{"id":1014547,"date":"2026-09-30T06:00:39","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T06:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/1014547\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T06:00:39","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T06:00:39","slug":"how-j-j-mccarthy-can-make-the-most-of-his-giants-chance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/1014547\/","title":{"rendered":"How J.J. McCarthy can make the most of his Giants chance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Isaiah Likely wears No. 9 for the Giants, and that might be the best thing that could happen to J.J. McCarthy.<\/p>\n<p>Not only is McCarthy getting a fresh start with a new team <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/09\/28\/sports\/giants-trade-for-j-j-mccarthy-in-eye-opening-qb-twist\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">after his trade from the Vikings<\/a>, he also is getting a clean break from the \u201cNine\u201d alter ego that he created in Minnesota to explain his game-day intensity and viral mean mugging \u2026 and then was mocked for when he became a first-round draft-bust and third-stringer.<\/p>\n<p>The Giants <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/09\/28\/sports\/what-led-giants-to-their-j-j-mccarthy-decision-felt-very-strongly\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">traded a fifth-round pick for McCarthy,<\/a> whom they met with multiple times before the 2024 draft but passed on despite wanting a quarterback. <\/p>\n<p>Two years, a John Harbaugh hiring and only 10 starts (6-4) later for the injury-plagued McCarthy, is there enough upside to be worth the risk of trying to salvage his talent?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Isaiah Likely wears No. 9 for the Giants, and that might be the best thing that could happen&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1014548,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2067],"tags":[4413,7,519,1519,1917,56,2321,2469,6,9,3248],"class_list":["post-1014547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-giants","tag-exclusive","tag-football","tag-giants","tag-j-j-mccarthy","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-giants","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkgiants","tag-nfl","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/117358469062845696","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1014547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1014548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1014547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1014547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1014547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}