ARLINGTON — Chicago Bears head coach Matt Eberflus gave Brian Daboll some much-needed cowl earlier than the Giants even took the sector on Thanksgiving Day.
It was going to be robust to prime Eberflus’ disastrous sport administration because the clock wound down on the Bears’ 23-20 loss to the Lions, an error that absolutely will value the Bears coach his job.
Daboll and Giants GM Joe Schoen equally entered Thursday on the ropes.
One other no-show blowout like their 30-7 loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers 4 days earlier would verify that they had been not the best males to guide this group into 2025.
All they needed to do was keep away from getting embarrassed once more in a seventh straight loss and let Eberflus’ catastrophe carry the day.
And but there have been indicators from the very starting of Thursday’s 27-20 defeat that this was an excessive amount of to ask of the Giants — and that each Schoen and Daboll are actually in jeopardy of getting fired at any second.
Daboll was requested if co-owner John Mara might return on his latest vote of confidence and vow to attempt to keep affected person with this regime.
“No,” Daboll stated. “I don’t like the results. Nobody likes the results. But again, I have confidence in the people. We’ve just got to do better.”
Then Daboll was requested if he’s involved about his job safety.
“No,” he stated.
However his dejected demeanor on the postgame press convention spoke louder than his phrases. He is aware of this might be the tip.
It began on the sport’s first drive: The protection thought that they had compelled a Cowboys three-and-out, however there was a yellow flag on the turf.
Offsides. Kayvon Thibodeaux. First down Dallas.
4 missed tackles and a Cowboys area purpose later, and it was clear the Giants (2-10) wouldn’t be capable of get out of their very own method.
The Giants’ dysfunction exhibits up in several varieties from sport to sport, although.
Final Sunday, it was a questionable effort on protection, a neutered Tommy DeVito-led offense within the Giants’ first sport with out Daniel Jones and a livid postgame locker room.
Right here on Thanksgiving, the Giants’ ineptitude primarily manifested itself in Daboll’s incapability to run an NFL offense with Drew Lock — the byproduct of a poorly dealt with previous two weeks.
Lock saved the Giants’ first 13-play, 70-yard drive with a 29-yard scramble to flee a certain sack.
His run to the 1-yard line arrange a 1-yard Tyrone Tracy Jr. landing run, giving the Giants their first lead in any sport since Oct. 6 in Seattle.
However then Daboll’s offense extremely gained solely 35 whole yards on 27 performs in the course of the Giants’ subsequent eight drives.
That stretch included two turnovers, one DeMarvion Overshown interception returned 23 yards for a landing, 4 punts, a area purpose and an finish of half clock run-out.
Predictably, that lifeless output resulted in a 27-10 Cowboys lead with 4 minutes remaining within the third quarter. And the Giants solely had been capable of make the rating look higher with a window-dressing Lock 8-yard landing run late within the fourth.
The Cowboys’ lead ballooned regardless of the protection battling and punter Jamie Gillan expertly retaining the ball away from explosive Cowboys returner KaVontae Turpin.
Daboll’s offense had no probability to succeed from the start, although.
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Schoen and Daboll handed over Lock to begin DeVito in final Sunday’s embarrassment after Jones requested his launch. DeVito obtained hit so many instances late in that blowout that he couldn’t play on Thanksgiving.
Nonetheless, Lock informed FOX’s Tom Brady that he didn’t discover out till Wednesday that he was beginning the sport.
That’s as a result of the Giants didn’t checklist DeVito on Monday’s damage report in any respect after he obtained pummeled by the Bucs, solely to magically checklist him as injured on Tuesday.
Then he couldn’t even fly with the staff to Dallas. He needed to meet them there. And so Lock needed to begin with solely two days of some walkthrough reps, with the data that his GM and coach didn’t actually belief him to win anyway.
That’s the GM who signed Lock for $5 million within the offseason to again up Jones.
Lock’s choose six and misplaced fumble had been killer errors, after all, however Daboll had no solutions for tips on how to defend his quarterback, both.
It’s the identical story with each quarterback on this offense: Jones obtained battered, DeVito obtained shattered after which Lock took an absolute beating on Thursday. He was sacked six instances and hit much more than that.
Micah Parsons on Evan Neal, Schoen’s No. 7 total choose from 2022, was a scary mismatch.
Daboll’s staff performed with no self-discipline, committing 13 penalties. Their vaunted line of defense had no sacks on Cooper Rush, giving them just one as a protection within the final 4 video games — an astounding statistic.
Mara’s and Steve Tisch’s Giants are actually 1-15 of their final 16 video games towards the Cowboys relationship again to the beginning of the 2017 season. They’re 0-8 of their final eight video games within the rivalry.
And they’re 0-6 towards the Cowboys below Schoen and Daboll, getting outscored 187-88.
Their total document within the NFC East in three seasons to date is 4-13-1, together with a 1-11-0 mark towards the Cowboys and Eagles.
This was the 12 months to get the Cowboys. They entered Thursday a winless 0-5 inside AT&T Stadium. However now the Giants (0-6) stand because the NFL’s solely winless staff at house.
There ought to have been loads of cowl for the Giants on Thanksgiving Day.
All of America noticed Eberflus’ gaffe in Chicago. Cowboys coach Mike McCarthy even obtained booed loudly by the house crowd for a poor play name on an unsuccessful fourth down.
There’s nowhere for the Giants to cover, nonetheless. The entire nation noticed it.
It’s time for a change.
