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  • NJ native and Saints coach visits NY Giants at MetLife

    NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - DECEMBER 01: Head coach Darren Rizzi of the New York Saints speaks with line judge Walter Flowers during the first quarter against the Los Angeles Rams at Caesars Superdome on December 01, 2024 in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Photo by Jonathan Bachman/Getty Images)

    Darren Rizzi has fond memories of the New York Giants growing up.

    “I remember the strike year in 1982 where the Giants actually held practice on our [youth football] field in Hillsdale,” Rizzi said in an interview with NorthJersey.com two weeks ago.

    “I was 11 years old and I could walk down to the bottom of the hill and watch the Giants practice. It was awesome.”

    Rizzi, now 2-1 as the interim head coach of the New Orleans Saints, will get an even closer look Sunday when he brings his team in to face the struggling Giants at MetLife Stadium.

    Dec 1, 2024; New Orleans, Louisiana, USA; New Orleans Saints interim head coach Darren Rizzi greets New Orleans Saints running back Alvin Kamara (41) before a game against the Los Angeles Rams at Caesars Superdome. Mandatory Credit: Matthew Hinton-Imagn Images

    It will be a huge homecoming for the Bergen Catholic grad who has climbed multiple steps up the coaching ladder to get here.

    “It will be a surreal experience,” Rizzi said.

    Rizzi still has deep connections in North Jersey. His best friends from high school and his family will be there Sunday. They’ve coordinated a pre-game get together, and arranged for travel for his mother, Phylis, for the game.

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  • NY Giants’ benching was about the football and the money

    EAST RUTHERFORD – There’s no question Daniel Jones’ $23 million injury guarantee would play a part in his exit as the starting quarterback of the New York Giants.

    The reality: the decision to bench Jones on Monday morning was about the football as much as it was about the feared financial penalty for next season.

    As Pro Football Hall of Fame executive and former Giants general manager George Young once famously said, “When they say it’s not about the money, it’s always about the money.”

    So yes, insisting the Giants turning the starting job over to Tommy DeVito has nothing to do with money – sending Jones to the bottom of the depth chart and bypassing backup Drew Lock in the process – is disingenuous.

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  • Can the 2024 Giants be a good football team?

    Can the 2024 Giants be a good football team?

    Quarterback Daniel Jones insisted this week that the 0-2 New York Giants are, or at least can be, a good football team.

    “I think everyone realizes our record. I think everybody understands that, but no one’s discouraged or no one’s letting that affect our preparation and how hard we work going into the game,” Jones said. “There’s a great energy and feel in the building still, and I think that that’s important and important to our preparation, important to our process and making sure we’re practicing well and preparing to play well. We know the record, but it’s a long season, and we’ve got a good football team.”

    Are they, though? Or, is there at least in opportunity that they can be the good football team Jones and others claim they believe they are?

    “It’s going to get better. Right now, it’s just rough,” defensive tackle Dexter Lawrence said. “These two games, you can’t compare this season to last season. It’s a whole new team. A lot of new players. A couple new staff. It’s just a little growing pain through these first two weeks.”

    It is, though, getting late early for these Giants. At least if they want to be relevant during the current season. Maybe over the course of the next 15 games the Giants will continue to get better. Maybe they won’t be as bad as the first two games — a blowout loss to the Minnesota Vikings and a game against the Washington Commanders that typified a bad team finding a way to beat itself — lead many to believe the season might be.

    The Giants, though, desperately need a victory on Sunday if they are going to play any meaningful games over the remaining 15 weeks of the season. Fall to 0-3, the remainder of the year is most likely about figuring out what the 2025 Giants look like.

    “Wins create juice,” linebacker Micah McFadden said this week.

    The Giants’ season needs some juice. As ugly as things were three plays into the season opener against the Minnesota Vikings, it could be worse at MetLife Stadium on Thursday night if the Giants enter that nationally-televised game at 0-3.

    The game against the favored Browns — who will be at home and feature a top-notch defense — will be difficult for the Giants. Our entire staff has abandoned ship, picking the Browns to win and sink the Giants deeper into their misery.

    There are some reasons for optimism. Which, let’s acknowledge, might all get blown to smithereens with a bad performance Sunday in Ohio. Let’s go through them.

    2024 rookie class

    Accepted NFL doctrine is that it takes three seasons to fully judge a draft class. I believe that to be correct. Still, after just two weeks it is plain to see that this rookie class could be transformative for the Giants.

    • First-round pick Malik Nabers is special. His receiver Expected Points Added (EPA) is third in the league, per NextGen Stats.

    The Browns know:

    “He’s a great player,” Cleveland cornerback Denzel Ward said of Nabers. “Gets a lot of targets on their team, good after the catch, got good hands.”

    “He’s very, very fast. He’s explosive,” head coach Kevin Stefanski said of the rookie receiver. “There’s a reason he was drafted where he was drafted. He’s a very, very, very good young player.”

    • Second-round pick Tyler Nubin, whom the Giants believe will become the leader of their secondary, is starting at safety and playing solidly.
    • Third-round pick Dru Phillips has gotten attention for his instincts and his physicality from the slot cornerback position.
    • Fourth-round pick Theo Johnson had a rough opening week and has only one reception in two games. What the Giants think of him is obvious, though, as he has pushed Daniel Bellinger — a good player — to the bench.
    • There is tremendous optimism about the future of Tyrone Tracy, the running back selected in the fifth round. Tracy has barely played, getting only 27 snaps over two games, but the belief here is that his role is going to expand.
    • Linebacker Darius Muasau, the sixth-round pick, was impressive in Week 1 before sitting out Week 2 with a knee injury. If he becomes more than a useful special teams player, that is a win.

    If the Giants get a superstar receiver and three to four building-block players out of this class, that would be a tremendous haul.

    Offensive line performance

    The Giants offensive line is … good? Or, at least good enough? Does the NFL allow the Giants to possess a line that can be thought of that way?

    • Pro Football Focus grades the Giants as the league’s sixth-best pass-blocking team after two weeks. No, that is not a typo. PFF does grade the line 30th in run-blocking, but the Giants did open enough holes for Devin Singletary to run 16 times for 95 yards in Week 2.
    • The Giants have allowed six sacks in two games, a pace that would have them at 51 for the season. That’s a lot better than the 85 allowed last year. The team sack rate allowed of 7.9% is 17th in the NFL, per NextGen Stats.
    • Per NextGen, Daniel Jones has been pressured on 32.9% of his dropbacks. That is 13th-most in the league. Pretty much average — a huge improvement from 2023.

    “I feel good about the progress that we’ve made over the first two games, but to be named a great offensive line or a good offensive line, you have to do it consistently,” said left tackle Andrew Thomas. “We’re just approaching this week as another opportunity to get better, protect DJ (Daniel Jones), and open up run lanes.”

    Through two games, Thomas is Pro Football Focus’s highest-graded pass blocker. Thomas is eighth overall and Jermaine Eluemunor 51st overall among 91 qualifiers. Perhaps most encouragingly, second-year center John Michael Schmitz is grading middle of the pack (No. 21 of 31 qualifiers) with a 60.4 overall grade. That is nearly 20 points higher than his 41.4 a season ago.

    Left guard Jon Runyan Jr. has been a Schmitz supporter since the spring.

    “He’s the one that’s in charge of pretty much directing this whole offense, him and Daniel (Jones). We go up there to the line and everybody’s got their eyes on him. Everybody’s listening to what he’s got to say and helping us out and getting us going in the right direction and he’s always on top of his stuff,” Runyan said. “Nothing really fazes him and doing a good job in the run and pass game. It starts with him and getting everybody going to the right people. He’s been doing a good job and he’s been on top of everything.”

    The Giants have a huge challenge this week against Myles Garrett, Za’Darius Smith and the rest of Cleveland’s impressive front seven.

    It seems weird to enter a game against a good defensive line thinking the Giants might actually have a chance to hold their own at the line of scrimmage.

    The NFC East ain’t great

    Look at the division standings. The Philadelphia Eagles, Dallas Cowboys, and Washington Commanders are all 1-1. Look at the way each team has played over the season’s first two weeks. None, honestly, should be crowing about how great they have been. All are flawed.

    Look at the Week 3 schedule:

    Those three games could all easily be losses for the NFC East teams.

    If the Giants can win on Sunday there is a possibility that there is a four-way tie in the NFC East at 1-2 entering Thursday’s game against Dallas. That’s not fantastic, but it is at least something to be optimistic about entering Week 3.

    Final thoughts

    There are plenty of things to worry about with the 2024 Giants — I haven’t covered the first two games with blinders on. It is certainly possible that a few days from now the Giants are 0-4 and yet another Giants season will be in the dumpster.

    These, though, are some of the things fans can — and should — feel good about. Of course, no one will feel good about anything if the Giants are 0-3 by late Sunday afternoon.

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  • At Google antitrust trial, documents say one thing. The tech giant’s witnesses say different

    At Google antitrust trial, documents say one thing. The tech giant’s witnesses say different

    ALEXANDRIA, Va. — The judge who will decide whether Google holds a monopoly over technology that matches buyers and sellers of online advertising must choose whether to believe what Google executives wrote or what they have said on the witness stand.

    The Justice Department is wrapping up its antitrust case against Google this week at a federal courtroom in Virginia. The federal government and a coalition of states contend Google has built and maintained a monopoly on the technology used to buy and sell the ads that appear to consumers when they browse the web.

    Google counters that the government is improperly focused on a very narrow slice of advertising — essentially the rectangular banner ads that appear on the top and along the right side of a publisher’s web page — and that within the broader online advertising market, Google is beset on all sides from competition that includes social media companies and streaming TV services.

    Many of the government’s key witnesses have been Google managers and executives, who have often sought to disavow what they have written in emails, chats and company presentations.

    This was especially true Thursday during the testimony of Jonathan Bellack, a product manager at Google who wrote an email that government lawyers believe is particularly damning.

    In 2016, Bellack wrote an email wondering, “Is there a deeper issue with us owning the platform, the exchange, and a huge network? The analogy would be if Goldman or Citibank owned the NYSE,” the New York Stock Exchange.

    For the Justice Department, Bellack’s description is almost a perfect summary of its case. It alleges that Google’s tech dominates both the market that online publishers use to sell available ad space on their web pages, and the tech used by huge networks of advertisers to buy ad space. Google even dominates the “ad exchanges” that serve as a middleman to match buyer and seller, the lawsuit alleges.

    As a result of Google’s dominance in all parts of the transaction, Justice alleges the Mountain View, California-based tech giant has shut out competitors and been able to charge exorbitant fees that amount to 36 cents on the dollar for every ad impression that runs through its stack of ad tech.

    On the stand Thursday, though, Bellack dismissed his email as “late night, jet-lagged ramblings.” He said he didn’t think Google’s control of the buy side, the sell side and the middleman was an issue, but was speculating why certain customers were looking for workarounds to Google’s technology.

    Most of the other current and former Google employees who have testified as government witnesses have similarly rejected their own written words.

    Earlier this week, another Google executive, Nirmal Jayaram, spent large parts of his testimony disavowing viewpoints expressed in emails he wrote or articles and presentations he co-authored.

    The Justice Department contends, of course, that what the Google employees wrote in real time is a more accurate reflection of reality. And it says there would be even more damning documentary evidence if Google had not systematically deleted many of the internal chats that employees used to discuss business, even after the company was put on notice that it was under investigation.

    Testimony has shown that Google implemented a “Communicate with Care” policy in which employees were instructed to add company lawyers to sensitive emails so they could be marked as “privileged” and exempt from disclosure to government regulators.

    U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema called Google’s policies on retention of documents “absolutely inappropriate and improper” and something she has taken notice of during the trial, though she has not imposed any kind of specific punishment.

    The Virginia trial began Sept. 9, just a month after a judge in the District of Columbia declared Google’s core business, its ubiquitous search engine, an illegal monopoly. That trial is still ongoing to determine what remedies, if any, the judge can impose.

    The ad tech at question in the Virginia trial does not generate the same kind of revenue for Goggle as its search engine does, but is still believed to generate tens of billions of dollars of revenue annually.

    The Virginia trial has been moving at a much quicker pace than the D.C. case. The government has presented witnesses for nine days straight and has nearly concluded its case. The judge has told Google it should expect to begin presenting its own witnesses Friday.

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