Two-Minute Drill With Jim Monaghan and Chris Swendeman

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While the 2-7 New York Jets endure yet another miserable season, there's another 2-7 team that has been not-so-quietly been rebuilding in the middle of their own miserable season.

That would be the Philadelphia Eagles, currently in the throes of a 7-game losing streak.  

With QB1 Jalen Hurts out for the season, and both Washington and Dallas in their own disarray, it's pretty obvious that the Eagles have zero chance of getting into the playoffs.

Just two years since their last Super Bowl victory, the Eagles traded defensive tackle Jordan Davis at the deadline and not only freed up salary cap space, but they are looking at 10 draft picks in the first two rounds of the next three drafts.

And that includes two first-round picks in 2027 and 2028.

Make no mistake - the Eagles will be back sooner rather than later.  Can the Jets say the same thing?

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Despite the loss of QB1 Jaxson Dart, the Giants have had a LOT of things go their was through their first 7 games.

Two wins could EASILY have been losses, and the tie against Washington could also have ended up in the "L" column.

Instead, the Giants sit atop the division at 4-2-1 while Washington, Dallas, and Philadelphia can't get out of their own way.

The Giants' schedule has also been a factor and of their next 4 games, only the Jaguars figure to be a big obstacle, which means that by the end of the month the Giants could be 7-3-1.

And that is where the schedule turns - the 49ers, Seahawks, Browns, and Lions wait in successive weeks.

As for the Jets?  Let's just leave it that their season was basically over by Halloween.

We get into Brewers' manager Pat Murphy's off-hand comments about the Yankees after Milwaukee won the World Series, and Chris Swendeman dons his film critic's hat for a look at the new Ozzy Osbourne documentary.

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Following yet another hard-to-fathom loss, New York Jets fans HAVE to be wondering exactly how head coach Aaron Glenn still has a job.

Bad clock management helped lead to a 28-25 loss to the previously winless Miami Dolphins at MetLife Stadium on Sunday.

The most glaring stat?  How about the Jets being outscored 107-6 in the final two minutes of the first half in the games that Glenn has been the head coach.

Since an Opening Day win on the road against the Titans, and an overtime loss to the Packers that led Jets fans to think that maybe...just MAYBE this team was starting to turn a corner, there has been little to cheer for.

Yes, there was a win against the Browns who are currently in the lead in the AFC North, but that's hardly enough for a franchise starving for relevance.

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Major League Baseball probably will never admit this, but the Milwaukee Brewers taking on the Tampa Bay Rays in the World Series is NOT what they were hoping for.

TV MARKETS - Tampa/St. Petersburg is the #11 media market in the United States while Milwaukee is #39.  This is a LONG way from New York (#1) and Los Angeles (#2).

PAYROLL - the Brewers have the 19th highest payroll in Major League Baseball while the Rays are the 25th.  

The end result is that having two small market, low payroll teams on display for everyone to see totally undermines MLB's contention that a salary cap is necessary for competitive balance, which you KNOW is what is on the table in the upcoming collective bargaining agreement negotiations.

In addition, there's a huge missing factor in this series - there's no villian.

Which leads us to the Yankees.  Hal Steinbrenner HAS to know that his fanbase is seething right now, and what the team is offering for 2027 is more of the same with the return of both GM Brian Cashman and manager Aaron Boone.  Stability may be great for some (most?) organizations, but Hal might not be reading the room properly.

Also up for discussion this week - 

GIANTS - they may be leading the NFC East, but have a VERY deceptive record.

EAGLES - the Jalen Hurts medical situation is surrounded by a multitude of questions.

BILLS - speaking of deceptive records, if they don't fix the defense soon, they can kiss the AFC East lead goodbye.

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What's your Panic Point?

YANKEES - with the season almost a week over, what kind of changes do the Yankees need to make both in terms of the front office and the roster?

RANGERS - with a possible season-ending injury for goalie Igor Shesterkin, what will the Dawn of the Dylan Garand Era be like?

GIANTS - three straight games that could have easily been losses but weren't.  Should the fans be worried?

Let us know what YOUR Panic Point is with the local teams.

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Fresh off a dominant two-game sweep of the Red Sox in the American League Wild Card Series, the Yankees have found a FAR more difficult opponent in the Tampa Bay Rays.

For one, unlike the Red Sox, the Rays have an experienced coaching staff made up of major league veteran coaches.  Boston basically had a minor league staff in their dugout, and it showed.

For another, the Rays are a much more fundamentally sound team than the Yankees.

Also on tap this week -

GIANTS - no, despite their 3-1 record, they are not dominating teams.  Yes, they're winning.  And for fans, that may be enough right now.

JETS - they're a disaster.

And we can't leave Chris Swendeman's Buffalo Bills out of the conversation after dropping a close one at home to the struggling Drake "Maybe" and the New England Patriots.

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When the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees get after it this week at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx this week, there's more to this Wild Card Series matchup than these two storied franchises with a long history.

Yankees Captain Aaron Judge is not on the roster for this series.  Oft-injured Giancarlo Stanton is.

The Red Sox have activated starting pitcher Garrett Crochet, indicating that he will be used out of the bullpen.  Keep in mind that the last time Stanton and Crochet saw a Major League field as anything other than a specator was the fourth week of April when the first round of the NBA playoffs were underway.

We have SO many questions.

Stanton over Judge?  The Yankees defense?  

But here are the three possible matchups we want to see in this series.  All involve possible game-changing moments as Giancarlo is announced as a pinch hitter.

Will that moment be Stanton versus Peyton Tolle late in Game One?  Will it be an at bat againt Garrett Crochet?  Or, will it be something like the bottom of the 8th or 9th inning with Red Sox closer Aroldis Chapman on the mound?

And one football question - what do the Minnesota Vikings know about J.J. McCarthy that the Giants don't?

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This has been a bad few days for at least three of the local sports teams.  And a fourth one made sort of an unexpected move.

GIANTS - QB1 Jaxson Dart was injured in the first quarter of Monday night's game against the Rams and could need surgery that would end his season.  

Dart's replacement, Jameis Winston looked COMPLETLEY unprepared to com into the game.  And what is hard to comprehend - the Giants didn't have a 3rd QB dressed for the game, in the event of an injury to Winston.

JETS - following a thrilling road win over the Titans in the season opener, the Jets reverted back to form with an ugly OT loss to Green Bay that left a lot of people throwing shade at head coach Aaron Glenn and his clock management skills at the end of regulation time.

YANKEES - no Aaron Judge for the upcoming Wild Card series, most likely against the Red Sox.  You don't need a weather man to tell you which way the wind is blowing (thank you, Bob Dylan), and Yankees fans don't need anyone to tell them how important #99 is to this team's offense.

METS - nothing really bad happened, but the decision to not conduct an "exhaustive search" for a new manager is leaving a LOT of people scratching their heads.

And we bid a very fond farewell to legendary Mets broadcaster Howie Rose.

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 Former Mets slugger Pete Alonso made his first return to Citi Field this week after signing with the Baltimore Orioles as a free agent in the offseason.

One half of our team - that would be Jim Monaghan, of course - said at the time that it was no big loss for the Mets.  Alonso's defense wasn't at the Gold Glove level, he strikes out too much, and he's on the wrong side of 30.

After seeing the numbers that Alonso has put up for the Orioles this year, it would appear that Monaghan is the one who is on the wrong side of something.

We also introduce "Panic Point" to the Two-Minute Drill, taking a look at Aaron Judge, Gerrit Cole, and George Lombard Jr who have all struggled the past couple of weeks.

And the Jets and Giants did something over the weekend that hasn't been done since 2009. 

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When the Yankees woke up on the morning of Tuesday September 8, the news was REALLY good.  Captain Aaron Judge was returning to the lineup, and what seemed like a VERY slim two-game lead over the Red Sox was actually four.

Remember the Jimi Hendrix song "If 6 Was 9?"  For the Yankees, it's "If 2 Was 3, But Really 4.

Jim Monaghan and Chris Swendeman break down the "new math" that takes the Yankees 2-game lead and doubles it.

Plus, the NFL season starts this week with the spotlight on QB1 for both the Giants and Jets.

Actually, with the Giants, QB2 might be more important.

And don't look now, but Anthony Volpe is CRUSHING the ball in AAA. 

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