The score should fool no one. It was 40-10 before garbage time. The Giants were sleepwalking no-shows again and got throttled. Uncompetitive.
We have written about how injury-riddled the team is, year after year. And we compiled a profile of how systemic and structural a problem this injury situation is for the franchise. So here we watch a game where the Gmen are Gboys. It’s a practice squad vs NFL players. It is not a fair fight.
And then we lose Prince Amukamara. With a torn biceps. Likely out for the season.
I cannot take the lack of competitiveness. I cannot accept a team on the first snap of a new possession with a delay of game penalty on first down. If you want to challenge a play, that is completely separate from 11 players who have to be lined up and ready for the snap. How embarrassing is it to watch a TD given up by the keystone kops?!
There were a few bright spots. Robert Ayers. Andre Williams. Odell Beckham. (In garbage time we saw some Corey Washington catches.) And I got to root for one of my favorite players, Ahmad Bradshaw. Ooops, somebody just told me he played for the other team.
Everything else pretty much s*cked. The Giants laid an egg vs the Lions, Eagles and now the Colts, all in primetime. So let’s remember that the Giants have beaten exactly 2 teams with winning records in the past 1.5 seasons and they were both against 3rd string QBs (Matt Barkley of the Eagles in 2013 and Scott Tolzien of the Packers in 2013). They cannot beat anyone worth anything. 0-5 vs winning teams this season. Uncompetitive.
People grew tired of us asking for LBer from Reese. And yet here we are watching Jacquian Williams, a not-ready-for-primetime-player, getting undressed in single coverage in space. And it happens all season. There was a graphic aired by ESPN which showed how the Giants were sound in coverage on the outside of the field, but that the opposing QB passer rating on the inside of the field was something ridiculous like 126. Why? Because that is the land of the LBer. They cannot cover TEs, and when they cover RBs it is not much better. Add overpaid Rent-a-LBer Beason to IR. Stir and mix.
Someone tweeted that with the game 23-10 and the Giants having just scored, that maybe there was possibly some hope. I replied that with the D decimated by injury, it was doubtful. The secondary was supposed to be the strong suit for the team, but w/o Thurmond, (a healthy) DRC, Amukamara and McBride, what can we realistically expect?
One possession later it was 30-10 and the crowd began emptying out of the stadium. In the middle of Q3. It’s time to go to bed and get some rest. People have better things to do than invest too much time in the Giants in this 2014 season. Too many injuries. A new offense. A defense that gets gashed regularly by any competent QB. A team that is often flat and uncompetitive. They will show up next week and make it competitive, like they did vs the Cowboys following the uncompetitive Eagles game. But where are we going? These injuries have been a killer and until that gets addressed there are always going to be enormous hurdles. 2011 is the only year where the Giants made the playoffs in the last 6 seasons, and that happened because the rest of the NFC East s*cked too, we eeked out a 9-7 record, and got healthy at the end of the year. This team needs better health. Better physical conditioning. It’s not random and it’s not going to get better until there is change.
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