Chapter 1: What are the expectations for the Giants under John Harbaugh?
So do we think this is the fateful or the day that Giant fans are hoping for where the organization now takes a complete U-turn and goes in the right direction? The culture is going to be set early on. Remember I told you that the Baltimore Ravens and their preseason record wasn't by accident. Sure. This guy wants to win.
He's uber competitive, just like his brother is, just like all these coaches in the NFL are. And he has one way of doing things. I'm not saying that he is anything but, you know, players love playing for him. He's a really solid players coach. He's a guy that knows how to communicate with his players, gets the best out of his players. But it all starts in training camp.
It all starts with preseason games and winning those games and expecting to win those games.
Yeah, I mean, and I expect the Giants to have a winning record next year. I expect them to be right there in the playoff conversation. They were close. I mean, you go back and think about how many last-second field goals, how many blown leads that they had this year, how close they were. to winning seven or eight games. And, of course, they didn't. And they lost.
And they had another miserable season. But John Harbaugh coming in, another year of Jackson Dart, fifth overall pick, team getting healthy again with all the injuries that they had. Yeah, I expect them to have a winning season right away. I mean, and that's what... the NFL can provide is a worst to first. You can do it quickly.
I don't know how many times we talked about the Bears and the Patriots this year, and the Patriots have an opportunity to go to the Super Bowl, for crying out loud. Now, I'm not saying the Giants go to the Super Bowl next year, but they got a hell of a lot better chance now than they ever did.
Well, I will say that they're going to have another tough schedule next year based on the teams that they play. We don't know when they're going to play them, but we do know that at home, along with their division, they have the Cardinals, Browns, Jaguars, Saints, 49ers, and Titans. That's their home schedule, including their division teams.
I mean, there's a lot. The Cardinals, the Browns, the Titans, and the Saints were terrible this past year. Yeah, but again, they're saying the same thing that the Giant fans say. No, I know, but I'm saying it's not all that. It's not like monster team after monster team.
Well, I mean, and again, we saw it happen this year. Five different teams went from worst to first. Now the away schedule is... Yeah, they got the Lions, the Texans, the Colts, the Rams, and Seahawks.
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Chapter 2: How does the Giants' 2026 home schedule look?
Yeah, of course, and obviously Mike Tomlin had as well back in the day. It's been a number of years, of course, but he did.
The 13 seconds in Kansas City will never, ever. Wide right with Scott Norwood is a big thing. The 13 seconds in Kansas City. And then this fiasco in Denver. And the fact that there were two plays that were very similar to that play with Brandon Cooks that happened in games that came after this Buffalo-Denver game is just remarkable.
The Devontae Adams catch that was ruled a catch and Terry McCauley telling everybody, yeah, he's down by contact. He didn't make a football move. And you know what? He didn't hit the ground.
Too ambiguous. I thought that should have been an interception as well. I mean, there's a lot of teams out there that have suffered horrible losses. The Buffalo Bills have to be up there as right at the top of the list.
Every year we get here to the playoffs, and I feel like there's always going to be a player or two that we've either never seen before or we just want to know.
Why it was called the way it was called, and because I believe the NFL wanted to get to the Fox game quicker and didn't want to go into a double overtime in Denver, they basically, Booth reviewed this, New York reviewed this, and confirmed it. And there really was no explanation as to why.
Yeah, and that's a huge part of this because if Carl Jeffers had come out and explained it after the call was made, it would have felt a lot better and not as rushed.
Now, I know that they probably wanted more time, and Sean McDermott called that time out to get more time, but if just you had the official explaining it as opposed to us relying on Gene Steratore and Tony Romo and Jim Nance to explain it, it would have felt more legit.
Yeah, you know when I hear about football move, I'm like... And then you see the Mims catch in the end zone, and that ball clearly moves when he hits the ground. So did he really survive the ground? Did they even talk about that? I'm not saying ā I'm not putting it on the announcers. I'm putting it on the NFL. I mean, they've made this thing so convoluted.
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Chapter 3: What challenges does the Giants face with their away schedule?
So why would you bring somebody in that may change the system in a certain way? Why wouldn't you try to keep the system that they are running? And I know Joe Brady's a little bit different than Brian Dable, and they had guys there, but they all kind of run the same thing because they want him to be comfortable and they want him to be the player that he has turned into.
So I don't think you're bringing in like a Mike McCarthy in a West Coast-style offense.
Yeah, I'm just trying to figure out. So that means that they're either going to promote Joe Brady or they're going to hire Brian Dable. Or maybe one of the other guys that comes in that's a head coach or has head coaching experience keeps Joe Brady. I'm not sure. It's just that I feel like the person that fits the criteria of what the Bills are looking for, it's a very small list.
Well, I mean... Unless they go with a first-time head coach, which would be nuts to me.
I just can't see it. Again, the quarterback is really important in this equation. And just like it would be for Patrick Mahomes if Andy Reid decided to leave or if the Hunt family decided to fire Andy Reid, you want to find a guy that... your quarterback who is deserving of his opinion in this particular situation because of everything that he's given your franchise.
And quite frankly, the reason that they got a new stadium in Buffalo was because of Sean McDermott and Josh Allen together being as successful as they have been up in Western New York. And that's how you get stadiums. Why do you think Chicago is going to get a new stadium now? Why? Because, well, we got Ben Johnson, we got Cal Williams, we got one of the most exciting teams in the NFL.
Now there's political will. Why do you think Kansas City's getting a new stadium?
Well, yeah. Andy Reid, Patrick Holmes, Super Bowl champions.
That's exactly right. And, you know, it all goes part and parcel. That's why I would not want to screw up my quarterback up in Buffalo any which way. I would really want to sit down with him and want his opinion on this.
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