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00:00It's the return of Cam Scadaboo, J.J. McCarthy's starting debut,
00:04and who are the traitors that Denaro Wilson can be talking about?
00:09What's going on, everybody?
00:10Welcome to another episode of our Blue Rush preview show
00:14for the New York Post Sports.
00:16Brandon London, Paul Schwartz, our longtime beat writer for the Post.
00:20Paul, traitors?
00:23Traitors?
00:23And Call of Duty, if someone's a traitor on the headset and Call of Duty,
00:27I'm flipping out.
00:29I'm flipping out.
00:30But, you know, traitors, a lot of storylines going into this one.
00:33Obviously, I just had to hype that up, get the people talking
00:36and wondering what we're going to talk about.
00:38So go ahead, man.
00:39You start, my friend.
00:40What's some of the biggest headlines going into Giants-Texans?
00:45Well, look, I mean, the new quarterback, it is always a big story, right?
00:49And, you know, over the past few years, we've had it where it's been, you know,
00:54the Mike Lennons and the Jake Fromms and even Tommy DeVito.
00:57And it's like, you know, they just had a, you know, a quarterback got hurt.
01:01They had to try the next guy.
01:02This guy got hurt.
01:03They had to try the next guy.
01:05And it was, you know, it was like depressing.
01:08You know, it was depressing because, you know, those guys weren't the guy.
01:11And they just had to be in there.
01:13This, we don't know if J.J. McCarthy's the guy, certainly.
01:16But I think there is some, I know there is intrigue to see what this young 23-year-old,
01:23he's, you know, a few months older than Jackson Dart only,
01:26what he can do running this operation in what we all knew would be a very,
01:33very challenging game, whether it was Jackson Dart or Jameis Winston,
01:36or now J.J. McCarthy.
01:37So, look, the Giants, we knew they had seven games before the bye, right?
01:44That's a very short.
01:45They usually had nine or ten games before the bye, at least eight.
01:48These seven games have been packed with a tremendous amount of stuff,
01:54demotions, promotions, guys getting cut, guys getting hurt.
01:59And through it all, maybe the most surprising thing is that no matter what happens this weekend,
02:05the Giants will be alone in first place.
02:07Doesn't even make sense.
02:08But here we are.
02:09So weird.
02:10It's Stranger Things.
02:11This entire, the start of the season, emotional rollercoaster for Giants fans.
02:17It's like one second, you're out in the parking lot,
02:20you're turned up for after beating the Cowboys on Sunday night football to start it off,
02:26and then it's just, it hits you at the watch party, Jackson darts out for the season.
02:30Then you go on a two-game win streak in the reign of Jameis Winston,
02:33and you lose again.
02:34It's just, you tie, then lose.
02:36Like, but this whole J.J. McCarthy thing, I'm kind of excited for it because I,
02:41remember I wanted to see the packages and see if they can kind of slowly put him in the season.
02:46I want Jameis to play well enough to at least hold on to his job until at least the bye
02:52week
02:52to give J.J. a full two weeks of, you know, of extra preparation before really throwing him in there.
03:00Unfortunate for him that he's getting thrown to the woods to a Texans defense
03:04that's starting to come into its own, and D'Amico Ryans has taken over,
03:10and he's going to call the plays.
03:11But a couple things here.
03:13Again, his legs, that ability for him to make a blitzer miss free, you know,
03:19through that sea gap from the Saints game, hit them with that long scramble.
03:24I understand it was, you know, end of the game type thing,
03:26but just to be able to see that athleticism in a game, to see that in person,
03:34and then you threw on the fact that you brought this up a couple weeks ago
03:39when they signed him, 6-4 as a starter, Giants are 3-2-1 right now.
03:46If 6-4 plus 3-2-1, that's 9-6-1 on the season, if that happens.
03:52And he didn't even play.
03:53Well, I guess it was his best football because it was his first ever football.
03:57Would you take 9-6-1, Paul?
04:00Oh, I definitely would.
04:02I think, you know, privately pretty much, you know, 9-6-1 is probably going to win
04:08the division, I would think, at this point.
04:10I can win the division.
04:11So, I get what's at stake.
04:14I get who it is.
04:15And, you know, a change of scenery is great for everybody from times,
04:19or it could be.
04:20We don't know how this J.J. McCarthy roller coaster is going to go
04:24because, you know, he did have more interceptions than he had touchdowns
04:28last year, touchdowns thrown.
04:30So, I'm, what is it, you know, the new roller coasters you strap in
04:35from up here, like, I'm holding on, like, it's not the Michael Vick experience
04:39like that commercial back in the day for Nike, but, well, let's see.
04:43Let's see.
04:44You know, it's a couple of things.
04:46First of all, with Jameis, and, like, why now, right?
04:49Why did they make this move now?
04:51Look, you know, after the Jackson Dart went down, the initial thought was
04:56it's an MCL, right?
04:57He'll probably have to miss a month.
04:58That's what we thought, the initial reports.
05:01Obviously, the next day was much worse.
05:03You had, you know, meniscus in there as well.
05:06So, your mind already goes to, okay, a month, a month.
05:10You know, I know people in the Giants building said, okay, we got a month here.
05:14Can Jameis get us to two and two?
05:15We think he can get us to two and two.
05:17That's what you want for a backup, you know?
05:19Hold the fort.
05:21Don't have it be a, you know, a jailbreak.
05:24Don't have it be we can't win any games.
05:26You go three and one, great.
05:28You know, you're not going to go four and oh.
05:29You know, go two and two.
05:30Save our season, right?
05:32S.O.S.
05:33Keep it afloat.
05:35Jameis went two, one, and one.
05:36So, I think, you know, we have to look at that and say, he did his job, right?
05:41He did his job.
05:42He went two, one, and one.
05:44It wasn't all his fault.
05:45It wasn't all his credit.
05:47But he went two, one, and one as a starter.
05:49We have to give him that.
05:51But it was not going to work for 15 games.
05:53You know, they saw that.
05:54You know, they say, well, why did they extend?
05:56They extended Jameis so if he has to come in for a span of time, can he hold the fort?
06:03He did that.
06:05You know, he proved he could do that.
06:07For 15 games, I don't know what backup you could sign and say, we'll be good for 15 games with
06:12him.
06:12So, it became clear to the Giants, to the front office, and certainly to the coaching staff that, first of
06:18all, too much of the offense, we just can't get to with Jameis.
06:21You know what I mean?
06:22The offense was set up for Jackson, so we need a Jackson light here.
06:25Jameis just can't do that.
06:27And it was clear that Jameis was just not going to be consistent enough.
06:31He just wasn't.
06:32Will J.J. be more consistent?
06:34I don't know.
06:34Maybe he'll be less.
06:35He could not be as consistent enough, and the offense was going to be too limited, so make the move
06:41now.
06:41Now, that's why they did this.
06:42But one thing you mentioned about the running and all this other stuff.
06:46Look at J.J. McCarthy's history.
06:49He missed his whole first year with a knee injury.
06:53Last year, he missed games with a concussion.
06:55He hurt his right hand against the Giants.
06:59He had an ankle.
07:00I think he might have had a knee.
07:02He has proved to be incredibly not durable when he's played.
07:06So, let's be careful with throwing him out there to run like Josh Allen.
07:12And also, you know, he's like you mentioned Michael Vick.
07:14He's not Michael Vick.
07:15Michael Vick was a running back who could throw really well.
07:19You know, he was a running back.
07:21He was fantastic.
07:22He was, you know, he was a sprinter.
07:24He was one of the greatest scramblers in history.
07:27That's not scramblers.
07:29He was one of the greatest runners in history.
07:31That's not J.J.
07:32So, I said it wasn't that commercial.
07:36It wasn't that Michael Vick.
07:37But I'm saying, you mentioned, people have mentioned, oh, Michael Vick.
07:41Yeah.
07:42Or he can run.
07:43He can run.
07:44But the fourth quarter was great.
07:46The fourth quarter against the Saints showed us the skills.
07:50He's got a fastball.
07:52Yeah, exactly.
07:54He's Cam Schlittler out there.
07:55He's not a junk baller.
07:57He can throw the fastball.
07:59And, you know, I saw Adam Thielen just had a, it was an interview.
08:02I forget on what outlet, you know, what it was.
08:05You know, he played with J.J., with the Vikings.
08:09And, you know, Adam Thielen knows something about receiver, right?
08:12He said he throws a great deep ball.
08:14Great.
08:15Now, he has to get better.
08:16J.J. has to get it with the intermediate stuff.
08:18But he throws a great deep ball.
08:20I think we're going to see some deep balls.
08:22So, the fourth quarter showed us, forget about the production.
08:25You know, anybody would have come in there, you know, who's a cop in quarterback,
08:29and, you know, completed passes because the Saints didn't care if he completed passes.
08:33But he made some great throws.
08:35He showed his legs.
08:36But let's just, he now, they need him to, it would be an incredible downer if he plays
08:41well.
08:42And at some point, and he gets hurt.
08:43Now, we got to go back to Jameis.
08:45So, they got to remember, just like Jackson thought they had to protect him.
08:48We also got to protect J.J. also.
08:51Oh, let's just run him out there.
08:53No, no, no.
08:53Let's be careful.
08:54They want him to be their quarterback now.
08:56Well, it's different now in terms of when you got your Brian Dable trying to go to Jackson
09:02Dart, telling him to get down.
09:04You're the golden goose.
09:05Like, I'm trying to protect you, protect my job.
09:07It should be easy to tell J.J. McCarthy to get down.
09:10You got the keys, bro.
09:12Like, you have Jackson Dart's keys.
09:13You get to drive his car right now.
09:15Like, you, and for the most part, it's intact.
09:19But your star receiver is getting his knee.
09:22We're not even thinking about the knee injury.
09:24The tight end is even more than what we thought the tight end was going to be.
09:30You have two weapons.
09:32Now, let's see what you could, see if you could get something out of this Darnell Mooney guy.
09:36Let's see if that deep ball, let's see if we could run Darnell Mooney down the seam
09:39where they're trying to double one likely or Malik Neighbors.
09:44See what you could throw up to Isaiah Fields, I mean Malachi Fields,
09:50who's shown that he's a competent wide receiver in this league.
09:54We just need to see targets and catchable throws to him.
09:59That's the whole thing.
09:59He's a catch radius guy.
10:01He's not dropping anything.
10:02So you're in the perfect position if you're J.J. McCarthy to come in, be yourself.
10:08But, yeah, get down.
10:09You're not Josh Allen.
10:10They just need you to just be 10-2, man, Allen, or you're going to end up like Brandon Allen
10:16if you don't get down and slide.
10:18But, again, and this will transition to our next conversation.
10:22Part of what they make the call, or John Harbaugh makes that call,
10:25is because he's getting nothing out of the backfield.
10:29Coach Harbaugh is being as honest and professional as possible
10:35and talking about he wants a Derrick Henry-like isk running back to being that backfield
10:42because someone has to get this offense chunk plays in the run game,
10:47and that's why we've had to make this call to this type of receiver for this offense.
10:53One of you guys got to be a guy to have any chance to beat the Texans,
10:57and you think it's instead of, what's that song, Return of the Mack, it's Return of the Scat.
11:05See what I did there, Paul?
11:07Very nice.
11:08Look, you were a player, right?
11:12Your father is a coach.
11:14There were certain times, there were certain moments in a career where it is like,
11:19okay, there's a crossroads, and let's see what happens.
11:23You know, it's the greatest reality show out there, right?
11:29Cam Scataboo, the return.
11:30You know, I'm not trying to make this too dramatic,
11:32but this young running back, it's only his second year,
11:36and he missed a lot of his first year with that terrible dislocated ankle.
11:40This is a crossroads moment for Cam Scataboo.
11:43It really is.
11:43You know, after I say this, I'd like to know if you think I'm being too dramatic or not,
11:47but he was the anointed one.
11:51He and Jackson Dart, butting heads, right?
11:54That's the face of the offense now.
11:57A lot of people say it's too much.
11:58You know, Cam is not that kind of player.
12:00Then he gets hurt.
12:00Now he's this year.
12:02He did not get off to a great start, but he, you know,
12:05they win the game against the Cowboys, and it's Cam and Jackson, you know, head butting.
12:10This is great.
12:12Then Cam just is not performing, and then he fumbles, and then he gets benched.
12:16You know, whatever you want to call it.
12:17He got demoted, okay?
12:18He played six snaps last week and didn't get the ball, not because he was punished,
12:22because he just was in for six snaps, and they were in a pass mode.
12:26But he was demoted.
12:28There is no question about it.
12:29And they haven't come out and said he's out of jail now.
12:32He got out of a jail card.
12:33But I expect he will get a lot more carries.
12:36I don't know if he's going to start or Tyron Tracy Jr. is going to start.
12:39One of them should start.
12:40And they need to have the bulk of the carries.
12:43Tyron Tracy has been a better player in his NFL career than Cam Scadaboo has been in his NFL career.
12:49What happened with Tyron Tracy?
12:50Fumbled, had some protection issues in the summer.
12:54He goes in, you know, off the shelf a little bit.
12:57Cam fumbles.
12:57He goes off the shelf.
12:58So, and, you know, Cam said, he said, he told the Post Mark Canizzaro yesterday, six plays last week kind
13:06of killed me.
13:07And he was saying that, you know, getting six snaps killed me, you know, that he's sitting there watching and
13:13not doing anything.
13:14And he said the best players come back from it, get it fixed, and go play ball.
13:20So, I'm not expecting Derrick Henry.
13:23I'm not expecting Saquon Barkley.
13:26But, you know, Cam Scadaboo, like it or not, is, you know, been there starting running back.
13:30So, let's see what he can do against one of the best run defenses in the league.
13:35You know, it's a tough situation.
13:38You know, but tough times make tough, tough players, right?
13:41So, this is an incredible opportunity and just something I'll be fascinated to watch and Tyrone Tracy a little bit
13:49for that matter because he's been kind of on the shelf here.
13:52You know, can these guys respond and give the Giants more of what they need?
13:59Here's the only thing I'm worried about, the Scat situation when you break it down like that.
14:03That could put a player in his head even more.
14:06Or he's the type of player who has to go out there, if we're going to call it reckless, we'd
14:10love to see a controlled reckless from him.
14:12But I want him to be in his head so much to where it's either the, I got to press
14:19this hole too fast to get this breakout run and there's no patience there.
14:23Or there's some sort of hesitation before trying to go down and take on two people to try and get
14:29a first down, the extra two, three yards.
14:32Or fighting for an extra five to get that first down.
14:36It's just, I hope he's not, or he's not going to be in his head too much to where it
14:41doesn't feel natural.
14:43Him doing, he's had success at all levels of him playing football.
14:47He's a guy that's gone through the adversity.
14:49He's like, he's a Ma Bradshaw Jr.
14:52You know, like it's like Isk, you know.
14:54Like AB was giving you like big runs, breaking big play, home run runs.
15:01If it's him, if that's in a Cam Scadaboo, then yeah, now's that time.
15:06Now you got to see that.
15:07You got to see that 40 plus yard run here or there, you know, throughout the course of the season
15:13to see that you don't want to be all hype, Paul.
15:16You don't want to be an all hype guy.
15:18And that's what I'm thinking, like in terms of a John Harbaugh, that's what he's challenging him, challenging him to
15:24be like, don't be that all hype running back.
15:27Like be that guy.
15:28I've coached guys before.
15:30So if you're going to take control of this offense, this is going to be yours.
15:35Then I need runs.
15:36Paul, we got to address or can you address any of the chatter that may be for the Giants, maybe
15:43possibly in the trade market at the trade deadline for running back?
15:48There's some names thrown out there.
15:50Have you heard anything on your end?
15:55Well, what I've heard is that the Colts are not in sell mode right now.
16:00They're not.
16:01You know, they fired their general manager and they're in a wait and see mode.
16:04The owner is kind of waiting to see how they do before the trade deadline to see if they're going
16:09to be in sell mode or not.
16:10I know, you know, Jonathan Taylor is a guy whose name is, you know, he's a tremendous running back.
16:15You know, I, you know, remember following him when he was a freshman at Wisconsin because my son was a
16:19freshman at Wisconsin.
16:20It was like, who's this guy from South Jersey who's running for 180 yards every game?
16:26You know, that's the true freshman.
16:29So, look, that would be a monster.
16:31You know, I had a quick Nelson, the guard, you know, there's talk about, you know, well, the Colts are
16:36going to sell off their Pro Bowl guard and they're going to sell off maybe their, you know, Pro Bowl
16:42running back.
16:45You know, we'll see about that.
16:47You know, here's one thing, you know, ordinarily I would kind of say, you know what, Brandon, I don't believe
16:53it.
16:53I'm not really, I'm not really, you know, I don't think that's going to happen, but, you know, with John
16:58Harbaugh and with this year, I'm not going to say no to anything, you know, not no to anything.
17:03I mean, they're not going to go crazy, but I'm not going to, you know, John Harbaugh, if they don't
17:08play well this week and the running backs don't do anything and they go into the bye week, I'm not
17:11going to say to you, oh no, they're going to fix it.
17:13You know, John Harbaugh may say, find me a running back somewhere, you know, find me a running back.
17:18I mean, I'm not, you know, the guard is a little different, I think, but, you know, I just think
17:24you can't discount anything right now because he doesn't want to screw up the season.
17:29Like I said, if they lose this game, they're 3-3-1 and they, you know, at the very least,
17:33they're a half a game in first place.
17:35Now, look, it's a very tenuous hold, I'm sure about that, but, you know, I'm not expecting them to be
17:42in first place the rest of this year here.
17:45But I think that you can't discount anything, but that would be something.
17:51But you know what, this is not a ready-made offensive line.
17:54This offensive line has played more, not as well as I thought they would play at the start of the
18:00year.
18:00You know, against the Cowboys, they dominated up front and they just, the Giants defense didn't stop the Cowboys.
18:07They didn't let them have the ball, right?
18:09The Cowboys had two possessions in the second half and scored touchdowns on both of them.
18:14That wasn't great defense.
18:15That was offense saying, it's all ball and you can't play with it.
18:19So, the offensive line has not looked like that since.
18:25You wonder.
18:26All right, let's flip to the defensive side of the football.
18:29Traitors, Paul, Dart Wilson kind of broke it down.
18:34I know from a player's standpoint, I don't think it was so much of a call-out.
18:39But, I mean, you're, you, I want to hear from your perspective.
18:43If the headline, what would your headline be for the post for what, you know, what Coach Wilson said about
18:49traitors?
18:52Well, look, I mean, coaches choose their words, right?
18:55You know, these aren't middle schoolers.
18:56You know, coaches, you know, Denard Wilson speaks to the media once a week on Thursday.
19:02So, he chooses his words.
19:04It's not, you know, after the game in the heat of the moment.
19:06And, you know, as an athlete, a former athlete, right?
19:11Words like embarrassed, right?
19:14I was embarrassed.
19:15We should be embarrassed.
19:17That's a whoa.
19:18You know, people like me are going to be, whoa, embarrassed.
19:21Quit.
19:22We quit.
19:23Whoa.
19:24Quit.
19:24Quit.
19:24Yeah, quit.
19:25I mean, traitor is a new one.
19:26Traitor is a new one.
19:27Now, I know what he's saying.
19:28He's not saying that we have guys on our defense who defected to the other side.
19:35You know what I mean?
19:35That's what a traitor is.
19:36We have guys on our defense who really were working for the Saints on Sunday.
19:42He's talking about the effort, right?
19:44Your effort was traitorous.
19:46Here's what he said.
19:47He said, I look at guys that do not run to the ball, and I call them traitors because they
19:54are traitors to the defense.
19:57I know what he's saying is, look, there's 11 of us out there, and if nine of us are running
20:04to the ball and two aren't, you are letting us down.
20:07You have let us down.
20:08You're a traitor to our cause.
20:10I get that.
20:11Now, he didn't mention names, but the one play that stands it out was the Alvin Kamara, you know, kind
20:16of, you know, juke and jive through the whole defense.
20:19And, you know, I saw Jason Pinnock and Javon Holland, the two safeties, you know, not exactly look like they
20:27were pursuing, like their heads were on fire.
20:31Sometimes that's an angle thing.
20:33Sometimes it's an effort thing.
20:34Sometimes, you know, you got to be careful with that.
20:37He gave up on that play.
20:38He gave up on that play.
20:39So, I'm sure something in that play did not, you know, Denard Wilson did not like.
20:44And, you know, I liked that he said, you know, okay, it's easy to call them out.
20:48What do we do about it?
20:49He said, either you have to make adjustment to get them off the field and put somebody else in or
20:56correct their behavior.
20:57That's strong.
20:58That's strong.
20:59Okay, you know, if you can't run to the ball, either I can try to fix it and we can
21:04help you give better effort,
21:06or you're out and someone else is in.
21:09And he made a promise, Denard Wilson.
21:11He said, this week we will be flying around 100 miles an hour with their hair on fire.
21:18Okay, he put that out there.
21:20Let's see on Sunday if they're doing that.
21:23Because, you know, he has to be prideful on this one.
21:26This is one of those games where it shows you or it ranks you throughout the course of the NFL
21:31as a defensive coordinator.
21:33Are you that Robert Sala, that D'Amico Ryan type that can have so strong of a defense that you
21:40now get you're in the bus for a head coaching job or at least the conversation in the offseason?
21:46You know, if you know how all the coaches, they obviously usually offensive coordinators, all the head coaches, we talk
21:53about that when it comes to the hiring cycle,
21:55how the offensive coordinators have the easier path to become a head coach.
22:01But when you look at the Robert Sala's, you look at the D'Amico Ryans and the guys that have
22:07gone on, the BD coordinators and then head coaches.
22:10Now, this is Denard Wilson's chance.
22:12And I say that because, I mean, everyone's playing for something.
22:15And I know we're playing as a team and all right now.
22:18But this is one of those moments where I feel like that defense understands no disrespect.
22:25And you can say it in the team defensive room if you want to.
22:29And you can say, like, no disrespect.
22:31But you have either Jameis Winston or J.J. McCarthy as your quarterbacks, fellas.
22:38Some games, they may be able to get you 28-plus.
22:41Some, that offense is going to struggle.
22:43That ball, there's going to be sudden change situations where you're just going to sit down, take your helmet off,
22:50unsnap it,
22:51and then have to put it right back on and go straight out there and hold them to not even,
22:56yes, early in the game it's three.
22:58But later in the game because now there's so much riding at the, there's so much pressure at the point
23:02in this game
23:03because maybe the offense wasn't there yet.
23:05You can't even give up three.
23:07You got to get some sort of stop here or force a turnover.
23:10So this could be that moment, and this is, I feel like that's what that message is to this defense.
23:15Telling this defense we're going to win games is going to come through us.
23:18Burn the boats.
23:19If you're sure about how good we can be, if y'all want to be top 10, then burn the
23:23boats.
23:24But I feel like this has to be that week.
23:27Obviously, we talked about stopping the run, and now we just talked about it with so much to where it's
23:31like,
23:33it's hard watching Giants football because even a five-yard run, you still get mad.
23:37You know, it can still put them in the second and five, it gets incomplete, it's third and five, incomplete
23:43again,
23:43and it gets them off, they still get off the field, that drive.
23:47But any plus run, when you're watching, you're like, come on, run defense, come on.
23:51Like, so it's hard.
23:52I watched that run defense on edge.
23:54But what I would like to see this game, this secondary, safeties and corners involved,
23:59y'all got to go get two.
24:01You got to go tax CJ for two.
24:03There's no state taxes in Texas, but you got to tax CJ Stroud for two turnovers, two picks.
24:09You know, so this is going to be one of those games, I feel like.
24:13But I feel like Denaro Wilson, that's that rally cry.
24:16I took it as a rally cry to try and get the guys going to get on the right foot
24:20for this Texans game.
24:22Paul, you leave Saturday afternoon down.
24:24Make sure you bring back some barbecue or at least try some barbecue while you're down there.
24:29Final thoughts going into Sunday.
24:32Yeah, look, I mean, remember what Tom Coughlin used to do sometimes?
24:35He would go like this, like, let's go, let's go.
24:38You know what I mean?
24:39Yeah.
24:40You know, the special teams coordinator, Chris Horton, said he's embarrassed that they had 10 men on the field,
24:46you know, three times a season, including once last week.
24:49Let's go.
24:50Pick that up, right?
24:52You know, the two offensive tackles are both banged up.
24:54Jermaine Illuminar and Andrew Thomas, I think they'll play, but they're banged up.
24:58You know, they're barely practicing this week.
25:00Oh, by the way, Willie Anderson leads the league with seven and a half sacks.
25:04He's great.
25:05Danielle Hunter has three sacks.
25:08They have 18 sacks as a team.
25:09That's tied for third.
25:11Let's go.
25:12Let's pick it up.
25:13Let's help J.J. stay on his feet, right?
25:15Looks like Greg Newsom is, you know, concussion.
25:18You know, I don't know if he's going to play or not.
25:20So you have Colton Hood coming back, Paulson Adebo, right?
25:23He's supposed to be, you know, he's their highest paid cornerback.
25:27He was their big, you know, free agent addition last year.
25:30He played in one game, hurt his knee.
25:32He lost his starting job because he didn't do much in the summer.
25:35He's back, Paulson Adebo, off I.O.
25:38Let's go.
25:39You know, let's go.
25:40That's what they need here.
25:41The Texans are two and four.
25:43And I, you know, I don't like to say, oh, let's throw the records out.
25:46Throw the record out.
25:47They're good.
25:48They're a good fight.
25:49You know, they lost some bad games to some good teams.
25:52They were 0 and 4.
25:54They're 2 and 4.
25:54They're playing at home.
25:56The Giants are 10 and a half point underdogs, okay?
25:59So by far the biggest spread of the week.
26:02The Giants are 3, 2, and 1.
26:03The Texans are 2 and 4, and the Giants are double-digit underdogs.
26:09That means people are out there going like this.
26:12We don't think they're any good.
26:13We don't care if it's Jamis or JJ or, you know, we don't care who's playing quarterback.
26:19The Texans are going to, you know, are going to destroy them.
26:23So let's see, you know.
26:25I mean, it's a very hard game.
26:27I think it would shock almost everybody if the Giants won.
26:31Again, new beginning for a new quarterback here.
26:35JJ looked like a, you know, he looked like a kid anyway.
26:38You know, he's a kid.
26:38He looks excited as anything.
26:41You know, it's been a world.
26:43He said a world win.
26:44It's an incredible world win for JJ McCarthy.
26:46You know, not long ago he was hearing his name as the 10th pick in the draft.
26:50Then he missed his whole rookie year.
26:51That's very tough.
26:52And then he went from playing to being the second string.
26:55He comes in this year.
26:56You're a third string, man.
26:58You know, we have no use for you.
26:59And then they trade him to the Giants.
27:01So, you know, JJ, Cam, everybody, let's go.
27:07It'll be a very interesting Sunday in Houston.
27:11All right.
27:12Well, appreciate you guys watching another episode of Blue Rush Preview Show for the New York Post Sports.
27:17We'll catch you guys on Monday after the game for a little after further review type thoughts and storylines from
27:23this game.
27:24Paul, they got to go down to get it.
27:26They have to go.
27:27You got to go take this game.
27:28This is one of those games where it's like, that's why you call it, that's why you say traitors or
27:33traitors.
27:34Because if you're not involved in what we have going on here in terms of us against the world, you're
27:41traitors.
27:42You're traitors.
27:42They're going to have to burn the boats.
27:44Thanks.
27:44Thank you guys for watching another episode of Blue Rush.
27:48Let's go!