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00:06what's going on everyone welcome to week nine brendan london here with our longtime giants
00:11beat writer for the post paul schwartz we're back in football mode giants are back on the field
00:17today as we record this a lot of news uh that's going to come out of that practice a lot
00:22of people
00:23anxious and waiting to hear about who john harbaugh is going to have for him available for this game
00:29down at the link uh but paul let's first start with this greg newsome extension news uh the giants
00:35signing him to a little extension there and the guys kind of earned it so far so what can you
00:40tell
00:40us about greg newsome and what that could mean for any other guys they may be looking at to to
00:46lock up
00:47before the season ends well it's a great it's a great message isn't it you know what i mean uh
00:53greg
00:53newsome was a former first round pick um didn't do great last year with the jaguars different
00:58scheme um signs a one-year eight million dollar totally prove it contract right you know some
01:05incentives in there but you know he was a better player than that but didn't think the market was
01:10great some guys got signed earlier comes here and prove it i did not think he would be able to
01:14prove
01:15it in six games he only played six games he didn't play last week he was out with a concussion
01:19so giants take advantage of the bye week and sign him to a three-year 46 million dollar extension
01:26you know what is he 26 27 years old he's played terrific he um he's got a presence you know
01:33he's
01:33one of those northwestern guys you know they they kind of have a thing to them you know they're sharp
01:38guys i mean that's kind of a generalization but i think it often is true fit in like a glove
01:44wants to
01:45play you know aggressive press man corner stuff he's a big statuesque guy speaks very well already has
01:51leadership qualities so why not lock him up right now it's interesting because you know a month or
01:58two ago we said oh my gosh we don't know what they have at cornerback right you know deontay banks
02:01is
02:02unproven newsom is you know didn't do well with the jaguars paulson adibo's not coming off a good year
02:07colton hood's a rookie okay now what do we do uh well how do we look at it now deontay
02:13banks is playing
02:13the best football of his career by far um newsom has been terrific um adibo lost his job lost his
02:20starting job got hurt came back and played well last week and colton hood got some reps early
02:25and now is taking the um assuming the typical rookie wait and learn and you know earn it type thing
02:32um
02:32where do we go from here adibo's under contract for next year newsom is now under contract for three
02:37years colton hood is under contract for three more years as a rookie that brings us to deontay
02:44banks right he's gonna get paid right he's going to get paid and whether they can work out something
02:52now i don't know if they can um here's the way i was told look newsom earned it and now
02:59you have
02:59insurance in case you lose deontay banks and you have colton hood a second round pick a high second
03:05round pick waiting in the wings along with adibo are they better with deontay banks at this point
03:11unquestionably you can't sign everybody so i don't think they chose newsom over banks i just think
03:18newsom was the easier sign right now and you know it feels that the banks is probably going to want
03:23to
03:24play this out and maybe test free agency and um if he keeps playing like this he will get a
03:30bigger
03:30contract than the one greg newsom just got yeah i mean greg newsom definitely earned it but yeah
03:35tay banks whatever his price is at the end of the year whatever he signs with whether it be giants
03:40elsewhere who knows what you know business is business he's definitely earned it to to at this
03:45point he's whatever he signs for in the off season he's earning this season but yeah great insurance
03:51policy for the giants greg newsom just did a 50 yard uh walk and talk with him for for giants
03:56.com
03:57yeah like you say wants to be here good good piece for the locker room that's a nice piece to
04:02kind
04:02lock up good insurance policy another guy who came out in his debut well he came out in his debut
04:09and shown that he could be a potential great insurance policy or whatever a big question mark
04:15at in the off season jj mccarthy pause jj mccarthy versus joe mixon in this game week nine when the
04:22schedule came out no one in the world would have been able to put that on their bingo card that
04:28is
04:28these two are going to be the two quarterbacks starting in this football game but what about
04:33when we talk about like storylines and the way things the nfl gods can kind of help with a player's
04:41story and his journey it's i mean for jj mccarthy if you just outdo cj stroud if you go into
04:49the link
04:49you go in there and put on a good enough show in in philly that that's back that that back
04:59-to-back
04:59win or back-to-back debut back-to-back starts paul those two wins mean more if he can get
05:05this win
05:05down in the link what do you think well i think it's right it's incredible right that joe milton
05:10was not on the eagles and jj mccarthy was not on the giants when the season started and now they're
05:16going against each other you know the eagles decided to bench tanner mckee did not play well
05:21lost three starts not all his fault but he didn't play great he clearly wasn't the answer um you know
05:27joe milton has been one of those guys that like giants fans have always oh why don't we sign joe
05:31milton why don't we sign joe milton um didn't wasn't great with michigan was better but not great with
05:37tennessee um six five 235 pounds an unbelievably strong arm you know people say he can throw it 80
05:4580 um yards you know he so he he's big arm good athlete he's never made a start in the
05:52nfl giants
05:53played him don't forget last year in week 18 right remember the cowboys dac prescott started and left
05:59at halftime and um you know they kind of put their backups in joe milton was a backup for the
06:04cowboys
06:04uh did not play well play well against the giants the giants won that game going away um you know
06:10i
06:11have no idea what to expect from joe milton i do have something that i think i expect from denard
06:16wilson and that is we're going to get after this kid in his first nfl start um you know he's
06:22been
06:22around the nfl block a little bit milton but it's his first start it's his he's been in five games
06:27five games right uh in his nfl career not starting so um very interesting unexpected and yeah jj mccarthy
06:35um you know it's funny talking to him in the locker room you know going on the podium he's an
06:41incredibly accessible player you can just go shoot the shoot the you know shoot the stuff with him
06:47anytime you want just go talk to him very pleasant i talked to him the other day about his wife
06:53and his
06:53one-year-old son coming finally after after a month coming to live with him he said that's going to
06:58really help him a lot because he really missed him for a month you know facetime with a one-year
07:03-old
07:03brandon you know is not the same right as tucking him into bed at night and you know giving him
07:08his
07:08break no no not the same you know you know it's funny jj said you know you forget these guys
07:12he's
07:1323 years old okay he's been married he he knew his wife when they were 15 year old sweethearts okay
07:19they've been together a long time uh he said when he left minnesota you know you had to leave right
07:24you know you get traded to the giants you got to leave the next day he said his son was
07:28kind of
07:31walking stumbling moving around he said you know i mean he was walking but he didn't miss his first
07:37steps but a month later he said he's running around he's running backwards he's running forwards
07:42so you miss a lot in a month right so he's glad to have them back and it's it's kind
07:47of hard to forget
07:48that it's kind of hard to remember that he's been around a month you know i mean he he's fit
07:54in so
07:55seamlessly right now as james is back up and now he's the starter he's going to be the starter
08:00unless something crazy happens he gets hurt or there's a series of games where he doesn't play
08:04well but we have to pump the brakes a little bit he started one game for the giants and and
08:10so
08:10um let's see it will be this is fascinating right you have no idea what to expect from him
08:16and neither do i unless you tell me you do i don't know what to expect from him is he
08:21going to be great
08:21is he going to be like he was in houston is he going to be okay is he going to
08:25revert to maybe
08:25some of that vikings form um he's he seems comfortable comfortable confident you know going
08:32i asked him about going on the road he's played in all the biggest road venues in college football
08:36ever um you know he's played in some certainly in the nfl so this is a work in progress and
08:43it's
08:43going to be very interesting to see how he does in the link where we have both been many times
08:47on the very wrong end of the score for the giants i think we see his legs a little bit
08:54more going up
08:54against his big fangio defense that cover four rush four drop you know play quarter coverage behind it
09:01a lot over the top you know they're going to try and take malik neighbors out of there i think
09:05he did
09:05a great job against that against the texans and kind of somewhat of a similar scheme and then if they
09:11do try and i mean they had a lot of success throwing the football to the outside of the field
09:15so
09:16anytime you have a young quarterback and you don't have to have him force the ball across the middle
09:21you know like they say tips and overthrows got to have those on defense i think that that could just
09:26keeps matt nagy comfortable with the play calls they can have for him um but if he again if he
09:33needs
09:33to use his feet he didn't have to use his feet that much i believe sack like two or three
09:37times but
09:38no real design qb runs or he didn't really scramble that much so i think it's that's just just go
09:45be
09:45yourself in this moment paul you know that's what i would say to the kid just go because you it's
09:50already set up for you your success story your redemption story if you want to call it that for
09:56a 23 year old and only his i guess you could say his second year in the nfl even though
10:01you know it's
10:02his third uh you could already going through a redemption season like it's it's right there his
10:07story the storyline is right there in front of him and all he has to do is just go use
10:12the weapons
10:12that's already there it's not like you're stepping into what let's see a giants quarterback of the
10:19past like had like like a jake i guess jake from or or glennon or or mike glennon or one
10:26of those guys
10:27didn't have the the playmakers as a whole on the perimeter like a j.j mccarthy jackson dart jameis
10:34winston has had so it's been a luxury for this year's giants quarterbacks to be able to have the
10:42upgrade and tight pass catcher and tight end run game uh but kind of pretty much about the same
10:49and then now you have oh outside we'll have in saquon but the production was still kind of the
10:54same anyway because the offensive line was was really kind of weak when saquon was here but i'm
11:00talking as a whole the weapons on the outside malachi fields uh malik neighbors and these guys
11:06then i i think the j.j mccarthy and these backup quarterbacks are in a position to win and all
11:12he has
11:12to do uh is be himself paul been talking to the fans they love the show whether it's i'm at
11:18a watch
11:19party or i'm walking around at the games you have a lot of fans around in metlife stadium so i'm
11:25always asking the fans to send in a little video mailbag for blue rush so we can have a little
11:30bit
11:31of fun here uh here's our first one let's uh let's let's get a look at it and then let's
11:36get your
11:36thoughts on it what's up brandon what's up paul quick question for you both coming out of this
11:42bye week where do you see the new york giants headed in this second half of the season
11:49a lot of people looking ahead of the season to the playoffs or the second half of the season
11:55uh we've been kind of talking about this this eagles game concentrating on that but paul
12:00the giants this is the kickoff to their second half of the season or at least after the bye
12:05do you think this team can handle now being the favorites in these football games well you know
12:12what tune in on friday right because they've got the eagles on sunday and the commanders on thursday
12:16night back at metlife stadium so it comes you know john harbaugh said right after they beat the
12:21texans these next two games will kind of set the foundation and and the pathway for us for the rest
12:27of the year and it will i mean if they win these next two games they're completely in the driver's
12:31seat in the division there's no question about it they will have buried the eagles they will have
12:35buried the commanders and um the cowboys are doing a pretty good job of burying themselves you know
12:41what i mean so um you know the giants certainly still have to go to dallas you know if you
12:45look ahead
12:45at the schedule we all said oh my gosh you know the beginning they have to get through some of
12:49these
12:49easier games quote unquote because then it gets really tough they have what of the next nine games
12:56including the commanders let's take the eagles out because we're talking about them this week
13:00they only have four games against playoff teams you know because the cowboys are not a playoff team
13:05the eagles are not a playoff team jaguars 49ers at seattle at detroit so they can if they can
13:13navigate their way look they're not going to run the table here they're they're not in the same
13:18class of the 49ers i don't think you know going to seattle is is not mission impossible but it's
13:24the next thing going to detroit that is a real difficult assignment we're getting ahead of
13:30ourselves here but i i want to look to to i don't want to sound like john harbaugh want to
13:36know but
13:36i have been to the link so many times and seen so much bad football and some good football but
13:42no wins since 2013 that i think they can purge a lot of demons certainly with the fans i mean
13:48harbaugh doesn't have these demons jj mccarthy doesn't have these demons um you know some of
13:52the players don't have these demons you know malachi fields and isaiah likely don't have these feeling
13:57of these demons um you know malik neighbors has some of them certainly uh andrew thomas yeah they
14:03have those because they've lost in in the link uh they win this game i think it really the eagles
14:09aren't good we know that right now but they're not an easy team to beat even though they're so
14:13depleted so if you can go in there and do that i think that really says a lot to set
14:18them up for
14:19the second half i really do i'll let's get to the second video mailbag uh question that we have
14:25uh this is my guy germ from the j18 tailgate the sa sog at j18 tailgate i hang out there
14:33a lot paul
14:33you gotta come by uh one time let's check out with uh what germ has to say here what's going
14:40on paul
14:40what's going on brandon thanks for taking my question i want to know is this the year we host
14:46the first playoff game in met life in a long time i feel the division's ours let me know your
14:51thoughts
14:52and opinions thanks for taking my question can the giants host their first playoff game since
14:59january of 2012 i'm a one game at a at a time guy paul i i can't even i can't
15:06look but i can't
15:08look past practice today let alone the playoffs is there is the storyline at least can is do you
15:18think the storyline there is home playoff game or bus for this giants team without everything looks in
15:25the path that's in front of them well yes i mean boy john harbaugh did not give us these questions
15:31did he because he would he does not like these kind of questions but during if i say they're in
15:36the driver's seat to win the division that means they get a home playoff game you know that's what
15:40happens whether you win seven eight nine or ten games if you win the division you get a home playoff
15:45game and so you have to readjust the the the bar as the season goes on you know in in
15:52the summer
15:52if i said to you the bar was winning the division you would say that's unfair that is an unfair
15:58bar
15:58to set from the giants seven games in you say that is totally fair so yeah i mean i remember
16:04the met
16:04life stadium has had what one home playoff game between the giants and the jets it was was that the
16:10falcons game um the uh the falcons game yeah they gave up what two points the giants in that game
16:16um they totally dominated who would have thought that all these years later they would still have not
16:21been a playoff game in metlife stadium i'm sure that's what season ticket holders and and and
16:26you know staunch fans are thinking man if we can just get a home playoff game in the cold in
16:31that
16:32gray unloved building in january right that's what you want um we're getting ahead of ourselves you
16:39know the next home game will be thursday night against the commanders there's a game sunday at the
16:43link as we said but um yeah that's the bar right now the bar right now is to win the
16:47division
16:47there's no question about it final thought paul on this eagles giants game any questions concerns
16:56comments you can leave the people anything have you feeling uneasy when it comes to this matchup on
17:03sunday well a couple of things uneasy yeah who's going to be the running back you know i mean it's
17:07going to be motor singletary he'll probably start don't forget he was so down in the depth chart that
17:13he was a healthy scratch in three straight games right and then he you know they they they finally
17:17you know they they cut naji harris and he comes in he and oh by the way he he runs
17:22for 30 yards in
17:22the game-winning touchdown in houston right cam scatteru did not practice wednesday or thursday
17:27don't forget on that 42 yard run in houston he he pulled up he hurt his hamstring he's i i'll
17:34say it
17:35right now he's not going to play on sunday he's not going to be ready you don't come back from
17:38a
17:38hamstring if you don't practice so he's not going to play tyrone tracy is on ir he's not going to
17:44play
17:44for the next four games so i mean if any giants fan can just rattle off the names of the
17:49running
17:49backs on the roster right now more power to you it is devon singletary it is i don't even know
17:55exactly how to say greg de sawyers d rose d rose d rose oh there you go d rose umass
18:03guy umass guy
18:04who won last night my guys well last night five wins he's he's a louisville guy he's a umass guy
18:11he's a memphis guy he's a lot of guys guy you know he's he's been into a lot of programs
18:15but he
18:15was a poor guy he's a poor guy yeah yeah he was he's on the practice squad of the chargers
18:21uh the
18:21giants had all these injuries they signed him you know jim harbaugh must have talked to john and said
18:26yeah he's not bad we'll sign him they have um phil maffa right a seventh round pick of the cowboys
18:32last year um he's on the practice squad they can bring him up uh they re-signed eric gray to
18:38the
18:38practice squad um you know i mean we're talking you know uh who's who of running backs that nobody
18:46knows so you mentioned jj mccarthy will have to run a little more uh moto singletary was fourth on
18:51the depth chart a few weeks ago now will be the starter so that really concerns me can they run
18:56the
18:56ball and who will run the ball that's a big concern so paul with those concerns do you feel
19:03as though john harbaugh with everything he said already to you guys in the media and to the fan
19:08base he is going to be highly aggressive at the trade deadline does do you feel like with everything
19:16all those factors john harbaugh joe shane are going to be aggressive at the deadline i think they'd like
19:22to be yeah i mean the last word i heard and this was thursday afternoon is the giants
19:27kind of don't think that jonathan taylor is going to be moved right now out of indianapolis
19:31you know what i mean i mean they don't i mean jonathan taylor is beloved he's very close to the
19:36owner with the colts he is a class act he is the face of the franchise daniel jones isn't the
19:42face of
19:42the franchise you know quinton nelson was a you know a hall of fame caliber guard but he wasn't the
19:48face of the franchise jonathan taylor's the face of the franchise if you trade him you have to get
19:53an unbelievable haul because it is not a popular move in the building out of the building anywhere
19:58um and i don't know if anyone's going to give them an incredible haul right now for jonathan taylor
20:04if i were the giants would i give him a second and a third you know one in 27 one
20:08in 28 i probably
20:10would do that he's terrific and he's still 27 and he's signed for good money but not crazy money
20:16considering what these running backs are getting um i think he's a difference maker do i think it
20:20puts the giants in the super bowl i do not um i i would be surprised if the giants don't
20:25get a
20:26running back of some caliber that will help them um don't forget tracy will be out another three games
20:32after this we'll see who it is you know is it tony pollard maybe i don't think it's going to
20:36be
20:36derrick henry we'll see we'll see um you know can they get grover stewart you know let's not forget
20:41about the um the um the colts here you know maybe you know they're in a fire sale maybe they
20:46can get
20:46drove grover stewart so instead of getting a guy to help run the ball they can get a guy to
20:50help
20:50stop the run now he's a free he's a free agent after this year so that's a rental you know
20:54that's
20:55a that's a nine game rental um they want to be aggressive i don't think they're going to be crazy
20:59stupid just throwing draft picks you know f them picks like the rams did but um um you know don't
21:06forget the trade deadline is tuesday so we will if nothing happens before sunday we will know
21:13after sunday what happens if the giants lay an egg in philly maybe they say oh my gosh we need
21:18help or
21:19maybe we got to hold off here if they win they go when we got to keep moving we got
21:24we we've got this
21:25we got to keep going um are the colts really going to let jonathan taylor play on sunday which it
21:32seems
21:32like they are that is a huge risk for a guy you want to trade or you're thinking of trading
21:38he's
21:38he's one turned ankle away from saying okay we had a deal but now it's off now it's off so
21:45um a lot
21:46moving on i think the giants would like to be aggressive but um it takes two to tango um put
21:51it
21:51this i'll be surprised if they don't bring someone who can either help in the running game or help stop
21:56the run by tuesday giants eagles trade deadline a lot coming up in giants land but it all starts with
22:04if jj mccarthy can put together another great performance and lead this giants team to another
22:10w uh for paul schwartz i'm brandon london we appreciate you guys watching blue rush preview show
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