{"id":137838,"date":"2020-12-20T03:19:26","date_gmt":"2020-12-20T00:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/colt-mccoy-is-imperfect-choice-after-hellacious-giants-week\/"},"modified":"2020-12-20T03:19:26","modified_gmt":"2020-12-20T00:19:26","slug":"colt-mccoy-is-imperfect-choice-after-hellacious-giants-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/colt-mccoy-is-imperfect-choice-after-hellacious-giants-week\/","title":{"rendered":"#Colt McCoy is imperfect choice after hellacious Giants week"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Colt McCoy is imperfect choice after hellacious Giants week<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Joe Judge choosing Colt McCoy on Sunday night against the Browns instead of Daniel Jones feels like one of those damned-if-you-do damned if you don\u2019t situations.<\/p>\n

It is the right call, if only because Judge saw the need to protect his young franchise quarterback from himself and live to fight another day with him \u2026 and hindsight being 20\/20, if he had sat Jones last week, he likely would have had him available for this week.<\/p>\n

Washington coach Mike Shanahan once left a hobbled Robert Griffin III in too long in a 2012 wild-card playoff loss to the Seahawks instead of turning to backup Kirk Cousins in the fourth quarter or sooner, and his rookie franchise quarterback required reconstructive knee surgery and was never the same again.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll probably second-guess myself when you take a look at the second half \u2014 should have I done it earlier? I think you always do that, especially after you don\u2019t win,\u201d Shanahan said after that game<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Jones suffered a second injury, to his left ankle, because he could not protect himself adequately on a hamstrung right leg last Sunday.<\/p>\n

And if the Cardinals could sack him six times, and since he would not be any more of a threat to use his legs as a weapon with Myles Garrett and Olivier Vernon bearing down on him, it made absolutely no sense not to keep him out of harm\u2019s way.<\/p>\n

Good for Judge and the medical team to err on the side of caution and resist temptation to try mortgage the future for the present in an attempt to steal the franchise\u2019s first playoff berth since the 2016 season. Better late than never.<\/p>\n

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So the desperate Giants will try to upset the desperate Browns with McCoy at quarterback, with their shutdown corner, James Bradberry, in quarantine, with their offensive coordinator, Jason Garrett, in quarantine as well, with 2019 Browns coach Freddie Kitchens calling the plays for McCoy.<\/p>\n

Judge doesn\u2019t subscribe to the theory of the \u201crevenge game,\u201d but McCoy was pushed into oblivion after his 6-15 record under Eric Mangini and Pat Shurmur when the Browns drafted Brandon Weeden in the first round of the 2012 draft, and Kitchens was fired as Browns coach following a 6-10 finish last season. This will be McCoy\u2019s fifth start in the past five seasons.<\/p>\n

The Browns\u2019 -6.5 betting line, if nothing else, tells us that this isn\u2019t quite the Mission: Impossible that Giants-Perfect Patriots was in Super Bowl XLII, or certainly not Jets-Colts in Super Bowl III.<\/p>\n

But for the Colt McCoy Giants to have any chance to reclaim first place, should the Dwayne Haskins Washington Football Team lose to the Seahawks in their 1 p.m, game, Big Blue will need to play a D\u00e9j\u00e0 Blue game akin to their shocking upset of the Seahawks in Seattle.<\/p>\n

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