Whether or not there are planes flying over MetLife Stadium on Sunday or not, there’ll absolutely be extra paper baggage over heads and empty seats within the stands.
Joe Schoen‘s and Brian Daboll’s Giants (2-11) are 16.5-point underdogs to Lamar Jackson‘s Baltimore Ravens (8-5), the steepest underdogs for any game in this 2024 NFL season. And the final score should end up a lot worse than that.
The reality that the Giants have four more games of this despair is painfully bleak.
So is the fact that John Mara and the Tisch family are seemingly letting Schoen and Daboll coach this third season out despite the historically embarrassing weekly results. They’re about to lose their ninth straight.
Even Darius Slayton, essentially the most diplomatically annoyed veteran within the locker room, was unable to maintain his eye off of brighter days when requested for his opinion on Daboll’s final destiny.
“I would say all in all he’s done a good job,” Slayton stated this week. “A lot of the things that have happened to us this year have been largely out of his control. At the end of the day, as a coach, all you can do is call the plays, try to galvanize the guys and get them ready to go on Sundays.”
“I think for the most part he’s done a good job of that,” the receiver added. “Obviously, I’m a free agent going into this offseason, so what they choose to do is up to them. But I think he’s done the best he can.”
A free agent who received’t be right here. That’s proper. No less than that’s drawing nearer for gamers uninterested in this deteriorated program’s reflection upon them.
This season has gotten so dangerous that the Giants’ prime spotlight of the week was a social media video of Malik Nabers catching passes from Colorado quarterback Shedeur Sanders within the Manhattan streets on Friday night time.
The draft hype, nevertheless, can solely briefly draw consideration away from the catastrophe that’s nonetheless occurring on the sphere.
The Giants’ return to beginning Tommy DeVito as a result of Daboll couldn’t shield Drew Lock is setting New York up for a daunting 4 quarters on Sunday.
The Ravens protection permits the fewest yards per carry (3.5) in soccer with Nnamdi Madubuike and Roquan Smith controlling the center. Security Kyle Hamilton is a terror in any respect ranges. And nook Marlon Humphrey has 5 interceptions.
DeVito’s offense didn’t rating a single level within the first three quarters of the Giants’ 30-7 loss to the Buccaneers right here three weeks in the past.
The Giants have scored 13 complete first-half factors of their three video games since Daniel Jones’ launch.
Add the Ravens’ dedication to pour on the factors with Jackson, Derrick Henry and the offense after their loss to the Philadelphia Eagles, and Sunday has the makings of the NFL equal of a first-round knockout.
Baltimore, by the way in which, can also be coming off their bye week.
Daboll was requested if he looks like there’s something he must show to possession within the final 4 weeks.
“We’re just trying to get a win,” he stated.
One win. That’s the bar now for the New York Giants of their one hundredth season.
They’ve 4 extra probabilities to do it: Sunday in opposition to the Ravens, Week 16 on the Falcons, Week 17 in opposition to the Colts and Week 18 on the Eagles.
They’re solely averaging 12.6 factors per sport since Jones’ launch, although. And they’re going to beat no one with an offense like that.
That’s what Daboll’s offense is, although. It’s unproductive, it’s riddled with penalties and it’s unwatchable.
Schoen’s roster strikes, in fact, haven’t constructed the promised basis to forestall the underside from falling out both.
That’s why this can be a collaboratively created abomination.
And that’s why that nameless fan flew final week’s aircraft over Giants-Saints with the phrase: “MR MARA ENOUGH – PLZ FIX THIS DUMPSTER FIRE” streaming throughout the sky.
As a result of nobody — apart from fantasy soccer managers with Jackson on their group — desires to look at this.
