Could J.J. McCarthy Lead the Giants to the Playoffs?

But I saw something on Sunday that I think may end up being the difference maker in this division. And I think, unfortunately for our producer, Chris, may end up being the best trade in the NFL this season. And Joe, you mentioned it before it happened. And you got crapped on for it. But I'm going to buy J.J. McCarthy, man. I don't know. I don't know. I saw some stuff there. And usually I'm not that guy. You know, like, Daniels had that game against Dallas. What did I say? Ah, crap. He's going to crap next game. I'm not saying that about J.J. McCarthy. I think there's a chance he takes the Giants to the playoffs. He made some throws that reminded me of when he was at Michigan. I'm starting to think that he just couldn't stand Minnesota, and they couldn't stand him. 243 yards in the fourth quarter. Giants' all-time passing record. The history of the Giants. and i know a lot of garbage time but he almost made that pass to Likely too at the back of the end zone you know he he uh it may be Jackson Dart's show moving forward but if mccarthy plays halfway decent that five joe could turn into a one at the end right back to a one at the end of the season uh for for the new york giants so i'm gonna light buy right now on the giants going far man they got a good coach if if J.J. McCarthy was so good at michigan how could he be so bad with minnesota i was like everybody else he stinks he stinks but now i i i'm starting to think that maybe it was just the scenario that he was in maybe so maybe not maybe it's just that they haven't caught film on him now and now they will and that's the end of it but i found myself watching that game Joe thinking this is a quarterback this guy is way better than Winston And this guy has a chance to be great. I don't know. Maybe I'm wrong here. But that was what I saw. Yeah, listen. I think we're going to learn a lot about him and the Giants this week because it doesn't appear that a lot of people think they're going to be even competitive because I keep seeing double digits show up against Houston this week. But I had mentioned it the minute Dart went down. I said, if you're the Giants, do you make the call? obviously he was on the outs there uh that you know O'Connell I wanted nothing to do with J.J. McCarthy and you're sitting there and he's under contract I think for another couple of years at the rookie wage so do you make the call and say hey let's let's bring somebody it can't just be Jameis like it you can't just go that route uh and there were a lot of people that no that'll No, that's not going to happen. All right. My thing is, though, Greg, I need to see it now that a team has a week to prepare for you. Absolutely. Nobody on the Saints had any, there was nothing in the game plan about defending for J.J. McCarthy. That's absolutely true. But now we'll see against a, and by the way, against not a very good Houston defense. So this whole thing of living off of years spent, this is not a good Houston defense this year for whatever reason. I mean, they went to London and got into a shootout with a team they had no business getting into a shootout with. So I'm going to be very interested to see coming back from London, having to play a game at home here against the Giants team. What does that do to the locker room now? Do you think the Giants have a totally different perspective heading into this game? because even the giants understand what the Jameis experience is don't they i mean it's like oh god it doesn't it it's like i i i don't know i don't know how anybody could watch Jameis Winston and think that week six is gonna look like week one like it's the same thing every year like he starts off good he throws a few touchdowns you feel and he's gonna be the best broadcaster we've ever had probably on TV when it's all said and done yeah there's a reason there's a reason this keeps happening everywhere that he goes because he can you know be serviceable and hang in as a backup for a couple of weeks but if you're rolling with him as a backup for the whole season in fantasy football you're very lucky but reality football you're not like he is going to throw 20 touchdowns and 20 interceptions and you can't allow that in the NFL and the thing with McCarthy too is that like he was just making some throws that i was like wow like how how did he like over and over and over again and i'm like wait a second like this isn't just your average guy and and it may come crashing and it may be over this week against Houston but it is the one player that's in the NFL right now that can completely change a team he's the only one I think right now in the entire NFL that you say okay if this guy plays like he was drafted to be the Giants are going to win the division the Giants could go further than winning the division because that's what was supposed to happen when they when the Vikings drafted him in the first round and then they you know pivoted back to Darnold and you know look JJ may not be a great guy i mean it's it's obvious that things went so bad for him in Minnesota attitude probably wasn't there too but he's rescued by the Giants he got his shot what is that line 10 really is it that