Kickoff with Boomer Esiason and Mike Valenti for Week 10 in the NFL

SPEAKER_1 (0:01)

It's time for Kick Off with Boomer Esiason and Mike Valenti.

Mike Valenti (0:08)

Hi, it's Kick Off with Boomer and Valenti, and I'm disgusted. Welcome back. Hi, Boomer.

Boomer Esiason (0:14)

Hey, Mike, I knew we were going to start this way. I knew you're going to feel horrendous today after watching Thursday Night Football and the Commanders. How about Jaden Daniels? How lucky is he? He throws four, I mean, throws two fourth quarter interceptions, and somehow the Giants figure out a way to lose this game, and they save his ass. I mean, basically, the story would have been that he basically imploded in the fourth quarter again. Instead, his team comes away with a victory, which is really, I've never seen anything quite like it.

Mike Valenti (0:45)

No, but it's also Boomer, it was a disaster class by Harbaugh and that team. I mean, first of all, JJ did everything you could ask. The kid's been here for six weeks. He made a couple of incredibly high level throws. You get a 33 year old missed kick by an idiot kicker. Then you get a 14 yard punt.

You got Malik neighbors who cries, Oh, throw me the ball. Yeah, great. So you can fumble it and then make a D minus effort on the last play of the game. Had enough of you. They ran a tush push that featured neither a tush nor a push. I went, Scott, you with us? You okay back there? You want to help out the cause? It's just and then Boomer, third and three were going empty set and running a QB sweep like I got Cam Newton back there. I just the whole thing. I just you can't lose that game. You can't.

And it happened against Washington again, again, Rami.

Boomer Esiason (1:37)

I feel like we're doing our morning show all over again. Oh my God. I mean, I understand how frustrated you are. They did win a game in Houston that they weren't supposed to win. But you're right about JJ McCarthy. People say that silver lining spot for him for sure.

They were blitzing him on what 50 or 60 percent of the passes in the second half. He stood in there. And you're right about the Malik neighbor situation because that was an all out blitz. The hot receiver in that case is going to be the wide receiver going down the sideline. And that's exactly what JJ McCarthy did. And you'd like to think that you trust your receiver who wants the football. Well, go up and get it. So yeah, I mean, frustrating loss for sure. But for Washington, maybe they saved their season. I don't think so.

But yeah, it was a...

Mike Valenti (2:18)

Do the Giants still win the East? Yes or no?

Boomer Esiason (2:20)

I say yes. I still think that they can win the East. And I know they have a tough schedule coming up. They got the Jaguars a week from this Sunday.

That will be a tough game for them, depending on how the Jaguars come out of their game this week. But I would say that, yeah, JJ McCarthy is the silver lining and the Giants are going to have a really good problem going into the offseason. They have two starting quarterbacks and which one are they going to keep?

Mike Valenti (2:43)

I feel much better that I got that off my chest. All right, let's get to the rundown.

SPEAKER_1 (2:47)

The NFL Rundown.

Mike Valenti (2:50)

Now, the trade deadline, winners and losers. I love talking about stuff like this. The only thing we like more than trading people is firing people. So I'm going to give you the winners. You select one or two that kind of jump at you, okay?

Boomer Esiason (3:01)

Yep.

Mike Valenti (3:02)

Jags, Bills, Vikings, Bears, Niners, Chiefs. Wow. Out of that pile, who do you think the biggest winner was?

Boomer Esiason (3:11)

I think, I'd have to say the Jags because they added depth, they added numbers, and they added quality players.

Certainly, I love the Jeffrey Simmons ad to the Bears, and that's already paid off. San Francisco, Keenan Allen, DeForest Buckner, I thought they were great ads. Veteran players, now San Francisco on the offensive side of the ball has more Pro Bowls amongst their players than any other team in the history of the league on offense. And I think Kansas City did a good thing with Josh Downs, but he's not the type of player that they were looking for. They really wanted it down the field thrower, because it's been like 45 days since Patrick Mahomes has completed a pass over 20 yards, believe it or not.