Before the first start of his NFL career last week against the Dallas Cowboys, Giants undrafted rookie quarterback and New Jersey native Tommy DeVito explained some of the benefits of still living in his childhood home.
“I don’t have to worry about laundry, what I’m eating for dinner; chicken cutlets and all that is waiting for me when I get there,” the 25-year-old third-stringer told ESPN.
“My mom still makes my bed. Everything is handled for me.”
After struggling in his first start, DeVito handled the Commanders on Sunday, throwing for 246 yards and three touchdowns without a turnover.
Perhaps it’s time we end the stigma about grown adults living with their parents.
Can you imagine the numbers some of the more experienced quarterbacks Washington has faced this season would’ve put up if they didn’t have to worry about laundry and what was for dinner?
For the second time in three seasons, FedEx Field experienced an embarrassing water-related failure.
At the 2021 home opener against the Los Angeles Chargers, a burst pipe beneath the overhang in the lower level left a number of fans soaked. (The team claimed the pipe contained rainwater, not sewage.)
After Sunday’s game, Commanders and Giants players didn’t have access to hot water in the locker room.
“We had an equipment failure in the main water heater that provides hot water to the field level locker rooms,” a team spokesperson told The Washington Post’s Nicki Jhabvala.
“We can’t resolve the matter without completely shutting off the water to the stadium, which is why it couldn’t be repaired in game.”
The Commanders entered Sunday with one sack in two games since trading Montez Sweat and Chase Young, but they got after DeVito early and often.
Washington had two sacks on New York’s opening possession and became the first team in 17 years with five sacks in the first quarter.
Defensive coordinator Jack Del Rio’s unit finished with nine sacks, one shy of the single-game franchise record of 10, which the team most recently accomplished in a 41-10 win over the Jaguars in Week 2 of the 2014 season.
Before Sunday, Washington was 3-0 and had outscored its opponents 82-17 when tallying at least nine sacks.
Washington became the first team to commit six turnovers in a game since the Chargers turned the ball over seven times in December 2019, according to Stathead.
The last time Washington had six turnovers was in a 45-14 loss to the Giants on “Thursday Night Football” in 2014.
Ball security issues are nothing new for Washington.
Of the 21 instances of a team committing at least five turnovers since Ron Rivera was hired before the 2020 season, the Commanders are responsible for four of them.
New York scored 24 points off turnovers Sunday, including linebacker Isaiah Simmons’s game-sealing interception return for a touchdown.
Thanks in part to Washington’s generosity with the football, the Giants became only the fourth team to score at least 30 points despite taking at least nine sacks since sacks became an official statistic in 1982.
The Commanders became the first team since 1984 to register at least nine sacks and lose by double digits.
