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 A week ago Giants running back Cam Skattebo spent most of the time on the Giants bench, and didn't get a single touch of the football. When asked about it by the media, a testy Giants' Head Coach John Harbaugh said that the running back was never benched, and that the opportunities to get him the ball didn't come up.  When the media caught up with Skattebo later in the postgame, the star back said that he was being "punished" for his fumble that cost the Giants a chance at victory over the Washington Commanders, a game that ended in a 27-all tie.  Well, on Sunday afternoon against the Texans, Harbuagh dared his running back to prove something, and Skattebo rewarded his coach for such confidence with 124 yards on 17-carries, including a 42-yard scamper on second and one with 8:42 to go in overtime that set up Devin Singletary's walk-off 30-yard score to give the Giants a 27-21 victory.  That huge run wasn't the only one for Skat on Sunday. Earlier in the g...

 The New York Knicks celebrated the success of last season that culminated in the franchise's first NBA Championship in 53 years just 3-1/2 months ago when they took down the San Antonio Spurs in five games.  Players, coaches and staff received their championship rings before watching a blue Championship banner get raised to the rafters to join the 1970 and 1973 champions for all eternity. Fans, some of whom had to pay upwards of more than $1,900 just to secure a seat in the nosebleed section, witnessed something that many thought was not possible.  The ceremony itself was a thing of beauty. Knicks television play-by-play man Mike Breen, who called the Knicks NBA Finals series nationally for ABC MC'd the event, while Knicks and NBA Hall of Famer Walt Clyde Fraizer handed the rings to all the players. It was emotional, and gave the sold out crowd at MSG a collegial feel.    Then reality set in, and the Knicks, who for decades have always been the hunter, were now...

 This much is clear from the New York Jets 26-19 loss to the New England Patriots on Sunday: there is a clear and obvious coaching discrepancy between the two teams.  In a game that wide receiver Garret Wilson rightly called a "big ass game" on Friday, the Jets shot themselves in the foot one too many times,  and when you do that a team as well coached  as the New England Patriots you are bound to lose.  Aaron Glenn is not Mike Vrabel. He's not as calculating and involved as Vrabel appears to be on the field, and even that was obvious on Sunday as well.  What really killed the Jets Sunday was three plays. Two of those plays involved Gang Green's inability to convert a simple fourth and one to move the sticks, keep a drive going, and perhaps put points on the board.  And that inability not only falls on Head Coach Aaron Glenn, it falls on Offensive Coordinator Frank Reich, who once again showed an inability to put together a creative game plan.  ...

 There are two huge storylines that came out of the Giants stunning 34-27 loss to the New Orleans Saints on Sunday.  1) Cam Skattebo was all but benched by Head Coach John Harbaugh. Skattebo didn't have a single carry in the game on Sunday, and when asked by reporters, the running back said he was "punished" for his fumble against the Commanders that cost the team a chance at victory last week.  That was last week. The Giants meanwhile this week, couldn't establish a running attack. Their leading rusher on Sunday was back-up quarterback J.J. McCarthy who had two carries for 26 yards, and he didn't come into the game until there were 11 minutes left in it.  Harbaugh denied that Skattebo was benched, saying it was "not by design, It’s just when he was in the game, we didn’t call any runs.”  You have to respect what Harbaugh is doing here. Skattebo's fame skyrocketed early last season before his rookie year was cut short at midseason with a brutal leg injury...

 It has been a long time since the New York Jets last won a game of any significance up at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts.  While New York's most recent victory there came just three seasons ago, a 17-3 win in Week 18 of the 2023 season, that game was pretty meaningless. The Jets finished 7-10 that season, a season that was supposed to be about Aaron Rodgers first in New York. Of course all the dreams of Rodgers succeeding in different shade of green was hijacked in Week 1 when he went down with an Achilles Tear.  As for the Patriots they were an awful 4-13. It was Bill Belichick's final game as Patriots Head Coach, but nobody really seemed to care that the Jets sent him out of the NFL with an 'L.' Not in a snowy, cold Week 18 game with both teams already looking forward to the off-season.  So if you are looking for the last Jets win at New England that had any real significance as far as playoffs, or AFC East standings, or even division titles are con...

 I don't know what goes through the heads of gamblers when it comes time to setting the betting lines for an NFL game, but I truly am aghast at the very idea that the bumbling New Orleans Saints are a -1.5 point road favorite this week at the New York Giants.  I just don't get it.  Sure the Giants are lucky to be 3-1-1 right now. They had to win two games on the final play, and get a brain fart on the part of Jayden Daniels and Dan Quinn to pull out a tie in Washington. Still though, the G-Men are 3-1-1, and the Saints (1-4) are in my mind have been the most overhyped team in the NFC South since the season began.   I mean people were not only picking the Saints to win this division, which might still happen, but they were already putting Saints Head Coach Kellen Moore on the Mt. Rushmore of brilliant young head coaches, and quarterback Tyler Shough as one of the best quarterbacks in the league. Really? Are we really that serious?  Outside of their one-point...