5 For 5

TigerBlog ran his streak with his colleague Cody Chrusciel to five straight weeks.

Of what? 

Of texting each other somewhere around the time that the Princeton football game of that weekend would have figured to be starting. The two are now five for five on the season.

If you think that the people who work in Princeton Athletics are glad that there are no games this fall, and therefore less work, well, this is Exhibit 1,000 that you're incorrect. 

This weekend would have been the game between Princeton and Brown. The game would have matched Princeton head coach Bob Surace against his former offensive coordinator - and current close friend - James Perry. 

The last time Brown came to Princeton was during the perfect 2018 season. That was the game that John Lovett missed due to injury, and in his place Kevin Davidson made his first career start. That made Brown the lone team against which Davidson made two career starts.

If you couple that game with the game last year in Providence, then here are Davidson's numbers in his two starts against the Bears: 

53 for 74, 678 yards, nine touchdowns, one interception. Combined score of the two games: Princeton 113, Brown 32.

It's safe to say that had the game been played, Brown would not have missed Davidson. 

Speaking of Lovett, he made a great play on the kickoff coverage team for the Green Bay Packers against the Tampa Bay Bucs yesterday:

We 👀👀 you #45!!#WinTheKeyGround pic.twitter.com/fmw722FbYN

— Princeton Football (@PrincetonFTBL) October 18, 2020

Lovett, keep in mind, is a two-time Bushnell Cup winner as a quarterback. Well, sort of as a quarterback. He was more of a physical imposition on the other team who could do everything, so calling him a quarterback sells him short, even though he was a great quarterback at Princeton.

Anyway, to those who saw him play at Princeton, it's not a surprise that he's doing well on special teams in the NFL.

Speaking of former Princeton quarterbacks, Jason Garrett got his first win as the offensive coordinator with the Giants yesterday in a 20-19 win over Washington. 

TigerBlog is torn in a few ways here. First, he's rooting for Garrett to do well with the Giants and then get another NFL head coaching job. Or, possibly, to give up coaching and instantly become the next Tony Romo on TV, a job for which he is a complete natural, with his voice and his personality. 

TB has heard a lot of public speakers in his time at Princeton. No. 1? That's Dick Vitale, the Dick Vitale in his prime who spoke at the Meadowlands at halftime of a 1997 Princeton basketball game against Wake Forest in the Jimmy V. Classic. Jason, though, is really, really close. 

Great public speaking is about addressing the audience from your heart. That quality is what makes Jason Garrett an extraordinary public speaker, as good as it gets.

Assuming that he wants to stay in coaching, to get another head coaching spot, Jason needs an offense that can put up points. To do that in the NFL, he needs a good quarterback.

Is Daniel Jones the answer for the Giants? It's Year 2 for him. Is he showing signs of  being the long-term answer?

There seems to be universal agreement that Clemson's Trevor Lawrence will be somebody's long-term answer. TB has seen enough of Lawrence to be on the same page. Would the Giants give up on Jones so quickly and draft Lawrence with the No. 1 pick, should they get it?

Jones, you might remember, was originally a Princeton commit before going to Duke. Can you imagine having added him to the group with Lovett, Davidson and Chad Kanoff? 

Another thing from the Giants game yesterday is that Princeton head coach Bob Surace knows that TB salutes Washington head coach Ron Rivera for going for the two-point conversion in the final seconds and for the win that would have come with it. For TB, that is always the right move. You've just scored. You have the defense on its heels. Go for it right there.

Of course, it takes a coach who is willing to be second-guessed if it doesn't work, like it didn't for Rivera. That's a rarity in the NFL.

This coming week for Surace and the Tigers would have been the game at Harvard. 

TB is assuming he and Cody will get to six for six.