What’s more newsworthy? The fact that the New York Giants are currently playing with their third-string quarterback or said third-string quarterback lives at home with his parents?
Enter Tommy DeVito, better known now as Tommy Cutlets.
He’s a 25-year-old undrafted free agent who stepped in for the G-Men after Daniel Jones and Tyrod Taylor both went down with injuries earlier this season. DeVito was taking up space on the practice squad until being called up to play in Week 8 and was signed to the active roster at the end of October. Two weeks later in Week 10, he was named the starting QB in the game against the Dallas Cowboys, and here we are at the end of Week 14 as DeVito has a 3–1 record.
So, I guess the kid is just a warm body at QB1 while Jones and Taylor are hurt, but the spotlight-stealing story is the fact that DeVito lives with mom and dad 12 minutes from MetLife Stadium in New Jersey:
“It was a no-brainer for me,” DeVito told ESPN about living with his parents. “Everything that I need is there at the house. The decision was made since this level of football is stressful for a rookie, especially from the quarterback position. There is a lot going on, a lot of meetings. So everything outside of football is handled by my family.
“I don’t have to worry about laundry, what I’m eating for dinner, chicken cutlets and all that is waiting for me when I get there. My mom still makes my bed. Everything is handled for me. Honestly, I don’t even know if I could find a place closer to here than where I live. It takes me 12 minutes to get here.”
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I feel like I can’t say anything about Tommy living at home at 25 as someone who lived at home until I was 27, but I also wasn’t the starting quarterback for an NFL team. I was just trying to save money, complete my master’s degree, and pay off my loans. At least I made my own bed.
There’s a pretty good chance he’s still on his parents’ insurance since he’s 25; he’ll have less than a year before he’ll have to take whatever health insurance the Giants offer. Meanwhile, I was swiftly kicked off my parents’ insurance at 24 when I got my current job; my dad will take any chance to kick me off of things, most recently his Netflix account since I no longer live at home and Netflix instituted that no password sharing thing.
When Josh and I went to the Patriots/Giants game a few weeks ago, we made jokes about DeVito living at home, and the jokes continued last night during the Monday night game:
- His parents dropped him off after dinner (chicken cutlets) for the Monday Night game.
- They told him to have a teammate drop him off after the game, and they’d leave the backlight on for him.
- He’d ask if said teammate can sleep over that night if the Giants win.
- Or if he’s driving himself to and from the game, he has to text his mom when he gets to the stadium and when he’s leaving.
- His parents are now Mr. and Mrs. Cutlets.
Oh, and can we talk about his agent?!
He looks like he’s in the mob and/or he’s an “uncle” in the family who knows a guy who knows a guy. Like seriously. I could imagine him on that phone call saying, “You know, if this guy, Daboll, cuts our Tommy or benches him, I think I’ll get him a pair of cement shoes.” Or ordering some chicken cutlets, who knows. Regardless, his agent looks 100% like what you’d expect an agent to look like for a player who’s Italian-American and has a nickname referring to a particular cut of poultry.
The Giants are currently 5–8 and don’t have a chance of making the playoffs, so I guess I’ll take the momentary hype of Tommy DeVito to make the last few weeks of the season a little less painful. Next year, it’ll be “Daniel Jones and his four-year, $160 million contract” who???
Strikeouts + Sprinkles 