Giants vs Texans Week 7 Preview | 1037

Hello and welcome back to Talkin' Giants, presented by the Fanatics Sports and Casino. It is October 23rd, 2026, and the 3-2-1 New York football Giants are taking on the 2-4 Houston Texans. And what I would consider this to be the only second good team the Giants have played so far this year, and they are 10.5 point underdogs. And the J.J. McCarthy era is now beginning this Sunday. Did you know J.J. McCarthy undefeated in the state of Texas as an NFL QB and he is 1-0 all time against C.J. Stroud. So guess what the mission is? By any means necessary, go 1-0 before the bye week. And oh boy, do they need this bye week. But we got one more game until that happens. Sean, how are you doing, brother? I'm doing well, Justin. Certainly an interesting week for the Giants as we've recapped throughout the week. And I guess I'm ready to go. I'm ready for whatever fate awaits the Giants Sunday. It is funny that you said this is only the second good team they faced. They did lose to the Dallas Cowboys, who we're not considering a good team, but this is a different team with Nico Collins. Who lost to the Dallas? Oh, the Texans lost to the Dallas Cowboys. Yeah, I'm just saying, for you to come out of there like that in our little cold open and say, well, now we're going to discount the Cowboy loss? Well, they beat this Texan team, so we'll see. Yeah, man, they have their warts, but I still do consider, I mean, this is a team with preseason expectations that to go after and win the Super Bowl and go after and win the AFC. It is a team also last year that started off slow too and then caught fire. They started off slow this year. They've put DeMeco Ryans back as defense coordinator. Okay, they beat the lowly Titans two weeks ago, but they have a really good London win against the Jaguars last week. Even though we're going to talk about this defense and how good this defense is, they've allowed a lot of points. They've allowed a lot of yards, and they even did that last week against the Jags, even with DeMeco Ryans kind of at the helm here. In fact, I would say this. It's the third time, I think, that we've arrived at a point this season already where the Giants are actually catching a team just by luck on the worst time. This would have been cool to catch the Texans in Week 3 when they were struggling. The Rams coming off that opening night loss, you knew they'd be hungry in their home opener. And, of course, for the Giants, what's the other game I'm thinking of? Oh, Washington, because Jaden Daniels happened to return that one week. So it's funny how this is shaped up for the Giants, and you just can't really tell when a schedule comes out what week's going to be the worst weeks to see a team. But maybe the Texans are feeling themselves a little too much coming off back-to-back wins. And Pat Leonard put out a tweet that the Giants are 10.5-point underdogs. Only other one NFL team is an underdog of even five points or more, and that's the Colts, who are 6.5-point dogs against the Minnesota Vikings. I know you're the gambling guy. What do you kind of take away from that? Are the Giants too disrespected, Sean? Well, first of all, I hate this talk because it reeks of a lot of people not understanding gambling. This is where the betting public is going. The number would shift to single digits if a lot of people were believing in the Giants. And I do think they're trying to hope, the books are, that you take the Giants here with the points. It tells you they think the Texans are primed to kind of explode here. Giants looking ahead to the bye week. It is perfectly ironic, though, that Pat Leonard is the one they pointed to point out how big an underdog the Giants were. I mean, man, does he smell any sense of negativity he jumps all over. But look, I mean, the Giants deservedly so, right? We said they were disrespected the last two weeks, and they lost and tied. So how could I keep pounding the table at them being disrespected when this has been a notion for three straight weeks and they haven't won a game yet? So let's figure this out. Yeah, I would say more than anything, before we get to Giants offense versus Texans defense and then talking about J.J. McCarthy, Matt Nagy had some quotes on McCarthy's progress today. I would say now, this week more than previous weeks because of how they've played the last two weeks. If they're going to lose this game by three touchdowns, if they're going to get blown out, I don't want them getting blown out by us coming on here being like, man, this is the third week in a row where they have sloppy mistakes and they're shooting themselves in the foot. And we've talked about that enough. I want to turn the page on that part of the Giants season, Sean. So regardless of what the outcome is this weekend, I'd rather come on here and just be like, the Houston Texans are just better. They're better offensively. They're better defensively than rather the same old damn week of, well, the Giants could have had this game if they didn't do X, Y, Z that shot themselves in the foot. No, if the Texans cover the spread, you want it to be because the Giants were simply outmanned and maybe had a costly J.J. McCarthy turnover where the Texans defense just made a great play or something like that. It can't be because you've taken 15 penalties for 160 yards. No. Can't happen. No. Or just have these moments on special teams, have these moments on defenses, lapses, missed tackles, and we'll talk about that. All right, so let's get to the Giants offense versus Houston defense. So Matt Nagy said that J.J. McCarthy's skill set is very similar to Jackson Dart and it brings back a decent percentage of the playbook. Matt Nagy also said that J.J. McCarthy's biggest steps forward happened last week in practice. He went from 50% of the call sheet to 90%. So what's your expectations for J.J. McCarthy on Sunday, Sean? What type of offense are we going to see? Well, this isn't a great answer for talking Giants literally, but I think if you know, you don't know what the hell you're talking about. I don't think we can, though, because I think we expect more, you know, mobility in terms of an RPO-style offense where maybe there's some pull, you know, whatever, fake handoff pull stuff, you know, that'll happen. Read option stuff there with J.J. McCarthy. Yeah, I just overcomplicated just saying the three letters RPO. Forgive me, whatever. That's exactly what just happened there. I expect some of that, but then also aren't the Texans expecting plenty of that as well because that's the one thing that you can bank on here is that Houston may not have basically any tape on what the Giants offense with the J.J. McCarthy look I'm sure they'll watch week one versus Dallas Jackson Dart whatever yada yada yada but I'm sure the Texans are gearing up for that so are we just expecting all of a sudden J.J. McCarthy to rush for 50 yards and the giant run game to be turned on and something I don't know about any of that but I do know this Justin they are going to have to find a way even with that to get back to finding the four yard carries the five yard carries um and maybe even if it's less jj mccarthy doing that and it's more hey we're going to keep them thinking that we're going to run JJ McCarthy but it does open up more lanes for a Scadaboo and a Tyrone Tracy they simply have to Justin because if you are allowing this pass rush to sit back in third and nine every single drive JJ McCarthy as much as he might be able to escape the pocket and extend plays he's not going to be able to do that every single third down you get to uh and ultimately it's just going to lead to disaster plays and turnover so I don't fully know what to expect but I know whatever I am expecting the Texans that's the one thing they will expect as well so I need to see how the Giants play off this year yeah I do think the biggest advantage the Giants have right now with McCarthy is the slight element of surprise and the unknown I agree I agree you know because because now what you have to do if you're the Texans you now kind of have to go back to the week one film and what they were doing with Jackson dart instead of just looking at you know the final 11 minutes of the fourth quarter and then obviously what they were doing with Jameis Winston that obviously is still going to be a part of their offense but now you have these coaches that are like self-admitting admittingly being like we could not use a good part of our playbook because we had a quarterback that could not move and there was no threat of his legs i mean even the the QB scramble and calling plays that creates natural space for a quarterback to tuck it and run which what is a QB scramble Sean what do i like to say on this show do you know me well enough yet i don't what is a QB scramble it's a broken play by the offensive line it's the most efficient play in football all right see i don't remember you saying any of this Justin i feel like what i had for uh lunch and i had lunch an hour ago and you called yourself a talk of Giants fan before you uh came in this show i got too close to the situation now so too close to the situation i'm doing you out like my wife I used to, that's so true, that is so true, I don't blame you if you do, so yeah, I mean there's, there's going to be a part of this playbook that has now opened up with JJ McCarthy there, so if there is an advantage that the Giants have a slot and I'm calling it a slight advantage, it's not like a big advantage, like you know the Giants had week one going against the Cowboys where nobody knew what the hell to expect, we have a slight advantage of the, there's a little bit of an element of surprise, well, and I'll just to follow up on that something's really only coming to me as you speak on this would be week one also we didn't really have fully healthy Malik Neighbors like we saw the last three weeks so this will be the first time in theory that the Giants have a quarterback that can do some of the stuff you did in week one while also having healthy Malik Neighbors that could explode for 100 yards receiving, so this actually might be the first game you have that opportunity, yeah for sure and as we talk about the quarterback and what to expect and how the QB may surprise us, Mohegan Sun, they sponsor our quarterback segments every single Sunday and every single game day, this episode is brought to you by Mohegan Sun, there's a lot of things you can think about when you think of Mohegan Sun, you want to know what I think about though, and I'm not ashamed to admit it, I think about the food, Sean, I know you think about it too breakfast, lunch, dinner, you go to Mohegan, you stay in a beautiful room, you wake up and you basically eat in intervals all freaking day long at some of the best restaurants in the world sitting right there in Connecticut, they got a ton of range, there's so many restaurants that you'll basically just need to stay a week to scratch the surface of everything that they got, they're fielding a full team and there's no pun intended there, uh there's something there for everybody, so head down, eat up and get ready to enjoy Mohegan Sun beyond your wildest and again, why should you support Mohegan Sun because they love us, they're investing in us, they're all in on us, they're all in on the quarterbacks and the quarterbacks surprise us every single week, so let Mohegan Sun kind of surprise you by how well they can take care of you, all right Sean, let's talk about this Texans defense and this pass rush that they have so oh man, this Texans pass rush is obviously the biggest story for the, for like this offense, you know, Giants going up against a specific unit they have the ninth highest sack rate and their 11th in pressure rate, Will Anderson Jr. leads the NFL in sacks, seven and a half, he leads the NFL in tackles for loss with 10, uh, he's third in the league in quarterback hits, Danielle Hunter is on the opposite side, he has thrown only three sacks on the year, uh, but he's tied for seventh and total pressures on the year out of all edge rushers uh one of the best edge rusher duos in the league uh and they are going to test a very beat up giants tackle group regardless of who's out there but we did get a good update on thursday that all three of Alminora Marcus Bow and andrew thomas they did practice now i will even say sean even though thomas is practicing it's first time that i feel like he's practiced in a couple weeks oh it's first time he's practiced on a thursday he keeps waiting until friday to go out there so That's actually a big deal. I hate that we are approaching a point in the season, though, where AT is so beat up that we do now have to game plan against elite pass rushers. Basically, when you have Alminora and Andrew Thomas going at their best, I mean, I could simply just have the confidence and say, run your offense. I don't think at this point in the 2026 season with how beat up everyone is, you can't do that. I think you do have to plan into this weekend on getting rid of the ball a little bit quicker. I also think an enormous add and a guy who's practiced full for two straight days Theo Johnson into this game plan because they missed him last week and his ability in line tight end just in terms of like he could help with the blocking obviously but the idea of feeding off of those blocks you know kind of leaking off and doing some of the stuff that Theo Johnson does they need that two-way tight end versus his pass rush and I would expect Theo Johnson you know Theo Johnson could be looking at a four catch type of game just by the realm of the volume he needs to be out there and the types of you know plays they'll need to run with J.J. McCarthy. He was limited on Wednesday, but Dan Duggan did say it didn't seem like Theo Johnson was doing much. That was just during the media viewing period. Yeah. I get the vibe he's playing. Haven't you, Justin, through seven weeks started to learn the John Harbaugh limited, did not practice like team? I feel like I'm finally getting a grasp of it. It feels like Theo Johnson, based on this, is going to play. But I guess we could be surprised. Yeah, we will see. We will see. But I do agree with you that that would be a huge, huge add just to have another option where the Texans have to accommodate for somebody else in this passing offense, for sure. And chipping along the way. Yeah, absolutely. And that will be huge, too. Chips and having a threat of Theo Johnson, where if he's out in the field, you're not sure if it's a run or a pass. And then even if it's a pass play, if you're chipping somebody and you're giving help to tackles like we're talking about, that will be huge, too. It's a great point by you. by you, Will Anderson, I want to continue to kind of talk about him, he's going to be a guy that's going to line up everywhere, he's going to line up inside and outside, so everybody it's not just the tackles, everybody needs to be ready um and if a decision does come down to to double Anderson, everyone else is going to need to hold up their end of the bargain and the Texans have multiple good pass rushers like we talked about however I will say I don't know if you've seen this chart going around, Sean, every single week that really hasn't been the Giants' motto to double like anybody, no, there's there's an island rate chart that floats around X, Twitter, I can't believe I just called it that, I'm such a loser uh floats around twitter every single week what is number one Aruba number two is Saint Thomas what what are we looking at uh no Cancun's not an island again dipshit come on i'm trying to make you cultured and roll you should be able here to do a podcast where you joke for 10 seconds and you go back on track you ruin it it i there are times where you're really funny and i won't realize that you say a really good joke because i'm so locked in on i know you're unbelievable where and then people will comment that was a really funny thing by Sean and then they'll leave a time stamp i'll go back and listen to it i'm like yeah i and i it goes in through one ear out through the other you're you're ridiculous crazy oh we'll go on you've ruined it anyway so go back to your island rate i'm becoming like my former co-host there is an island rate chart that floats around every week and every Giants offensive lineman is somehow always on like the far right of that island rate chart. Like every five, like all four or five of them are always having one-on-ones. Like none of them like ever work together. So we'll see if that trend changes this week because, you know, they didn't have the chance to go up against Myles Garrett week two. I will say Will Anderson Jr. probably is the best single pass rusher that they have faced. I mean, you can make an argument that Will Anderson Jr. is the best pass rusher in the NFL right now. Yeah, that's right. They missed Myles Garrett in Week 2, so that absolutely checks. That's a scary thought considering how Andrew Thomas has looked on this hurt leg. Yeah, so they're going to need help. They're going to need help out of their tight ends. I would even like to see if there are some plays, if only two or three guys are running routes down the field, you're going to have Chris Manhertz in there, and he's just going to be an extra blocker. I wouldn't mind that as well. Here's a thought. If you know you're going to get a beat like this anyway, You saw some of it last week. Tyrone Tracy in the screen game, maybe. I want to bring that up. I want to, and I'll even bring it up right now. Sorry if I'm jumping ahead. I know we have a lot to talk about. There are some notes that I want to put on the Texans blitz rate and the coverage types that they do run. But, Sean, I want to bring up that point that you just said about, can we please, can we please throw the ball to our running backs? like i you're knowing that you're playing a defense that's good at getting after the quarterback and and and on top that you're so bad at running the ball please get the ball to our running backs in the receiving game please mention of the run game yes yes i love me some mesh traffic mesh traffic i i have been saving your you know your instagram uh algorithm it feeds you stuff that you're interested in and i think i there was one there was one thing this week that i like saved i saved it was like and it was like a a foot like a call sheet this guy like breaking down like certain calls and stuff um so then ever ever since then i've been just getting plays plays plays plays and concepts and i'm like i want to learn some of this stuff i want to be a little bit better at it and mesh traffic i and i've been talking we've been talking about mesh traffic for years where they ran it with a Devito a lot Dabble ran it a good amount it got Saquon Barkley some receiving touchdowns like i remember against Washington a couple years ago in Washington James Cook they run it all the time with Joe Brady same thing with Shanahan and McCaffrey um i don't think you need like those dynamic running backs to necessarily call mesh traffic but if the Texans are going to be playing man coverage which they do they mix man and zone a good amount and we'll talk about it but this is a game where if you're afraid of the pass rush and you want to give your quarterback some easy answers and you you're going to desperately need to get your running backs out in space and i think it would even be good from a confidence standpoint for some of these running backs to just all right i'm going to give you an opportunity to get a ball in space and go for it can you make somebody miss can you get yards after contact can you break a tackle get something going then that's momentum for that running back right i desperately want to see them get the ball as long as it doesn't become too too predictable Sean and the Texans may be selling out on that because there's no respect for the if if that is still a narrative right there's no respect for McCarthy's arm they don't think he can throw it deep uh they're not calling deep concepts and if they're just selling out on these short concepts and these quick stuff then don't do it but if they at least respect it and if they're bringing pressure then you gotta have that that quick outlet you gotta Justin I I go back to a game last year how well does Justin know his co-host Sean Morash here oh do you remember a a game in which the Giants faced a pass rush like this on the road with a mobile quarterback on the road with the mobile quarterback last year is this That they were heavy underdogs in? Heavy underdogs. What part of the year? Well, the part where we had a mobile quarterback. Oh, where we had a mobile quarterback. Yes, us, us, us, because we're bringing that back with McCarthy. Last year, they went on the road as big-time underdogs versus a big-time defense that had a similar pass rush to the Houston Texans, and it's going to lead me into my point. Now, Justin doesn't get it, so we're one for one. The Denver Bronco game last year. Oh, yeah. Remember when the Giants were doing well in the Denver Bronco game? Cam Scadaboo catching screen passes. I know this is the Brian Dable offense, a little different than what they're running here, but it completely changed the complexion of the game. He had that touchdown run off of the short catch. The Giants did a really good job in kind of keeping that Bronco pass rush at bay by throwing it to their back, specifically Cam Scadaboo in that game, so much so that it later led to, I think it ended up being a 30-yard or whatever it was, touchdown run by Tyrone Tracy. because they were all on their heels, the Bronco defense. But early and often in that game, the Giants attacked with the short pass game with their running backs, and it changed the complexion. And that is where you looked up in the fourth quarter. I know it ended badly, and I know it was a collapse, but how they built that lead in a game a lot of people thought they were going to get their ass kicked in was exactly that, Justin. So not only hitting these short passes to the running backs, hitting them early and keeping this entire thing at bay for Houston going into the locker room at halftime. yeah now how you do this is i think could be challenging because when you face a team like the broncos and they're blitzing then i think that opens up the screen game the texans on the season do have the fifth lowest blitz rate in the league uh and that trend has continued even though DeMeco Ryans has taken over play calling again yeah they kind of identified that it was really a communication thing and they wanted to provide a spark to that defense then that's kind of why they made that change it wasn't necessarily a big philosophical or identity change that the Houston Texans defense has gone through over the last two weeks um so that's where it's a little bit of a difference but i still think like targeting your running backs not like not in the screen game of course you can call some screens and to keep the defense honest but giving your running backs an opportunity to just run some routes out there out in the inner the short part of the field that should still be an option for this offense especially if the the big defensive backs i know we're going to get to Lassiter in a little bit or running with neighbors and likely a little more down the field you're going to have a lot of the shallow stuff open up there to the backs now when they do send pressure they love to send delayed rushers to and stack guys on top of each other on the back end and i love when teams do this yeah it's cool so if anything the first blitzer serves as almost like a kamikaze guy so the second guy can get a clean shot at the quarterback but the advantage they have as a defense is that they can rush four they can get home and that only helps their back end sheldon rankins has also shown up for them too on third downs this season. Rankins leads all defensive tackles with 12 pressures and is tied with Justin Madubuike, Nnamdi Madubuike for the highest pressure rate 20% out of 20 pass rushers. They do a good job of mixing in man and zone. They have the 10th highest man coverage rate and they are 20th in zone coverage rate as well. It's hard to pin down exactly what they'll be running, but at nearly 60% of the snaps, they're running with a single high safety, so it means that we are going to see another defense that runs mostly out of cover one or cover three. Can't wait. Can't wait to see that again. Yeah, and Reed Blankenship has had his fair struggles this season. He's allowed 278. And we hate Reed. We hate Reed. He's allowed 278 receiving yards this season, the second most among safeties. So this, to me, Sean, you mentioned Theo Johnson. Uh-huh, attacking him. Also, Isaiah Likely, targeted down the field against him. Please, if it's not on Blankenship's side, If Isaiah Likely is not on Reed Blankenship's side, then put him in motion. Exploit these cover one, cover three looks like you did on the Likely touchdown just last week. That is a way that you can take what you did during the final 11 minutes of last week and bring it to this week. There's also a Malik Neighbors and Derek Stingley reunion as well. Neighbors was a freshman in 2021 when Stingley was in his final year at LSU. So I'm looking forward to that matchup as well. But also, maybe put Neighbors in the slot a little too and exploit if you have, I believe, I believe, who's that really good slot court? Is it Jalen Petrie? Yeah, Jalen Petrie is hurt and is questionable kind of as well. So they're banged up a little bit, and they're also allowing a decent amount of yards in that secondary this year. Yeah, or you get some Malachi Fields big slot looks as well and just kind of finally get him going. Finally. I would like that. 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Trust is earned, not given, right? All right, Harbaugh. Trust, yeah, exactly. I've been speaking more Harbaugh now. No, you can't have trust in the run game because they haven't earned that right. They haven't earned the right to win. There we go. Thank you. By the way, Black Friday is coming. That being said, we'll be all over it. that being said just in football is a funny game it's a funny game and how much the threat will JJ McCarthy's legs add now for all of you who have been spiced up and and fed this like line about the mobility which i know i've i've perpetrated if you will with JJ McCarthy he is not as good an athlete as Jackson Dart is i don't think you're going to get the same kind of runs but what he does do is provide an enormous upgrade over what Jameis Winston was And I just, I think not having a lot of tape, this goes back to our first point about the element of surprise, I think it will add a threat. I think it will add a threat just from the standpoint of Houston has to honor it. They do. And I do wonder if in a game like this, you mentioned those teams like the Jaguars. Okay. The Bills. Okay. Even the Colts with Daniel Jones. It's a Jonathan Taylor team. Whatever. The Cowboys are the only team in this run-up that had the same kind of passing threats that the Giants are going to provide in this game with Likely and Neighbors. Those are two absolute stud, Pro Bowl-type players. And I wonder if a lot of what Houston's defensive game plan is going to be poured into this week is going to be more about slowing down those guys who are basically getting 50 targets a game. And if this kind of leads Houston to go, you know what, let the Giants try to beat us with the run. And maybe just by sheer virtue of trying new things, the Giants also, with J.J. McCarthy, trying to get some kind of identity on the ground, going to make themselves feel better also try to keep Houston's defense off the field it actually wouldn't shock me if the Giants get to like 110 yards on the ground they become the team that's rushed for them the most we feel good about it but it's also sort of by design by Houston who's just throwing all their resources at slowing down Nabers and likely knowing that's the best shot they have at winning the game does that make sense so I kind of have the threat of J.J. McCarthy is being added but i do wonder if almost houston sort of lets us kind of play from in front and have those moments while they focus on just kind of killing us on third downs and not allowing Nabers and likely to beat them over the top yeah i don't know man they're they're they're just really good that will yes okay another another short way of speaking uh the long-formed answer i just gave just a two for two today they're just really good i don't know man um If they simplify their rushing offense and if they start running more man concepts and duo things that we talked about during the midweek, then maybe I'll start. Or how about hold a ******* block, you know, for lack of a better term. How about that, too? I just don't think they have the weight, they have the mass on this offensive line right now to, if you're going to talk about holding blocks, but again, I'm not this big run scheme expert, but. Maui Noah can't get run over in this game, dude. He's had two awful games in the run game as well. You cannot, if the Giants are trying to establish anything, just be run over, caught hold. And for the love of God, no holding calls on runs either. For the love of God. If you're beat, stay beat. Because then drives are over. Exactly. I would rather lose the three yards on a run than lose the ten yards in the down. So just do not take the dumb holding calls. Yeah, for sure. Yeah, I don't trust this run game to get going. And it's maybe against a different opponent. You're going to have the Eagles after the bye, and you're going to have the commanders then, and then you're playing some defenses that, you know, maybe aren't playing at their best, especially the commanders. We will see what the threat and the arm of J.J. McCarthy is also a huge part of this run game, too. Everybody just talks about his legs that will help the run game. I think the threat of J.J.'s arm, that it's actually not dead, like Jameis' was, and they actually will throw the ball down the field. Just maybe taking some guys out of the box, That, I think, will be a thing that opens up the run game more than anything. I just have to see it to believe it. Especially early in the game, if like we've seen this with Jameis the last couple weeks where he's throwing behind Isaiah Likely or whatever. Maybe just that quicker, we keep pointing to that miles per hour stat this week. I forgot who put it up, either way. It was Doug Analytics, whatever. That put up that stat about him throwing like eight miles an hour faster in that fourth quarter than Jameis did. Just finding Isaiah Likely on some of those early plays. Maybe that keeps the Texans honest on third downs as well because you've connected on a couple of those early in the game, and that opens up more with the run. Yes, 1,000, 1,000%. All right, are you ready to move to our Talk Giants parlay of the week? Hell yeah. Hell yeah. All right, it's time to make our same-game parlay picks for this week's Giants game presented by the Fanatic Sports and Casino. You can make your own same-game parlay by picking multiple legs from this week's game and combine them into one bet, or you can tail our picks right in the Fanatics Sportsbook app. Sean, this has got to be it. Five legs. This has got to be it this week. Okay. This is my week. It's my turn. I'm doing J.J. McCarthy, 20-plus rushing yards. All right. I like it. These quarterbacks. It can happen on one run. Exactly. Cam Scarbrough, 20-plus rushing yards. I sure hope so. Believe it or not, Cam Scarbrough, 20-plus rushing yards. That's minus 400 as of Thursday. So I'm like, oh, that's not too bad. Woody Marks, 40-plus rushing yards. Marks has averaged 34 yards per game, and now he's playing the Giants defense. So, again, I feel like this is pretty conservative. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You would expect him to have his best game of the year, of course. C.J. Stroud, 250-plus passing yards. The Texans' rushing offense has not been good. C.J. Stroud is, like, second in the league right now in passing yards, and he's averaged 285 passing yards per game. And then I'm going to tell you something. This is the leg that I am most worried about. Okay. Giants plus 18. An alternate line. An alternate line, Justin, gives us. Giants cover an 18-point spread. As of Thursday, this is plus 460. Sean, this has got to hit. It's got to hit. Well, 28-10 loss, you push on that leg. So, if they lose this game by 19 or more points, something's really gone off the rails. Because, I don't know, as good as Houston is. Well, no, like, of course something really goes off the rails, but this is what the league believes the Giants to be at this point. Well, they believe them at 10 and a half. You're attacking on another touchdown plus. I know. You know what I mean? You hire John Harbaugh, you shouldn't be losing games by three touchdowns. I don't care who's playing. That's the way I look at it. That's the simplest way. Justin, let's ride, man. Let's ride. And still, I know I'm kind of brown nosing the Texans right now a little bit. They are 2-4. They're 2-4. You know what I mean? Well, two weeks ago, we were looking at this as still continuing the easy stretch of football, and that is obviously flipped combined with the way the Giants have played and the Texans have played. We look at this game differently than we did three weeks ago. Yeah. All right, so this has got to hit. This has got to be our first one. Every game day brings another chance to bet, earn, and win. Fanatics Sportsbook and Casino, the only sportsbook to reward every bet. Winning hits different here. Thank you to Fanatics. I love Fanatics. I love it. I do, too. All right, this Giants defense versus the Houston offense, Sean. CJ Stroud looks very good right now. I already mentioned that he's second in passing yards. He's 13th in EPA per play. He's 10th in CPOE. It's an accuracy metric. He's been accurate. He's been a top 10 accurate quarterback in the league. He's a quarterback looking to get paid, Justin. He's playing like he was in his rookie year, too. And I really like, dude, I thought that this guy, from watching him his rookie year, I thought that I was seeing Montana and Brady. I'm being serious. From a processing standpoint, from a footwork standpoint. Montana and Brady? That's from a QB brain standpoint. I mean, he was very good. That's what C.J. Stroud showed his rookie year. Okay. And then he looked just awful, awful, awful, which also makes this kind of comeback that he's on right now pretty damn surprising. You know what I mean? Yes. Again, I think a lot of us wrote him off at the end of the playoffs last year. We were like, man, C.J. Stroud has just kind of fallen off a cliff. And again, we expect this to be a, when you pick the Texans to be a Super Bowl team, if you're one of those people, you kind of just hope C.J. Stroud would go to game management style with an unbelievable defense. But C.J. Stroud's been, outside of Will Anderson, like the best player on Houston. And since he's got Nico Collins back again, it's just a complete game changer for him. You're talking about one of the elite wide receivers in football. And you're right. It's just his decision making. And when you further compound that, you know what he actually reminds me of this year so far? 2011 Eli because the Texans rush offense has been so bad and and you know it kind of gets lost in Giants lore but the Giants end up having that year in 2011 where Eli Manning is just finding his receivers making the right decisions all along the names might have been fine at running back but the Giants have the 32nd ranked rush offense in football that year they remain the only team to this point to have the worst rushing offense in football and win a Super Bowl in the same year and CJ Stroud's kind of having a similar year and if you look at their start to the 0-4 and the Giants didn't start that way. This could be a 9-10 win type 2011 Giants season for the Texans but it's C.J. Stroud just playing at an almost unheralded level while not getting a lot from his rush offense, man. You went Brady and Manning in his rookie year. I'm going Brady and Montana. I'm going Eli 2011 for this year for Stroud. Yeah, I don't know if the Texans have that type of run in them. I mean, certainly if their defense plays at the level that it should. I mean Stroud. I'm not talking about them actually winning a Super Bowl. I'm just meaning what Eli did that year No, it's a great comparison because even as a pass-blocking offensive line, the Texans are not good. But when you look at the overall pressure numbers, C.J. Stroud has been incredible in the pocket. He has the fifth lowest QB-owned pressure rate in the league, despite if you look at pass-blocking efficiency numbers from starters 1 through 5. I will say Braden Smith, good note, former Colt, signed him this year. Braden Smith is going to be making his season debut at right tackle. Now you have Arante Ursery, who's from Minnesota, tackle, big dude, a guy that we liked coming out of the draft a couple years ago. He's allowed a low pressure rate, but his pass-blocking efficiency numbers are bad. Like these starters, their pass-blocking efficiency numbers that they've allowed, they're pretty bad. But the pressure rate overall, it's good on this Texans offensive line because I think C.J. Stroud, similar to what he was doing his rookie year, is just navigating this pocket so well he is winning with pre-snap processing and he's going through his progressions quickly post-snap his footwork CJ Stroud looks really really good he's in rhythm the ball is coming out quick he's taking what the defense gives him with a lot of quick in-breaking routes if defenses are providing cushion at the line if you leave tight ends uncovered he'll do one of those like snap and then throws quick to tight ends you see the chiefs chiefs of Mahomes and Kelsey did that for years it's like oh you want to give Kelsey cushion all right, we're just going to snap throw. And that's a quick free eight yards. And even when defenses are bringing pressure, and this is where the Giants kind of their game plan comes in. And even when defenses are bringing pressure and extra rushers, he isn't afraid to take the top off the defense and give his guys opportunities down the field to make plays for him. He has the fourth most yards when throwing 20 plus yards down the field and has the sixth most EPA when throwing 20 plus yards down the field. And I mentioned that he's pretty good against the blitz too. So, Sean, this is a dangerous quarterback to bring pressure and blitz. Even though he's not a big runner and scrambler, he is still a dangerous quarterback to do that at this rate. Do you live and die by the sword and trust your secondary, or is an adjustment in this game needed in terms of the Giants having this high blitz rate and the aggressive type of defense that they have run? I don't want to play scared, and I almost think you have to play your game and not play the Texans game because, let's be honest, the Giants we felt much worse about this defense when they weren't blitzing like i don't forget where we were and it clearly has come alive obviously you need Abdul Carter to come home in this game you need Caveon maybe to finally get a sack here in this game but can i tell you something i i want to make sure this is right yeah i think he either has one or zero quarterback hits i was looking at it today right and like they're starting to say they whatever the advanced metrics are starting to act better for his rush numbers but again you have to actually hit the quarterback and get to him just that i just i i don't like the idea i i don't i don't trust this this defense if they're not bringing blitzes like what do what you're not going to bring Drew Phillips on blitzes and have them line Nico Collins and up in the slot have Tank Dell have his coming out party against him and not have him come home at any point but however that being said i'd be remiss if i didn't mention the fact that uh i know he was out there doing a limited stuff on thursday we're going to find out officially if Javon Holland has cleared the concussion protocol. That's a really big deal in the Giants secondary if you don't have him. Think about what this safety room looks like. It doesn't look like you're going to have Greg Newsome. It is asking a lot if you're not blitzing to also have the banged up secondary just sit there and be able to figure this out and just hope Abdul Carter on his own gets home. I just think you're setting yourself to get crushed. I think you have to. I know a lot of people would argue the other way. You blitz and then that changes things for the secondary because then you're leaving them out there to get crushed. But I think the quicker you get home on CJ Stroud even with the blitz rate and all this other stuff the less vulnerable your secondary is going to have i can't sit there and have him wait to pick apart that secondary for extra seconds if you're not blitzing because i think they'll get crushed in that manner yeah i mean and the giants are still number one in the NFL and time to pressure i think that's like 2.2 seconds or something crazy no crazy what they're doing oh and another thing man like Tremaine Edmonds may not play in this game and if Tremaine Edmonds doesn't play is that Does that mean that Orville Reese is less likely to blitz more because you're putting more on his plate from a linebacker position? That hurts as well with the whole getting after the quarterback. Yeah, so with this question of how aggressive are you going to be, there's a seesaw effect happening right now where you have Javon Holland concussion. He was back on the field participating. Dan Duggan didn't see any sign of Tremaine Edmonds' shoulder on Thursday and then no sign of cornerback Greg Newsome with the concussion. so Newsome Newsome you expect to be out because that's a protocol thing and if you're not out there by Thursday it's asking a lot of Friday the only thing I'll say and again what we've learned Justin and I as most you know content in the NFL world gets recorded on a Thursday for a Sunday is that this freaking season has been so infuriating and trying to guess the giant that will play and then all of a sudden Friday happens you're like all of a sudden last week was Abdul Carter you know we've had weeks with Andrew Thomas would it shock me that we do this whole episode and there's Tremaine Edmonds running out there on Friday practice, it wouldn't shock me because it's been the Giants season. But I think right now we have to record this as if we think he's not going to play. Yeah, I do think you need to live and die by the sword. I do too. Play your game. Don't play the opponent's game. Play your game. You know, Deontay Banks has recorded eight passes defense this season. Unbelievable. Ties for the second most among outside cornerbacks. I can't freaking believe what is happening. Guy plays the ball as good as anybody in the NFL. He recorded five all of last year five five he after allowing the fifth highest completion percentage last season among outside cornerbacks he's allowed just 53.6 percent of his targets to be caught uh in the nfl this year um and even him and Greg Newsome and Deonte Banks as a duo Greg Newsome and Deonte Banks have recorded the third and fourth highest tight window rates in the nfl among outside cornerbacks this season so i do think that you have to trust I can't believe that, you know, preseason, we were so afraid of the secondary, afraid of the secondary. Shout out to Deandre Wilson and this coaching staff for kind of fixing these players and these ragtag players of coming in. You know, Deontay Banks, well, his career's done. Greg Newsome, well, nobody really wanted him. And Jacksonville traded for him. And, you know, it didn't really work out there. Fix this, like the secondary is like a point of strength for this team. So even though you have Nico Collins, who was awesome, awesome down the field, awesome at all parts of the field, short, intermediate, and deep. I do feel like you need to live and die by the sword of what's gotten here this far. That is absolutely it. Javon Holland's even part of that, too. He is. We're due for a Javon Holland turnover, by the way. We are. Well, nobody targets him. Again, you don't have to be targeted if you're Javon Holland. You run around and make the play, as we've seen. You know what, Sean? I actually do think, even though it's a whole other segment, I think while we're talking about the secondary, I do think it transitions your Mooyah player pretty well. I purposely didn't say this name because I didn't want to jump ahead too much. I could have just talked about it. So full disclosure, Justin will text me before an episode with some time to spare. Hey, what's your big blue? Hey, what's your Mooyah? Your Mooyah is your Sean Morris, more out of your ass player of the week. When I texted him this player, I got a holy ---- from Justin. And I didn't know what that reaction meant. And Justin's response was, you forget he existed. So, that's your long tease. My Sean Morris, more out of your ass player, your Mooyah is Paulson Adebo. And if you're saying holy ---- like Justin, get ready, because you're going to see him Sunday. Paulson Adebo has been on IR since basically he had a cameo versus the Cowboys. We basically haven't seen him again. And he had a rough training camp where he lost his starting job. The Giants did practice him this week, which clearly opens up his window. they had 21 days once you open up your window to activate him or he'd be out for the year but do the math one plus one equals two Greg Newsom is in concussion protocol he remained there on Thursday Colton Hood has been banged up with the concussion for two weeks as well and he's still a rookie uh and he had a bad one right a bloody nose i interpreted as it seems like reporters have Paulson Adebo taking the practice field as well you're ready and we also need you because we can't afford to be playing Nick Jones on the outside with Deontay Banks. So Paulson Adebo, the fact of the matter is, man, you were paid here to be in number one corner. We're allowing you as a fan base to kind of say, well, we understand the ship has sailed, and it certainly helps swallow that pill knowing Deontay Banks' career has been saved. That being said, do you have any pride in your career? Do you have any pride in the fact that you're basically stealing money from the Giants right now because you weren't terrible last year when you were playing before you were healthy? I have seen a humbling of Deontay Banks in a turnaround I have seen, dare I say, for two weeks a humbling in J.J. McCarty's career since he stepped foot here did a stint on the I.L. while the Giants won or the I.R. won a bunch of football games that maybe people didn't think and a stint around this team where you saw the vibes be good did any of that enlighten Paulson and Deebo to understand that maybe this is a good team and a good coach you want to have some success for Can we get more out of your ass this week and you don't get lit up when eventually Nico Collins does play on you at times this week because the Giants aren't going to have Banks follow him around the field all game? Can Paulson and Deebo not be just completely freaking lost? I know we're going to play some Denard Wilson sound, I believe, Justin, as well, so I don't want to spoil any of that, but I'll just say this. Paulson and Deebo, don't be a traitor this week as well. Get more out of your ass. I love it, man. I love it. I mean, the Texans got a bunch of guys. I mean, Nico Collins is averaging almost 15 yards per catch. Xavier Hutcherson, almost 14. And they got Marvin Harrison Jr. now, too. We just saw him a couple weeks ago score a touchdown on Banks. Jalen Knoll, like 20 yards per reception so far this year. What's crazy about Jalen Knoll, he has 17 receptions out of 21 targets. And it's almost at 20 yards per reception. Usually these guys with the high yards per reception, usually they have lower completion percentages because they're being targeted deep down the field, right? So the completion probability isn't as likely. So it's crazy. So the CJ Stroud, like we said, not going to be afraid to throw deep down the field. He's especially not going to be afraid to throw deep down the field when defenses blitz. I mean, if anything, that's a that's a green flag for CJ Stroud. When teams are starting the blitz, that means there's less resources that are allocated to the back end. So I'm going to give my guys an opportunity to make a play down the field. So Paulson and Deebo needs to be huge in that regard and be a guy that makes a play on a football forcing completions. Do something that he was paid to come in here and do get more out of your ass. All right, Sean, this Texans run game isn't good. Woody Marks averages 3.5 yards per carry. David Montgomery averages 2.7 yards per carry. So I'm prepared for the Texans to end the day with 150 rushing yards. How about you? I would go 151. Price is right. No, listen, no doubt about it. We saw it last week, right? We said if they were going to have a good defensive run game effort, it would be versus the New Orleans Saints, and it just wasn't that. And a lot of that had to do with tackling. So, again, this just, to me, just keeps coming back to the same word over and over again with the defense. It's just about pride, man. Like, it's okay if you're not the best run defense for a variety of reasons and that's just talent, but you also just can't get lazy at every level with tackles. You know, if they're going to make their plays, make their plays, but you can't let these plays turn into 25-yard bursts. You just can't. Well, in the eyes of Darrell Wilson, he's not coming with the same perspective that at least I am with, well, this run defense and this defense is always going to be bad as long as they have bad defensive tackles because he had some very strong words publicly. I can imagine what he told them privately. Very strong words publicly about this Giants defense and the effort that they showed last week against the Saints. How do you deal with that? Well, you confront it. Just like we do, we confront everything. And when you're in a meeting room, you show those plays. It's like, you know, I look at guys that don't run the ball and I call them traitors because they're traitors to the defense. and at the end of the day and when you when you have a traitor to the defense you either have to make adjustments to move them get them off the field you have to get somebody else on the field or they have to correct their behaviors and uh last week was one of those things where we did not on every play run to the ball and it was unacceptable and the guys know it and this year this uh week when you see them out there they will be flying around 100 miles per hour with the hair on fire is that more damaging I love Darrell Wilson oh my god it's gonna suck when he's a head coach and we don't have him as the defensive coordinator i don't think that's going to be this year i think we're going to get another year of him oh god i hope so he's so good so by the way jason pinnock trader dally darius alexander trader jihad ward trader not on the team not on the team great point yeah man and i think even i i saw some some beat reporters put out like sound bites like like there will even be like shake-ups in the lineup because of certain effort so you know in the evolving room and the idea of who is who wants to be the second starting safety on this team uh that may even change on another week-to-week basis so uh i can only imagine man i can only imagine like if this is what's said publicly and even same thing with Harbaugh's comments like the strong comments about the running back room uh this past week publicly i can only imagine what the conversation is privately in some of these rooms dude if you're call the traitor in front of grown men in your locker room? That's great. That's a strong word, you know? Yeah. Nobody, like that is one of those words. You can't break that out every week or it loses its meaning. Like hearing that, I mean that's tough to go out there the following week and be the one. You don't want to be the first one on Monday when they're reviewing the tape to be like, remember we talked about traitors? You're a ******* traitor. Like you can't have that happen. No, that's crazy. So I... Two F-bombs for me today. I'm sorry to the audience and all the kids listening. That's okay. That's okay. yeah again this this texans run run offense isn't good um but i again i just have no trust that consistently consistently that this giants defense can make stops will there be run stuffs yes will there be maybe some tackles for loss yes and especially like very very afraid without tremaine edmonds and if micah mcfadden is like this lead mike linebacker now this this defense looks entirely entirely entirely different yeah we got used to tremaine edmonds he's actually a good football player very very great signing great I agree I agree you know I was and I was like one of oh Devin Devin Lloyd's also gonna have a really good year in in Carolina but that that seemingly worked itself out yeah exactly he's he's not Alec Ogletree that's for sure all right Sean don't be a traitor buy your tickets on SeatGeek don't go anywhere else how dare you SeatGeek's been with has been with us for years don't be a traitor MLB playoffs they're here and most importantly the NFL season is here. 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I mean, he lost in the preseason. I don't know. Again, I'm not mad at you. I envy you. I actually envy the obliviousness. I really do. Because you're here with the Giants like I am every week, and I got a whole nother world circulating around me. I watched the Nets lose to the freaking Charlotte Hornets in the Barclays Center Oh, you did go. I did see that in person. I caught a t-shirt from the t-shirt cannon too. What a banner they have up there too. Hey, I respect our health workers and everything that they did a couple years ago. That's the key. That's why it's a good tweet. You can't knock that tweet. You knock that tweet, you're a bad guy. That's a crazy banner. It's a crazy banner. The mask has a Brooklyn Nets logo on it. The COVID mask has a Brooklyn. It's a wild banner. most important banner hung in New York in the last decade. Yeah, I'm all football, man. It's kind of what I get paid to do around these parts. I respect it. Alright, the touchdown draft. Haha, you lost last week. Speaking of getting paid to do football, I was bad at it last week in the touchdown draft. Jawan Johnson, Malachi Fields, Cam Scadaboo. 0 for 3. Man, my mistake was going Cam Scarbrough. He got zero touches last week. My mistake in the top five i you gave me a layup my last pick i'm like oh i can take you know basically whoever i want the top five outside of uh malik neighbors right i took neighbors you could have took likely taken likely it would be much better you took malik neighbors darnel mooney ava kamara you got plus 230 on the board with ava kamara so now i still have a pretty commanding lead but you've almost cut it in half uh 1345 to your 632 chip away justin and our top five remember we are only allowed to pick one player inside the top five favorites for scoring a touchdown woody marks is the favorite at minus 115 over at fanatics nico collins is at plus 120 isaiah likely is the first giant to crack the top five at plus 175 dalton schultz at plus 210 and malik neighbors is fifth at plus 240 so again justin out of those five justin and i are only entitled to one uh from there on out everybody else is on the board including all the giant running backs who was the first pick i i think i had the first pick you did because you remember you you ripped the top five band-aid and you took Malik Nabers right away that sounds right i wanted to be safe that sounds right okay because you weren't you weren't messing around this week okay that's right that's right okay you're first okay it's crazy that if you look at Cam Akers and Tyrone Tracy Cam Akers is a plus 360 this week and Tyrone Tracy's at plus 380 well i think it's also a guessing game on who the hell's gonna get these carries yeah and which i do we didn't really talk about that in the first so now let's talk about it you you've been on a big like Tyrone Tracy should get more opportunities and I agree with you like I one thousand percent agree with you Najee Harris released now so we have that out of here um but I don't fully buy that they like Tyrone Tracy as much as maybe they should yet maybe not but I don't think we're gonna buy that until we actually see it I just I mean again the guy had two touchdowns last week I know they weren't it was different and it wasn't rushing the football I mean when when John Harbaugh stands at a podium and goes you got to earn earn the right i mean how much more is Tyrone Tracy supposed to show you that he's tried to find his way back into the fold here it's a good point um so what i'm going to do since i have the first pick uh there are two players on the Houston Texans that have three touchdowns apiece one of them is Nico Collins i'm not taking Nico Collins since he's in the top five and i want to save that i am going to be taking Foster Moreau at plus 330 Foster Moreau plus 330 okay 11 catches on the year only but he has does have three touchdowns um all right i will follow that up i'm gonna take JJ McCarthy at plus 600 oh i could see a scramble i can too and the reason i want to throw throw this out there is i mean we heard a lot about the mobility but i also feel like pass rush big third down maybe you're at the 25 something like that and he just bucks it up and runs and he's gonna fight for a yard also without Jackson Dart we haven't been able to take a giant running quarterback to run for a touchdown i love the odds here too remember i'm trying to play catch up so i'm gonna take McCarthy at plus 600 all right man uh it's so crazy giants only have two rushing touchdowns on the year both in week one right well Tracy last week and then Cam Scarbrough oh okay man they only had one in week one wow okay so you know what you left it for me Isaiah Likely is just the player that has the most touchdowns in this matchup and he's third in odds at plus 175 so i'm going to take Isaiah Likely at plus 175 let's do it again i talked about it let's hey let's attack cover three maybe even get a 30 plus yard rush uh receiving touchdown here uh give me uh Isaiah Likely at plus 175 i'm tight and heavy right now all right i like that so that means i don't have to go inside the top five right now because I'm... you do not, oh boy, um, screw it, give me Cam Scadaboo a plus 360, he's been first up with carries, let's get you back in the end zone, see you learn your lesson pal, give me Cam Scadaboo, oh god I already hate this, I have two Giants, yep yep yep yep Yep. Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do. Now, this player, even though we're talking about Deontay Banks making plays on the football, the last big moment where he didn't make a play on the football I know it. I knew it. Was Marvin Harrison Jr. I kind of like Jalen Knoll's odds a lot better at plus 420 But I don't know. This is the second full week of Marv being here Give me Marv at plus 250 I like that Give me Marv at plus 250 right outside the top five I genuinely like that pick out of you. I do. All right. Well, that tees me up I'd be stupid if I didn't do this. I'm taking Nico Collins at plus 120 versus a Giants beat up secondary in the way Houston throws the ball. All right So to recap, I got Marvin Harrison Jr. at plus 250 I got Foster Moreau at plus 330 And then my top five pick is Isaiah Likely at plus 175 How about you, Sean? I have J.J. McCarthy at plus 600 Let's go. Cam Scadaboo at plus 360 Let's go. And my top five pick is going to be Nico Collins at plus 120 I think in the last three minutes since we've done this, I've simultaneously hated, loved, hated, and then re-loved all three of my picks. Fantastic. All right, Sean, one more week before the bye week Haven't won a game in a minute Haven't said, haven't really embraced the 1-0 mentality Yeah, right. What is your Giants versus Texans 10.5-point underdogs score prediction? I'm going to take the Texans to cover. I think we're going to lose this game 33-20, but I also think it will be closer than that score indicates in the fourth quarter. I think Houston tacks on like a touchdown in the last five minutes that puts the game out of reach, and it's officially a cover for Houston. So I will go 33-20. Houston beats the Giants 33-1. You're obviously still by default going to be in first place. You lick your wounds. You go to the bye week, and you really focus on Philly and Washington because that could make or break the entire season after that. I love that we're saying this. I love that we're saying this. We were. I love that the world is against the Giants once again. Maybe this is what they need. Nobody believes in us. Texans 31, Giants 17. Prove us wrong. Prove us wrong. Let's go J.J. McCarthy. All he does is win. All he does is win. Go 1-0. Prove us wrong. All right, so we will see you on Sunday after the Giants and Texans game. right after make sure you have your uh youtube notifications on so you get a notification of when we are going live let's go giants we'll see you on sunday it starts today