Giants & Tommy Devito WIN over Commanders Reaction
Jul 25, 2026
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Alright, what's going on? It's Bobby Skinner talking jazz Giants win a game. They win a game
31 to 19 31 points kind of crazy
The Tommy DeVito juice from Jersey is real and Brian Dable
Even so that's our stable 10 after the game
Obviously people are gonna want to talk about like the Giants not tanking not having the better pick out of this, right?
And they do fall from 2 to 5 after this win, but me personally
I want to have the better pick obviously like I'm not excited about this win
But I'm also not gonna be full of despair when players like cave-on make plays offensive staff schemes guys wide open
So I do want to have a more fleshed out conversation about this on the podcast
But on this reaction part, I want to talk about these players and these coaches and what they did
Right and they play the Patriots next week or in that top five and the Cardinals and Bears probably win some more games
We'll see probably I
Didn't our preview pod that this game was the best chance for the offense to look competent under Tommy DeVito because they were already a
very bad and
specifically
Undisciplined bad defense that traded away their two good edge players in Montez wet the chip and chase young at the trade deadline
Like they were already really bad before that and they traded those two guys away and again specifically
Undisciplined like their defense is just all out of whack and you get guys wide open when you just kind of put guys in conflict
And then when the defense creates six turnovers including a pick six to the end of the game like
This leads to the Giants winning a game when we really didn't see them winning a game when they have Tommy DeVito at quarterback
the Giants the offense basically schemed up boomer bust type plays and I really kind of love that mindset from this coaching staff and
Not necessarily boomer bust but they did boom on a lot of plays and I think they looked at DeVito, right?
And I said this after the second draw or after like four drives because it looked pretty apparent as consistent that
They looked at DeVito and said he's not gonna keep us on schedule really right and he's oh, it's gonna take sacks
Anyways, so let's look for chunk plays
Let's let's like let's let's live looking for those chunk plays down the field and we're gonna live with the sacks because we'd have to
live with the sacks anyways
if we didn't do that and we'd have to live with the inaccuracies even if we didn't do that and it led to DeVito having
13.6 yards per completion nine and a half yards per attempt. Those are amazing numbers
But you also had nine sacks on 36 drawbacks or 25% of the time when you threw the ball you got sack
But those bit you know
Mike Kafka was able to scheme guys open
Let the big plays of Slayton sake one out of the backfield Daniel Bellinger at a big play up the sideline
But also it leads to like sacks on a screen play when you have Tommy DeVito at quarterback
But credited to DeVito when he did hang in there and throw the ball. He put it
He put it on these guys and allowed them to make plays and create some yak
but there was also
If you listen to the Brian D'Abel press conference, you know, obviously people want to talk about DeVito, you know
First start Italian, New Jersey, New York Giants got a win when no one thought they could
But D'Abel actually did a pretty good job tempering a lot of that was like hey
Kafka called a great game
Scheme guys wide open and they did take nine sacks and the majority of those weren't on the offensive line
Those were like Tommy DeVito created sacks
he had time to throw and he just holds on to the ball and like I said, there's even a
Screenplay where it's like throw the damn ball and he doesn't do it
Right and you look at that fourth down like the film review that I do this week on that fourth down and two
I mean all three
Progressions were wide open and DeVito doesn't throw the ball and ends up taking a sack or he didn't take a sack
But he ended up throwing the ball away
You know so and like I like the way that they did that they didn't go crazy trying to like hey
Let's just hand the balls to Saquon and see if we can get through a game because you look at the last two games
With DeVito starting a quarterback and the first half of games
Saquon has 13 carries for negative one yards the second half when teams are, you know
Playing a little differently not as keyed in on the run 14 carries for 146 yards
And they obviously got Saquon involved in the receiving game who had to receiving touchdowns
He was now leading the team and was always already leading the team receiving touchdowns
But now he has four and then six other players have won
But defense obviously played a huge part in this game, right you created six turnovers
Three interceptions of three fumbles and the Giants scored 24 of the 31 points off of those turnovers, right?
You have a four play 68 yard drop touchdown drive off of the Cordell flop forced fumble
Five play 68 yard touchdown drive off of the Bobby O'Kerrick a forced fumble
So not pin them at the 20, but at least getting them the ball back
Then you have a 46 yard field goal drive off the Darnay Holmes interception
Then Isaiah Simmons pick six to the end the game but cave on cave on probably wishes
He played the commanders every single week, but he is heating up as a player had two sacks
Getting him to ten and a half on the season, which is a very huge one
Getting double-digit sacks is a is a great feat no matter how which way you get there
He's the first player ever in a wink Martindale scheme to get double-digit sacks
Which is again a very real accomplishment because wink Martindale plays so much man coverage blitz is so much
The teams are getting the ball out quick
it's just
You know Matthew Judon who I think led the NFL and sacks the two previous years before this combined or was up there in the top
Five he never got ten sacks in a wink Martindale defense
And came on also played a complete game had two tackles for a loss three QB hits
You know Dex had a sack and a QB hit and I felt like he did a lot more than what the stat sheet
So so got him to the pass at God after the passer and force how to making mistakes
but I also think like wink Martindale good did a good job self scouting himself because
They played the commander so well that last game, right?
You played a lot of man coverage again, then they started running some rubber outs putting how outside the pocket
Well wink Martindale kind of changed up like played in a little more zones and what led you know force more Tomas
So it's kind of self scouted. Hey, they're gonna be ready for what we had last time. Let's change it up a little bit. So
Obviously we want to have a higher draft pick but here's the things that I am happy about
coaching staff called a great game right doesn't mean a ton in the long run, but
This is gonna be a slug
Rest like this is gonna be a hard rest of the season to get through for this coaching staff, right?
And this is big. This is like this is big for them
Just get a week get a week like she kind of instill confidence back right and you talk about tanking and stuff
What coach has ever successfully tanked the one that everyone always pulls up is Doug Peterson in one that was in the second half?
Of the last game of the year not playing with seven games left in the season and he got fired
So, you know asking coaches and players to do that
So happy to see the Giants coaches and players play well enough for a win
Obviously was hoping that the commanders reply pull that out at the end because I want the higher draft pick
But it is what it is, so we'll have a full pot out
I really do want to flesh out the the tanking conversation and then hey talk about these guys what they did on the field Tommy
DeVito
First start first win or no second start first one. That's a bad stat. I appreciate you guys and let's go big blue

