Deja vu all over again
Another day, another MetLife loss for the New York Giants. Not really, though, because the culprits were mostly different this time. Still, plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose. Let’s see who was on the field and how they did in the eyes of Pro Football Focus.
Offense
PFF grades
- Tight end Chris Manhertz played only 16 snaps, but he scored a touchdown on only his second target of the year. That alone is memorable because Giants passing TDs at MetLife are an endangered species, but it was also only Manhertz’s third TD in a nine-year career, and as the picture above makes clear, it was a damn good catch. He also blocked well, his day job, on both passing and rushing downs. Put it all together and PFF graded him 93.9. It was TE day at MetLife, with Theo Johnson also making a beautiful catch for a 35-yard TD; his overall grade was only 67.4, though, because of another drop. The forgotten man, Daniel Bellinger, graded low overall because of poor run blocking but did well pass blocking; he wasn’t targeted but did play 14 snaps, his most in the past month.
- Daniel Jones statistically had his best game of the season (91.5), even though he had zero passing yards at the half. He received elite grades in both passing and rushing, and really he performed heroically, taking hits, willing himself into the end zone for a TD after being hit by two defenders, and passing for two others to lead a second half comeback. Jones was blitzed on 31% of his dropbacks, and although he graded 90.3 when kept clean, he was also above average even when pressured, including one of his two TD passes.
- It may be a surprise in a game in which the Giants almost exclusively ran the ball in the first half (and effectively so), but Tyrone Tracy graded slightly below average (55.1) and Devin Singletary only a bit better (63.2).
- Greg Van Roten had his third consecutive above average pass blocking game (77.1), allowing no pressures of any kind. The rest of the offensive line was below average. Overall the pass block scores weren’t awful: John Michael Schmitz (56.8, 1 hurry), Chris Hubbard (56.0, 1 sack, 1 hit, 1 hurry, but the sack was disastrous), Jermaine Eluemunor (51.5, 1 hit, 1 hurry), and Jon Runyan (46.8,2 hurries).
- Malik Nabers (72.0) led the wide receivers with nine catches in 10 targets but for only 59 yards. Darius Slayton (64.9) and Wan’Dale Robinson (58.6) were just OK, though Robinson was robbed of a TD by a ticky-tacky pass interference call on Slayton.
Snap counts
- As always, Jones and the offensive line starters played the entire game. Evan Neal did get one snap in a jumbo package.
- Nabers and Slayton played most of the snaps and Robinson about 70% of them, as the Giants went 11 personnel-heavy again though not...
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