The Giants is perhaps OK. The Jets will not be.
That appears to be what Sunday proved, although the Giants were 20 minutes away from making Latest York sports fans begin pining for the start of the Knicks and Rangers seasons.
That was before Daniel Jones orchestrated a shocking second half comeback, because the Giants overcame a 20-0 halftime deficit to beat the Cardinals 31-28 and even their record at 1-1.
They definitely seemed to be on their method to starting a season with an 0-2 record for the sixth time in seven years and with legitimate questions surrounding the futures of Daniel Jones and Brian Daboll.
But against a Cardinals team that was led by Joshua Dobbs — filling in for the injured Kyler Murray — the Giants breathed recent life into the football season, even when it proves to be fleeting.
In any case, all of the Giants did Sunday was beat the Cardinals, who’ve been a large number for many of their history, and widely thought to have their eyes on a top draft pick greater than on winning games. They usually needed a miracle comeback to do it.
The Giants outscored Arizona 31-8 within the second half, but that also got here against a backup quarterback. Even with the win, at 1-1, Giants are the one team with a loss in what could possibly be a tricky NFC East.
Perhaps more worrisome, Saquon Barkley left the sport with an ankle injury that might derail the entire season depending on how he looks upon further examination.
While the potential lack of Barkley wouldn’t be as devastating because the Jets losing Aaron Rodgers, it might still be devastating to an offense that’s hardly a juggernaut even under the very best of circumstances.
Speaking of those Jets, with Zach Wilson under center they proved in a 30-10 loss in Dallas exactly what even the typical sports fan understood going into the season: The Jets can be cooked without Rodgers.
In his first start of the season, with Rodgers recuperating from torn Achilles surgery, Wilson showed himself to be exactly who most individuals thought he was.
Against the Cowboys, who tormented the Giants last week, Wilson threw three interceptions while going just 12-of-27 for 170 yards because the Jets undid much of what they achieved with Wilson on the sphere of their stunning win over the Bills every week ago at MetLife Stadium. And a rushing attack that looked so promising last Monday night got 16 combined yards out of Breece Hall and Dalvin Cook.
While Rodgers hinted this past week at a possible playoff return, Wilson and Co. proved getting there is perhaps a pipe dream for the Jets again this season.
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Many unhappy returns
The last two major starting pitcher acquisitions for the Yankees were each on display Sunday, with Carlos Rodon trying to deliver a second straight solid outing and Frankie Montas back in motion — with Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre — for the primary time this season after spending most of it rehabbing since having shoulder surgery in February.
Each 30, their careers have been fairly similar and successful. Rodon entered Sunday with a profession 3.75 ERA and 1.250 WHIP and Montas had a 3.90 ERA and a WHIP of 1.292.
Despite their respective track records, it’s hard to assume two significant deals going worse for the Yankees, who traded for Montas finally 12 months’s trade deadline from the A’s once they missed out on Luis Castillo after which signed Rodon to an enormous, six-year, $162 million contract within the offseason after two standout years in a row.
Montas, who allowed a run in an inning with SWB on Sunday, was almost immediately done in last 12 months by shoulder woes and the injury-prone Rodon has either been hurt or ineffective for nearly his entire first season in The Bronx.
Rodon managed to pitch a season-high 6 ⅔ innings in a loss at Pittsburgh on Sunday, striking out 10 and never walking a batter, but he still let up three runs to a different dismal Pirates team.
Perhaps if considered one of them pitched to expectations, the Yankees would still have a legitimate shot on the postseason as a substitute of being reduced to a possible spoiler role against Toronto — in a pair of series — and Arizona.
Montas might be a free agent after the season and his tenure with the Yankees is prone to be an unlucky afterthought, but Rodon has an extended time to go on his contract and the Yankees need him to get back to the shape he showed with the White Sox and Giants the previous two seasons in the event that they hope to get any value for the contract.
And as they likely head back into the free agent and trade markets to fortify their rotation for 2024, they’ll have to guage what went mistaken in each transactions, because the Montas deal hurt their possibilities in ‘22 and again this 12 months and Rodon’s dud of a season — when he was alleged to be a lefty ace alongside Gerrit Cole — made it not possible for the Yankees to get anything moving into ‘23.
Can Deion and Colorado finish what they’ve began?
Deion Sanders was considered one of the most important stars in college football when he played at Florida State from 1985-88 and re-established himself in the faculty game from 2020-22 as the top coach at Jackson State in Mississippi, where he led the SWAC team to back-to-back bowl appearances the last two seasons.
After a move to take over this system at Colorado, he’s off to a whirlwind start, leading the Buffaloes to a 3-0 record in his first season in Boulder.
Sanders and Colorado caught everyone’s attention with their opening week win over TCU, which was coming off an appearance within the national championship game.
Following a rousing double extra time win Saturday night over Colorado State, though, he and the Buffaloes are about to face potentially even stiffer tests over the subsequent two weeks. First comes a visit to Oregon, which was ranked thirteenth within the country before the Geese routed Hawaii on Saturday, followed by a house game against Southern Cal, which was ranked No. 5 prior to a lopsided win over Stanford and is led by Lincoln Riley and defending Heisman Trophy-winner, and frontrunner to win it again, Caleb Williams, at quarterback.
Colorado has Sanders’ son, Shedeur, at QB, and he has already joined Williams at the highest of the Heisman conversation.
Colorado is coming off a one-win season and hasn’t won greater than five games since 2016.
That seems soon to vary.
Whether Sanders can take his turnaround of Colorado into the championship hunt will begin to be determined in the subsequent couple of weeks.
