Operating again Tyrone Tracy Jr. publicly criticized the play calling, telling reporters the gamers imagine they need to have run the ball on the aim line reasonably than calling a play motion cross supposed for rookie fifth-round sort out Marcus Mbow.
“I have to do what’s called, but I definitely said we needed to run the ball on the 1-yard line,” Tracy mentioned Thursday. “I feel like everyone felt the same — whether it’s offensive line, quarterback, running back. To do the play-action pass off the 1-yard line, you have to run the ball first.”
For this reason Joe Schoen’s Giants have failed to attain a landing in eight of their final 35 video games for the primary time since 1996-99, per Elias Sports activities Bureau.
For this reason the Giants are the primary staff in 83 years to have six or fewer factors in three straight season openers, per ESPN Stats and Analysis.
For this reason the Giants (0-1) have misplaced seven straight NFC East video games and are anticipated to make it eight in a row Sunday in opposition to the Dallas Cowboys (0-1) at AT&T Stadium:
They don’t have a reliable offense.
“It’s just really week to week here,” a meek Daboll mentioned Friday, when requested how possession reacts to the Giants’ horrendous showings within the division. “And what we need to do this week against this team.”
What they should do in opposition to Dallas — in opposition to all people — is rating extra factors.
They ranked thirtieth out of the NFL’s 32 offenses in 2023 averaging 15.6 factors per sport. They ranked thirty first final season averaging 16.1 factors per sport. Now they’re this season’s lowest scoring staff within the league after one week at six factors per sport.
So if Sunday begins spiraling early, that might imply pulling quarterback Russell Wilson for Jaxson Dart and giving the rookie his first actual NFL snaps.
“I’m confident in myself,” Dart mentioned Friday. “So whatever opportunity happens, or whatever may happen, I’m preparing for that opportunity. I feel like I’m going to go out there and succeed anytime I’m on the field. So that’s just kind of the approach that I have.”
Rookie working again Cam Skattebo needs to be featured extra frequently irrespective of who’s enjoying quarterback. The Giants want to manage the road of scrimmage to attain on Matt Eberflus’ protection and sustain with Brian Schottenheimer’s offense.
One thing has to alter. It’s getting that late early for Schoen and Daboll initially of their fourth season.
Schoen and Daboll have by no means crushed the Dallas Cowboys.
They’re 0-6 in opposition to Dallas since they arrived in 2022, getting outscored 187-88 head-to-head. That features an 0-3 report at AT&T Stadium with Dallas outscoring the Giants 104-57 within the Cowboys’ constructing.
Dallas quarterback Dak Prescott boasts an absurd 13-2 profession report in opposition to the Giants with 29 landing passes and eight interceptions.
Schoen’s and Daboll’s total NFC East monitor report is simply as jarring.
The GM and coach are 4-15-1 in opposition to the Giants’ division opponents, getting outscored 512-332 for a mean lack of 28.5-18.4.
Offensive line coach Carmen Bricillo pushed again Friday when requested if there may be any panic in his place room, saying “I don’t know if the sky is falling.” However this staff is teetering on catastrophe.
Daboll had second-year receiver Malik Nabers jawing with him in frustration on the sideline within the first quarter of the Giants’ first sport. And now he has a second-year working again second-guessing the play calling of Daboll and offensive coordinator Mike Kafka.
That required Daboll to ship a vote of confidence in Kafka on Friday.
“I’ve got a lot of confidence in [Kafka] and the coaches,” Daboll mentioned. “Kaf puts a lot of time and effort and energy into what we think is going to be the right thing, and have full confidence in him.”
It’s troublesome to listen to these phrases, nevertheless, with out desirous about how little confidence and persistence Daboll has proven with Kafka prior to now.
The final time Kafka referred to as offensive performs on this Cowboys stadium on Nov. 12, 2023, Daboll took it away from him within the second half and gave it to quarterback coach Shea Tierney.
The pinnacle coach took over full-time play calling duties final season, however co-owner John Mara prompt he give it again and focus extra on the large image.
A variety of good that did in Week 1.
The outcome was so dangerous, Daboll’s main work this week was harm management. And he confirmed all of the indicators of a head coach on the new seat scrambling for solutions and allies.
He fully modified up his Wednesday press convention strategy. He shifted from an 11-word Invoice Belichick impersonation in Week 1 to a 700-word soliloquy this week on the Giants’ accidents, the Cowboys’ strengths as a staff and Dallas’ Week 1 loss to the Eagles.
He had the audacity to say “I think [Dallas] held Saquon [Barkley] to 3.3 [yards per carry], 60 some yards,” citing an MVP candidate who simply led the Giants’ greatest rival to a Tremendous Bowl after New York let him depart.
And each Daboll and Wilson tried to promote the Giants trailing Washington 14-6 early in final Sunday’s fourth quarter as a optimistic.
“This game was 14 to 6 with like six, seven minutes to go,” Wilson mentioned, stretching the reality previous the 7:09 mark when Deebo Samuel sealed the deal for the Commanders.
However promoting an eight-point deficit in a 15-points loss as purpose for optimism is a dropping mentality.
It’s insulting to inform the followers that the Giants, particularly on offense, had been wherever near successful a soccer sport in Week 1.
This staff has to place a greater product and extra factors on the board Sunday. Schoen and Daboll desperately want a win.
If which means enjoying Dart sooner than the group would favor, so be it.
Everybody’s job is on the road.
