Someone has to take the hit. Opie Steps up vs Giants

[Harry Hooper]

Half-expected flag on White for landing on QB.

 

[Eck'sSneakyCheese]

Snackin on Devitos

 

[Ferm Sheller]

Wow, 20 sacks over three games is the most by any Giants QB over three games this season. Incredible stat.

 

[lars10]

Most of those pass plays were very conservative.

Yeah.. but they ran a few screens and misdirections which I feel like I haven't seen them do basically at all with Mac.

 

[ifmanis5]

Please lose .

/Jeb Bush

 

[Eck'sSneakyCheese]

Yeah.. but they ran a few screens and misdirections which I feel like I haven't seen them do basically at all with Mac.

He can’t throw hard enough to complete a WR screen.

 

[Jettisoned]

Yeah.. but they ran a few screens and misdirections which I feel like I haven't seen them do basically at all with Mac.

Kind of dangerous calling screens with a guy who panics and lobs the ball at the defense when a pass rusher gets within 20 feet of him.

 

[Van Everyman]

DeVito’s parents look nothing like I would have guessed.

Those are exactly what I assumed a guy named Tommy DeVito’s parents would look like.

Hmm.

Missing out on a top three pick while having a significant portion of the region in "maybe they have something in Zappe" mode is the nightmare scenario for the remainder of this season.

I’m not exactly sure what Bill is supposed to do. Half the people wanted him pulled. The other half wanted him to stick with Mac – either to tank or to try to see if he could play his way out of this and recapture some of what he had two seasons ago.

So Bill has stuck with Mac for a long time (which I would’ve done as well) but what does it do to your team culture if you keep running him out there if he’s broken (which he seems to be)?

I just think everyone is being way too emotional about this one lousy season. There are no easy or obvious decisions.

 

[SemperFidelisSox]

Run and quick, short passes. Giants can’t stop it.

 

[chechusma]

Trying to think of the “ideal scenario” for how the rest of this game plays out.

I think mine is:
- zappe looks good-ish, completing many passes to Douglas, Thornton, Boutte
But
- Devito goes off, and Pats lose

 

[Van Everyman]

Yeah.. but they ran a few screens and misdirections which I feel like I haven't seen them do basically at all with Mac.

He can’t throw hard enough to complete a WR screen.

Most of the plays on the drive where Mac drove them down the field before throwing his second pick were screens to Pop and Boutte and were successful.

 

[RorschachsMask]

Zappe doesn’t have a very strong arm, but compared to Mac, he looks like Herbert.

 

[johnmd20]

Hmm.

What does this vaguebooking mean?

 

[brandonchristensen]

For real though...at what point do we accept that Mac is entirely the offensive problem?

 

[rodderick]

Okay, let's run actual passing plays for a change.

 

[Zedia]

Getting one play as a RB and failing sucks. Reminds me of my Pop Warner days.

 

[johnmd20]

I’m not exactly sure what Bill is supposed to do. Half the people wanted him pulled. The other half wanted him to stick with Mac – either to tank or to try to see if he could play his way out of this and recapture some of what he had two seasons ago.

So Bill has stuck with Mac for a long time (which I would’ve done as well) but what does it do to your team culture if you keep running him out there if he’s broken (which he seems to be)?

I just think everyone is being way too emotional about this one lousy season. There are no easy or obvious decisions.

Bill is supposed to pull the guy who is seeing ghosts and throws to the other team as much as his own team.

There, done. This isn't about emotions, it's about eyes. Using them and seeing and realizing Mac is the worst QB in the NFL.

 

[IdiotKicker]

Ha another shit spot.

 

[Petagine in a Bottle]

Go for it!

 

[Obscure Name]

Mac turns that over.

 

[jablo1312]

elbow down, short, good challenge daboll, please punt this bill

 

[Ed Hillel]

Bad spot

 

[johnmd20]

That spot is the worst. Just like last half.

These refs, man.

 

[IdiotKicker]

Wow it actually was a good spot. I take it back.

 

[SemperFidelisSox]

Daboll looks like he should be ringing a Salvation Army bell with a cigarette in his mouth.

 

[rodderick]

Hmm.


I’m not exactly sure what Bill is supposed to do. Half the people wanted him pulled. The other half wanted him to stick with Mac – either to tank or to try to see if he could play his way out of this and recapture some of what he had two seasons ago.

So Bill has stuck with Mac for a long time (which I would’ve done as well) but what does it do to your team culture if you keep running him out there if he’s broken (which he seems to be)?

I just think everyone is being way too emotional about this one lousy season. There are no easy or obvious decisions.

Who's saying anything about Bill? Zappe
playing well would be awful for the future of this team in many ways, that's all I was commenting on.

 

[brandonchristensen]

Zappe is so much shiftier than Mac

 

[MyDaughterLovesTomGordon]

Sorry, no challenges allowed in games between 2-8 and 3-8 teams.

 

[8slim]

Listened to the game on radio to this point. Zo’s Mac commentary was unrelentingly brutal. It was pretty cathartic.

Now watching TV. I’ll miss the venom.

 

[Van Everyman]

Mac turns that over.

I’m not a Mac hater but I agree. At a minimum he goes down there.

Part of what you get with Zappe riding out the rest of this season is a guy who lacks the PTSD of quarterbacking this team the last two years.

 

[jablo1312]

PUNT IT

dont jump

 

[DennyDoyle'sBoil]

We finally get a favorable spot but against a coach who is fine using challenges.

 

[Van Everyman]

Daboll looks like he should be ringing a Salvation Army bell with a cigarette in his mouth.

After another season like this he might be.

 

[SemperFidelisSox]

Forget the Tush Push. Let’s see the Tappy Zappe.

 

[Petagine in a Bottle]

Daboll looks like he should be ringing a Salvation Army bell with a cigarette in his mouth.

next year

 

[8slim]

Oh FFS. Just punt. Why waste the TO for that nonsense.

 

[speedracer]

JFC I want those 25 seconds of my life back

 

[johnmd20]

Ohhhhh bill, you're so very sneaky.

 

[Jed Zeppelin]

Why would you take the timeout?

 

[The Mort Report]

lol

 

[rodderick]

I'm tired of the high school BS.

 

[DeJesus Built My Hotrod]

Why wouldn't you try that? What is the cost?

 

[Ed Hillel]

Lol

 

[Obscure Name]

Thrilling.

 

[jablo1312]

great exercises in tanking. punting a 4th down you obviously should go for, and even burning a 2nd half timeout instead of taking a meaningless 5 yard penalty. lets go.

 

[MyDaughterLovesTomGordon]

That's the stupidest shit ever.

 

[Mystic Merlin]

That’s the most actions I’ve seen on one of those

 

[snowmanny]

The most boring play in sports

 

[smokin joe wood]

Complete waste of a TO.

 

[Harry Hooper]

Why use a TO there?