FOXBOROUGH — The Giants didn’t have to fret about blowing a lead on this one.
Joe Schoen’s pathetic workforce, led by an interim head coach, an interim offensive coordinator and an interim defensive coordinator, embarrassed the franchise in a 33-15 Monday Night time Soccer Boston Bloodbath by the hands of the New England Patriots at Gillette Stadium.
Rookie quarterback Jaxson Dart, in his first sport again from a concussion, obtained blasted into one other dimension on an early scramble towards the sideline by Patriots linebacker Christian Elliss.
That set the tone for a historic beatdown within the Giants’ seventh straight loss getting into Schoen’s annual bye week press convention on Tuesday — if he’s nonetheless the GM by then.
It seems there’s something worse than dropping 5 double digit leads, because the Giants did when Bowen was the DC.
The Giants (2-11), of their first sport since firing defensive coordinator Shane Bowen, allowed 30 first half factors and obtained nuked for 269 yards earlier than the break with outdoors linebackers coach Charlie Bullen because the interim play-caller.
The Patriots’ 30 factors, which included a 94-yard Marcus Jones punt return for a landing, had been essentially the most first half factors allowed by a Giants workforce for the reason that remaining sport of the 2009 season, a span of 256 common season video games.
The indignity didn’t cease there.
Kicker Younghoe Koo jammed his proper foot into the grass on a second quarter discipline objective try to by no means even swung his leg to aim the kick as punter Jamie Gillan obtained walloped.
Rookie edge rusher Abdul Carter was benched for your complete first quarter for reportedly being late to a gathering — his second disciplinary benching in three weeks.
Interim head coach Mike Kafka waved the white flag at 27-7 with 1:13 remaining within the 2nd quarter and 4th and 1 on the Giants’ personal 35 yard line by punting.
Patriots MVP candidate Drake Maye accomplished 24 of 31 passes for 282 yards, two touchdowns and a 126.0 passer ranking. Seven totally different Patriots receivers made at the very least three catches.
Edge rusher Brian Burns sat alone on the bench for a very long time after the remainder of his workforce had trotted to the guests’ locker room at halftime. It was simple to know why:
This can be a despicable product — for a nationwide community like ESPN that has to televise it and for a fan base that has to observe it.
How can the Giants group let Schoen run the search to seek out Brian Daboll’s alternative in good conscience?
The Giants are 0-8 on the street this season. They prolonged their franchise document street dropping streak to 13 straight video games relationship again to an Oct. 6, 2024, win in Seattle.
Final season, they set a brand new franchise document with 10 straight losses general.
Schoen now has a 3-22 document (.120) within the Giants’ final 25 video games, a 5-25 document (.166) within the final 30 video games, a 5-17-1 document (.217) towards NFC East opponents, a 2-14-0 document (.125) towards the Eagles and Cowboys and a 20-43-1 general document (.313) in 4 common seasons.
Schoen’s Giants had been the primary NFL workforce formally eradicated from the playoffs for a second straight season after final week’s loss in Detroit.
And so they had been a laughingstock on Monday night time. Once more.
The Giants group has to have larger expectations than this.
There is just one factor to do, and that’s to fireside Schoen and get on with discovering a completely new regime to guide them into the long run.
As a result of the workforce that performed Monday night time didn’t even belong on an NFL discipline.
