00:00Here are some others, because I didn't have Jaden Daniels on the good or the bad list.
00:05So I'll just start with him.
00:07Look, big time final drive.
00:11I mean, I thought outside of the two picks and the missed to Diggs at the end of the half,
00:16remember, the second goal, they went empty, and Diggs is open, and I think Jaden just missed him.
00:22I mean, that may be subject to change, we'll see, but I thought Jaden missed him there.
00:27But I thought much of the rest of his night was really good.
00:31You know, it started with a third and nine on their opening drive,
00:35and he makes a really good decision to drop it off on a check down.
00:40It actually may have been a screen, you know, the way I saw it on the replay.
00:43It may have been a called screen, and Rashad White drops that ball on third and eight, third and nine.
00:48That was a good throw.
00:50That was a good setup to the throw, and White would have probably gotten the first down.
00:55Second drive, he hits, you know, they moved the pocket a lot.
00:58He rolled out a lot.
00:59He throws well on the move.
01:01You know, that throw to Diggs in the Rams game was on the move at the end of the game.
01:06They had more of that last night, and he hit Brooks for 20 on the second drive on a roll
01:13right.
01:13He rolled right and found Diggs against zone coverage for 30 yards in the third quarter.
01:20Third quarter, was that the final drive of the first half?
01:23Yeah, that was the final drive of the first half.
01:26But the accuracy was excellent on the move.
01:29The throws dissented at the end of the first half, including, obviously, the touchdown throw under pressure, under duress.
01:36Abdul Carter in his face.
01:37I think he's intending to throw it to Diggs.
01:40Ends up being, you know, a chance, by the way, to get rid of the ball in the general area.
01:46You know, I think in the immediate moment, I'm like, wow, what a great throw.
01:51What a great anticipation throw.
01:53But I think you go back and you realize he probably was throwing for Diggs.
01:57Perfect throw to Sinnott in the third quarter for 24 yards.
02:01The touchdown pass to Antonio Williams on third and one.
02:04Loved the call by Blau.
02:07And it was a perfect throw.
02:08Great protection.
02:10Impressive drive, too, remember, after they had fallen behind 14-10.
02:14And then, of course, the game winner to Diggs against all-out Blitz is big time.
02:19Big time.
02:21I mentioned there was a read option keeper for six yards in the game.
02:24A speed option for a couple of yards.
02:26They had the designed run at the end of the first half in the goal-to-go situation, which he
02:30almost scored on.
02:32I think if he keeps to the outside, he probably does score.
02:35That's a Cliff Kings very special, you know, going 11-on-11 in the run game and using Jaden as
02:41a true designed runner, not an option runner.
02:45Yeah, I mean, both of the picks, I think most people, most experts would say they were both on him.
02:52He underthrew Burks on the, you know, the pump-and-go, which allowed a very – that's a great play
02:59by Holland, too.
03:00Don't get me wrong, a really good play by Holland.
03:03But the ball's underthrown.
03:05And then on the fourth down, on the out, you know, to Wakanko, I thought he stared it down a
03:11bit too much.
03:12And it cost them on that really good interception by number 24, Washington.
03:17He undercut it, and that really seemed like in the moment that was it.
03:22It really felt like not only is the season over, but Jaden hasn't delivered at all.
03:29In fact, he cost them the game at the end.
03:32But overall, I thought, you know, 23-33 for 249 yards, a couple of drops.
03:38Chig had a drop.
03:39White had a drop.
03:41Three touchdowns, the two first interceptions of the year.
03:44Resilient as hell coming back on that final drive.
03:48I think with the two picks, it's hard to give him an A, but I gave him a B, B+.
03:54So many interesting plays in the game.
03:56I wrote down a few.
03:57The deflection to Burks, you know, on that drive that ended in field goal and a 3-0 lead.
04:05How do they miss that on Diggs?
04:07His head's being mangled by the defender.
04:11Now, it was one of those games where they let him play last night for the most part.
04:16That's why I was glad they called the P.I. on the Burks shot, which could have gone either way,
04:21actually.
04:21But not a lot of penalties in the game.
04:23It was more of a let-em-play game.
04:25Washington, with I think a season low, four penalties for just 17 yards.
04:30Good for them after all of the penalty issues.
04:33The Giants had six for 62.
04:34The big one was to Burks on that spot.
04:37That was a 21-12, 33-yard penalty on that play.
04:42But I don't know how they missed the interference on Diggs.
04:46And then Burks, they called it a catch on the field.
04:51Man, that was close.
04:53That was close to not enough, I didn't think, to overturn.
04:59Another play that was so interesting to me, the Giants lining up to go for it from their own nine
05:03-yard line.
05:04There was no chance in hell they were going to snap that ball, right?
05:08I mean, that would have been crazy, especially considering the third-and-one sneak by Winston got stopped.
05:14Great play by Dietrich Weiss.
05:17And Stiles was a part of that as well.
05:19But good discipline.
05:24The Stiles play on McCarthy is the best defensive play and the most important defensive play probably of the year
05:30at this point.
05:31Although the Medrano pick six against Seattle was pretty important.
05:35The 12-yard punt was crucial.
05:37They started to drive from their own 29.
05:39That's a spot where after they get the stop on McCarthy and they call timeout, if you're the Giants, you've
05:45got to push Washington inside.
05:48They're 15 at least.
05:51That guy had a 12-yard punt and a 34-yard punt, but also had a 68-yard punt and
05:55a 64-yard punt.
05:56What a night.
06:00Great punch-out by Medrano.
06:02Great punch-out by Luvu.
06:03They're creating takeaway opportunities this year in a big way.
06:09Sanra still had such an opportunity.
06:11When Medrano punched that out on the kickoff return after the go-ahead score, I mean, everybody in Burgundy jumped
06:18up and said,
06:19our ball, because it looked like Sanra still had it.
06:21But he lost it and the Giants recovered it.
06:25Just some interesting plays in the game.
06:26What else do I have here that I wanted to mention?
06:31I'm really glad that they knew after the interception by Rasul Douglas, the Giants had two timeouts left.
06:39So some coaches can get confused in that situation.
06:44But just so everybody knows, when it's under 40, and that's the length of the play clock, you have no
06:51chance to get the ball back if you don't have three timeouts.
06:55And Washington understood that, and they took the knees.
06:58I was, again, they've given us reason to think this way.
07:02They've given us reason to think this way.
07:04But with 25 seconds to go, I was afraid that they were going to, like, ooh, they have two timeouts
07:09left.
07:09Maybe they can get the ball back.
07:11Let's just run a regular play.
07:14I mean, that would have been one way to get fired immediately.
07:19But they knew better, as most teams do.
07:22Not every team does.
07:23Most teams do.
07:24And they need it out.
07:28You know, there's something about the NFL games this year that's driving me crazy.
07:34I don't think replay assist is jumping in enough on bad spots.
07:39On the opening drive of the game, there's a throw.
07:41The first completion of the game for Daniels is to Burks.
07:44Really good throw.
07:45Burks clearly gets the first down.
07:47I don't know what they're looking at.
07:49And they mark it, like, a half yard short.
07:52That's dangerous, you know, because sometimes, ultimately, it leads to not being able to move the sticks.
07:59If they move the sticks, you've got to let them move the sticks.
08:02Replay assist in a standalone Thursday night football game has to jump in and tell the referee,
08:09hey, that's a first down.
08:11Burks got the line to gain.
08:13I see that every week in a lot of games.
08:15It's really aggravating for an offense to say, you know, you'll see a lot of times,
08:22and I think Washington did it in this case.
08:23They started to send out whatever their first and ten play was, and then they realized, oh, no, it's not.
08:28It's not first down.
08:30But it should have been.
08:32I thought Eckler and White last night did a good job of getting some yards that weren't there.
08:38Eckler had a run in the first half where he looked dead to rights on, like, a minus two TFL,
08:43and somehow he gained a yard or two to get it to within third and one.
08:47Again, the third and ones, seven third and ones, six of their seven conversions were on third and one.
08:56How about the giant field goal kicker?
08:58He's missed four field goals against our team in two games, including a 33-yarder last night that looked awfully
09:05close.
