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And I want to start with that.

Um, I was like, what to expect out of him.

We don't need to go crazy.

We've done plenty of talk of, you know, JJ McCarthy's film and stuff, the mailbag, you know, went live after he was named the starter.

Um, I really do think this is kind of a tie goes to the runner situation.

Cause I framed this to LPG.

I was like, all right, let's forget talking about results of who's the better chance to win.

But like, who do you think is better for Malik neighbors and Isaiah likely box score, Jameis Winston or JJ McCarthy.

And I was like, to be quite honest, I do think it's Jameis Winston on a consistent basis, but JJ McCarthy with his legs, uh, This Giants team, now that they have to get through this entire season with a backup quarterback, they need a good run game.

They can't have this bad, bad run game no matter who the backup quarterback is.

And with Jameis, that was the case, that it's a bad run game.

Now, it's not Jameis Winston's fault that the Giants run game is bad.

The issue is that he can't be a part of the solution, and I think J.J. McCarthy can do that.

You can simplify stuff around like if we can build a run game, you can simplify stuff in the passing game, hopefully rely on your defense a little bit more.

But with Seamus Winston at quarterback, it was just like, man, you just you got to line up and play, you know, big boy football as a passing offense consistently to win.

And that's why they had these second half moments for Jameis is when they had to get away from the run game and stuff.

So I think J.J. McCarthy is going to open some stuff up in the run game.

How much, we don't know.

But I think it's putting stuff in front of him that he's comfortable with.

Let him hit that intermediate part of the field.

Don't ask him to run a bunch of quick game.

Just kind of like, hey, man, you got a one-two and then go type of offense.

We're going to get into the Houston Texans defense in particular.

Obviously, this is sort of like a general J.J. McCarthy conversation on when to start him and if it's time and if it's time to move on from Jameis or any of that stuff.

It's sort of separate from the Texans.