Quarterback J.J. McCarthy played a handful of snaps for the Giants in last Sunday\u2019s tie with the Commanders and it sounds like the team is going to keep making plans to sprinkle him into their offensive plans. <\/p>\n
McCarthy didn\u2019t make much of an impact \u2014 two carries for two yards and two plays wiped out by penalties \u2014 in his five snaps, but his ability as a runner is a wrinkle that Jameis Winston does not offer and head coach John Harbaugh said it behooves the Giants to find ways to get something out of every player on the active roster. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe benefits of it? It\u2019s a change of pace,\u201d Harbaugh said, via a transcript from the team. \u201cWhat you saw is probably not all we have for him right now. Whether or not he\u2019s out there or not will be determined based on whatever happens. But we\u2019ll see if it\u2019s something that can help us. One thing about it, to me, it\u2019s like, what\u2019s the benefit of not doing everything you can to use all the guys you have? We\u2019re always going to be searching for opportunities to use our players, give them an opportunity to help us win games. I think we\u2019d be negligent if we didn\u2019t try to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n
McCarthy has only been with the Giants for a couple of weeks, so there\u2019s a limited menu to choose from at this point and the Commanders didn\u2019t seem thrown by anything that McCarthy did while he was in the game. As that expands, McCarthy\u2019s chances of making a difference offensively should grow as well. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Quarterback J.J. McCarthy played a handful of snaps for the Giants in last Sunday\u2019s tie with the Commanders…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":883445,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-883444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=883444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/883445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=883444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=883444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=883444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}