New York Giants Win 31-28 Over Cardinals in Close Game
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00:02 Next game up here, Mark, for survival leagues.
00:06 This was a big one just because a lot of people thinking,
00:09 you know, fade the Cardinals,
00:10 when can you use the New York Giants again?
00:12 And it was a close one.
00:14 You had to sweat it out if you did that.
00:16 This is the first four o'clock Eastern,
00:17 one o'clock Pacific kick from Sunday.
00:19 New York Giants go on the road into the desert
00:22 and win 31-28 over the Arizona Cardinals.
00:25 However, they do not cover the minus four and a half point
00:29 road favorite number 40 and a half
00:31 being the total easily up into over.
00:33 What'd you take away from Arizona today, Mark?
00:36 - Giants were outscored 60 to nothing
00:40 in the first six quarters of this NFL season.
00:43 - That's amazing.
00:45 - Probably not a stat to your name.
00:49 They came back and won, you give them a ton of credit,
00:53 but you know, again, this is a Giants team
00:54 that is probably not gonna make the playoffs.
00:58 I wasn't sure about them coming in.
01:00 I think that there's a lot that, you know,
01:02 they have to get right.
01:02 Look, it's a long season.
01:04 You can't make any grand gestures
01:05 about what they are at this point in time.
01:07 They just haven't looked good.
01:09 Saquon Barkley had an ankle injury.
01:10 So, you know, for all the people screaming,
01:12 pay a running back,
01:13 that's why you don't pay a running back.
01:15 It's exactly why you don't pay a running back.
01:17 'Cause a dude gets hurt all the time.
01:19 And Saquon Barkley is one of those dudes
01:21 that get hurt all the time.
01:23 So further, you know,
01:25 providing the Giants with the ammunition
01:27 they needed not to pay him long-term,
01:29 there is that, different conversation,
01:31 but you can't get down that quickly.
01:33 You can't be a team that gets down that quickly.
01:35 Daniel Jones played really well in the second half.
01:37 I'll say that much.
01:38 Played very well.
01:39 Put the team on his back and carried him
01:40 for the final 30 minutes and got his team to win a game
01:43 that they absolutely kind of had to have,
01:45 given the fact that the Commanders improved to 2-0,
01:48 the Cowboys are 2-0, and the Eagles are 2-0.
01:51 The Giants would have started out 0-2.
01:53 That would have been bad.
01:55 Really, really bad.
01:56 So that was kind of a must-have for the New York Giants,
02:00 and they got it.
02:01 - What are we thinking with the Giants?
02:04 I know you know this team very well, Mark,
02:07 but going forward, I'm looking for their game next week.
02:10 I mean, are you looking to be betting on New York
02:14 just because of this second half?
02:16 You know, you bring up that 60-0 in the first, what,
02:19 five quarters or six quarters.
02:20 That's just an unbelievable stat.
02:22 But obviously, they turned it on enough to grab a win
02:25 over an NFL team.
02:27 Could that be like momentum going forward?
02:29 - I gotta find the stat.
02:33 I gotta go back and find the stat.
02:36 There is a stat, there's a trend about Thursday night games
02:40 and East Coast teams flying West.
02:43 I wonder if the number has to be under,
02:48 but it's a terrible trend for East Coast teams flying West
02:52 in a short week where they cross two time zones.
02:56 That's what it is.
02:57 It's definitively when they cross two time zones.
02:59 So going from all the way out East to all the way out West
03:03 and how they perform,
03:04 I think the 49ers are gonna roll the Giants.
03:09 Absolutely roll them this week.
03:11 I actually like the Niners minus 10.
03:13 - So you're thinking like blowout special,
03:16 like maybe even like adjusted line,
03:18 like they win this game by 30 points.
03:21 Is it possible?
03:23 - I mean, I gotta find the trend 100%.
03:26 I know across this two time zone teams going from East
03:28 to West on Thursday night,
03:29 it's not good for the team going East to West, right?
03:32 Going West to East is easy.
03:33 Your body clock is okay.
03:35 Going East to West is where your body clock
03:37 gets thrown off.
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