Daniel Jones has played his last game for the New York Giants.
This is how you tank in the NFL. Players can’t tank, but organizations can. That’s exactly what the Giants are doing.
And they’re doing so because of their own decisions. The Giants are in this of their own making.
After the Thursday night game between the Commanders and Eagles, Philadelphia fans were chanting “Thank you, Giants” for letting go of Saquon Barkley. They chose to let Barkley go, and they chose to double-down on Jones. Both of those were horrendous decisions.
What’s happening with Jones is the consequence of those decisions. He will never see the field again. This is exactly what the Broncos did to Russell Wilson a year ago. This is basically to get off that contract, which everyone said was horrific to begin with.
The Giants are now 40-86-1 since Odell Beckham Jr.’s infamous boat photo in 2017. That’s the second-worst record in the NFL during that span, only to be outdone by the Jets (39-87).
It’s been an unmitigated disaster since the day the Jets signed Aaron Rodgers. It just continues to get worse every week.
I really thought the Jets were going to win in Week 11. I thought they were going to play well at home against an opponent that was going back to a quarterback who had completed 44% of his passes. But, that supposedly good Jets defense has melted since Robert Saleh was fired.
Rodgers says he wants to come back next year? No. Rodgers wants his money. The Jets need to tell him to go away. The Jets are never going to win if Rodgers comes back next year. He’s not what he was, and they need to divorce themselves from this mess as soon as possible and as quickly as they can.
Who will rebuild faster of the two? I’d go with the Giants. Because the Giants have done it before.
Pittsburgh may have ruined Baltimore’s chance to repeat
Sunday’s loss essentially took the Ravens out of contention for the No. 1 seed in the AFC.
They may own the tiebreaker over the Bills, but they’re now two games behind Buffalo. They’re also two games behind the Steelers in their own division, and then 3.5 games behind the Chiefs.
Unless all of those teams collapse down the stretch — which I don’t see happening — the Ravens lost a chance at being the AFC’s No. 1 seed for the second straight year with that loss to the Steelers.
This round of Bills vs. Chiefs was far more important for one team
This game was what I expected. The Bills have won four straight games vs. the Chiefs in the regular season.
Then the playoffs come.
The other thing people need to consider about the Chiefs is they’re 9-1, and they haven’t even put their best team on the field yet. They’re going to get Hollywood Brown back, they’re going to get Isiah Pacheco back, they’re going to get Charles Omenihu back.
The best way to describe Bills vs. Chiefs this time is by looking at what a loss would have meant for either side. With a Kansas City loss, “It’s on the road. Tough game. We’ll rebound and get going.” If the Bills had lost, it would have been frustrating and viewed as another opportunity lost.
No one will admit it: That game meant more to Buffalo than it did to Kansas City.
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