WDHA’s 2-Minute Drill – Giants/Jets Somehow Still In the Playoff Hunt
You wake up on a Friday morning, look at the NFL standings and realize that somehow, even after everything that has gone wrong this season, the Giants and Jets are still in the hunt for a playoff spot.
Giants quarterback Tommy DeVito started the season on the practice squad and living with his parents in Cedar Grove. He’s still living at home, but he has also led the Giants to a 3-game winning streak.
Zach Wilson was supposed to be in watch-and-learn mode this year as Aaron Rodgers’ backup. Forced into a starting role after Rodgers went down with an injury in Week One, Wilson didn’t even want to play last Sunday, and yet here he is leading into the game against the Dolphins this Sunday.
JIM MONAGHAN – Two-Minute Drill time here in the WDHA Morning Jolt. Jim Monaghan along with Chris Swendeman as usual. And Swendeman, here we are with a pair of 5-8 teams, the Jets, the Giants, and they head into this weekend, believe it or not, both of them still in the playoff hunt. How the heck is that possible?
CHRIS SWENDEMAN – Well, Jim, that’s why they call it the most wonderful time of the year. I mean, anything can happen, and this is proving it. If somebody would have came to us at the start of the year and said, guys, by December you two are going to be talking about Zach Wilson starting for the Jets and a guy who is living in his mom’s basement eating chicken cutlets off the practice squad for the Giants being the starting quarterback and being the new face of the franchise and being a conversation piece, not for the Giants, but across the country, we would have laughed at them. And here we are in December. And what are we talking about?
JM – Chris, not even the beginning of the season. You go back a week ago, Zach Wilson didn’t even want to play.
CS – No, he didn’t. He was hesitant about taking the reins back under center and now he’s the AFC offensive player of the week. It’s a good country. What can I tell you?
In the playoff hunt
JM – So the Giants have the Saints this weekend. If the Giants win this game, their records are identical, but then they have to face the Eagles, the Rams and the Eagles again. The jets, on the other hand, I’ve got a tough one against the Dolphins. I don’t see them winning. But if they do, the Commanders, the Browns and the Patriots, and if Aaron Rodgers comes win, they could run the table.
CS – Yes, they could. If they get past this, if they figure out somehow to beat Miami and slow down that juggernaut offense of theirs, they could very well make some noise and jump back into this. The Giants have a much tougher road. But I’m telling you right now, Jim, if Tommy Cutlets beats the Eagles once, I can’t even think of twice, you might as well erect the statue outside of MetLife Stadium now for him, because it’s over. It is over. I’m calling it. Game, set, match, done.
Get the agent’s agent on the phone
JM – Well, his agent will be all over that. The agent, by the way, Sean Stellato, looks like somebody at a central casting and some kind of an extra on the Sopranos.
CS – It’s somewhere between the Sopranos meets the new version of Jerry Maguire, and they found a way to meet in the middle. I mean, this kid has literally taken. We’re just talking about Tommy Cutlets and all of a sudden now we’re talking about his agent. His agent? The two of them together are national news.
JM – Amazing. Giants-Saints this weekend, Jets-Dolphins this weekend. Who knows what happens? And that’s this morning’s Two-Minute Drill here at 105.5 WDHA on the Morning Jolt. Thanks, Swendeman. Enjoy the games this weekend.
CS – You too, Jim. Talk to you next week.
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