Loud chants of “defense” rang out at MetLife Stadium a couple of occasions on Sunday when Robert Saleh’s 49ers unit was on the sphere.
It felt that means. And never simply due to what number of pink jerseys dotted the stands.
The opposite motive was as a result of the Giants made the Niners really feel proper at dwelling for many of their third straight defeat, a disgusting 34-24 loss.
Mac Jones accomplished all 14 of his first half passes and threw two landing passes. Christian McCaffrey erupted for 173 yards from scrimmage and two touchdowns.
The Niners’ Brian Robinson Jr. (5 carries, 53 yards, one landing) turned the second straight backup working again to gallop over the Giants protection — after the Eagles’ Tank Bigsby put up 104 speeding yards on 9 carries final week in Philadelphia.
And the Giants (2-7) slipped additional into the NFL’s basement. Joe Schoen and Brian Daboll now have a 5-21 report of their final 26 video games as Giants GM and head coach and a 3-18 mark of their final 21.
As well as, Daboll left Dart within the recreation throughout rubbish time, and the Giants quarterback seemed like he was in ache after getting tattooed within the open area by the Niners’ Tatum Bethune within the recreation’s remaining minutes.
That’s why a fan paid a airplane to fly over the stadium earlier than the sport with the message: “Mr. Mara, Enough is Enough, Clean House.”
The Giants have been booed off the sphere at halftime down, 17-7, after kicker Graham Gano missed a 45-yard area aim try with 15 seconds to play.
Rookie Abdul Carter recovered a Jones fumble compelled by Brian Burns to offer Dart’s offense the ball again on the 49ers’ 27 yard line with 33 seconds to play.
However Dart and the offense didn’t execute, and Gano’s miss continued the Giants’ weekly, month-to-month and annual kicking issues which have grow to be a microcosm of their damaged operation.
The followers weren’t simply booing Gano, although. They have been booing the entire workforce’s efficiency.
Jones, the 49ers’ quarterback, was an ideal 14 of 14 passing for 143 yards and two landing passes within the first half.
Dart and the Giants, in the meantime, managed solely 98 web yards of offense, the bottom first half complete allowed by Saleh’s protection all season.
Dart had opened the sport with a 10-play, 64-yard drive capped by a 15-yard landing cross to tight finish Theo Johnson with 10:50 remaining within the first quarter.
However after that, the Giants offense sputtered to 4 straight punts and the missed area aim earlier than trudging into the locker room.
Jones and the Niners, in the meantime, answered Dart’s opening recreation landing instantly with a 12-play, 68-yard drive and a 5-yard Jones landing cross to McCaffrey.
That knotted the sport 7-7 on the 4:16 mark of the primary.
Then Shanahan’s offense marched proper down the sphere once more on their second drive after a Large three and out.
Jauan Jennings made Giants seventh-round rookie nook Korie Black fall down and caught an 11-yard landing cross from Jones.
That capped an 8-play, 80-yard drive that lasted solely 4 minutes and three seconds.
The Niners averaged 6.1 yards per play on offense within the half, and so they added a 54-yard Pineiro area aim with 1:55 to play within the second quarter for the 17-7 halftime lead.
Shanahan received too cute on the cross play name that resulted in Burns’ strip sack on the finish of the half, however the Giants aren’t adequate to make their opponents pay for errors.
They’re too busy making their very own.
