's you know, is basically getting better because he was pushed around early in the Omega. Sorry, yeah, Schmid's was pushed around a lot. And then you may I like to throw these outs. You can discuss it. And you guys mentioned about the turf. Carl alluded to it. You you alluded to it. This teff is not an old turf. This is a new turf two years ago.
01:10:09
Speaker 3: Of course two years ago. It's new turf.
01:10:11
Speaker 2: But it's just turf. I mean, grass is what.
01:10:13
Speaker 18: Yeah, I would love to see grass, and I think ownership would love to sea grass too.
01:10:17
Speaker 1: It's just with all the events and the two teams playing, but it was very hot played on those Well, the trades are terrible. I'm not talking about the trades. The trades were fine until they weren't.
01:10:28
Speaker 14: Remember remember the Super Bowl between the Eagles and the Chiefs. They did hyber turf field and I was slipping all over the place. So yeah, that's right.
01:10:39
Speaker 18: Yeah, they do have to figure something out. I know this is a new turf, it's not the same one that everybody was complaining. The guard here and they were mad about it and everybody they had two guys heard or whatever it was. But you can't help but think that when a guy plants hard as Malik neighbors did to jump and his in his A C. L gives that it's it's turf related that doesn't doesn't necessarily happen on grass fields. But to his other points, the reason the Giants offensive line was stabilized is because Andrew Thomas is healthy and they have veterans on that front from John Runyon and obviously h Van Roten and then the Jermaine and Luminor. There's guys who have been together now for a year plus and you're starting.
01:11:24
Speaker 3: To see some continuity.
01:11:26
Speaker 18: And you saw it mostly in the run game, the drive and the push on some of those inside zones. I mean, you're just trying to get three yards in a cloud of dust, that old cliche, and Campskataboo gets behind his pads and pushes it for another two yards, and so first down you're get in six yards.
01:11:40
Speaker 3: It makes it so much.
01:11:41
Speaker 18: Easier for Mike Kafka to call plays on second and short and third and short as opposed to second to third and long.
01:11:47
Speaker 1: Yeah again, I thought I thought the offensive line did a nice job. You had the John Michael Schmid's hold on that one dart scramble which I did not get a good angle on a replay, but it did look like he tried the defensive boy tried to disengage and he kind of had the little I.
01:11:58
Speaker 18: Mean, you're always gonna get that when the correct defender tries to pull away and there's holding on every play, by the way, let's just let's just let's just acknowledge that. But when a defender smartly pulls away and and you're obstructing him from pulling away, then you're gonna get called for it.
01:12:14
Speaker 1: Accord again Pro Football Focus as their early things out. Andrew Thomas no pressures in this game again last week, no pressures in the twenty snaps he played, and he did play the whole game this week, by the way. That was a question we had whether or not he'd be able to go to the whole game. Andrew Thomas did go the entire game. Unless I don't think he came out and and he plays that. I don't remember boving and I they had three pressures each for alumin Or and Van rot In, one pressure for for JJ for JMS. So Giants offensive line did a really nice job in this game.
01:12:42
Speaker 3: Uh.
01:12:42
Speaker 2: One of the point Harvey that he was going to talk about, I forget that he that he said.
01:12:45
Speaker 18: All is Andrew Thomas and John Michael Schmidt. Uh and then and then obviously the turf that we were alluding to.
01:12:52
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think we hit everything.
01:12:53
Speaker 2: All right, Let's get back to the phones and go to Robbie and Lennox.
01:12:55
Speaker 22: He's up next, Robbie, Robby, Hey, guys, well, it's nice to but followed Dot Harvey and lax So who called a touch Harvey in Long Island, who called me the most dogs by NHL guy on the stand the last thirty eight years to bank you harm anyway.
01:13:08
Speaker 26: You know, guy, I was jumping up and down today like a little I'm sixteen years old. My first game behind the Poles in nineteen seventy two. We had to look high to the Yankee stadium. But anyway, listen, you know they played a really really like very inspired game. There's things that I want to ask you about, specifically, Okay, Dabel's decision not to kick the field goal I thought was just really ridiculous to go for it, especially their failures in the red toe, and that's specifically a problem for me. But I'll ask you guys at falling guy.
01:13:36
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Robbie, real quick, the way the way I look at that, and I think that's a very hard conversion.
01:13:42
Speaker 2: They were with a three and a half yard line something like.
01:13:44
Speaker 1: That, yeast and I lean field goal there, But I think the thinking was six points doesn't give you enough of an advantage. You're still losing on a touchdown. Yes, previously a field goal would tie it, but it wouldn't win the game for the for the Chargers, I just don't think they believe the difference Tiki and then Robbie, you can finish between six points and three points wasn't enough not I think that's right. But they also thinking how well, a say for the two big plays Robbie, you know, the.
01:14:13
Speaker 3: Big touchdown to the and in the run.
01:14:17
Speaker 2: Oh dude, he's going to be a stud for years. He's dude. He's a big dude the way he with that speed right right.
01:14:26
Speaker 18: But anyways, other than those two big plays, rob the defense played phenomenal, right.
01:14:31
Speaker 2: And so trusting defense, Yeah, so you I.
01:14:35
Speaker 18: Think you're trusting the defense to make big stops, uh coming down the line, and.
01:14:40
Speaker 3: Ultimately they did.
01:14:41
Speaker 18: They gave up that big run to the balls at the forty yard line, forty five yard on whatever it is, but then on third down you get the Brian Burns sack, which gets the ball back to the Giants and ultimately wins in the game.
01:14:51
Speaker 2: All Robbie finished.
01:14:53
Speaker 26: Yeah, I've been listening to Bob right. I couldn't believe it up here in CBS and Albany. He didn't even show the game, so I gave it to CBS stition already. I could not believe I'm going to find out why the Giants weren't for in television. So I usually think the game, but I just want to tell you. I'll tell you something. My friends listen to radio today for the first time, and I've been listening to radio forever. I'm a radio guy. You do a radio show up here, right, and it's amazing to me. Listening to Crow and Bob is sweet and special and I was so great to hear them. And thank you guys for all the years. Thank you to wf AN for all the years I've spoken on the station. And it's beautiful. Thanks Smoky. I feel like an old man. You and Lose are hilarious. It's like two generations. It's hilarious.
01:15:30
Speaker 2: I love it.
01:15:31
Speaker 26: Thank you, I love it, Thank thank you.
01:15:33
Speaker 18: I appreciated. So isn't it nice to get callers they're happy? I feel nice, so nicety to complain blame whoever they get by.
01:15:42
Speaker 1: By the way, these are some of the most ridiculous pro football focused pressure SATs I've ever seen.
01:15:48
Speaker 2: And again these are preliminary. These will change.
01:15:51
Speaker 1: They have the Giants with a fifty eight percent win rate in this game. Wow, fifty eight percent forty three percent pressure. And the reason, hey, people might well, why is the win rate higher than the pressure? Well, you could win, but Herbert gets the ball out before the pressure gets there.
01:16:04
Speaker 2: Does an impact the play?
01:16:05
Speaker 1: Some individual numbers Abdual Carter five quarterback hits, nine pressures, Burns six pressures, three quarterback hits, Keevon Thibodeau five pressures, two quarterback acts, and then two pressures for Dexter Lawrence. And he's actually lucky he didn't get called for a blow to the head on a quarterback's not a player eler in this game, so I guess they didn't give the QB.
01:16:24
Speaker 2: Hit for that one, right, But just that's what you envision. Yeah, you could feel like you could feel.
01:16:29
Speaker 18: This Chargers offense has been one of the best in the NFL. We talk about their trio of wide receivers who have been dominant. Keenan Allen coming out of nowhere at thirty three with three touchdowns in each game, didn't feel like they ever had a chance to be explosive. Now they had the one big play, but other than that, there wasn't a lot of we are in control from the Chargers offense, and you give credit to the Giants defense. They forced the Chargers have to operate in five to eight yard yard frames and they were to control it. So Shane Bowen's taking a lot of flak this year for how I don't know, expose the defense has been at times, you gotta give him credit for the defense he designed against one of these one of the top offenses in the league this weekend. The Giants had a few mistackles, we know that, but for the most part they made the but they made more than they missed, and there were some that were one on one hits, flat out hits. For example, even Drew Phillips on Johnston on the last pass play, he nailed him right in his tracks.
01:17:32
Speaker 2: He wasn't getting away.
01:17:33
Speaker 18: And that's a big that's a huge, big play because if they if he gets out of bounds, they're on the whatever it was for that was flat, that was flawed on that flat making that tackle. If it's flawed, if whatever it is, whoever, doesn't matter, the fact that he gets them down and bounds ends the game. If they get out of bounds, they have a Hail Mary from.
01:17:51
Speaker 3: The fifty yard.
01:17:52
Speaker 20: What I really want to say is that Robbie was talking about the fourth down play where the Giants wound up going for it. Yeah, one thing to keep in mind, and I know it's it's a second guest kind of thing, but you know, if you're mad about them going for it, remember the ball hit Wandell Robinson right in both hands. That's a good point too, Okay, good point to hit him in both hands, and on my chart, it goes down as a drop.
01:18:12
Speaker 3: Yeah, you've got to make that catch.
01:18:14
Speaker 18: I'm interested to rewatch it because you could see the calculation happening in Jackson Dart's mind, because he scrambled a little bit in the pocket. He was he was heeing and halling back and forth, and I stay in the pocket. He finally escaped the pocket and he's moving right and he could have run. I mean it would have he would have taken a hit, but he could have tried to run it in. Instead, he made the smart play and threw it to one of two guys that were there. THEO Johnson was right behind Wandell Robinson, and he put it up high so that it'd be away from the defender. Wandell just dropped it.
01:18:43
Speaker 1: Yeah, I have to look at it again. I don't Maybe he did not have to put quite as much air.
01:18:47
Speaker 18: On well, no, he The problem is there was no velocity, so the balls in their it just took so long to get there. It's but it's hard to know how to throw that ball until you've done it multiple times. You have to not not zip it, but put it firm enough so that it sticks to your hands as opposed to having to snatch it out of the The last thing.
01:19:07
Speaker 1: You want to do, too, is whoever his momentum is going forward, you don't want him to airmail it over the guy's head either, so he's trying to take something off of it.
01:19:13
Speaker 18: It's just a throw you don't practice. You never practice that throw, so it's hard to make it in real time.
01:19:19
Speaker 1: All right, let's go to Justin and Dobbs Ferry, he's up next, hide justin.
01:19:23
Speaker 27: Hey, what's going on?
01:19:24
Speaker 30: Guys?
01:19:24
Speaker 27: An amazing win, will take a win, but that red zone off It's like we're just saying you can't go down twice with Dexter Lawrence into the two three yard line, come away with three points and two red zones. It almost cost was a game. I don't know where we go with receivers now. Is there somebody available or are we bringing back Odell? What's the playing here?
01:19:42
Speaker 3: Yeah?
01:19:43
Speaker 18: Look, I don't think that they're gonna go search the wire, but I do think that this is a humongous opportunity for Jalen Hyatt. Jalen Hyatt has been this enigma for his entire career. Three years here, and he's gonna get an opportunity now. I think Bo Collins, who made this team surprisingly as an undrafted free agent out of you know, North Carolina, uh Notre Dame, He's gonna get a chance to step into it now. Neither one of those guys or a league neighbors. Right, They're not the elite ball snatcher. They're not gonna be the one on one, you know, go get this pass, but they are gonna get the opportunity because who else can you turn to right now? I think Darius Slayton will pick up some of the slack. Wando Robinson didn't have a ton of targets in this game. But to me, it's got to be one of those guys Jalen Hyatt or the rookie Bo Collins who are gonna step into a much bigger role.
01:20:34
Speaker 1: I could see a few Johnson, especially in the middle of the field with the like, but of course he's not gonna be a downfield right He's.
01:20:40
Speaker 18: Gonna he's gonna replace the catches in the targets of course, because steel Johnson is turning into after a tough first game, you know, his anaugural game, he's turning into a pretty reliable, you know target for this for this offense. But when we think about what Molikue neighbors was, that is the one of the elite deep threats in the league, and that's underneath threat deep threat, you know, mid range threat. The Giants don't have that right now, and they need someone to step in and fill that void.
01:21:07
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01:22:52
Speaker 2: Here's Theo Johnson talking to the media after the game.
01:22:55
Speaker 8: Just take me through a huge win for you guys. How's a team feeling right now?
01:22:59
Speaker 3: How are you feeling right now? The big victory this year?
01:23:01
Speaker 31: Yeah, I mean phil great. You know, it's great to see the energy in that stadium. We just got to keep building, keep doing what we did today.
01:23:09
Speaker 32: Take me through your touchdown and and you know, being the electricity between you and Jackson. Dart explained to me how that felt in his home crowd.
01:23:16
Speaker 31: Yeah, it was great. We called the play two times in a row. Uh we alerted on the first one, so I was kind of pissed. I'm like Dann, we we missed out on that one. Wanted to wanted to try it again, and uh, you know, just great execution on on everyone's part.
01:23:29
Speaker 32: What you know between you between Cam, it's young, young offensive crew. But explain to me what you guys do that are creating so many opportunities for you on the offense to get in the goal.
01:23:42
Speaker 8: Get Cam.
01:23:44
Speaker 3: Uh just got it.
01:23:45
Speaker 31: Oh yeah, I mean we got a young offense. But you know we have the right people. Everyone's just wired the way the right way, wants to win. Works really hard, you know, our practices are tough, and and then everyone cares and invests himself. So it's just a matter of time. And it just happened to be today, And it just takes one win to you know, get rolling.
01:24:07
Speaker 3: And finally just you know, getting this momentum.
01:24:09
Speaker 32: Now I'm getting one win under your belt going off to New.
01:24:12
Speaker 3: Orleans, Like, take me through what this week is gonna feel like?
01:24:16
Speaker 32: For you guys, because they're gonna be an extra energy, both burst of energy for you guys.
01:24:21
Speaker 8: Yeah, I think that.
01:24:22
Speaker 31: Like I said, it just takes one win to kind of propell you forward. So you know, one can easily turn to the two, two can turn the three. So you know, we just gotta do keep our process, keep doing what we've been doing, and just use this momentum to our advantage.
01:24:36
Speaker 2: All right, he scored the touchdown in the red zone.
01:24:38
Speaker 1: We've talked about the play, that one that Robinson could not come up with the catch in the end zone. Well, the Robinson talked to the media after the game. I'm sure he talked about that and a whole lot more along one.
01:24:47
Speaker 3: That got called back.
01:24:48
Speaker 7: Like you see the end of those rounds that what do you think as a team?
01:24:51
Speaker 24: Partially, I'm like, he's gonna be hard because he's a quarterback. But at the end of the day, I'm like, you know, he's that's a dog right there. He's gonna lay his body on the line for at the end of the day, he just wants to win.
01:25:02
Speaker 3: To be fair, all winds probably aren't created equal, Right, You're zero and three here, Like, what.
01:25:07
Speaker 8: Did this meant? What does this mean to this group?
01:25:08
Speaker 3: Like how important was that for you guys?
01:25:10
Speaker 24: I think it was really good just to you know, lift us back up a little bit, get that confidence back and at the.
01:25:15
Speaker 3: End of the day, see what this feels like.
01:25:17
Speaker 23: So we continue on going.
01:25:18
Speaker 9: When there was you guys feel like, I don't know how much were able to see, but could you tell how much younger defensive front was falling justin you know, you guys put points in one.
01:25:28
Speaker 3: Yeah, we definitely could tell.
01:25:30
Speaker 24: I say, especially that was kind of like a method this whole week, and they talking to the beyond there like you know, you're ready for this one and it's gonna be.
01:25:36
Speaker 3: Probably guess a good matchup for us and.
01:25:39
Speaker 23: You going out there to show.
01:25:41
Speaker 7: I could see how emotional Table was, like he's like baar, hugging Jackson everything, Like what was his emotions like with you guys after the game?
01:25:47
Speaker 3: Was the message after.
01:25:48
Speaker 24: This should just keep going? I say, we gotta taste this first take three, so now we got to continue to build.
01:25:54
Speaker 7: Could you tell how much it's meant to him?
01:25:56
Speaker 2: Was a lot swirling this way?
01:25:57
Speaker 24: Yeah, I mean I think anybody that's been gone through that and a lot of people are talking about about you. I think it definitely been good once you got that win, and it's kind of a little bit of waylifted often and now we're just gonna make him look you more.
01:26:09
Speaker 1: Right, all right, there's one the Robins and the Theo Johnson. After the game, Paul, you have a little red zone breakdown you want to do for us.
01:26:16
Speaker 20: Well, the deep red zone is the coaches like to call it is when you get down to the ten yard line. And the Giants had three opportunities from the ten yard line are in and of the snaps that they were able to execute, they had eight running plays, three passing plays plus the shovel, which is a passing place.
01:26:32
Speaker 2: So make that number four. Almost it's almost like a run designed it is. Yeah, correct, it is not your typical drop back and throw it from the pocket. No, I appreciate you splitting it out.
01:26:41
Speaker 8: He is.
01:26:42
Speaker 2: I do think it's different.
01:26:43
Speaker 20: But clearly we knew that the Chargers defense, and we had talked to our guests from Los Angeles who told us that they were stout in the interior of that defensive line. And quite honestly, it's not like the Giants ran for one hundred and fifty yards today.
01:26:57
Speaker 1: I know the running backs were twenty two I'm sorry, right, thirty two carries for one hundred and seven yards.
01:27:03
Speaker 15: Now.
01:27:03
Speaker 20: They did what they had to do to keep the Chargers defense. Honest, I say Tiki all the time. It's about knowing that you can run the ball in certain spots when you need to just to keep the chains moving.
01:27:16
Speaker 18: Situation credit fishing right, you don't need You're not running to create big plays. You're just running to keep your offense balanced and then go and making the defense think about we might have to bring some extra pressure, which the Chargers did a lot of from the slot. They would bring uh you know, the corner or or the will linebacker off the slot just to stop the Giants run. And that was created because the Giants kept running the ball effectively.
01:27:40
Speaker 20: And then what we saw when the quarters got tight down near the goal line, the Chargers interior d which is incredibly stout.
01:27:48
Speaker 18: They were stout enough to say, Giants, you're not running the ball. It look they're very much of ben don't break defense. That's why they've given up the least amount of points of the last year and a half in the NFL. I think it is eighteen or whatever whatever the number is the best red zone defense in the league. And it's because they been They don't break and then when they get down tight, they make plays. And so it was a challenge for the Giants the first you know, score the QB draw. If you're scouting the Giants, you're not You're not even practicing against that. And so it was a It was a weapon that Mike Kaffick was able to deploy because of who was under center. It was also from fifteen yards out right, exactly right, So it's not even the tight red zone it was. It was an out, way out red zone.
01:28:27
Speaker 2: And by the way, you have to.
01:28:28
Speaker 1: Look at some of the red zone issues in the second half when that running part of Jackson Dart's game wasn't necessarily in the equation as much either because the hamstring injuries.
01:28:36
Speaker 18: Right right, The offense came because the defense got stops and turnovers and got them in point brick, point blank range. For the THEO Johnson shovel that we were just alluding to.
01:28:46
Speaker 2: All Right, Richard in Manhattan's back, Richard, what's going on?
01:28:48
Speaker 3: It's up, Richard.
01:28:50
Speaker 30: Gets the game ball. He had total control of this game. This reminded me of pascells. Pawcells used to control sims, control the check quarterbacks. He knew how to control the game now. The only call I didn't like. I didn't mind him going fourth down and is skewing the field goals there. But on third down? Why was he so conservative running it up the middle? If you're I agree that was fair. That was a bad call down.
01:29:16
Speaker 18: Well, if you're right, I think if you're Richard, if you're running it up the middle, Candada, cam'scatabi right, don't don't dive it. You know, a QB lead, Uh? You know, have Cam lead and then and Jackson Dark come behind him. It just made no sense because everybody knew it was likely heading there. You might as well have hand it to the kid who can probably break a few tackles. I would have loved to have seen them get on the edges. The challenge with running to the edges down in the really tight red area is that the quarters shrink really quickly, and so sometimes the handoff gets complicated.
01:29:47
Speaker 3: So I get it.
01:29:48
Speaker 2: Inside zone is what you're on. But QB inside zone I didn't love. Can I speak to your parcels?
01:29:53
Speaker 3: Comment?
01:29:55
Speaker 20: When Phil's when Phil Simms, thank you. Richard started for the Giants. Joe Zarchik had gotten hurt. It was a month into the season and Bizarchik was badly being beaten up because the offensive line was terrible. Phil was supposed to red shirt his first year. He was not supposed to play, and he knew that, but they decided they had to go with him because Pizarchik was basically being put together scout Scotch Dape. So he starts against Tampa, wins four games in a row to start his Giants career, and five out of his first six.
01:30:27
Speaker 2: How about that.
01:30:28
Speaker 20: But here's the thing, Ticky, his numbers were more pedestrian than you can imagine, because here it was Ray Perkins.
01:30:35
Speaker 3: In those days.
01:30:36
Speaker 20: It wasn't Parcels, but of course Parcels, it comes from the Perkins tree. They took that offense and they took it down into the mud and said, Phil, you're not gonna do anything to lose the game. We're just gonna rely on a really good defense and we're gonna try to methodically move the ball.
01:30:54
Speaker 2: And that was the philosophy its giants used today.
01:30:58
Speaker 1: Absolutely, we're at a point that second quarter, I think Jackson Darted one more pass attempt than he had rushing ataps exactly. I think it was seven passes and six runs. At one point in the second quarter it was maybe with six passes of five rushers. I don't remember exactly right, but they ran a lot and Look, Dart only finished thirteen of twenty for one hundred and eleven yards.
01:31:15
Speaker 2: Now, he didn't put the ball in the danger.
01:31:16
Speaker 18: To his credit sixty five percent, he took sacks instead of throwing the ball.
01:31:20
Speaker 2: He took five. Wilson took one as well, and then he had ten carries for fifty four yards.
01:31:24
Speaker 3: Right, those ten carries were meaningful.
01:31:27
Speaker 2: He didn't lose the game.
01:31:28
Speaker 1: He got the ball a couple of those short passes in that Corol area to Slaton where had a.
01:31:31
Speaker 2: Couple run after the catch. He didn't make any big mistakes. You'd rather have him.
01:31:35
Speaker 1: Look, you don't want to take five sacks, but better taking five sacks than throwing the ball up in the coverage a few times.
01:31:40
Speaker 18: Yes, the beauty of this is that it gives you something really positive, a victory to build off of. Yes, obviously it wasn't perfect, it wasn't ideal. You're never gonna play the perfect games has been said multiple times already, but for a team that needed a lift in an energy injection, Jackson Dart provided. Even though he's twenty two or three years old whatever.
01:32:02
Speaker 1: That yea, he is in this style with the way he played right the running a lot of as Brian Dave will call them loose plays, I'll call them out of structure plays.
01:32:10
Speaker 2: You're not gonna win consistently every week playing that way. But here's the thing. Only to do is win today. And this is what they had to do to win today.
01:32:18
Speaker 1: And as he gets more experienced, Tikie, he's gonna get better at the reading out the defense, getting his foot on the back of the drop and getting the ball out quickly. He's gonna get better at that stuff. But until that happens, and that could take some time for quarterbacks. These types of games where he can run, he can scramble, he can throw on the move, do those type of things. How about broke he brook like three tackles on that one play where he bounced outside.
01:32:40
Speaker 2: Crazy stuff like that.
01:32:41
Speaker 1: That's gonna help you make one or two plays where maybe you didn't make those plays in the Dallas game, But you won't make the plays because darn has those types of special plays.
01:32:50
Speaker 2: Where you can squeak out a couple of wins. Talked about during the pregame show about don't force it. Right, he didn't force it.
01:32:56
Speaker 20: He forced a couple of runs and he did go forward. He never slip feet first. Right, he didn't do that yet. Right, he still hasn't learned. He will, he will, he will, at least he had.
01:33:05
Speaker 3: That one player.
01:33:06
Speaker 1: We dove forward, and it is Illosh Allen doesn't get it. Josh Allen doesn't slide feet first either. But again, he's also two hundred and fifty pounds.
01:33:13
Speaker 18: Yeah, yeah, he's spilt like a big running back as opposed to you know, sometimes a quarterback.
01:33:18
Speaker 20: But you know what, I don't think he threw what your analytics people John will call an interceptible.
01:33:23
Speaker 2: Ball, turnover worthy playing. No, I don't think he had any of those in this game.
01:33:27
Speaker 3: I agree with that.
01:33:28
Speaker 1: I think, well, I don't know who you're gonna give the fumbled snap credit to, but yeah, I don't know if that's his fault of Schmid's whatever. But again, I'm with you, he never put the ball into Harm's way in the air. I think that's absolutely right. Eight one zero one nine. Let's go back to the phones and say what's up to Dan in Huntington, Dan, what's going on?
01:33:48
Speaker 3: Hey? Dan?
01:33:49
Speaker 21: Hey guys, I'm my way home from the game. Great to get at w Finally, I want to pick the beautiful day. Yeah, yeah, you know, yes, third down call with Jackson Dart running up the middle. You know when they went when they went for I love them going for a fourth. I questioned the third down call, but what about the first two runs? The scotted who up the middle? I mean, at that point, everyone knows scouted who's getting the ball. The Chargers are sitting on that run up the middle. Why not a play action pass on first down there? I just feel like, you know, the whole second half, everyone knew scouted who was getting the ball. You know, I think they could have gotten that would be conservatives Dart, but they could have been a little more creative than, you know, than just running the.
01:34:25
Speaker 3: Ball up the middle.
01:34:26
Speaker 18: I agree, I agree, But I think what Dave's was trying to do there, and and Mike Kofka, because he's calling the plays, is create a precedent, thanks and an attitude. He said it after the game and in the press conference, he wanted to run the ball in the en zone. He wanted to score the hard way, the old school way. And again it's kind of lookheaded. It's like, you know, he played football. You play football. We get our big guys and we smash each other. That is Paulatino football, by the way.
01:34:54
Speaker 3: It feels like that. But that's I think that's what he was going for.
01:34:57
Speaker 18: I mean, the identity of this of this game for Theons was we're gonna smash mouth football. On offense, Camp Scattabuo got twenty five carries on the day. You don't see that in the NFL very often. We're gonna play great defense and you force you as a as a as an offense to to deal with our pass rushers and our and our stoutness up front. And that was just an example that he wanted to drill in and I think he gave me to drop j.
01:35:22
Speaker 1: I think it's also trying to avoid the negative play right, Dark took five sacks. You run a play action, he takes sack all of a sudden. The running games off the take.
01:35:28
Speaker 18: Because you know pressures coming, you know that the Chargers are putting, you know five or six guys, probably six or more in the into a pressure type situation. They're coming on the negative side of the line of scrimmage and that's going to force your quarterback to make a quick decision that he might not be prepared to do.
01:35:45
Speaker 1: And it gets cloudy in there. There is not a lot of space and there are a lot of bodies. You know, Daniel Jeremiah talk to us in the pregame show. He says, there's a forest. They want to build a forest. And when the quarterback throws at the Chargers defense where you can hit a lot of branches, Yeah, when you throw the football and there's when you're in that you know height red zone. There are a lot of branches and a lot of bodies and not of theader room to operate.
01:36:04
Speaker 2: And I think they're trying to avoid Paul some of those negative plays.
01:36:07
Speaker 20: Let me throw a bouquet of flowers to the Kafka for a second, because we talked about the secondary of the Chargers being very complex, very multiple, and we know they're gonna play deep and they're gonna take away the big play, which they did and they did.
01:36:21
Speaker 2: But here's the thing.
01:36:23
Speaker 20: After a couple of early throws which Dart did not put in harm's way. The guys were not open.
01:36:28
Speaker 1: And he threw them away and Neighbors did draw passing thetheins on one of the yes.
01:36:32
Speaker 8: Yes.
01:36:32
Speaker 20: After that, everything was short to medium range the Giants on the day.
01:36:38
Speaker 1: No, again, that doesn't mean they were warrant deep options on those plays, but they but they knew to go to the short stuff, right, and I think by going to a couple early long throws which Dart did not put in Harm's way at least I told the Chargers, you know what, we got to think about it.
01:36:53
Speaker 2: We can't just cheat up and press up on the.
01:36:56
Speaker 20: Line and decide that we're just gonna sell out and start wheezing you with the line of scrimmage. I thought that was actually a significant part of Kafka's game play.
01:37:05
Speaker 18: Yeah, it was, and you could tell it was instructed right. Only take the shot if it's there and you feel like you have an advantage. There were a couple I thought he could have thrown downfield, but it would have taken a very accurate fifty or sixty yard throw, and it's almost better that he didn't take those shots.
01:37:23
Speaker 2: Yeah.
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01:37:40
Speaker 2: We'll take a quick time out.
01:37:41
Speaker 1: We'll come back from Brian Burns, who had not the game clinching sack, but certainly a huge sack at the end of this game to get the Chargers off the field. Maybe we'll squeeze in one more call and we'll wrap things up. The Giants defeat the Los Angeles Chargers twenty one to eighteen. We'll be right back with more on the fan.
01:37:58
Speaker 33: This is Brian Burns and you're listening Toans Football on the Fan w f AN and w Fan FM.
01:38:04
Speaker 1: New York Giants football is brought to you locally by Ford One performance and capability at every turn. Get behind the wheel of a new Ford truck or SUV. Ford Official Truck and SUV of the New York Giants. Brian Burns a huge sack at the end of this game to bring Justin Herbert down on a third and long got the Giants defense off the field helped the Giants secure this victory. Brian Burns addressed the media after the game in the locker room. Let's hear what he had to say.
01:38:29
Speaker 20: Brian, the passwush today was a very, very potent. I'm sure this is kind of what you would expected from the very get go in the.
01:38:35
Speaker 8: Season, right, Yeah, yeah, yeah, it was good. Everybody ate respectfully and it was a good, good day.
01:38:41
Speaker 20: The sack that you had the third down with about two and a half minutes to go, that forced down to pluck the football incredibly important play. Look like you extra extra emphasis.
01:38:50
Speaker 8: From here and now and up.
01:38:51
Speaker 33: Yeah, I thanks for that one. We had that play called earlier and they kind of hit us for a big game.
01:38:58
Speaker 8: But I told coach to running back and he trusted me. I trusted him.
01:39:01
Speaker 20: Could you contrast the feelings of holding this one and walking it down on the final seconds with a three point lead as opposed to what happened to Dallas?
01:39:10
Speaker 5: Uh?
01:39:10
Speaker 8: He said, how's it feel different?
01:39:12
Speaker 2: Yeah?
01:39:13
Speaker 33: You know the plays that that we we we lacked baking in Dallas we made today. So you know that that's ultimately w why we got this dub. You know that sacks you know, it was some crucial run stops that we had, and then you know the way Scatt was running the ball.
01:39:29
Speaker 8: It's just these plays is what we needed in Dallas. But we you know, corrected it and we got in the day.
01:39:33
Speaker 20: So talking to scattered go on the field, he said he knew it was gonna be blinded out.
01:39:37
Speaker 8: Can tread.
01:39:38
Speaker 20: She's probably figured to be a little scoring defensively. You you guys know that going there. Do you have to pick it up an extra couple of notches to know you have to hold down Justin Hubbard.
01:39:47
Speaker 8: I mean, yeah, that's in the back of your mind.
01:39:49
Speaker 33: But at the same time, it's like, uh, that always be on our mind, whether we have that situation or not.
01:39:55
Speaker 8: You understand, Y're always always be on on our mind.
01:39:57
Speaker 33: As a defense to take the ball away, making these the ball offense in you know, just out play the other defense. So the emphasis on on taking the ball away and making the game easy and starting fast should always be there.
01:40:09
Speaker 8: But it was definitely the other day.
01:40:10
Speaker 12: Probably think you couldn't tell like that Justin looked a little after you hit him.
01:40:14
Speaker 8: He would a pretty frustrated slam cum.
01:40:16
Speaker 33: Yeah, I mean yeah, every quarterback gonna feel that way. So we got a lot of hits on him. Honestly, you know, he is gre He's a great quarterback. You know, you have to affect a guy like that, especially with the weapons that he has. You gotta affect a guy like that and try to keep him in a box. So I feel like we did that for the most part. You know, we changed it up a little bit. Uh At Duel got a lot a lot more rushers on the edge. I was inside a lot more, you know, uh, roaming around, So it was a different look, but it was uh successful.
01:40:43
Speaker 20: Is there anything better where when you scoop the quarterback get frustrated?
01:40:46
Speaker 8: Huh?
01:40:47
Speaker 9: Is there anything better as a defensive rusher, you your quarterback get frustrated?
01:40:51
Speaker 33: At I thought I gonna answer that, But frustration is good, yes, Chris.
01:40:57
Speaker 20: How was the athletic system up dexta lawrence on the tip bowl?
01:41:00
Speaker 8: The interstruption that and then you didn't know he got it the race to the end zone. You didn't realize. Nah, I didn't realize during the player. I've seen it on the the screen afterwards. I was in there fighting, so I didn't know what happened.
01:41:09
Speaker 33: But I mean Dex is amazing, bro Like, so you know what I'm saying, I credit a lot of uh success me at duing KT also today because you know, just from him being a leader, just from him you know, showing us and crafting us in certain ways in certain aspects of our Russius and also just the attention that he demands.
01:41:28
Speaker 8: You know what I'm saying, He's freeing us up a lot. I just wanna free him up, you know what I mean. That's wanna get as.
01:41:33
Speaker 3: A d I think it directs me probably our quarterbacking is first start.
01:41:37
Speaker 15: Getting pople on receptions to the defense, Yes, multiple receptions to the defense, to bring it down to your life, to give them a short deel.
01:41:46
Speaker 32: But how did it feels the defense to be able.
01:41:47
Speaker 8: To help them out out so great?
01:41:49
Speaker 33: You know that was the plan coming in, you know, like I said, I plan should always be taking them all the way, but you know, especially in his first start, to wanna make.
01:41:55
Speaker 8: It as easy as possible and keep the momentum on outside. And I feel like we did that, so it feels great or you know, helping in that way. All right.
01:42:02
Speaker 25: You mentioned you mentioned making the plays at the end of this game that you guys weren't able to two weeks ago. Just what did you guys do in the time between now and then to be able to make those plays?
01:42:10
Speaker 8: And it's really just a game of interest though, Like it just come down to making the play.
01:42:14
Speaker 33: It's not really something that I mean, you can tighten up on the details, but as far as when it comes to making that play, you just gotta make it, you know what I'm saying.
01:42:21
Speaker 8: Like that could have easily been a sack.
01:42:23
Speaker 33: I'm not gonna say easily, but that could have been a sack I could have missed, you know what I'm saying. It could have been a completion and I should have had that. But I made the play, you know what I mean. So it just come down the game of interest. Man, it's just every e every given Sunday, it's different run to see you forget some of.
01:42:35
Speaker 3: Winning the game.
01:42:36
Speaker 5: Like that's a pretty good team that carried over, Like you guys always said, we're a good team.
01:42:41
Speaker 3: We're gonna get done, flack Shade, it's.
01:42:43
Speaker 8: What you need to see it, right, So like, yeah, I enjoyed the game. I enjoy I enjoyed the win.
01:42:48
Speaker 33: Uh I still have enough uh understanding you know just throughout my years that that game was still sloppy in a lot of ways.
01:42:58
Speaker 8: And it's okay though, but cause that end of the day, we got to go. You know what I'm saying, I understand that.
01:43:02
Speaker 33: So we still need to get back to the drawing board and fix up those things because it may not be like that Nick times.
01:43:07
Speaker 3: Christis Jackson's physicality when he is running.
01:43:11
Speaker 8: That scares me.
01:43:11
Speaker 33: Actually, I love it. It gets us hype, you know what I'm saying. I love when he dropped his shoulder and everything like that, but I sometimes like him to just take the slab.
01:43:22
Speaker 1: That's Brian Burns. After the game, I'm gonna show some love to the defense here. This is in reverse order. We're gonna start with that Brian Burns sack and then two other big defensive plays by the Giants defense today.
01:43:31
Speaker 4: Shotgun set third and nine for the Chargers, forty six bunch formation right, Herbert back to throw Chase by Burns.
01:43:40
Speaker 17: Sucked by Burns at the thirty yard line, loss of sixteen.
01:43:45
Speaker 3: Spider Man does it again. Herbert called signal.
01:43:49
Speaker 4: Shotgun set three receivers bunched right, takes the snap back to throw fires one right, intercepted.
01:43:58
Speaker 3: By Drew Felps, but they're gonna get called for interference.
01:44:01
Speaker 4: Phillips across the forty thirty five down the left sideline fifteen and tripped up at the three yard line.
01:44:08
Speaker 3: Hervert from the shotgun looks right, fires at white battle.
01:44:11
Speaker 17: The flock intercepted by Dexter Lawrence. He's running down the left side to the fifteen.
01:44:16
Speaker 30: Ten five and he is duck down at the one by Herbert.
01:44:20
Speaker 17: Sexy dexty Lawrence for his first career interception and the Giants will have it first and a A one.
01:44:27
Speaker 2: Three huge game changing plays by the defense.
01:44:30
Speaker 1: I should note on that Phillips interception there was an interference penalty, but it was on the offense, so the interception held and a pressure Brian Burns on that play forced Herbert to get rid of that ball maybe a little bit sooner than he wanted to.
01:44:42
Speaker 2: He had a quarterback hit on the play.
01:44:44
Speaker 1: And look, Tiki, the Giant's only had two hundred and fifty yards of offense in this game.
01:44:48
Speaker 22: I know it.
01:44:49
Speaker 2: They got out game by seventy five.
01:44:50
Speaker 18: Yard true, but they ran sixty nine plays, as we talked about earlier, compared to what the Chargers ran, and while they were, they weren't fully efficient, but they were and keeping an explosive offense off the field. And sometimes you have to game plan in unique ways. It's not we're just gonna outscore them, it's let's frustrate them to the point where they they can't operate as efficiently as they have been.
01:45:12
Speaker 1: And that only works if your defense plays well. It's the point if your defense is not getting off the field, you can't play.
01:45:17
Speaker 2: That way right.
01:45:17
Speaker 18: And you got to give the defense credit because they made impactful plays the three or four that you just played, but they also didn't bend and really give up the huge plays that the Chargers have been relying upon.
01:45:29
Speaker 3: These first three weeks of the season. Remember during the pregame.
01:45:32
Speaker 20: Show we talked about Dexter Lawrence and said, when is he going to be impactful and be really dexter a this year?
01:45:38
Speaker 2: Well guess what he was now this week.
01:45:40
Speaker 20: That is the first Giants defensive tackle interception since twenty seventeen, when Snacks Harrison picked off picked off Alex Smith who did a shovel to Kelsey. He bobbled it, popped it up in the air and Snacks caught it, and that is the first Giants defensive lineman interception since twenty twenty when Nico Lallos, who was an.
01:46:03
Speaker 2: Edge rusher, had an interception.
01:46:06
Speaker 18: If you can believe that, don't even know remember that one Dex also was that was a pressure for Decks. He probably didn't get it because of the interception, but he got through clean too. The into the backfield and forced Justin Herbert to make a tough throw and he tipped it up to himself and took it down into the.
01:46:21
Speaker 3: Tight red area.
01:46:22
Speaker 1: Yeah, and again those are the types of the game changing defensive plays. The Giants need that defensive front to make if they want to win football games. Moving forward, eight it oh eight one zero one nine eight eight ita eight one zero one nine.
01:46:35
Speaker 2: Let's go to Vincent, New Jersey. He's on next.
01:46:40
Speaker 26: Great game today. Let's go happy to get a win.
01:46:43
Speaker 14: We're just we were there.
01:46:44
Speaker 29: It was so exciting to watch.
01:46:47
Speaker 14: Star is definitely the truth, and we're happy with that. I just have a quick question for you guys.
01:46:51
Speaker 26: I'm just curious from a strategic standpoint this, especially for U Tiki, why do they keep going to the shotgun within the ten, within the five yard line instead of just going under center and pounded it in with skataboat.
01:47:03
Speaker 18: Honestly, I think it's because quarterbacks these days aren't used to being under centers. They thought when they were backed up coming out, you know the sequence that we talked about where they you save the fumble, Andrew Thomas recovers the fumble and then they punted sixty seven yards and ultimately it led to an interception that didn't led to their final touchdown. Quarterbacks just aren't used to it. It never did it, adn't. He never did it at ole Miss and it's it's different. It seems simple.
01:47:28
Speaker 3: It really does.
01:47:29
Speaker 18: Like you cause you and your head, you can like remember yourself as a kid doing it, you know, with your friends, like a snap it to me. And but the mechanism is so hard for in the NFL because these centers get low because they're looking up, their butts are coming down trying to identify schemes. It forces the quarterback to sometimes go down low and then he's back up high. And so it's just easier to do it out of shotgun. But in certain situations it's you need the ball quickly to the back. Therefore you go under center shotgun, it just takes longer to get the ball to the running back.
01:48:01
Speaker 20: Taking the deep red zone has been a problem. They haven't been able to get that push in the running game to punch it in. How much do they miss not having a real full back.
01:48:11
Speaker 3: I don't know if it's the full back. I think some of it is scheme.
01:48:15
Speaker 18: The Giants have really for the last couple of years been heavily dependent on duo running. So what's duo running. Duo running is basically a power run without a puller. So you get two interior offensive linemen blocking the three technique, yet the other two on the other side blocking you know, the nose tackle, and you just want to get pushed. The easier way is to run inside zone. Inside zone is when the offensive line moves, you know, slants right or left, and you sometimes you bring a puller to kick out the backside. The challenge with inside zone, though, when you're in the tight red area is that defensive linemen are geared up to just create chaos and so you're gonna get leakage. It just gets really difficult. It's why, you know, you know, twenty years ago, when I was playing Brandon Jacobs and I we would do these tight red zone and short yarded situations out of bunches because it would force you to declare, you know, a coverage like you'd have to put someone over top of one of these wide receivers and then you'd run power right. So a bunch of left and you run a power to the right side with some motion. It's just harder to scheme all that stuff in today's NFL. I'm just glad Greg Cormela and Jim Finn are not listening to you right now. Well, I mean the position has gone away because the offense has become spread, right, it's useful in certain situations. You know, Scott Matt what's his name, Matt Matlock, Matt Locke for for the Chargers. He's a three hundred and three hundred pounds full back. He basically was a former D lineman, but they they bring him in for those situations. But trying to be their version of Patrick Carter. But he's a D lineman, you know what I mean, just kind of playing full back. All right, I want to squeeze in one more call before we go. Let's go to John and has the new jersey. John, what's going on.
01:49:59
Speaker 12: Man, Hey, guys, So I watched this game on a flight, entertaining and annoying everyone around me as I'm trying to stifle my reactions.
01:50:08
Speaker 26: Was kind of funny.
01:50:10
Speaker 3: I love it.
01:50:12
Speaker 26: So I love the game.
01:50:16
Speaker 12: Dart was what I expected, you know, today as a rookie. The the Twitter trolls are just it's amazing. They're already know people are already out there. Oh, he shouldn't be making these mistakes. He you know, he's trash. I'm like he looked back at first year stat Yes they are. It's it's it's sickening. But look back at Eli's first year stacked and talking about pedestrian like Simms, this guy.
01:50:38
Speaker 1: Went choose pedestrians actually friendly? Yeah, I would say, John I was. I would say pedestrian would be a nice way to put in his first year.
01:50:45
Speaker 2: The only good, the only thing that matters is winning though yeah doesn't matter.
01:50:49
Speaker 18: I thank you, John, appreciate it. John Jackson Dark completed sixty five percent of his passes. He only threw for one hundred and eleven yards. He didn't make any mistakes. He took sacks, which is which is.
01:50:59
Speaker 3: I don't know.
01:50:59
Speaker 18: It gets frustrating. And discouraging, et cetera, because it sometimes puts you behind the chains. But you felt like he was always in control. There was never a moment in this game with Jackson Darted quarterback where you felt like, man, he's swimming.
01:51:12
Speaker 2: He has no idea, he's just trying to tread water.
01:51:15
Speaker 3: He looks lost. I never felt that, and that's encouraging. He's a rookie and this is his first start.
01:51:20
Speaker 18: Granted it's at home, but it was also against a very good Chargers defense.
01:51:24
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's why in the pregame I think I used the phrase three or four times, do not think your rookie quarterback's gonna come in here and save you.
01:51:31
Speaker 3: That's not what this is going to be.
01:51:33
Speaker 2: The Chargers are awesome defensively.
01:51:35
Speaker 1: You could tell, and again I want to keep this positive here, but you could tell when Jackson Dard had to drop back and read the defense down the field. I'm not sure he knew what he was looking at, right, And but that's okay. You don't expect that in a rookie's first game.
01:51:52
Speaker 2: It's okay because he didn't panic.
01:51:53
Speaker 1: Correct he didn't and as sometimes he held the ball a little bit because he wasn't sure where to go within him. By the way, we all have to rewatch the game that no one was open, I don't know, we have to relook at It was one play early where neighbors was open. I think on a sale round. He didn't see him. Whatever, But that's fine. That should be expected for a rookie quarterbacks first game. The fact that he didn't panic. He had pretty good pocket presence. A couple of times, maybe he ran out of a clean pocket here or there, but for the most part, he didn't panic when there was guys in his face.
01:52:20
Speaker 2: That's what you want.
01:52:21
Speaker 1: And now, does the other stuff have to get better if you want long term sustained success.
01:52:25
Speaker 2: Absolutely, but it should be. He's a hard worker, he cares, and he's smart. So be patient.
01:52:31
Speaker 1: Give the kids some time they get better at that stuff. In the meantime, let the stuff he can do carry you to some of these things. I agreed, And that's what That's what this giant game plan is going to be going forward. You know, Day's made it clear right this is this is an opportunity for this kid, and it's one that they desperately feel like they needed.
01:52:47
Speaker 18: The play calling is just different with Jackson Dart. We said it when we first started the post game. It feels different. He's a dog in so many different ways, and he encourages and and I think motivates his team in ways that, regardless about Russell Wilson was he couldn't do. Jackson dartt is starting the future of his career with here at the New York Giants, and I think it's off to a good start, if for nothing else, and the fact that he won a football game, which is something that Giants had trouble doing for the last three years.
01:53:16
Speaker 3: Yep, Paul.
01:53:16
Speaker 1: Final thoughts as we head into the game next weeks, since well, there's.
01:53:19
Speaker 20: No doubt it is a gut punch to see what league neighbors get hurt in this game. And we know that as happy as we are for Jackson Dart, he now has to navigate an extra hurdle as a rookie quarterback, knowing that his most explosive player is not going to be available for quite a while and the rest of that wide receiver room, and we talk about this all the time, guy's got to step up and make plays above the ex's and the o's. Well, Dart is not gonna be in a position as he's moved forward to say I'm gonna throw it up in that area because I think that Neighbors can make a play. Because I don't know that there's another receiver on this team that you can do that with.
01:53:58
Speaker 2: Right, who's the other fifty to fifty ball guy. There isn't one really.
01:54:01
Speaker 18: I mean, maybe Bo Collins can develop into that because he's a bigger guy, but there isn't a proven one yet. And that's been a big part of what Daves wants, especially when you get man looks on the outside taking your loss down heading into next week. I mean, it's you got one win, you gotta start trying to stack them. You know, not that the Saints are, you know, one of the premier teams in the league, but it's it's a game that the Giants should feel like they're supposed to win.
01:54:25
Speaker 2: It's on the road. It's always tough to win down there. Historically, it's been tough.
01:54:29
Speaker 18: And I hate, you know, using history to judge anything, but it's been tough for the Giants down there. This is a get take what you learned and you grew from in Week four here and a big win against the Chargers.
01:54:41
Speaker 3: And take it on the road with you.
01:54:42
Speaker 1: And by the way, the Giants had their big spark at home starring the rookie quarterback. This week, we'll see if the Saints try to do the same thing with Tyler Shook. This week, we'll see if Spencer Ratler goes back behind center for them. In week number five, they lost thirty one nineteen to the Bills. Rattler through for about one hundred and thirty or forty yards. They hung around for a minute. But the Bills are just a superior team. Yeah, probably the best team in football right now.
01:55:04
Speaker 18: Yes, And given the Chargers loss to the Giants here, but they hung around, so they didn't they're not quitting.
01:55:09
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01:56:07
Speaker 1: Giants defeat the Los Angeles Chargers twenty one to eighteen. I only call them the San Diego Chargers once I wanted to be zero. I didn't call him John Harbor, though I did call him Jim Harper every time, which was a good one. So I was one out of two on my little ticks that I thought I would screw up today, So everybody, for our entire crew, from Bob Bappa, Carl Banks, Howurd Cross Paulled, the Tino Tiki Barber, and our entire crew behind the scenes. Excellent work as always. Gordon Damer, coming your way next right here on the Fan.
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