How Russell Wilson lit up the Cowboys with his vintage moon ball!

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00:00Vintage Russell Wilson showed up in Jerry's world.

00:03The moon ball was in full effect.

00:05He went 7-4-11 for 264 yards, three touchdowns,

00:09one interception on deep passes.

00:11Those are passes with 20-plus air yards.

00:14The 264 yards, well, that's the most deep passing yards

00:18in a game since next-gen stats started tracking back in 2016.

00:23What did we learn about year 14 Russell Wilson

00:26in week two versus week one?

00:28When Russ had time, he didn't check the ball down.

00:31He let it fly.

00:32Three of his biggest plays you can see here in blue,

00:35a moon ball to Malik Neighbors for six,

00:37a strike to Wondell Robinson for six,

00:40and a clutch dime delivered to Neighbors for six

00:44that we thought was going to be game.

00:46So let's break down the protection and the pass on those plays

00:49to show how when given time, Russ can still cook

00:52and the moon ball is still alive.

00:55All right, first play was that 29-yard dime

00:58to Malik Neighbors for a touchdown.

01:00Hell of a catch by Malik Neighbors.

01:02But you know what?

01:03Shout out to the O-line for the protection.

01:05Let's break this thing down.

01:07All right, what we're seeing here is a four-man rush.

01:10The Commanders did the exact same thing in week one,

01:13but the Giants' offensive line struggled.

01:16Sounds very basic in terms of some of the things

01:18that we're going to see and I'm going to talk about,

01:20but look how much he is protected and how he can step into the throw.

01:26If you're looking at this, and we'll rewind this back right now,

01:29take a look at the offensive line.

01:30Up top to the left, that left tackle, that's rookie, Marcus Bowe.

01:34He came in and held his own when James Hudson III got benched for,

01:39we don't even need to go there.

01:40But look how in the middle, the interior pressure,

01:43how they're able to hold up against this interior pressure.

01:46So when you see the motion here, they're only going to rush four again.

01:54Russ snaps it, pause it.

01:56Clean protection.

01:58Again, Marcus Bowe, one-on-one, holds his own.

02:02You can see John Runyon Jr. kind of scan to see if there's any blitzers,

02:07and then he goes over and he helps Bowe out.

02:09JMS, John Michael Schmitz has his one-on-one.

02:13He's got his guy stalemate.

02:14And then you've got Van Roden and Illuminor both on their one-on-ones

02:18getting somebody up out the club.

02:20If you're able to protect Russell Wilson,

02:23he is going to throw the football down the field

02:26and deliver moon balls like he's been doing for 13 years in the NFL.

02:31All right, second play is fourth and four here.

02:33This is one of the biggest plays of the game

02:36until the biggest play of the game.

02:3832-yard touchdown pass to Wondell Robinson.

02:42Check out the protection here

02:43because the protection held up just enough

02:46for Wondell to run clean up the side.

02:49Now, if you're watching this, all right, you've got four.

02:52They're rushing four again.

02:54There's nothing special there.

02:55But again, that's something that they struggled with a week prior.

02:59You've got five offensive linemen and a running back

03:01in protection to protect five.

03:03Look out to protect against four.

03:06Look how clean this pocket is.

03:07The right tackle, Jermaine Illuminor, runs his pass rusher right by Russ up the field.

03:13Big point here to watch.

03:15Van Roten, the right guard, gets beat.

03:19But look how the center, JMS, John Michael Schmitz, helps him out.

03:24He helps him enough to hold that rusher so Russ can kind of step into this throw.

03:29That was a big point of emphasis going into this game from week one to week two.

03:37How these guys are going to handle double teams, how these guys are going to handle stunts.

03:41If you look to the left side here, left guard, John Runyon, he handles him and Marcus Bowe,

03:47a rookie, in his first real action.

03:51Look how they handle their one-on-one and look how they handle the stunts.

03:54Russell Wilson was getting his face knocked off last week against the commanders.

04:00Look, when you talk about getting better and going from week one to week two,

04:05the protection was the biggest thing that we were talking about.

04:11And when we're talking about week one to week two, how teams or NFL teams get better,

04:17that's when you have the biggest jump.

04:19And for the Giants, I believe the biggest jumps were in the protection for Russell Wilson

04:23and being able to push the ball down the field vertical.

04:27It only happens if Russ has time to cook.

04:31Obviously, it's the last play and the biggest play of the game for the Giants

04:35in terms of positive play of the game.

04:38One thing about football, you need time to throw a dime.

04:41And that's exactly what the offensive line allowed Russell Wilson to do here.

04:46We'll start with the left tackle.

04:47Marcus Bowe, up top here towards the left, handling his one-on-one, the interior.

04:54They handle a stunt and all that action and that mess up the middle.

04:59Again, Jermaine Illuminor stonewalls his edge rusher.

05:03And in the biggest moment of the game, when you know that Dallas is coming after him,

05:09Russell Wilson has the ability to step into the pocket.

05:12And the pocket is the cleanest it probably was all game.

05:17This man puts the ball almost 60 yards in the air and delivers that signature moon ball

05:24against double coverage.

05:26You see him step.

05:27Look at the pocket there.

05:28I could probably throw the ball a clean 30 yards down the field into the bucket.

05:34This is what Russell, when Joe Shane and Brian Dable brought him in,

05:38this is why they brought him in, to push the ball down the field vertically.

05:45Giants fans were just as excited as Wondell Robinson after that catch.

05:49And I would be too, because his boy Malik Neighbors finished with a buck-o-five

05:53and two touchdowns on deep balls.

05:56Wondell Robinson, who's usually a slot guy who averaged, what,

06:00around seven to eight yards per catch last year,

06:03he had a buck-o-seven on deep balls and a score.

06:06Russ is building real chemistry with these young weapons.

06:10And, yeah, he threw a pick over time.

06:13That ended it.

06:15But he also silenced all of that Jackson Dart noise

06:18and the critics who said that he was washed up.

06:21The Giants gave up one sack, one QB hit, and seven pressures throughout the day.

06:27So shout-out to the offensive line,

06:28because that was good enough for Russ to finish the day 30-for-41

06:32for 450 yards, three TDs, and the INT.

06:37If the Giants' offensive line can protect them,

06:40defense is better back up,

06:42because the moon ball is still dangerous,

06:44and danger Russ is still the moon ball.

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