Big Blue View
Good morning, New York Giants fans!
We have seen enough evidence of who Daboll and Joe Schoen’s Giants really are — this season and, really, ever since 2023. They are, ultimately, a group that can’t get the basics right consistently enough. It’s hard to figure out which is worse — five turnovers in New Orleans or those 14 penalties for 160 yards in Week 2 at Dallas.
And now, the Giants and rookie quarterback Jaxson Dart (1-1 as a starter) must navigate a brutal stretch of their schedule (Eagles, Broncos, Eagles) without their best offensive weapon, wide receiver Malik Nabers, done for the year with a torn ACL. Why should anyone feel confident that they’ll do anything other than lose all three of these games and send another season straight down the drain?
In fact, when you really analyze Sunday’s defeat, it becomes apparent that without star receiver Malik Nabers — out for the season with a torn ACL — Dart doesn’t seem to have the help he’ll need if he’s going to thrive in his rookie season.
On a short week with the 4-1 division rival Eagles headed to MetLife Stadium on Thursday, how the offense will evolve without Nabers remains a big question. Slayton said he hopes to be back for the game, but it’ll be a tough turnaround with a hamstring injury. Meanwhile, bringing in outside help on a short week seems a difficult ask for a player who likely won’t be familiar with the playbook.
The room was filled with players who have been there, done this before. Losing comes naturally to these Giants. They do it so often, so methodically, so predictably that even when an unusual series of particularly heinous events comes together to doom them, there is no great sense of astonishment for how everything went so badly.
But not Jaxson Dart. He is new to this. The hope for this franchise is that he never gets accustomed to what transpired Sunday inside the Caesars Superdome....
