- 10 minutes ago
Category
🥇
SportsTranscript
00:06giants look like they're ready for prime time wide out night it's gonna be a good time especially
00:11me being uh that hempc and paul i'll tell you why i'll only be there at until halftime i'll tell
00:16you that uh after towards the end at blue rush but let's talk about the trade deadline because
00:22all the anticipation leading up into something else that everyone thought that the giants were
00:27going to do and got everybody talking and then boom nothing crickets uh nothing happened so what did
00:34you hear anything on why john harbaugh joe shane donna ponti didn't trade for anyone in uh and what
00:42their thought process was at the final moments of the deadline um look it was not for a lack of
00:48trying
00:49you know what i mean they they had a lot of feelers out um it was a running back it
00:53was a defensive
00:53tackle to stop the run that's what they were interested in i heard first of all with the
00:57less less sexy um defensive tackle position um it just the numbers went were up too high you know
01:05what i mean you know not many teams have a run stopper in the middle of their defensive line
01:11that they're willing to give up you know what i mean that is just not just like a team might
01:16say
01:16they want a cornerback no cornerbacks were traded none so there aren't a lot of teams or any teams
01:24out there that have that have a surplus of certain things right running back maybe a tight end maybe
01:31uh you know certain positions maybe nobody really has a surplus of run stopping defensive tackles
01:37and nobody has a surplus of cornerbacks which is why you know after the jeffrey simmons of the world
01:43and a few guys look dalvin tomlinson um you know there were a few guys out there i thought the
01:49giants
01:49were interested in the prices were inflated so that was not going to happen okay now the sexy
01:54position of running back look they wanted jonathan taylor but they did not come off their offer of a
02:01second round pick in 2027 and a fifth round pick in 2028 they did not sweeten the pot on that
02:08offer
02:09that offer was not going to get it done when you really look at it though if the colts were
02:14highly
02:14motivated to train john to trade jonathan taylor they would have they were not if you look at the
02:20guys they traded right uh quentin nelson uh the receiver who else they traded um they traded a
02:26bunch of guys yeah yeah you know they were guys on expiring contracts they're saying we're probably
02:33not going to re-sign these guys for 2027 we might our seeds is not going the way we'd want
02:38it we might
02:39as well get something for them now jonathan taylor is signed for this year and the next two years
02:43he's a part of their solution they think so they were going to be very very selective on trading him
02:50uh jonathan taylor is very close to the owner so you know he's the face of the franchise they were
02:55going to have to get blown away the giants were not going to trade a first round pick for him
02:59they
02:59were not going to blow the colts away so um now the one thing we have to remember is that
03:04yes the
03:06giants did nothing at the trade deadline right but they did make a very big trade not long ago
03:13you know one of the reasons they didn't have a better package to put together like a fifth round
03:18pick next year is they traded that fifth round pick for jj mccarthy right where was the season without
03:25jj mccarthy they might have saved their season by what they did a month ago by trading away their
03:32fifth round pick right so just saying um you know we have to think of it that way the trade
03:37deadline is
03:38the trade deadline they did nothing at the deadline but they did something in the trade market not that
03:45long ago that kept their season afloat and um look you look at the vikings right the vikings
03:53traded jj mccarthy away because they had no use for him and he was their third quarterback so what do
03:59they have to do yesterday they traded a third round pick to get kurt cousins because they are in such
04:07dire
04:07need of a quarterback so that's not great business if you think of it they got a fifth round pick
04:11for a quarterback and they trade they had to trade away a third round pick and that quarterback they
04:17traded away might be made well maybe he would not have done much in minnesota you know maybe he needs
04:23to get out of there he probably did but the giants are are damn glad that they made that trade
04:30when they
04:30did yeah and you just look at the domino effect you know the jackson dart injury because had jackson dart
04:37not gotten hurt then you would have maybe still had that fifth round pick and you could have used
04:42that for a running back if the running back situation look at you know as it looks right now
04:48in terms of kind of being a rocky a rocky road in terms of production you know going throughout the
04:54course of this start of the season and now you get a cam scatable back now we saw scat had
04:59the luxury
04:59of sitting out for a game team still being able to get a win plus no player is going to
05:05openly say it
05:06but you do get the sigh of relief that your backup didn't go out there and run for buck 16
05:12and a
05:13touchdown or two you get that little job side of the release toward now it's like okay these are my
05:19keys going forward for i'm the bell cow going forward cam scatable in this football game uh uh uh paul
05:28but what can you give us injury wise from what obviously what the team's saying and stuff in that
05:34nature but then from a media standpoint image standpoint how big of a game this commander's
05:42game prime time is it for cam scatable oh it's big it's big um look last week in philadelphia it
05:51looked like the giants needed to do anything possible to get a running back right cam scatable was hurt
05:57tyrone tracy was hurt you know motor singletary had 21 rushing attempts and 31 yards right so you know
06:04so it was like oh my gosh this is not sustainable this is awful it was awful but it's a
06:12one week
06:12thing cam almost could have played in philly it was he would have been limited and they said no let's
06:19not take the chance risk an injury you know we got a long long haul here so he practiced fully
06:25he
06:25practiced fully on tuesday so he said he's ready to go let's see if that hamstring doesn't bother him
06:31at all he said he's not thinking about it it is a very big game for cam don't forget he's
06:36coming off
06:36a huge game in houston right a huge game yeah you know first first career 100 yard rushing game so
06:43he
06:43was on his his arrow was pointing up then he gets hurt and then he has to sit out the
06:49running game you
06:50know goes to hell um cam said some interesting things he said you know we talked to him on monday
06:56about
06:5640 minutes before the official end of the trade deadline but it was kind of the handwriting was
07:02sort of on the wall that they were not going to get certainly not jonathan taylor he said whatever
07:07they were thinking about me or not it doesn't bother me about about the trade um and he said look
07:13it is certainly no secret that john harbaugh wanted to upgrade at running back they were interested in
07:18kenneth walker in the in the uh before the season they were certainly interested in drafting
07:22jeremiah love but they couldn't get him so this is on john harbaugh's mind you know cam scared i would
07:27cam said i would be skeptical too if my running back was going for 60 yards a game and not
07:33really
07:33exploding out um and he also made a good point he said i'm still getting comfortable that was he's only
07:39played 13 games in the nfl right you know he played 10 games and he got he got a a
07:45um no he played
07:46what eight games and he got a devastating ankle injury you know dislocated ankle and you know he had a
07:51tough recovery now he's back he said i'm still getting comfortable so um um he says when i come
07:58out and i'm ready to play football on any given night i can be one of the most dangerous backs
08:03in
08:03the league simple as that well we'll see about that but uh this is a prime time opportunity for
08:10cam scadaboo to kind of announce we didn't get jonathan taylor but we got me and that's good enough and
08:16don't forget tyrone tracy will be back in three games uh you know so the the rushing attack will
08:22not be as feeble as it looked um in philadelphia and i gotta say one more thing that greg de
08:28wussier
08:29he looked like he's got a little juice to him i would not be surprised if he gets some carries
08:35thursday night uh and maybe ahead of camp maybe ahead of um devin singletary he showed me a little
08:41something and he i talked to him he's got a chip on his shoulder nothing's ever been handed to him
08:45um you know he had 20 rushing yards and three carries so i'm off of you know giving him the
08:51ball four or five times and see what he can do i think that could help a cam scadaboo coming
08:57back
08:57from that hamstring injury if you have because you're worried sometimes about that player trying
09:03to force it too much to have that success you're trying to the last time you stepped on the football
09:07field you had a big run or two you know your last couple of runs so you want to get
09:12back out there
09:13and it's like the adrenaline's going i want to get back out there get that contact you don't want him
09:18to press it too much but you at the end of the day someone was going to have to be
09:23that second back
09:24or that third back anyway so you know de wussier coming in coming in and de wussier coming in and
09:30being able to uh take carries from him that could be a good thing per se because that gets you
09:40your breath back that gets you a series or maybe a series and a half off let alone to you
09:46feeling
09:46like all right i just broke a six to eight yard hard run i'm gassed now you can't break that
09:53that 30
09:53or 41 that you need because you feel like you need to be in the game uh brian i mean
09:58brian jacobs
09:59amon brashan those guys did a great job balancing that were you saying paul one other thing about we
10:04have to remember about cam though you know don't forget the last time um you know they played the
10:10commanders he had that terrible fumble right you know they're driving they're in field they're in
10:15field goal range in overtime and he fumbles the ball and that really you know that that caused
10:21tremendous distrust john harbaugh you know barely don't didn't play him you know after that you know
10:26for a game basically so um um um you know he's got a lot there's a lot going there's a
10:33lot of
10:33narratives and storylines around cam scatterbu uh thursday night no question thursday night let's
10:39kind of mix it in a little bit of the on the field stuff because we've talked about the storylines
10:44the
10:45big storylines going into it and we'll talk about malik neighbors uh in a little bit as well but a
10:50big
10:50on the field storyline will be trying to stop jay daniels you know another arizona former arizona sun devil
10:55uh as well jay daniels was was elusive you know as elusive as that's the jay daniels you don't want
11:03to see that's the one you don't want to play against denaro wilson blitz zero they got to him a
11:08couple
11:09of times were able to sack and were able to apply that pressure i believe the giants are winning on
11:13the sense of the matchups on the perimeter where the corners the secondary is better than the pass
11:19catchers on the commander side of the football but denaro wilson i want to see what he does what his
11:25counter punch is going to be this week when it came to going blitz zero but still being able to
11:31contain jayden daniels as much as possible uh your thoughts your thoughts on that on how i guess
11:39i get important it's going to be for this giants defense to bottle him up as much as possible
11:46on thursday night yeah i mean it's been an achilles heel for the giants all season you know unscripted
11:52back runs has really you know joe milton that's you know one of the few things he did well um
11:56in
11:56the first game jayden daniels had nine carries 103 yards two touchdowns and we know he's a great
12:03runner right we know it but john harbaugh was really really disgusted after that game that like
12:09those were not acceptable touchdown runs you know those were breakdowns on defense to give him 20 30
12:16yard touchdown run so that was not like boy he's a great scrambler it was like he's a great scrambler
12:22but we should have stopped him before he got into the end zone on those runs so yeah um you
12:29know the
12:30the um the commanders had 202 rushing yards in that game you know that can't happen you know that that's
12:35one of the reasons the giants really wanted to get a run stop or another run stop or so um
12:40do you spy
12:41jayden daniels you know you don't want to do that it kind of then you're kind of playing like with
12:45a
12:45man down on defense but you may have to think about it on a lot of plays now is that
12:49arvel reese i don't
12:50know about that you know maybe is it drew phillips maybe it's somebody like that you know arvel you
12:55want to switch it up yeah yeah okay i want arvel to be arvel yes yes so so you know
13:03but but i you
13:04know i i think sometimes we all overreact to you got to spy him you got to spy him because
13:09you know it's
13:10like it's like it's like in basketball you got to box in one of them well that that that changes
13:14your
13:15whole defensive approach but with this guy who you know he doesn't have terry mclaurin he does
13:21have stefan diggs who has five touchdowns but this is not a you know this is not an array of
13:26offensive weapons on the field here so if you can bottle up jayden daniels on the ground um you know
13:32he's he's he's got what seven touchdowns no interceptions he's a really good quarterback you
13:37know he's a really good quarterback but um if you got you take his legs out from under him
13:42you're going to have a great chance to win so i think you do have to do special accommodations
13:47for him because of the what he did to you last time on the ground last week called it's it's
13:53one
13:53of three division games left it's right there in front of this giants football team no one saw this
14:00no one saw this part of the script shout out to the nfl script makers this year when it came
14:05to
14:05giants football it looks like it could be one of those with a hallmark corny christmas type movies
14:16to where we could all be happy feel good drink nutmeg and all that stuff you know when it comes
14:21to giants football this year so far i don't know we'll see how it goes for the remainder of the
14:27season
14:27but this is a big one for the division the difference in what in the tonality of what you
14:34write thursday night after this football game from a win versus a loss go thursday night and then sunday
14:45okay it's this week i call it this week this is decision week nothing gets clinched right nothing
14:52gets clinched right nothing but let's look at it right i think do you agree with me the giants
14:58buried the eagles last week they buried them yeah yeah they buried them i mean the eagles were selling
15:03off players so they let's let's take the eagles out of the equation they buried the eagles they lost
15:08seven straight games if the giants beat the commanders the giants will be six two and one and the
15:15commanders will be two six and one the commanders are buried the commanders are buried you know in in
15:20the division okay now the only team out there are the cowboys if the giants go to six two and
15:26one
15:26then they sit back this weekend and they put on their what is it garnet and gold what colors are
15:33they
15:33the cowboys play the 49ers on sunday in dallas right 49ers might be the best team in the nfc right
15:41they're one of the three best teams in football right now they're seven and one so if the cowboys win
15:46that game they're five and five they've got a spark they're alive now they're five and five and the
15:52giants are six two and one if they win the giants still have a nice working margin but the cowboys
15:57are alive at five and one after being you're alive you're alive after right you just beat the best team
16:03in the nfc if the cowboys lose they're favored to lose they're four and six the giants are six two
16:10and
16:10one the division's not over but you are what is above the driver's seat right you're not only in
16:18the driver's seat you know you've got no one in the back seat you know you don't have you're getting
16:23you're giving driven you're giving driven yeah this is you're you're in the car service you know this
16:29is uber luxury right here yeah so this week now look the next week the giants play the jaguars and
16:35maybe that's a you know come to jesus moment for the giants and maybe they got to get their butts
16:40kicked you know the jaguars just loaded up on defense i'm not worried about that you know i'm
16:45not worried about that i'm not ready to anoint the giants after thursday night as an nfc powerhouse
16:51the division is what matters right now and if they win this week they're in great position and if the
16:57cowboys lose on sunday um then it's just a countdown then it's just a countdown and don't collapse and
17:03you're going to win the division and now you got bitter bigger fish to fry maybe with positioning
17:07in the nfc so you're right brandon this will all happen before thanksgiving we've done podcasts
17:14halloween and before thanksgiving where we're like
17:20who's getting fired what defensive coordinator is on the hot seat what offensive coordinator has to go
17:25um um where's joe shane and tim mcdonald and brandon you know brandon brown where where are they
17:32you know this week are they are they at lsu to look at the quarterback are they at oklahoma to
17:37look at the quarterback are they at alabama or nota dame to look at the quarterback that's what
17:42we're talking about we don't have to talk about that this year you know which is um we can actually
17:47talk about football and games and things like that so yeah you know we we got through the darkness too
17:53and now the light is that the giants are pretty close to putting a hammerlock on this division which is
18:01really remarkable before thanksgiving it really is and you gotta they've gotta finish it man they've
18:06gotta finish it they've i mean and like you said when you read it off like that and you look
18:11at it
18:12and you look for me it's like rain man and i'm like seeing the like the equations and the numbers
18:17like as you're reading it out and it's like so you're saying there's a chance like wow like so you're
18:25saying that there's a chance and but when it comes to this game sadly i'm going to miss the end
18:30of the
18:30football game i'll be leaving at halftime to catch a flight from newark airport at 12 10 a.m friday
18:37morning to catch a flight out to munich myself and prince amukamar are going to be doing a lot
18:43from the giants when it comes to being over there as the the brand ambassadors also teaming up with
18:48marcus coon big blue germany so we've got everything of my duties front loaded you'll see me a lot on
18:55camera on the on the video board and then boom i'll be gone so if if i just vanish don't
19:00worry
19:01i'm okay but you'll be hopefully i can get out yeah yeah you'll so you'll be on your nor'easter
19:08yeah it's supposed to be a rainy night hopefully you get out so what you need for your peace of
19:14mind is for the giants to be winning like 20 to 3 or something at halftime you know so you
19:18can kind
19:18of just you know you can kind of no lead is safe with this no lead is safe no lead
19:24is safe we've
19:25seen them up what we saw them up two possessions against the saints and then the fumbled a fumble
19:31kickoff and all like that which is another thing that special teams part of it fumbling the football
19:36giving that football away ryan jones with the special teams you've got you got eyes on you eyes are
19:41definitely on you right now so uh don't want to end off on that but that just popped up in
19:47my head
19:47you know but i appreciate everyone watching uh this blue rush preview show for the new york post
19:53sports we will see you all next week when i'm back uh for paul schwartz i'm brandon london thanks
19:59for watching blue rush