October 10, 2025 • 27 mins
Brian Baldinger joins the show to talk about Jaxson Dart’s play against the Eagles, the Giants offensive line, and how effective the Giants run defense was in week six.
:00 - Jaxson Dart and the offense
4:30 - Giants receivers
10:00 - Offensive line and the run game
14:30 - Giants defense
19:30 - Run defense
23:00 - Coaching and schemes
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's time to get inside the Giants. Let's go.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Let's go.
Speaker 1 (00:03):
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Speaker 3 (00:10):
Welcome to another edition of the Giants Little Podcast, brought
to you by Citizens Official Bank of the Giants, a
special Baldi's Breakdown edition and joining us coming off the
giants big thirty four to seventeen win against the Philadelphia
Eagles on Thursday night football, Getting up bright early with
me on this Friday morning is the one and only
Brian Balding or Baldi.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
What's up buddy?
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Hey? John? Uh, you know, good Friday morning. I mean,
what a what a performance, what a performance last night
from the opening drive really to the very end of
the game and in between. You know, they scored touchdowns
on five of their ten possessions. John, five touchdowns and
ten possessions. And you can't say enough about what Jackson,
Dart and Cam Scattaboo are doing to the team, the organization,
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to the city, to the fans. It's really something to watch.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Yeah, and Baldy And that's where I kind of want
to start, because look, the Giants have beaten teams and
they've surprised teams over the course of the last few years,
even when they have not played very good football overall.
But you know, you had some al right, Well, they
had a kickoff for tour. You know, they had a
bunch of takeaways. The other team didn't show up and
they just played poorly. This was just the Giants out
playing the Philadelphia Eagles. The Eagles put up seventeen points
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in the first half. The Giants scored five touchdowns on
a short week with a rookie quarterback against the Vic
Fangio defense. Now, I know they had some of their
guys hard, I get all that, but I don't remember
the last time I really just saw a Giants team
outplay legitimately in many facets, a good team like the Eagles.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Yeah, I mean, look, they won the game in the trenches.
Congratulations the offensive line, your slotman goes in their at
center and you know, no drop off whatsoever. I thought
they played really well up front. And then you know,
on both sides of the ball. I mean, you know,
whether it was Kaelon Burnsey continues to play just outstanding.
But o'karakee Dame Belt the big play by float. But
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like Honestly, Jackson. Dart just has this incredible skill John
of being able to maneuver in the pocket without sacking himself,
to keep plays alive and to find the open receiver.
He did it time and time again on the opening
two drives to convert third downs and then throw the ball.
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I mean, just pull the trigger and throw it one Dale,
you know Robinson on third and two in the middle
of the field between you know, two defenders right in
the middle, and just to a perfect ball. Like He's
got great touch, great feel, and he just you know,
just the way. You know you're around him every day,
but you know he has such a like a like
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just a joy about the game and it comes through
the way he plays.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Yeah, so let's kind of zero in on Dart here
because I think you hit a lot of it, Baldy.
And look, we're recording this at nine am on Friday.
I have not a chance to watch the tape yet.
I don't think Baldy slept last. He's already sent in
his breakdowns. He broke everything down. So we're gonna lean
on in here. So you know, Dable talked about it
after the game the and he calls them loose plays, right,
you can call them at a structure plays if you
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want to every want to reference them.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Yeah, and look, he's just a playmaker.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
And I think we talked about this two weeks ago
where you're right, there are a couple plays where he
holding it. I forget which play was, but an eagle
defender kind of went around the edge and he was
coming up behind Dart and you could just see him
getting stripped from behind. Somehow he feels it, steps up
in the pocket, runs back to the left, ends up
turning what could have been a huge negative play into
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a positive play. And he just has an uncanny I
think pocket feeling, pocket presence.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Baldy to create extra time.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
And then he doesn't drop his eyes as much he
does he runs sometimes, but he's doing a better job
of keeping his eyes up to find open receivers once
he goes on the move.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Yeah, and I don't know that you can coach it, John, Like,
I just think he's got great for this because we've
seen it in every game now that he's started. We've
seen examples of it. But you know, the week before
in the Loston, New Orleans, they didn't have any explosive plays.
They had one run of twenty yards. Last they had
four four john in the first eleven plays. You know,
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you have the big throat to little Jordan Humphrey. He
steps up. I mean, you know, Slayton is down, Jordan
is up, and you know it's a third and eight
and he throws a perfect go ball down the field
line gives him time. Little Jordan used his size, you know,
on the play against Keeley, Ringo comes down with a
huge play. But they had four explosive plays in the
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first eleven that led to you know, two touchdowns they.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Had Baldy we taught you know last week we were
texting back and forth after the Saints game. When Giants
receivers let Jackson Dart down. I think it was pretty telling.
They made plays for.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Him early in this game, right.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
You mentioned the little Jordan Humphrey play, which was basically
just toss it up, jump ball, see if my guy
can make the plane. He did, And then I think
it was the following drive he completes again one of
these off schedule plays. He scrambles, he finds Wando Robinson
on the right sideline. Should have been like a twelve
yard catch for a first down. Really nice play. Await,
but then Wander Rominson breaks the tackle, runs another twenty
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two yards for a touchdown. So what should have been
a short game that ends up being a long game
for a touchdown. And again, for a rookie quarterback, you
need to have help. And his weapons gave him help
against the Eagles.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
And so they did, all of them, you know, whether
it was THEO, you know, they all helped. You know,
he was scat to be on a third and eight
on a little flat route on the outside, but you
know they were eleven of sixteen on third down. John
eleven of sixteen into eighty by any metric, is off
the charge like you're possessing the ball, but the off
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scheduled throws of loose plays of the way coach describes
I like that term. I just thought that his ability
to see the whole field is just it's a special
it's a special quality right now to see it.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
When you say see the whole field, what do you
mean by that, Well.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
I mean, uh, you know, they blitzed quite a bit
last night, and so you know, even on a you know,
third and thirty nine, they they hit theel four five
yard game. They they hit a big play against a
blitz zero, uh, you know, and he had had an
answer for it, so he feels that he sees it
and then he knows where to go with the ball,
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you know, blitzero against a young kid like that on
a big spiner in a short week like sometimes you go,
I'm just gonna scramble my way out of this thing,
and he didn't. He had He made the right throw
in that situation.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
And look and and let's get to the running game now, Baldi.
But actually, before you let me bring this up, you
mentioned the third downs, which was amazing. The other part
of this was the red zone again, and maybe this
is run game related, So maybe this is the perfect transition.
Three of three in the red zone, three appearances, three touchdowns.
Throw in Jackson Dart's twenty yard run from the twenty
yard line, which isn't technically a red zone score because
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you have to be inside the twenty. But again they
got inside the twenty, they score touchdowns. They did not
settle for field goals, and especially in those gold to
gold situations, Baldy, to me, the difference is Camp's kataboo.
He's always gonna get you two yards. He's never gonna
take a loss. If he gets Hay, he's gonna fall
forward to gain extra yard or two. He has just
been a complete game changer when the Giants get the
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ball inside the ten.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
He's got unbelievable power, you know, and you see it
over and over again. You know, the four yard touchdown
run is really well designed. Bellinger comes in, so it
was a great block. But I thought Runyan and Andrew
Thomas were really good on the particular play. He walks
into the end zone. You know, it's just like you
can run if you can run it in from the four,
you know, in this business, John like you do it
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every single time. You never put the ball in harm's way.
And so that's that's what allows them to do when
you go three for three like that didn't even you know,
the touchdown run by Jackson Dart, I mean, Zach Bonn
is spying on Jackson Dart on the play that and
he's he is a great, great player like his that's
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his job. On the play, he mugs the a gap,
he drops and out they're anticipating maybe Dart takes off,
and he puts a little move on him, little you know,
head and shoulder fake and he goes for it and
then he you know, he darts into the end zone
for twenty eight. That's that was impressive.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Yeah, he dead legged him.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
He did a little fake to the left and then
pop back to the right and and and he beat him.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
I mean it was it was a great run.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
And I think you know, I knew Dart was a
good athlete coming out of school and he could run it.
I didn't know he was as elusive as he's showing
in the NFL, because we've seen that a couple of
times where guys have a beat on him and he's
able to make a guy miss in the open field
and turn, you know, on a third and twelve maybe
a seven yard run into a fifteen yard run. And
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it's look, I don't know how sustainable it is with
the amount of fits he's taken. He was in concussion
protocol again in this game. He cleared it luckily and
he was back on the field. But these plays with
his legs, it reminds me, frankly, Baldy of what the
Giants did with Daniel Jones in twenty twenty two when
they were winning these games. And they're doing the same
type of things. A lot of design stuff, a lot
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of stuff that's set up for the quarterback run the quarterback.
A lot depend on your running game that it will
say called Barkley, now it's camps Kataboo. It's a lot
of the same formula to me, for how the Giants
were doing it in twenty twenty two to how the
offense is working now.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
I agree. You know, Daniel Jones had a great year
that year running, but he ran thirteen times for fifty
eight yards last night. That's probably too many. But you
know there was a third and three now where he
takes off on the right side. He knows exactly where
the sticks are. That's when he just launched himself right
into the defender, pick up the first down. Like you
love the aggressiveness. At the same time, you know there's
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still a lot of football left to play, you know,
there's still eleven more games, so he's got a I'm
sure the coaches, I'm sure you know, Brian obviously loves him.
Everybody does. But there is a concern there that they
can overdo this a little bit.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Huddle up, get in here. If you're lined up here,
you gotta go over the middle with at the score great,
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Speaker 3 (10:09):
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of Eli Manning, What do you think of the offensive
line and how they did against now again rumbing the Eagles.
No Jalen Carter, no Nolan Smith. So not the same
Eagles pass rush we've seen before. But what do you
think about the job the Johnson I.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Thought they were I thought they were outstanding. You know,
they ran two plays last night, john uh just toss crack.
They ran one for six and one for twelve run
to one to the left, one to the right. Little
Jordan Humphrey is a point guy. He's got a blocky edge.
And then they're pulling either Andrew Thomas to one side,
they're pulling Aluminar to one side. I mean they ran
at play twice and they got really good gains for it,
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and you know, one on the twelve yard to the right,
I mean set them up for a touchdown run. And
so you know, they found a couple of plays that worked.
But I thought the line overall, I thought they got movement.
I thought, you know, especially at the end of the game,
you know when you had the you know, you had
the eighteen yard run. You had a twelve yard run
like down at the end of the game, they ran
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the same play and they won the line of scrimmage.
They wore them down, you know, and protection wise they
were outstanding, really good even against the Blitzes blitz pickup
like it was really it looked like a well coached team.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
Yeah, I want to follow a couple fall up a
couple of ways on what you just talked about. That
one play, the pitch to Scataboo to the right that
was in the red zone. It was like student body right.
Everyone was blocking right in front of that play, which
is great. And Phil Johnson had a great block on that.
He blocked the guy all the way out of bounds.
I think it was twenty four twenty seven. I think
was mccomba maybe on that playoff the double check who it.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Was and great block.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
And we've seen them lean in to more two tight
end stuff over the past couple of weeks with the
neighbors injury, Baldy, what do you think that's done for
the offense? Leaning into Bellinger and THEO and even some
Chris Manhertz in the game and those two and three
tight end sets.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Yeah, I mean, look, they went to the three tight
end sets at the end of the game. Well, I
mean when they were up thirty four to seventeen, and
they got a couple of big runs and Bellinger's the
full back and man Hurts is at the point, and
you're gonna have to you know, we talked about it
a couple of weeks ago. You're gonna have to cobble
this thing together without the leak. And so, you know,
Lil Jordan stepped up. Wandale had a really great game.
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You know, the tight end showed up in the blocking
and the receiving. THEO, you know, had a couple of
big catches, and so you know the ball's going to
go to different guys and you know who wants to
step up. I mean, THEO caught a huge pass on
third down in the third quarter on with anticipation the
line game enough time. They blitzed a hot Campbell on
the play. You know, Dart stood in there, took the hit,
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but delivered the ball on timing before THEO was out
of his break.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
I thought it was the best throw of the game, Baldy,
to be honestbab it was.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
It was a great throw. John, It was a great throw.
I put it in the breakdown, But that throw there's
you know, it's it's a good route, but there's a
it's kind of a sail route where you're clear on
the outside and you know, and theo's on the inside.
But the throw was perfect, and he hit him right
and stride. He's probably a little obstructed, probably doesn't get
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a clean look at it because he's got a guy
right in his face and he takes the hit. But
I mean, it's a big time play by a young player.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
And Bald the final one on the offense here before
we shipped over to the defense. Just the impact of
Andrew Thomas Man. I mean, we've seen it. It has
transformed this offensive line, and look, I have to rewatch it.
And I don't want to be hyperbolic, and well have
you seen maybe better individual games, but this could be
the best three game stretch I've seen from a Giants
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offensive line in like half a decade. That's how good
they've been in the last three weeks at least in
my opinion.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Well, you know, the best compliment you could tell Andrews
you nobody ever mentions his name right, Like no penalties,
like the level of consistency. You know, the Eagles obviously
have you know, two good tackles, but I mean the
level of consistency that Andrew's playing with. He doesn't say
much to begin with, he doesn't, you know, but.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
It is.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
You know, there's you know, you guys, Arenarious myth out there,
Josh Uche, you know, Ozella, I mean the guys out there.
But I mean he's just so steady, John, so steady.
And in the run game, he's moving people, and you know,
it's it's just fun to see after the scataboy touchdown,
the four yard run, just to see Andrew Thomas skipping
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into the end zone, you know, like just enjoying himself
like it. It looks it looks like it looks fun.
Like they really put a pretty good stretch together.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
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lets jump to the defensive side of the ball, and
Cordo Flott appears to have seized in one the starting
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quarterback spot.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
He played across from Paulson Todebo.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
He played all but three snaps in this game, and
he catches a break on that Jalen hurt overthrow to
Devonte Smith when I I think he was playing cover
too when everyone else was playing a man on that play.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
I thought somebody was behind him.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Yeah, and no one was. He had no safety help.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
But then later in the game, Jalen Hurts not in
the velocity a little bit late on a quick at
I think that might have been a cover zero play ball.
You can correct wrong, right, but he jumped around.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Shange change dialed it up and you know, and Jalen
saw it and he thought he could get the ball,
you know on the outside uh to dots that I
believe and really flot he he played it perfectly. He
sat on the upfield shoulder, he clued the quarterback, saw
the route, and then he jumped it and it was
a great individual play and it was the play of
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the game defensively. There's a lot of other great plays,
but that you know, the Eagles are driving. It's you know,
it's twenty seven to seventeen. They're driving, and they could
easily make this a one score game. Uh, they're in
scoring position as it is, whether they kick a field
goal or score a touchdown, they could easily make it
a one score game. And there's a lot of time left,
and so you basically finished the game with that play.
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They go down and score the final touchdown after that
sets the offense up and then you blow it open.
But that individual play probably the biggest individual play of
the season so far.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Absolutely, And then later in the game, Dame belt on
a little cherry on top on another takeaway punches the
ball out.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Yeah. Well, I mean you win the turnover battle, Okay,
you win it to nothing. You're gonna win games, John,
You're gonna win it. Now. You can always score thirty
four points, but you win the turnover battle. You win
games in this league if you win it by two, Like,
the percentages just go up, you know, you know, immeasurably.
But you know, but that's you know, Dave Belton was
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out there playing. He's been he's been productive when he's
been on the field since he's been here, whether it's
special teams, defense, whatever. But yeah, Aj Dillon you know,
is trying to you know, get the first down and
he punches it out and the balls on the ground
they recovered, and you know, you just finish the game
out that point.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Yeah, And look, I don't think there's any coincidence.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Baldy and Tom Kauflin used to love the love the
turnover margin stats, where you know, plus one, you're at
seventy percent, plus two, you're at eighty five percent plus three.
Year like ninety five percent. And the Giants remind us
five last week. No surprise they lost that game, by
the way, but it's no surprise the two wins the
Giants have this year, or the only two games that
they've been plus in the turnover ratio plus two against
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the Chargers, plus two against the Philadelphia Eagles, yep.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
And then I thought they were good on third downs.
You know what I mean. If you have to talk
about Burnsey because he's having even in the losses, he's
got seven sacks now and you know in six games
like that, he's on a record pace right now. But
regardless of that, just the way he's playing the game,
like he's playing the game with high, high energy and intensity.
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I thought Kavon played really well last night, strong against
the run, like you could tell he's stronger this year
John been in any other you know, earlier in his career.
He's he worked to get stronger. He's stronger at the
point you know he's attacking, uh, you know, a trap
block on the outside. He just completely destroys Tyler Steen
to make a play on Stak one for two yard loss.
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I thought they were really you know, they gave up
a couple of runs, but for the most part, you know,
Saquon had a lot of negative runs in zero runs
where they really stacked the line of scrimmage, and I
thought that was pretty strong.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
Yeah, I want to get to that run defense at
a second, Bald, But it's funny. The one guy you
did not mention is Abdul Carter. And if you look
at the old game book, he played a bunch of snaps.
He does not show up on the defensive stats. He
doesn't have an attackle, he doesn't have an assist, he
doesn't have a quarterback hit, he doesn't have a sack.
But he was the inside player on a te stunt
that set up Burns for one.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Of his sacks, the first sack, yep.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
And he also I thought set the edge a couple
of times. Really well on a couple of those Saquon
Barkley runs as well.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
No question, no, no, you're right, And it's one of
those things that you know the stats don't prove it
and show it, but you know he's pleased. But you
know he's doing his job. I mean, you could get
out of your lane and you could try to be
play hero ball and go make that stat and give
up big plays because of it. And so you know
he's doing what he's he's playing discipline football and you're
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right on the on the first sack on the third down.
You know it is a twist stunt which they've been
really good at, you know the last couple of weeks
where you know he's the drive guy and that opens
up the gate for Bernsey to come right through and
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Speaker 3 (19:40):
You mentioned the run defense, Baldi, and I think I
can speak for all Giant fans when on the first
run of the game, Saquon Barkley has his longest run
of the season, and we're.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
All like, oh my god, you gotta be kidding me.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
This guy hasn't done anything all year, and now he's
gonna come out on a primetime game. He's gonna run
for a billion yards. Baldi is thirty one yards on
his first two carries. On his next ten, he just
has twenty seven. Why the Giants run defense gets so
much better?
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Uh well, I think a couple of things. One, they
defeated blocks and they didn't stay blocked, they got off blocks. Yeah,
that's the first thing. And then I thought they did
a good job of attacking the line of scrimmage. They
weren't playing a lot of reduced fronts, putting a lot
of extra bodies up there, you know. I mean, that's
one way to stop the running this business. They didn't
sell out to do it. They just played better at
the point, you know. And and I thought Roy Robinson, Harrison,
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you know, I'm trying to think of not well Dexter obviously,
but not Nacho was in there.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
DJ Davidson, Davidson.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Before he got hurt, you know, But I thought they
were really good at the point of attack inside and
you know, and that's that's where it starts right there.
But I thought they got could penetration. I thought they
bubbled the offensive line a few times. And you know,
there was some of the reason why he had ten
for twenty seven was he had probably three of those
or maybe four were negative runs.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
What was the key on those third downs?
Speaker 3 (21:06):
Then you kind of mentioned earlier, Baldi, what did you
really like about what the Giants were doing on third downs,
whether from a blitzer perspective, a coverage perspective, some of
the stuff that Shane Baulin was dying up in those situations, Well.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
You know, they died up a couple of pressures. But
you know, for the post war I thought they sat
on top of the routes. They weren't getting beat on
the routes. I mean, whether it's agent, you know, the
quarterbacks holding the ball a long time. Yeah, but they
kind of the Eagles kind of had a simplified approach.
They ran a lot of mirrored routes. So it's really okay, Jayalen,
you pick a side, one side or the other, and
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so his eyes are only going to one side. I thought,
you know, they really saw that, and I think they
played some of those inside routes on third down. They
ran like third and seven. They're running these five yard
stops and Jalen just wasn't going to throw it into
the zone look right there, you know, and so they
just squeezed it and they sort of deterred him from
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making the throw. And once he started getting outside the pocket,
the chase was.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
On anything else on defense balling that you want to
hit here that I missed.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
I thought the tackling was good. Thought tackling was was good.
You know, you got a j Brown, de Devonte Smith
out there. They had, you know, their share catches in
the first half. But you didn't see what Wandale did,
you know after his catch where you you know, you
end up you know, scoring a touchdown or you know,
making a long one. I thought they tackled the catch
pretty well. Those are two really talented receivers. They pay
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those guys a lot of money to be to be
talented receivers. I thought they did a good job of
tackling the catch once they did catch it.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Did you see a halftime adjustment? Baldi?
Speaker 3 (22:35):
Because the Giants give up seventeen points in the first half,
and then they pitched a shutout in the second.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Hand did they do anything differently or did they just
execute back?
Speaker 2 (22:41):
I didn't think they. I thought they just uh, you know,
I thought they got jailing to hold the ball quite
a bit, and you know, they got the two turnovers
and they got off the field and third down. I
didn't think they did a lot differently because there really
wasn't a whole lot to change. I mean, they had
the drives, they had the one, you know, really good
drive where they just completed past down the field, right,
But I didn't think they had to like change their
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coverage or change their front or do anything. A whole
lot different is how to play.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
It better, all right?
Speaker 3 (23:08):
And then finally, Baldy, before we look ahead real briefly,
here ten more days with their Giants at the play again.
I want to give the Giants coaching staff some credit
because you could tell offensively and I'll swip back to there,
because you brought up the secondary and made me think
about it. They basically, I think, put a virtual gigantic
like bullseye on tie Lee Ringos jersey to start that game.
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And while Quinney on Mitchell was in and again. Then
Adarri Jackson had the coming once Mitchell went out, and
you can attack wherever you want.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
But I thought early in this game.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
They knew where the weak point of this Eagle defense was,
and they didn't care who was on him on any
given play. They just attacked that Eagle second cornerback spot
again and again and again, knowing that's where their weakness
and coverage was.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
I agree, you had the big throw on the first
third down to little Jordan Humphrey. You had one one
day beat him across the field, cleanly beat him across
the field. Then late in again on the third down
to throw into the end zone would set up the
final touchdown on the pass interference call right there.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Yeah, that was on a Dory, I think, right.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Yeah, no, no, that was that was oh you know.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
What that was Ringo. You're right, I apologize it was
on Ringo.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
They went after him, you know, in the end zone
right there. I thought that it was. They're probably not
gonna say anything is they got to play me, of course,
in two weeks, but I think they I think it
was a big part of the game plan this war.
We're going to go, especially early the game, but even
late in the game, you know, with the interference in
the end zone.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
All right, Bolo was wrapping up here.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
Giants now with two and four, I'm sure they're kicking
themselves for that late loss of the Cowboys, the five
K turnovers. So the Saints you can be sending here
at five hundred with with the world in front of you,
but two and four, you know, you got tough games
coming up as a tough schedule, but you got to
feel good about yourself. You got the Broncos coming up
next week. They have to travel to London, I believe,
to take on the Jets on Sunday morning. I know
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a long way to go before that game is played,
but I know you've watched the Broncos this year. What
kind of challenges are they going to pose the Giants
when they play them in ten days?
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Well, they have a They lead the league right now
in sacks.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
They led the league in sacks a year ago. They've
got two guys in uh, you know, in Jonathan Cooper
and Nick Benito. They're excellent inside. They play a five
man front. They've got a bunch of good covered guys.
They mixed, they play a lot of different coverages in
the back, and they can confuse quarterbacks, but it all
starts with the pressure up front.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
And Brandon Allen, by the way, is probably one of
the better defensive lineman. Nobody talks about.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Well Zach Allen. You know, I think he led to
Zach Allen kids, sorry ninety nine, you know where he is.
But they they gave the Eagles a really hard time.
They shut him out in the fourth quarter last week,
and and then bow Knicks got hot. And Courtland Sutton's
the number one receiver, like you know, when they're when
they need a third down converse and they need a
big play, it's going to Courtland Sutton. They they know
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that they have started the same five offensive lineman John
eighteen games last year, including the playoffs, in every game
this year, so they have had stability up front and
protecting the quarterback. JK. Dobbins has given him a good
punch and good lift, you know at the tailback position.
And bo Knicks is you know, he's a lot like
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Jackson Dark. He's very mobile. He really creates a lot
of things on the move. He does create his share
of loose plays. He got hot in the fourth quarter
against the Eagles, you know, and they grove that wave,
but they kind of I think offensively, they kind of
mirror each other a little bit. The young quarterbacks, good
good offensive lines, and then they r on the quarterback
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to make a lot of plays.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
Yeah, I mean that Bronco offensive one. I think they've
allowed the lowest pressure rate in the league so far
this year, and they did the same last year. They've
been wonderful. And then guys like Patrick Shirtan in the secondary.
They have some really really good players.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Baldy, enjoy your weekend the football. What game they have
this weekend? Where are you going?
Speaker 2 (26:46):
I'm doing Texas OU tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
Only the red River game.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Red River Rivalry tomorrow, kind of get an advanced look
at some of the talent in that game. And then
I'm doing the Raiders game on Sunday.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
Wow combination. Baldi, Enjoy your ball filled weekend. That's gonna
be fun, man.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
That's gonna be a lot of fun. John looking forward
to it, man.
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giants big thirty four to seventeen win against the Philadelphia
Eagles on Thursday night football, Getting up bright early with
me on this Friday morning is the one and only
Brian Balding or Baldi.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
What's up buddy?
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Hey? John? Uh, you know, good Friday morning. I mean,
what a what a performance, what a performance last night
from the opening drive really to the very end of
the game and in between. You know, they scored touchdowns
on five of their ten possessions. John, five touchdowns and
ten possessions. And you can't say enough about what Jackson,
Dart and Cam Scattaboo are doing to the team, the organization,
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to the city, to the fans. It's really something to watch.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Yeah, and Baldy And that's where I kind of want
to start, because look, the Giants have beaten teams and
they've surprised teams over the course of the last few years,
even when they have not played very good football overall.
But you know, you had some al right, Well, they
had a kickoff for tour. You know, they had a
bunch of takeaways. The other team didn't show up and
they just played poorly. This was just the Giants out
playing the Philadelphia Eagles. The Eagles put up seventeen points
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in the first half. The Giants scored five touchdowns on
a short week with a rookie quarterback against the Vic
Fangio defense. Now, I know they had some of their
guys hard, I get all that, but I don't remember
the last time I really just saw a Giants team
outplay legitimately in many facets, a good team like the Eagles.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Yeah, I mean, look, they won the game in the trenches.
Congratulations the offensive line, your slotman goes in their at
center and you know, no drop off whatsoever. I thought
they played really well up front. And then you know,
on both sides of the ball. I mean, you know,
whether it was Kaelon Burnsey continues to play just outstanding.
But o'karakee Dame Belt the big play by float. But
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like Honestly, Jackson. Dart just has this incredible skill John
of being able to maneuver in the pocket without sacking himself,
to keep plays alive and to find the open receiver.
He did it time and time again on the opening
two drives to convert third downs and then throw the ball.
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I mean, just pull the trigger and throw it one Dale,
you know Robinson on third and two in the middle
of the field between you know, two defenders right in
the middle, and just to a perfect ball. Like He's
got great touch, great feel, and he just you know,
just the way. You know you're around him every day,
but you know he has such a like a like
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just a joy about the game and it comes through
the way he plays.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Yeah, so let's kind of zero in on Dart here
because I think you hit a lot of it, Baldy.
And look, we're recording this at nine am on Friday.
I have not a chance to watch the tape yet.
I don't think Baldy slept last. He's already sent in
his breakdowns. He broke everything down. So we're gonna lean
on in here. So you know, Dable talked about it
after the game the and he calls them loose plays, right,
you can call them at a structure plays if you
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want to every want to reference them.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Yeah, and look, he's just a playmaker.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
And I think we talked about this two weeks ago
where you're right, there are a couple plays where he
holding it. I forget which play was, but an eagle
defender kind of went around the edge and he was
coming up behind Dart and you could just see him
getting stripped from behind. Somehow he feels it, steps up
in the pocket, runs back to the left, ends up
turning what could have been a huge negative play into
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a positive play. And he just has an uncanny I
think pocket feeling, pocket presence.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Baldy to create extra time.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
And then he doesn't drop his eyes as much he
does he runs sometimes, but he's doing a better job
of keeping his eyes up to find open receivers once
he goes on the move.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Yeah, and I don't know that you can coach it, John, Like,
I just think he's got great for this because we've
seen it in every game now that he's started. We've
seen examples of it. But you know, the week before
in the Loston, New Orleans, they didn't have any explosive plays.
They had one run of twenty yards. Last they had
four four john in the first eleven plays. You know,
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you have the big throat to little Jordan Humphrey. He
steps up. I mean, you know, Slayton is down, Jordan
is up, and you know it's a third and eight
and he throws a perfect go ball down the field
line gives him time. Little Jordan used his size, you know,
on the play against Keeley, Ringo comes down with a
huge play. But they had four explosive plays in the
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first eleven that led to you know, two touchdowns they.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Had Baldy we taught you know last week we were
texting back and forth after the Saints game. When Giants
receivers let Jackson Dart down. I think it was pretty telling.
They made plays for.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Him early in this game, right.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
You mentioned the little Jordan Humphrey play, which was basically
just toss it up, jump ball, see if my guy
can make the plane. He did, And then I think
it was the following drive he completes again one of
these off schedule plays. He scrambles, he finds Wando Robinson
on the right sideline. Should have been like a twelve
yard catch for a first down. Really nice play. Await,
but then Wander Rominson breaks the tackle, runs another twenty
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two yards for a touchdown. So what should have been
a short game that ends up being a long game
for a touchdown. And again, for a rookie quarterback, you
need to have help. And his weapons gave him help
against the Eagles.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
And so they did, all of them, you know, whether
it was THEO, you know, they all helped. You know,
he was scat to be on a third and eight
on a little flat route on the outside, but you
know they were eleven of sixteen on third down. John
eleven of sixteen into eighty by any metric, is off
the charge like you're possessing the ball, but the off
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scheduled throws of loose plays of the way coach describes
I like that term. I just thought that his ability
to see the whole field is just it's a special
it's a special quality right now to see it.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
When you say see the whole field, what do you
mean by that, Well.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
I mean, uh, you know, they blitzed quite a bit
last night, and so you know, even on a you know,
third and thirty nine, they they hit theel four five
yard game. They they hit a big play against a
blitz zero, uh, you know, and he had had an
answer for it, so he feels that he sees it
and then he knows where to go with the ball,
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you know, blitzero against a young kid like that on
a big spiner in a short week like sometimes you go,
I'm just gonna scramble my way out of this thing,
and he didn't. He had He made the right throw
in that situation.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
And look and and let's get to the running game now, Baldi.
But actually, before you let me bring this up, you
mentioned the third downs, which was amazing. The other part
of this was the red zone again, and maybe this
is run game related, So maybe this is the perfect transition.
Three of three in the red zone, three appearances, three touchdowns.
Throw in Jackson Dart's twenty yard run from the twenty
yard line, which isn't technically a red zone score because
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you have to be inside the twenty. But again they
got inside the twenty, they score touchdowns. They did not
settle for field goals, and especially in those gold to
gold situations, Baldy, to me, the difference is Camp's kataboo.
He's always gonna get you two yards. He's never gonna
take a loss. If he gets Hay, he's gonna fall
forward to gain extra yard or two. He has just
been a complete game changer when the Giants get the
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ball inside the ten.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
He's got unbelievable power, you know, and you see it
over and over again. You know, the four yard touchdown
run is really well designed. Bellinger comes in, so it
was a great block. But I thought Runyan and Andrew
Thomas were really good on the particular play. He walks
into the end zone. You know, it's just like you
can run if you can run it in from the four,
you know, in this business, John like you do it
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every single time. You never put the ball in harm's way.
And so that's that's what allows them to do when
you go three for three like that didn't even you know,
the touchdown run by Jackson Dart, I mean, Zach Bonn
is spying on Jackson Dart on the play that and
he's he is a great, great player like his that's
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his job. On the play, he mugs the a gap,
he drops and out they're anticipating maybe Dart takes off,
and he puts a little move on him, little you know,
head and shoulder fake and he goes for it and
then he you know, he darts into the end zone
for twenty eight. That's that was impressive.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Yeah, he dead legged him.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
He did a little fake to the left and then
pop back to the right and and and he beat him.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
I mean it was it was a great run.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
And I think you know, I knew Dart was a
good athlete coming out of school and he could run it.
I didn't know he was as elusive as he's showing
in the NFL, because we've seen that a couple of
times where guys have a beat on him and he's
able to make a guy miss in the open field
and turn, you know, on a third and twelve maybe
a seven yard run into a fifteen yard run. And
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it's look, I don't know how sustainable it is with
the amount of fits he's taken. He was in concussion
protocol again in this game. He cleared it luckily and
he was back on the field. But these plays with
his legs, it reminds me, frankly, Baldy of what the
Giants did with Daniel Jones in twenty twenty two when
they were winning these games. And they're doing the same
type of things. A lot of design stuff, a lot
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of stuff that's set up for the quarterback run the quarterback.
A lot depend on your running game that it will
say called Barkley, now it's camps Kataboo. It's a lot
of the same formula to me, for how the Giants
were doing it in twenty twenty two to how the
offense is working now.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
I agree. You know, Daniel Jones had a great year
that year running, but he ran thirteen times for fifty
eight yards last night. That's probably too many. But you
know there was a third and three now where he
takes off on the right side. He knows exactly where
the sticks are. That's when he just launched himself right
into the defender, pick up the first down. Like you
love the aggressiveness. At the same time, you know there's
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still a lot of football left to play, you know,
there's still eleven more games, so he's got a I'm
sure the coaches, I'm sure you know, Brian obviously loves him.
Everybody does. But there is a concern there that they
can overdo this a little bit.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Huddle up, get in here. If you're lined up here,
you gotta go over the middle with at the score great,
how do we make that happen. I don't know, but
citizen does.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
It makes sense of your money with citizens official Bank
of Eli Manning, What do you think of the offensive
line and how they did against now again rumbing the Eagles.
No Jalen Carter, no Nolan Smith. So not the same
Eagles pass rush we've seen before. But what do you
think about the job the Johnson I.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Thought they were I thought they were outstanding. You know,
they ran two plays last night, john uh just toss crack.
They ran one for six and one for twelve run
to one to the left, one to the right. Little
Jordan Humphrey is a point guy. He's got a blocky edge.
And then they're pulling either Andrew Thomas to one side,
they're pulling Aluminar to one side. I mean they ran
at play twice and they got really good gains for it,
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and you know, one on the twelve yard to the right,
I mean set them up for a touchdown run. And
so you know, they found a couple of plays that worked.
But I thought the line overall, I thought they got movement.
I thought, you know, especially at the end of the game,
you know when you had the you know, you had
the eighteen yard run. You had a twelve yard run
like down at the end of the game, they ran
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the same play and they won the line of scrimmage.
They wore them down, you know, and protection wise they
were outstanding, really good even against the Blitzes blitz pickup
like it was really it looked like a well coached team.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
Yeah, I want to follow a couple fall up a
couple of ways on what you just talked about. That
one play, the pitch to Scataboo to the right that
was in the red zone. It was like student body right.
Everyone was blocking right in front of that play, which
is great. And Phil Johnson had a great block on that.
He blocked the guy all the way out of bounds.
I think it was twenty four twenty seven. I think
was mccomba maybe on that playoff the double check who it.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Was and great block.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
And we've seen them lean in to more two tight
end stuff over the past couple of weeks with the
neighbors injury, Baldy, what do you think that's done for
the offense? Leaning into Bellinger and THEO and even some
Chris Manhertz in the game and those two and three
tight end sets.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Yeah, I mean, look, they went to the three tight
end sets at the end of the game. Well, I
mean when they were up thirty four to seventeen, and
they got a couple of big runs and Bellinger's the
full back and man Hurts is at the point, and
you're gonna have to you know, we talked about it
a couple of weeks ago. You're gonna have to cobble
this thing together without the leak. And so, you know,
Lil Jordan stepped up. Wandale had a really great game.
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You know, the tight end showed up in the blocking
and the receiving. THEO, you know, had a couple of
big catches, and so you know the ball's going to
go to different guys and you know who wants to
step up. I mean, THEO caught a huge pass on
third down in the third quarter on with anticipation the
line game enough time. They blitzed a hot Campbell on
the play. You know, Dart stood in there, took the hit,
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but delivered the ball on timing before THEO was out
of his break.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
I thought it was the best throw of the game, Baldy,
to be honestbab it was.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
It was a great throw. John, It was a great throw.
I put it in the breakdown, But that throw there's
you know, it's it's a good route, but there's a
it's kind of a sail route where you're clear on
the outside and you know, and theo's on the inside.
But the throw was perfect, and he hit him right
and stride. He's probably a little obstructed, probably doesn't get
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a clean look at it because he's got a guy
right in his face and he takes the hit. But
I mean, it's a big time play by a young player.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
And Bald the final one on the offense here before
we shipped over to the defense. Just the impact of
Andrew Thomas Man. I mean, we've seen it. It has
transformed this offensive line, and look, I have to rewatch it.
And I don't want to be hyperbolic, and well have
you seen maybe better individual games, but this could be
the best three game stretch I've seen from a Giants
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offensive line in like half a decade. That's how good
they've been in the last three weeks at least in
my opinion.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Well, you know, the best compliment you could tell Andrews
you nobody ever mentions his name right, Like no penalties,
like the level of consistency. You know, the Eagles obviously
have you know, two good tackles, but I mean the
level of consistency that Andrew's playing with. He doesn't say
much to begin with, he doesn't, you know, but.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
It is.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
You know, there's you know, you guys, Arenarious myth out there,
Josh Uche, you know, Ozella, I mean the guys out there.
But I mean he's just so steady, John, so steady.
And in the run game, he's moving people, and you know,
it's it's just fun to see after the scataboy touchdown,
the four yard run, just to see Andrew Thomas skipping
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into the end zone, you know, like just enjoying himself
like it. It looks it looks like it looks fun.
Like they really put a pretty good stretch together.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
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lets jump to the defensive side of the ball, and
Cordo Flott appears to have seized in one the starting
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quarterback spot.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
He played across from Paulson Todebo.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
He played all but three snaps in this game, and
he catches a break on that Jalen hurt overthrow to
Devonte Smith when I I think he was playing cover
too when everyone else was playing a man on that play.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
I thought somebody was behind him.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Yeah, and no one was. He had no safety help.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
But then later in the game, Jalen Hurts not in
the velocity a little bit late on a quick at
I think that might have been a cover zero play ball.
You can correct wrong, right, but he jumped around.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Shange change dialed it up and you know, and Jalen
saw it and he thought he could get the ball,
you know on the outside uh to dots that I
believe and really flot he he played it perfectly. He
sat on the upfield shoulder, he clued the quarterback, saw
the route, and then he jumped it and it was
a great individual play and it was the play of
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the game defensively. There's a lot of other great plays,
but that you know, the Eagles are driving. It's you know,
it's twenty seven to seventeen. They're driving, and they could
easily make this a one score game. Uh, they're in
scoring position as it is, whether they kick a field
goal or score a touchdown, they could easily make it
a one score game. And there's a lot of time left,
and so you basically finished the game with that play.
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They go down and score the final touchdown after that
sets the offense up and then you blow it open.
But that individual play probably the biggest individual play of
the season so far.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Absolutely, And then later in the game, Dame belt on
a little cherry on top on another takeaway punches the
ball out.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Yeah. Well, I mean you win the turnover battle, Okay,
you win it to nothing. You're gonna win games, John,
You're gonna win it. Now. You can always score thirty
four points, but you win the turnover battle. You win
games in this league if you win it by two, Like,
the percentages just go up, you know, you know, immeasurably.
But you know, but that's you know, Dave Belton was
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out there playing. He's been he's been productive when he's
been on the field since he's been here, whether it's
special teams, defense, whatever. But yeah, Aj Dillon you know,
is trying to you know, get the first down and
he punches it out and the balls on the ground
they recovered, and you know, you just finish the game
out that point.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Yeah, And look, I don't think there's any coincidence.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Baldy and Tom Kauflin used to love the love the
turnover margin stats, where you know, plus one, you're at
seventy percent, plus two, you're at eighty five percent plus three.
Year like ninety five percent. And the Giants remind us
five last week. No surprise they lost that game, by
the way, but it's no surprise the two wins the
Giants have this year, or the only two games that
they've been plus in the turnover ratio plus two against
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the Chargers, plus two against the Philadelphia Eagles, yep.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
And then I thought they were good on third downs.
You know what I mean. If you have to talk
about Burnsey because he's having even in the losses, he's
got seven sacks now and you know in six games
like that, he's on a record pace right now. But
regardless of that, just the way he's playing the game,
like he's playing the game with high, high energy and intensity.
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I thought Kavon played really well last night, strong against
the run, like you could tell he's stronger this year
John been in any other you know, earlier in his career.
He's he worked to get stronger. He's stronger at the
point you know he's attacking, uh, you know, a trap
block on the outside. He just completely destroys Tyler Steen
to make a play on Stak one for two yard loss.
(18:11):
I thought they were really you know, they gave up
a couple of runs, but for the most part, you know,
Saquon had a lot of negative runs in zero runs
where they really stacked the line of scrimmage, and I
thought that was pretty strong.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
Yeah, I want to get to that run defense at
a second, Bald, But it's funny. The one guy you
did not mention is Abdul Carter. And if you look
at the old game book, he played a bunch of snaps.
He does not show up on the defensive stats. He
doesn't have an attackle, he doesn't have an assist, he
doesn't have a quarterback hit, he doesn't have a sack.
But he was the inside player on a te stunt
that set up Burns for one.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Of his sacks, the first sack, yep.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
And he also I thought set the edge a couple
of times. Really well on a couple of those Saquon
Barkley runs as well.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
No question, no, no, you're right, And it's one of
those things that you know the stats don't prove it
and show it, but you know he's pleased. But you
know he's doing his job. I mean, you could get
out of your lane and you could try to be
play hero ball and go make that stat and give
up big plays because of it. And so you know
he's doing what he's he's playing discipline football and you're
(19:10):
right on the on the first sack on the third down.
You know it is a twist stunt which they've been
really good at, you know the last couple of weeks
where you know he's the drive guy and that opens
up the gate for Bernsey to come right through and
take down Jalen Herbs. If you want to know how
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Speaker 3 (19:40):
You mentioned the run defense, Baldi, and I think I
can speak for all Giant fans when on the first
run of the game, Saquon Barkley has his longest run
of the season, and we're.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
All like, oh my god, you gotta be kidding me.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
This guy hasn't done anything all year, and now he's
gonna come out on a primetime game. He's gonna run
for a billion yards. Baldi is thirty one yards on
his first two carries. On his next ten, he just
has twenty seven. Why the Giants run defense gets so
much better?
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Uh well, I think a couple of things. One, they
defeated blocks and they didn't stay blocked, they got off blocks. Yeah,
that's the first thing. And then I thought they did
a good job of attacking the line of scrimmage. They
weren't playing a lot of reduced fronts, putting a lot
of extra bodies up there, you know. I mean, that's
one way to stop the running this business. They didn't
sell out to do it. They just played better at
the point, you know. And and I thought Roy Robinson, Harrison,
(20:29):
you know, I'm trying to think of not well Dexter obviously,
but not Nacho was in there.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
DJ Davidson, Davidson.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Before he got hurt, you know, But I thought they
were really good at the point of attack inside and
you know, and that's that's where it starts right there.
But I thought they got could penetration. I thought they
bubbled the offensive line a few times. And you know,
there was some of the reason why he had ten
for twenty seven was he had probably three of those
or maybe four were negative runs.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
What was the key on those third downs?
Speaker 3 (21:06):
Then you kind of mentioned earlier, Baldi, what did you
really like about what the Giants were doing on third downs,
whether from a blitzer perspective, a coverage perspective, some of
the stuff that Shane Baulin was dying up in those situations, Well.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
You know, they died up a couple of pressures. But
you know, for the post war I thought they sat
on top of the routes. They weren't getting beat on
the routes. I mean, whether it's agent, you know, the
quarterbacks holding the ball a long time. Yeah, but they
kind of the Eagles kind of had a simplified approach.
They ran a lot of mirrored routes. So it's really okay, Jayalen,
you pick a side, one side or the other, and
(21:36):
so his eyes are only going to one side. I thought,
you know, they really saw that, and I think they
played some of those inside routes on third down. They
ran like third and seven. They're running these five yard
stops and Jalen just wasn't going to throw it into
the zone look right there, you know, and so they
just squeezed it and they sort of deterred him from
(21:56):
making the throw. And once he started getting outside the pocket,
the chase was.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
On anything else on defense balling that you want to
hit here that I missed.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
I thought the tackling was good. Thought tackling was was good.
You know, you got a j Brown, de Devonte Smith
out there. They had, you know, their share catches in
the first half. But you didn't see what Wandale did,
you know after his catch where you you know, you
end up you know, scoring a touchdown or you know,
making a long one. I thought they tackled the catch
pretty well. Those are two really talented receivers. They pay
(22:24):
those guys a lot of money to be to be
talented receivers. I thought they did a good job of
tackling the catch once they did catch it.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Did you see a halftime adjustment? Baldi?
Speaker 3 (22:35):
Because the Giants give up seventeen points in the first half,
and then they pitched a shutout in the second.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Hand did they do anything differently or did they just
execute back?
Speaker 2 (22:41):
I didn't think they. I thought they just uh, you know,
I thought they got jailing to hold the ball quite
a bit, and you know, they got the two turnovers
and they got off the field and third down. I
didn't think they did a lot differently because there really
wasn't a whole lot to change. I mean, they had
the drives, they had the one, you know, really good
drive where they just completed past down the field, right,
But I didn't think they had to like change their
(23:02):
coverage or change their front or do anything. A whole
lot different is how to play.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
It better, all right?
Speaker 3 (23:08):
And then finally, Baldy, before we look ahead real briefly,
here ten more days with their Giants at the play again.
I want to give the Giants coaching staff some credit
because you could tell offensively and I'll swip back to there,
because you brought up the secondary and made me think
about it. They basically, I think, put a virtual gigantic
like bullseye on tie Lee Ringos jersey to start that game.
(23:28):
And while Quinney on Mitchell was in and again. Then
Adarri Jackson had the coming once Mitchell went out, and
you can attack wherever you want.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
But I thought early in this game.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
They knew where the weak point of this Eagle defense was,
and they didn't care who was on him on any
given play. They just attacked that Eagle second cornerback spot
again and again and again, knowing that's where their weakness
and coverage was.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
I agree, you had the big throw on the first
third down to little Jordan Humphrey. You had one one
day beat him across the field, cleanly beat him across
the field. Then late in again on the third down
to throw into the end zone would set up the
final touchdown on the pass interference call right there.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Yeah, that was on a Dory, I think, right.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Yeah, no, no, that was that was oh you know.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
What that was Ringo. You're right, I apologize it was
on Ringo.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
They went after him, you know, in the end zone
right there. I thought that it was. They're probably not
gonna say anything is they got to play me, of course,
in two weeks, but I think they I think it
was a big part of the game plan this war.
We're going to go, especially early the game, but even
late in the game, you know, with the interference in
the end zone.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
All right, Bolo was wrapping up here.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
Giants now with two and four, I'm sure they're kicking
themselves for that late loss of the Cowboys, the five
K turnovers. So the Saints you can be sending here
at five hundred with with the world in front of you,
but two and four, you know, you got tough games
coming up as a tough schedule, but you got to
feel good about yourself. You got the Broncos coming up
next week. They have to travel to London, I believe,
to take on the Jets on Sunday morning. I know
(24:54):
a long way to go before that game is played,
but I know you've watched the Broncos this year. What
kind of challenges are they going to pose the Giants
when they play them in ten days?
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Well, they have a They lead the league right now
in sacks.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
They led the league in sacks a year ago. They've
got two guys in uh, you know, in Jonathan Cooper
and Nick Benito. They're excellent inside. They play a five
man front. They've got a bunch of good covered guys.
They mixed, they play a lot of different coverages in
the back, and they can confuse quarterbacks, but it all
starts with the pressure up front.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
And Brandon Allen, by the way, is probably one of
the better defensive lineman. Nobody talks about.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Well Zach Allen. You know, I think he led to
Zach Allen kids, sorry ninety nine, you know where he is.
But they they gave the Eagles a really hard time.
They shut him out in the fourth quarter last week,
and and then bow Knicks got hot. And Courtland Sutton's
the number one receiver, like you know, when they're when
they need a third down converse and they need a
big play, it's going to Courtland Sutton. They they know
(25:47):
that they have started the same five offensive lineman John
eighteen games last year, including the playoffs, in every game
this year, so they have had stability up front and
protecting the quarterback. JK. Dobbins has given him a good
punch and good lift, you know at the tailback position.
And bo Knicks is you know, he's a lot like
(26:08):
Jackson Dark. He's very mobile. He really creates a lot
of things on the move. He does create his share
of loose plays. He got hot in the fourth quarter
against the Eagles, you know, and they grove that wave,
but they kind of I think offensively, they kind of
mirror each other a little bit. The young quarterbacks, good
good offensive lines, and then they r on the quarterback
(26:30):
to make a lot of plays.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
Yeah, I mean that Bronco offensive one. I think they've
allowed the lowest pressure rate in the league so far
this year, and they did the same last year. They've
been wonderful. And then guys like Patrick Shirtan in the secondary.
They have some really really good players.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Baldy, enjoy your weekend the football. What game they have
this weekend? Where are you going?
Speaker 2 (26:46):
I'm doing Texas OU tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
Only the red River game.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Red River Rivalry tomorrow, kind of get an advanced look
at some of the talent in that game. And then
I'm doing the Raiders game on Sunday.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
Wow combination. Baldi, Enjoy your ball filled weekend. That's gonna
be fun, man.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
That's gonna be a lot of fun. John looking forward
to it, man.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Brian Balding are on the Baldies Breakdown.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
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(27:27):
we will see you next time.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
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