Andrew Thomas’ Giants challenge all too familiar for Joe Thomas
NY Post
Andrew Thomas will step foot Sunday on a field that should have a commemorative landmark identifying it as the site where a dominant left tackle’s brilliance was wasted.
Hall of Famer Joe Thomas played an NFL-record 10,363 consecutive snaps and made 10 Pro Bowls during an 11-year career with the Browns that resulted in a .287 career winning percentage and zero playoff appearances.
He was a rock through a revolving door of six head coaches and 20 starting quarterbacks from 2007-2017.
The Giants have not reached that level of futility, and Andrew Thomas has not approached Joe Thomas’ standards, but another 0-2 start suggests a long playoff-less season is ahead for the fourth time in Andrew Thomas’ five-year career — even as he is the NFL’s top-graded pass-blocking offensive tackle, per Pro Football Focus.
“It’s really cool to see him go through the struggles that he did [as a rookie] and deal with that adversity,” Joe Thomas told The Post. “The toughness and the fortitude that he learned early on in his career is paying dividends because he is a mentally tough dude. He is showing great performance in the face of a challenging situation.”
Joe Thomas, a former NFL Network analyst, is an expert in finding the motivation when losses are piling up. He will be closely watching Andrew Thomas in Sunday’s Giants-Browns game.
With the Yankees on an impressive run of mostly correct decisions, there’s some reason to leave them alone and just let the best team in the American League continue to roll. But they did raise serious doubt and leave room for suggestions (and even ridicule) following maybe the most inexplicable decision of this season, or any season.
The Giants have never been 0-2 under Brian Daboll, until now. They were 2-0 and flying high in 2022 and 1-1 after a rousing comeback in Arizona in 2023. So, this represents a low point as far as early-season difficulties for Daboll and the Giants. They had no business beating the Vikings in the opener and no business losing to the Commanders in Week 2. But here they are.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Harrison Butker kept making a lonely walk to midfield after each quarter Sunday to check on the direction of the wind, which tends to swirl inside Arrowhead Stadium. He did it one last time during the 2-minute warning, when his Chiefs were trailing the Bengals by two and trying to give him a winning field-goal attempt.