C-Mac is back in on the Giants season, and agrees that it has taken on a completely different look thanks to three straight wins, but that doesn’t mean he was wrong about wanting to shoot for a top draft pick when the team was sitting at 2-8.
“I wanted them to win up until losing the Raider game. After they lost the Raider game, I was team tank. Not before,” C-Mac said. “It’s not just denying what’s in front of you. It’s still being a fan and rooting for them. By rooting for them, when I want them to lose, it’s what’s best for them.
“The analogy I use is eating my vegetables. It was eating your vegetables to get a quarterback, which they desperately needed…a lot of people just don’t have it in them to think it’s better to lose football games. I get that. I’m on the other side of it.”
So, even while fans called in to ask where his mindset was now that the Giants have a shot, C-Mac maintained that hoping for more losses to secure a potential future franchise quarterback was the right move at the time. Of course now, things are different.
“Now that they’ve won games, it makes no more sense,” C-Mac said. “But there was a time I wanted Drake Maye or Caleb Williams, a franchise-defining quarterback, while I was watching C.J. Stroud take the Texans from nowhere to leading the NFL in passing yards and on a playoff run. That’s what I wanted. I don’t want them to win and be 3-8. I want them to win and be a sustainable winning team. If you think that makes me not a fan, I disagree.”
