The Giants aren’t committing to a kicker simply but.
Head coach Brian Daboll mentioned the Giants would consider their kicking scenario after Jude McAtamney missed a pair of additional factors in Sunday’s 33-32 loss to the Denver Broncos.
“We’ll see where that goes here throughout the week,” Daboll mentioned Monday.
Daboll didn’t present a well being replace on major kicker Graham Gano (groin), who could be eligible to return off of injured reserve for Sunday’s sport in Philadelphia.
McAtamney has crammed in for Gano the previous 4 video games, however the Giants even have veteran kicker Younghoe Koo on their apply squad.
The missed further factors by McAtamney proved expensive on a day the Giants blew an 18-point lead within the last six minutes of regulation.
McAtamney missed extensive left within the second quarter after the Giants’ second landing.
He missed extensive proper with 37 seconds remaining within the fourth quarter, after Jaxson Dart’s one-yard landing run put the Giants up, 32-30.
The Broncos then charged down the sector with a four-play, 56-yard drive to arrange Will Lutz’s game-winning 39-yard area objective as time expired.
“Got to make the kicks,” McAtamney mentioned. “Not going to shy away from that. I’ll take full responsibility.”
The 2 misses, ESPN’s Adam Schefter said on Monday’s airwaves, had been the primary time a kicker had missed two further factors with neither being blocked in a sport his group misplaced by a single level.
“That’s a decision that we made,” Daboll mentioned of going for 2. “That’s what was on our chart, and that’s what I went with.”
McAtamney is now 9-of-12 on further factors this season. He’s 2-for-2 on area targets, however his longest was 31 yards, and he has not tried a area objective within the final three video games.
That is the third yr in a row that the Giants have navigated an damage to Gano.
In a 2023 time beyond regulation loss to the Jets, Gano missed a pair of area targets, together with a 35-yard try late within the fourth quarter. Gano had appeared on the damage report that week with a knee problem.
And in Week 2 of final season, Gano aggravated an damage on the opening kickoff towards the Washington Commanders. Punter Jamie Gillan missed an additional level after the Giants’ first landing that day, and the Giants had been later unsuccessful on a pair of two-point conversion makes an attempt. They misplaced that sport, 21-18.
Gano’s newest damage occurred as he warmed up earlier than a Week 3 loss to the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs. Gano didn’t seem till the fourth quarter of that 22-9 loss, and he made a 25-yard area objective.
“I was in a lot of pain,” Gano mentioned on the time.
McAtamney, 25, went 12-for-18 on area targets as a junior at Rutgers in 2022, then missed his solely try as a senior in 2023 as he operated as a kickoff specialist.
Koo, who performed at Ridgewood Excessive Faculty in New Jersey, has made 181-of-211 area targets (85.5%) and 175-of-182 further factors (96.2%) over eight NFL seasons. He spent seven years with the Atlanta Falcons, who launched him final month.
