Big Blue View
Here is a look at what others are saying after the New York Giants fell to 2-10 on Sunday with another awful loss, this one to the Detroit Lions in overtime 34-27.
If the Giants tell you it’s a bright and sunny day, pack your umbrella and rain boots. It’s gonna be a deluge.
If the Giants tell you it’s Sunday, make sure you put on your work clothes and head into the office, because it actually is Monday.
If the Giants tell you to jump, you should slide. If they tell you to speed up, slow down.
Here is the deal: Whatever the Giants say, do the opposite. Because they are always wrong.
And so, interim head coach Mike Kafka passing up a chip-shot field goal that would have put his team ahead 30-24 with 2:59 to play turned out to be the wrong call Sunday inside Ford Field. Now then, in real time, these eyes and this mind did not see anything at all wrong with the call, because putting a game in the hands of the Giants defense is what a fool does, considering the rap sheet Shane Bowen’s unit has rung up this sorry season.
Shane Bowen should have been relieved of his duties as the Giants defensive coordinator weeks ago.
He probably knows it himself.
If Brian Daboll, who was fired as the Giants head coach two weeks ago, wasn’t so fiercely protective of his coaching staff and had let Bowen go, he might still be the head coach of the Giants.
Bowen should be fired by the Giants on Monday morning as soon as the coaches reconvene at the team facility.
The Giants blew a double-digit lead and lost for the fifth time in 11 games this season, but if that was your takeaway from a 34-27 overtime defeat at Detroit, my condolences.
While those other collapses contributed to Brian Daboll losing his job as coach, the way the Giants played against Detroit should improve interim coach Mike Kafka’s standing.
The Giants, with nothing to lose as 13.5-point underdogs in their second game with Kafka in the interim role, jumped to a 7-0 lead with a trick-play touchdown pass on the fourth play from scrimmage. The Giants scored another trick-play touchdown in the fourth quarter. That was largely how, for only the sixth time in their history, they had at least 500 yards, at least 25 first downs and at least a 50 percent conversion rate on third down in the same game, per Pro Football Reference....
