Doubletake with Matt and Jake

Eli: The Perpetual Little Brother The NFL season only ended a couple of weeks ago, but for the New York Giants it was pretty much over before Halloween. I still can't wrap my head around what happened to their season, and in particular Eli Manning. He wasn't great this year, but you wouldn't be either if you lost your top 3 wide receivers for the large majority of the season, and one of the was Odell Beckham Jr. With only a few games to go in the season the Giants decided to bench Eli Manning for, get this, Gen Smith. Same Geno Smith who got his face broken by his own teammates when he was on the Jets. Even though the benching only lasted a week, Eli got hosed by the Giants. He was never going to catch Brett Favre’s consecutive start record. But to end the streak to start Geno Smith for one game against the Raiders is just disrespectful. Eli’s been an easy target over the years. He has the face of Jay Cutler and the body of Jim Belushi.  As someone who has ...

NFL Draft: 1 st Round Quarterbacks In the upcoming NFL draft in April NFL analysts expect to see at least four quarterbacks taken in the first round: Josh Rosen, Sam Darnold, Josh Allen, and Baker Mayfield. For Mayfield especially the pre-draft process; like the combine, interviews, and pro-day; will be huge to solidify that draft position in the first round. It’s going to be super interesting to see where Lamar Jackson gets drafted, and Mason Rudolph out of Oklahoma State has the size and arm strength to sneak up into the late first round. But Rosen, Darnold, Allen, and Mayfield are widely held as the clear cut top 4 quarterbacks in the 2018 NFL Draft. This is one of the most interesting QB draft years in recent memory. At the beginning of the season that Rosen, Darnold, and Allen were projected to be the first three picks in the entire draft. While they’ll still all go high, a lot the shine and potential has been replaced with some big questions marks for each player. I think...