But how much, how much of an expansion are we seeing with J.J. McCarthy?

Well, I think, well, when, when Matt Nagy, the Giants' offensive coordinator, uh, spoke to us, uh, I guess it was two weeks ago, he was very particular about the fact that they're giving McCarthy a, a package each and every week so that if they wanna get him in the game, you know, they can certainly give him some cameos in particular situations.

I also believe that, you know, Nagy when, when he said that we're also trying to feed him the general overall playbook each week as we go along so that he can pick up the entire offense at some point, I, I think that, you know, Nagy's trying to tell you this is a very difficult balance because, you know, you can't just catch him up on an entire off-season and training camp when the guy plops in, you know, in a parachute in, uh, you know, in the first month of the season.

That's an awful lot to ask no matter how smart he may be.

So I don't, I don't think, I don't think that the, that the, the expansion of, of his small package is as much of a storyline as you and I or maybe other fans wanna think about.

I think there's a lot of gamesmanship in that whole thing to be frank with you.

Now, I know he saw five snaps last week, and we know he gets in, all right, w- I think at some point, and maybe it's tomorrow, if he does get in for four or five snaps, he'll probably throw a pass, and it won't be because they necessarily need that play.

Who else has stepped up now that Brian Burns is, has been out the past few games?

Have you bought in that this team is good enough to beat good teams and stay alive for a playoff spot?

Uh, no.

No, not at all.

It's still a wait and see.

You, you got, you gotta find out more about these guys, and, and Coach Harbaugh keeps saying that they're gonna get better and better during the course of the year.

Well, they'll need to be.

Tough

... it's definitely tough, and if they don't raise their level of play, no, it, it's not gonna work out.

What's going on with him?

Well, he's a player who has a lot more to learn.

Again, he fits into that rookie pot.

of guys that have to mature and that have to figure out exactly what it is to excel at this level of football.

It's one thing to do it at the NCAA level, even at a power conference, when you could just go out there and your pure, raw talent without a lot of extra work is going to get things done.

abdul carter obviously has to add more power quotient to his game because he's not as strong as he needs to be relative to the tackles and other players he's going against in the nfl he was strong enough to dominate you know, at Penn State.

But this is not Penn State.

If you had to explain why this has happened, what would that explanation be? I