Saquon Barkley left the Giants, rushed for two,005 yards with the Philadelphia Eagles, took house Offensive Participant of the 12 months and received the Tremendous Bowl.
Daniel Jones left the Giants and instantly started shattering Peyton Manning’s data for the undefeated Indianapolis Colts (3-0).
Jones is the primary NFL quarterback since 1970 to throw three landing passes, run for 3 TDs and commit no turnovers within the first three video games of an NFL season.
His offense is doing so effectively that the Colts have solely punted as soon as to this point. That’s the fewest by a workforce in a season’s first three video games since 1940. And Indy’s 103 factors are probably the most by way of three weeks in Indianapolis Colts historical past.
Sterling Shepard, in the meantime, left the Giants and racked up 80 yards in Sunday’s Tampa Bay Buccaneers win over the Jets. It marked Shepard’s first 80-yard recreation since 2021.
The Giants gave up on all of those gamers. They scapegoated Jones.
None of those gamers had been in a position to produce — or in Shepard’s case, play a lot — throughout their ultimate years in New York. However as soon as they left, they flourished.
To not point out star Packers security Xavier McKinney and lots of others who’ve carved out higher roles in improved circumstances.
Then there was Malik Nabers on Sunday night time, barely seeing the ball as a result of Brian Daboll, offensive coordinator Mike Kafka and quarterback Russell Wilson had no answer to the Chiefs protection enjoying two deep safeties.
There have been the Giants (0-3) scoring in single digits for the seventh time of their final 20 video games, which is 4 greater than every other NFL workforce, per ESPN.
One thing is rotten in East Rutherford, N.J. So when is it sufficient?
When is somebody in that constructing going to face up for a better commonplace that demonstrates some type of satisfaction?
What is going to it take for the Giants to make adjustments at GM and head coach?
Depart it to former NBA All-Star Gilbert Arenas to elucidate what Jones’ success and Wilson’s poor play reveal in regards to the franchise:
“As soon as [Jones] gets out there [for the Colts], he looks like a No. 1 pick. And the [Giants] replaced him with Wilson. Then he looks like Daniel Jones,” Arenas stated on “The Arena: Gridiron” podcast. “So obviously it’s the kitchen I’m in. It’s the Giants’ kitchen. No matter what you put in there, it’s gonna cook the same recipe… This is organizational for me.”
Organizational means all the best way as much as possession.
Co-owners John Mara and Steve Tisch decided a 3-14 document was acceptable by retaining Joe Schoen and Daboll for a fourth season. They prioritized some summary course of over outcomes.
Their franchise has now misplaced 17 of its final 20 video games.
It’s so unhealthy that NBC ran a graphic of a aircraft flying a banner throughout Sunday night time’s broadcast, alluding to the frequent air visitors over MetLife Stadium final season.
Little doubt, if the skies are clear for Sunday’s 1 p.m. house recreation towards the Los Angeles Chargers, there may extra planes circling the sphere earlier than kickoff in Week 4.
Then there may be Schoen, whose poor drafting and evaluations have the Giants nonetheless wanting like a full rebuild in its early levels despite the fact that he was employed in Jan. 2022.
Schoen believed Wilson was a dramatic enchancment over Jones. To not point out he intently manages the membership’s messaging, which all the time finds a technique to pin blame on one thing aside from the entrance workplace and the roster.
Then there may be Daboll and a training workers that struggles to offer this workforce a bonus within the margins each single week.
Daboll now ranks No. 186 in profession successful proportion out of 204 NFL head coaches who’ve coached a minimal of fifty video games, per The Ringer.
Daboll has a 18-35-1 (.343) document because the Giants’ head coach, which is dwarfed by Ben McAdoo’s (13-15, .464) and places Daboll in the very same firm as coaches like Joe Decide (10-23-0, .303) and Pat Shurmur (9-23, .281) who acquired quite a bit much less endurance from possession.
Daboll’s document is 11-33-1 since his 7-2 begin to their 2022 playoff 12 months. He has received solely three video games since former defensive coordinator Wink Martindale resigned after the 2023 season.
The icing on the cake, although, is that Daboll received this job as a result of he’s presupposed to be a quarterback whisperer and offensive guru. However outdoors of reigning league MVP Josh Allen — a generational unicorn expertise who has continued ascending since Daboll let Buffalo — the Giants coach’s historical past displays no proof that helps his status.
Now, after Schoen and Daboll blamed Jones for his or her shortcomings on offense, Jones has exploded below the tutelage of Colts coach Shane Steichen, whereas the Giants flounder with the identical turnover, purple zone, situational and play scheme issues which have outlined this workers’s ineptitude.
That has meant a 3rd straight Giants season that has ended earlier than it began: the Giants began 2023 with a 1-5 document of their first six video games. They began 2024 with a 1-3 mark of their first 4 video games.
Now they’re 0-3 right here in 2025 with Jim Harbaugh’s first-place Chargers bearing down on them in a matter of days.
The one factor that may save Schoen and Daboll at this level could be if Jaxson Dart actually seems to be particular.
GMs can conceal a whole lot of issues by choosing the right quarterback. Coaches look quite a bit smarter when their finest participant has the ball your entire recreation.
For that to occur, nonetheless, Dart doesn’t simply have to indicate promise. Daboll wants to assist shepherd him totally into the sunshine.
Sunday’s Chicago Bears win over the Cowboys, regardless of Dallas’ horrendous protection, was a reminder of what Daboll got here right here to do:
He must do for Dart what Bears coach Ben Johnson, the previous Detroit Lions offensive coordinator, is tasked with doing for Caleb Williams.
He wants to repair the Giants’ quarterback place and offense to pull this franchise out of the NFL’s perennial gutter.
Daboll already failed to do this with Jones, who’s clearly not a foul participant. Jones may be a foul participant when he has unhealthy teaching.
Gamers, current historical past now exhibits, are higher off enjoying someplace aside from the Giants.
Now the dialog has turned as to whether Daboll will bench Wilson. The Giants’ coach left the door open to a change on Monday afternoon by remaining non-committal on Wilson as his starter.
However that is about greater than only a change at quarterback.
The larger query is when Mara and Tisch will put their collective foot down and reaffirm a better commonplace and set of expectations for this franchise by making adjustments on the high.
On daily basis that they make excuses for themselves and for Schoen and Daboll is one other day that followers lose curiosity and confidence.
It’s the Giants kitchen. And if individuals get bored with a kitchen’s usual recipes, they both ship the meals again.
Or they cease coming to the restaurant altogether.
