Tommy DeVito and the Giants’ winning streak came to an end on Sunday in New Orleans, but Evan says the DeVito story did not reach its conclusion.
Many wondered if a regressing from the undrafted rookie would mark the moment where fans accepted DeVito’s captivating run as over, and as a flash in the pan that was fun while it lasted. But Evan says Sunday’s performance from DeVito was not nearly bad enough to come to that conclusion.
“What happened yesterday sucked…but let us not throw out Tommy DeVito. The story is not over,” Evan said. “He needs to finish that story, and that story did not get finished on Sunday afternoon in New Orleans. Let us not throw out Tommy DeVito over one mediocre day in New Orleans, Louisiana.
“If that game was Tommy DeVito’s worst game, then you have something special. Because he wasn’t bad. It wasn’t the game you maybe feared deep down, like ‘the honeymoon is over,’ and he comes crashing down to earth. He didn’t turn the ball over. He got his ass kicked, he took a lot of sacks in this game, but I really don’t think any were on him. I don’t think Tommy DeVito walked into any sacks yesterday.”
DeVito posted a 58.8 percent completion percentage after completing over 80 percent of his passes against Green Bay, but Evan noticed abysmal offensive line play and a defense that collapsed in the second half as the reasons for the Giants’ loss, much more than DeVito’s play.
“He was not bad enough for anybody to come to the conclusion of ‘Well, that’s over.’ He has three more weeks to play and prove something,” Evan said. “I still think he has a chance to make the case over the last three weeks that he’s the guy.”
