Sometimes dumb questions get asked in press conferences. 94WIP host Hugh Douglas said Wednesday that those situations are inevitable.
On WIP Middays with Hugh Douglas and Joe Giglio Wednesday, sound from an exchange New York Giants head coach Brian Daboll had with one reporter at his Tuesday press conference was played.
The reporter wanted to know if there were any comparisons Daboll could draw from DeVito’s brief stretch under center to that of legend Tom Brady. That was considering Daboll was an assistant coach on Bill Belichick’s New England Patriots staff in 2001 when Brady replaced Drew Bledsoe and led the franchise to its first Super Bowl title.
“Although the audio’s great, you need to see Brian Daboll’s face when he realizes the question that’s being asked there, Hugh,” Giglio said. “Like he realizes that a reporter is actually after four games of this ‘Cutlets’ dude, comparing him to the greatest quarterback of all time. He’s like, ‘Are we really doing this?'”
“His tolerance level for that question was not very, very high,” Douglas responded.
“Reporters are fans. And when they see certain things they get excited,” he continued. “And he wanted to know that. Like, it’s a legit question, I guess, but it’s one that’s a little bit premature. A lot premature. But that’s what people do. Like reporters do it, fans do it. I mean it happens. So you just have to take it with a grain of salt, man, and just try to give him grace and answer the best way you can. But that’s a lot. That is a lot.”
Giglio said the story of DeVito, an undrafted free agent out of Syracuse signed by the Giants in April, has taken on legs of its own because of the quarterback’s persona, the bit with his agent, and his family.
“We’ve seen this before a million times in the NFL,” Giglio said. “Backup quarterback comes in and plays well for a few weeks. Brock Purdy did this last year. It took a year for anyone to say yeah he’s actually any good.”
