The New York Giants are off on Tuesday before they begin their final three-game stretch of the season by preparing for their Christmas Day game against the Philadelphia Eagles.
Here are some off-day thoughts about the Giants as the season begins to wind down.
Brian Daboll and the Giants are absolutely right to continue with Tommy DeVito as their starting quarterback.
There is really no other decision that makes sense right now.
As much fun as the three-game winning streak and the ‘Tommy Cutlets’ hysteria was, that also has nothing to do with it.
Let me be clear. I am not on the ‘Tommy DeVito is the next Kurt Warner and will (or should) be the Giants’ QB1 next year’ train.
Maybe one day I will be, but I’m not there yet.
I remain in the ‘want more information’ camp. To piggyback off Daboll, we’re five games in.
DeVito-mania aside, in my view the results have been mixed.
The Giants almost certainly aren’t keeping Tyrod Taylor next season.
Daniel Jones is highly-paid and will be on the roster next season.
If they draft a quarterback in Round 1, that is a second quarterback with a significant paycheck, even on a rookie pay scale.
DeVito is on a cheap three-year undrafted free agent deal. Snaps for DeVito make sense at this point, for the information or the experience. Or both.
I LOVE the “we fish for whales. We don’t fish for minnows.” quote.
I think it summarizes what is by far the biggest problem with NFL officiating at this point.
There is far too much minutiae. Far too much fishing for minnows.
Far too many hairline judgment calls, many based on the league’s infamous and ever-changing “points of emphasis.”
The league is forcing officials to sweat the small stuff, and that is taking away from the game.
To me, officials used to throw flags when it was “clear and obvious” that there was an infraction that impacted a play.
Now? Because of what the NFL wants and the way officials are graded, they seem to throw flags every time they think there “might” have been an infraction, even if it’s 50 yards away from the play and had nothing to do with it.
That’s not the way to officiate the game.
