Giants Trade for JJ McCarthy + Brian Burns Tears ACL | Breaking Big Blue w/ Jordan Raanan
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Was the Giants’ win over the Titans encouraging despite the team’s problems?
Welcome everyone to breaking big blue. I'm your host Jordan Ron on ESPN, ESPN.com. Giants reporter, it's breaking big blue times giants nation show. Bobby Skinner in the background. He's all fired up about the JJ McCarthy trade. Not happy. I'll just give you a little tease like that with what Bobby's like at the moment. So we'll bring him in in a couple of minutes, but let's just go over. What happened here in the last couple of days? 'Cause man. We are three weeks into the season. And think about how much has happened with the Giants, right? They win, they beat the every the they beat the Cowboys. Everyone's on this high. Uh home win, night win, offense looks great. Everybody literally looks great. Uh Offensive specifically Jackson Dart.
Next thing you know, the last two weeks, I lose to the Rams. I lose Jackson Dart. They come back. They win against the Titans. I mean, if you could create an unimpressive win. That was it. Now, yes, they won. They're two and one. They have chan chances to get to three and one, four and one, uh, four and two, five and one, whatever it may be, because the schedule is is really rel is really pretty easy. I know the Cardinals are not a joke coming up this week, but still, this is a pretty Favorable. Uh Schedule coming up for the Giants. But that was an unimpressive win. And on top of that now They lose Brian Burns. So there's already reason for concern, right? The quarterback play with Jameis Winston. What are you really getting?
Uh the defense in general. I know that They end up making the play and they shut down the Titans, but There were plays there to be made by the Tennessee Titans, by the way, and I feel like When you're playing a good team, like if they were playing any team. Besides the Titans and the Dolphins, I think the Giants would have probably lost that game. Can you think Bobby, can you think of anybody else? Maybe the Browns?
Doesn't matter, we didn't play those teams this week.
Okay, look at Bobby. Pumped up for the W. But I'm just saying, moving forward, I mean, you feel good about where they're at. Two and one. You'd feel great. If Jackson Dart was the quarterback, you wouldn't care how they won. The problem is Now they have to move forward. And they have Little cracks that we see. And you can't really ignore them. Like They're passing defense, I know They didn't get torn apart, but that's because Cam Ward's awful. And and anyone who, you know, if we could say it, I know going this year it was oh Tyler Schuck's the best quarterback from the draft, Jackson Dart's the best quarterback, Cam Ward, oh yeah, the Giants fans. Ten words out of that mix. I'm sorry, he's bad. Uh he could have thrown several interceptions.
Tremaine Edmonds dropped one. Drew Phillips dropped one. He missed an open receiver in the end zone. He over to a guy wide open. By about ten yards. That was god awful. Oh, one of the worst throws I've seen in a long time. Uh So From a giant perspective, you feel good where they're at in regards to record wise. You don't feel great where they're at in regards to progress wise. Z the The the cracks are there. Now you you have time to get better. But is how much better is the quarterback play gonna get? So what do the Giants do? Trade for J J McCarthy. Okay. Fine. You're gonna make a trade. You wanna up you wanna address the quarterback position. We knew they were gonna do that. Right. We knew the Giants were going to address the quarterback situation.
But They gave up an asset. And you and some people say to me This this is my only problem with it. Is It does cost them. An asset here. The Giants are not ex exactly overplu overflowing. With picks in the upcoming draft. Five picks total. They'll get a supplemental, maybe two? But You know You wanna I'm a big, I'm a big believer. And if you follow me for a while, I've always said this. I'm a big believer in collect your lottery tickets, load up on picks. And to trade for J J McCarthy, where's the upside in J J McCarthy? Yep. You know, he goes Five and five if he becomes a starter in the final ten games. Like to give up an asset for that?
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Was the Giants’ win over the Titans encouraging despite the team’s problems?
0:02–9:08
2
Why did the Giants trade for JJ McCarthy, and what does he bring to New York?
9:08–18:15
3
How long will Jameis Winston remain the Giants’ starting quarterback?
18:15–27:25
4
How does Brian Burns’ torn ACL affect the Giants’ pass rush?
27:25–35:30
5
Should the Giants recalibrate their expectations after losing key players?
35:30–44:18
6
Who were the Giants’ other quarterback options besides JJ McCarthy?
44:18–51:16
7
How concerned should Giants fans be about Abdul Carter’s pass-rush production?
51:16–1:02:41
8
Why do the Giants need to preserve draft picks instead of trading them for a quarterback?
1:02:41–1:13:35