Dart Break: The Rams Beat NY and Week 2’s Winners

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Mina Kimes (0:34)

Welcome back to The Mina Kimes Show featuring Lenny. Week two reactions. Monday Night Football, winners and losers. Ben Solak, always a winner in my book, is here to discuss what was kind of a disappointing Giants-Rams game. We're going to pick some winners and losers. Bengals might make an appearance. Broncos just sit tight for the second half of this podcast. But we're going to start with last night's game. Disappointing, of course, because Giants quarterback, Jaxson Dart got hurt on the very first drive of the game.

We're going to talk about that and what it means in the next few games as we all wait for the injury news and the seriousness of it to come in. But I figure we should start off by talking about the Rams, who of course won the game and looked a lot better than they did week one against San Francisco. Afterwards, Sean McVeigh blamed himself, fell on his sword a little bit for the travel plans.

I want to start with the Rams offense because the Rams defense, it's like at one point in the broadcast, Aikman, who by the way, my kink is I love Aikman on bad games.

Ben Solak (1:46)

A hundred percent. It's the exact same thing. Whenever there's a big injury on Monday Night Football, I'm like, oh no, so disappointing. It's a primetime game and then the little voicemail says, wait a minute, Troy Aikman has to watch this game now for the next 45 minutes.

Mina Kimes (2:00)

Or just bad quarterbacking. There's no person. I think there's no announcement. Aikman is obviously amazing and Buccaneers are really good too. I know we're company people, whatever. But I love his palpable disgust when he watches bad quarterbacking. He's honest too, which I also like. He doesn't try to spin it.

Although he did make one comment that made me laugh when he was talking about the Rams defense struggling week one and he was like, seems like they've figured something out against New York. I was like, yeah, they figured out that it's James Winston on the opposing team.

Ben Solak (2:30)

There was a lot of good darts down, but the Giants have invested in QB too. James is out there and James will be fine. It's like, listen, first, there's no such thing as a good QB too. Secondly, the QB too is always good in his first start. It's never when you get dropped into a Monday Night Football game in week two in a new offense that you're ripping it down the field.

Mina Kimes (2:49)

He's no Drew Locke.

Ben Solak (2:51)

Dude, Drew? Okay, so I watched the Drew film two hours ago. Are we gonna do Drew Locke like reclaimed quarterback this off season? It feels like we're gonna do it. He looks good.

Mina Kimes (3:03)

Well, he also just, he plays like he's playing with house money, which is what Janus, you know, hypothetically plays like. He's just younger. The CS offensive line was very good. We're not getting into that. Okay, back to the Rams. Sorry. Tangent.

Well, honestly, there's going to be a lot of backup quarterbacks playing in week three and different levels of acumen from them. We did see some of them in this week, of course, with both Caleb Williams and Jane Daniels getting hurt. So the Rams offense did have Pukunukua in this game.

It obviously didn't matter because they put up 28 points. But some interesting things I thought. So one of which was, we just got, what's the word other than vintage to use?

Ben Solak (3:47)

Classic, brine. Throwback. Yeah.

Mina Kimes (3:50)

I mean, this was just Davante Adams just reminding us why he is one of the best to do it. Ten targets, eight catches for 195 yards. Ben, it just felt like everything. First of all, the Giants did have a very injured secondary in this game. Not that. I mean, but I wasn't watching Davante Adams and thinking, you know, Deion Banks would really stop that corner out.

But he was just automatic. The fades, the back shoulders, the touchdown, the corner. I mean, it just felt like there was the one insane catch he made where Stafford actually missed him, but he reached back and plucked it at the last second. That was sick. He's just absurd. He's just so good.