Big Blue View · Aug 12, 2019
Kyle Lauletta “itching for another chance” after 2018 debut debacle
Dennis Schneidler-USA TODAY Sports Kyle Lauletta vs. the Jets in the first preseason game.Kyle Lauletta waited, and waited, and waited for an opportunity to play in a game last season. Impatient New York Giants fans, after watching the team start 1-7, were screaming for the rookie fourth-round pick to get that opportunity.
Coach Pat Shurmur kept telling anyone who would listen that Lauletta, who played collegiately at Richmond, an FCS school, wasn’t yet ready to be an NFL quarterback.
In Week 14, a 40-16 blowout victory by the Giants over the Washington Redskins, Lauletta finally got the opportunity many had been waiting to see.
To say the least, it did not go well.
