Hour 1: Why Jaxson Dart Must Play and Josh Allen’s "Small Nuts" Headline

**Craig Carton** (0:04)
It's The Carton Show with Big Mac on a gorgeous Friday afternoon in New York City. Phone number to join as always, 888-808-1019. Got a great show for you today. We got Anthony Gallo, we got Pete Hoffman, both hanging out today. Instead of Big Mac, who has begun his one month long vacation, and I am all pumped up today because what you saw last night is just a precursor of what we're getting tonight at 7 o'clock, and then again tomorrow afternoon at 1 o'clock. No, I'm not talking about the Field of Dream games in Iowa, which both Gallo and Hoffman watched like crazy lunatic baseball fans. I'm talking about the real American bath time. I'm talking about the thing that many, many cows from coast to coast give their lives up for. I'm talking about a little something we like to call a pigskin. Now, I don't know why it's called pigskin when it comes from the bladder of a cow, but it's called pigskin. Football is back, and for some reason right now, and I can't quite understand it, your savior, Johnny Harbaugh, is playing little games with you guys as Giants fans, not opening up and telling Giants fans, are you going to see Jaxson Dart tonight or not? So let me save you the suspense.
Jaxson Dart has to play tonight.
Jaxson Dart must be on the field tonight. I'm not saying for an entire half, I'm not saying obviously for the entire game, but Jaxson Dart hasn't done a damn thing yet in the NFL. So why would you protect him from getting actual reps in what amounts to a real football game? I don't understand the secrecy behind it. I don't understand why John Hall Ball is being cute about it. Jaxson Dart has barely been an NFL player. Jaxson Dart by most accounts, we'll talk to Pat Leonard coming up at three o'clock, has had an average to disappointing and struggling preseason thus far. None of it matters until he gets on the field tonight.
And I don't understand why there's any issue at all. As to, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, afternoon, as to whether or not Jaxson Dart is going to play. Jaxson Dart must be on the football field tomorrow afternoon.
Of course, Geno Smith must be on the field tonight. So I want to be very consistent about that. While Geno Smith has had a football career, Jaxson Dart is not. You saw Joe Burrow last night on the field, getting sacked, of course, because that's what happens in Cincinnati. So there's no, to me, no wiggle room at all for whether or not Jaxson Dart should play. What's interesting about The Giants tomorrow night, I'll get to the Jets here in a second, is the fact that we're witnessing something that's really, something that doesn't happen all that often.
Tomorrow afternoon, when the Giants take the field, Odell Beckham Jr., it's already been announced, is going to be on the field with the first team offense. And think about what that means, that Odell Beckham Jr., a guy that a couple years ago, was 30 minutes away from maybe becoming a Super Bowl MVP for the Rams, right?
Is now playing in a preseason game to save his NFL career.
That's how close it is to Odell Beckham Jr. not making the final 53-man roster for the New York Giants. But I gotta be honest with you. Tonight is jet football. Tonight is MetLife Stadium. Tonight is shrimps on the barbie. Tonight is parking lot catches. Tonight is, let's make sure the old barbeque still fits in the back of the pickup truck. And let's make sure my wife hasn't thrown my favorite cooler out. Cause I got cases and cases of booze that I'm bringing to MetLife Stadium. Football officially begins for us as New Yorkers tonight. And we get to see for the first time, a little taste of the Frank Reich, Geno Smith offense at MetLife Stadium. And there's a song I like to sing. On days like today, when football comes back. And hopefully you guys have put in the system and have it ready for me to go. And if you know the words to it, there's not a lot of them. Frankly, for some of you, there's none of them. But I've invented words for it. I think today is one of those days where we all lower the window down, crank the speaker up, and sing our favorite song together.
Do you know the song, Gallo?

**Chris McMonigle** (4:58)
I think I know the song.

**Craig Carton** (4:59)
Do you know the song, Pete Hoffman?

**Pete Hoffman** (5:01)
How do I not know the song?