The Giants had been 2-8 after Week 11, on a five-game shedding streak, after they shut down and launched Daniel Jones.
The Cowboys had been 3-7 after Week 11, on a five-game shedding streak, with Dak Prescott out for the 12 months.
Since then, the Giants have misplaced 5 extra and been outscored 140-59 by their opponents, whereas Dallas has received 4 of 5 and outscored its foes, 137-111.
There are quite a lot of unhealthy or disappointing NFL groups this season. The Cowboys are one in all them. The Falcons are one other.
The distinction is that these groups have picked gamers and coaches who’re in a position to put knowledgeable product on the sphere whatever the circumstances.
The Giants (2-13) can’t.
On Sunday, Joe Schoen and Brian Daboll made the Falcons — who stink — appear to be the Baltimore Ravens crew that had bludgeoned the Giants into submission the earlier Sunday with two-time MVP Lamar Jackson.
They misplaced 35-14 to Baltimore. Then they misplaced 34-7 to Atlanta.
Guess what? The Colts stink. However they’ll come into MetLife Stadium subsequent Sunday after resting up with household on Christmas — and after some extra planes fly overhead pregame — and Indianapolis will thump the Giants on their residence subject.
And the Giants will grow to be the primary NFL crew ever to go 0-9 at residence in a season. After which Saquon Barkley and the Philadelphia Eagles shall be ready in South Philly in Week 18.
Oh my.
The one logical rationalization followers can give you for the way unhealthy the Giants are is that they’re deliberately tanking for the No. 1 total decide they’re now favorites to land.
That’s the scary half: they aren’t. Until co-owner John Mara turned a special particular person and swore off all the ideas he has beforehand professed.
The place that leaves them is on the precipice of a probable wholescale housecleaning.
All indicators level to Daboll, the top coach, being fired at season’s finish.
And if Mara had been to retain Schoen after this abomination, he could be declaring that he accepts incompetence, poor participant analysis, reckless asset administration and a course of that tore all the management, character and many of the expertise out of New York’s locker room.
Mara can’t try this. He can’t set the bar so low that he accepts a season like this.
If Mara does retain Schoen, he shall be repeating the Giants’ most typical mistake throughout these darkish days: failing to correctly self-evaluate.
They have no idea the right way to look within the mirror and actually describe what they see.
It’s the commonest trigger after they imagine they’re near profitable after they aren’t. It’s the commonest mistake after they fireplace a coach too early, retain a GM too lengthy or step in mud with a participant contract.
So if Mara retains a GM who has confirmed he doesn’t know to how decide good gamers, construct a cohesive crew or correctly choose the importance of the locker room, what occurs subsequent shall be on the Giants’ co-owner and nobody else.
Plus, Schoen and the entrance workplace are too knee-deep working this crew to assert believable deniability from Daboll’s and the coaches’ horrible operation.
Final season, sure, Daboll’s finger-pointing and hot-headed antics preceded Schoen getting on the coaches’ headsets for 4 video games to observe the poisonous dynamic.
However Schoen watches tape with the crew after each sport. He’s been seen a number of occasions within the locker room by gamers speaking to gamers. He helps make gameday roster choices.
Then on Sunday, assistant GM Brandon Brown apparently was proven by FOX speaking to backup quarterback Tommy DeVito on the sideline through the sport.
Daboll claimed Monday that Brown’s presence was “not because of strategy,” and that “if we’re on the road game and the front office doesn’t have a box, then they come down on the sideline, which has happened, I’d say, a number of times.”
However it’s laborious to imagine Arthur Clean and the Falcons didn’t have a spot for Brown and the Giants’ entrance workplace to sit down and watch an NFL sport. John Mara, Chris Mara and Tim McDonnell appeared to have loads of room in that suite FOX briefly confirmed through the second half, at the least.
Until you continue to imagine that each one Daboll and Wink Martindale used to battle over was the final slice of pizza.
Mara, it seems, goes to let all of those households get pleasure from their Christmas as finest as they will on a franchise-record 10-game shedding streak.
But when he’s actually evaluating his group — and if he rejects and doesn’t settle for this season’s ineptitude as the brand new Giants commonplace — by Black Monday on Jan. 6, he shall be searching for each a brand new GM and a brand new coach.
A NEW QUARTERBACK — AGAIN?!
Daboll mentioned on one other lifeless Monday Zoom name that Sunday’s beginning quarterback Drew Lock was getting an MRI on his proper, throwing shoulder. So Lock’s standing is unclear and the Giants are “waiting on where that’s at.”
If Lock can’t play in opposition to the Colts, the Giants shall be altering their beginning quarterback for the fifth time within the final six weeks: Tommy DeVito in opposition to the Bucs, Lock in opposition to the Cowboys and Saints, DeVito in opposition to the Ravens, Lock in opposition to the Falcons and now both DeVito or Tim Boyle in opposition to the Colts.
Inside linebacker Micah McFadden (stinger) additionally could miss time, and working again Tyrone Tracy Jr. (ankle) and middle John Michael Schmitz (ankle) each aggravated accidents. And their statuses aren’t clear for Sunday, both.
