Live from Southern California. This is the Jim Rome Show.

I want to start off with some NFL. I want to start off with Hard Knox, Hard Knox,

Hard Knox off season with the New York Giants aired its final episode last night

and I've got to say this one more time. I need to own this.

That was a quality season of hard knocks.

Like I thought it was going to suck. I thought it would be terrible.

I actually enjoyed it. It was a good idea. I thought it was the worst idea, but

it turned out to be a good idea. Well, for us, not for them. But I enjoyed it. Like I thought

we'd spend more than enough time with the jets in prime time.

Like they would just jam the jets down our throats in prime time. Giants, I should say.

This is the last thing we need, right? The Jets I'm more open to, but the Giants. We don't

need to see the Giants in prime time. So why would we want to spend any more prime time

with the Giants in the off season. It made no sense to me at all.

Except the Giants off season is way more interesting than watching them get hammered every single time they take the

field during the regular season in prime time. So it was much better in the off season and

one of the clear main takeaways

from this hard-knock season is,

if you watched it, it is time for Danny Dimes

to finally live up to that terrible nickname and that terrible contract as it turns out.

Instead of being Danny turnovers, Danny fumbles, Danny humiliating losses under the lights, it's time for Danny to actually start throwing and earning some of those dimes.

I believe the actual quote from Giants GM Joe

Shane was and I quote we're not paying him $40 million a year to hand off to a 12

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