Giants followers chanted for rookie quarterback Jaxson Dart to play after Russell Wilson’s second interception in Sunday night time’s 22-9 dwelling opener loss to the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs.
Then they booed when Daboll briefly put Dart into the sport and went again to the veteran starter.
“We want Dart! We want Dart!” a big part of MetLife Stadium cheered.
On the guests’ sideline, Chiefs coach Andy Reid charged Travis Kelce, chest bumped his All-Professional tight finish and screamed in his face.
That is what determined 0-2 groups appear to be in prime time. Feelings run excessive when seasons are on the road.
There was a dramatic distinction, nonetheless, between how the Giants and the Chiefs responded to that adversity on Sunday.
Kansas Metropolis (1-2) discovered options to undo their ugly. The Giants (0-3) had been their very own worst enemy: from a pre-game harm to kicker Graham Gano to a poor offensive recreation plan and one enormous defensive gaffe.
That’s what Joe Schoen’s and Brian Daboll’s Giants do, although. They discover methods to lose.
“I’d be booing too,” Daboll mentioned of his workforce’s lack of ability to generate factors and outcomes.
They discover alternative ways each week, but it surely’s all the time the identical consequence.
The Giants have misplaced 14 of their final 15 video games as a franchise, 9 of their final 10 at dwelling, three straight dwelling openers (2023-25) and eight straight to NFC East foes.
Now they’re winless with a full-blown quarterback controversy on their fingers and the undefeated Los Angeles Chargers (3-0) on deck.
In the meantime, Indianapolis quarterback Daniel Jones — whom the Giants gave up on and launched final season — is taking part in like Johnny Unitas for the 3-0 Colts.
That is what co-owner John Mara will get for exhibiting confidence in Schoen and Daboll: extra of the identical.
Wilson’s offense stunk Sunday night time. So did Daboll’s and Mike Kafka’s offensive gameplan.
Wilson was 17 of 29 for 151 yards and two interceptions.
Malik Nabers had no targets on the primary 15 performs of the sport. He had no catches on three targets via the sport’s first three quarters. And he completed with two catches for 13 yards on seven whole targets from Wilson.
“How frustrating do you think?” Nabers mentioned when requested to explain his frustration stage. “We’re 0-3. Can’t win a game. Frustrating. So you ask me how frustrated I am. Frustrated. Can’t win.”
Gano’s pregame groin harm instantly hamstrung the Giants’ capability to get factors on the board when their poor purple zone offense couldn’t convert.
It additionally continued a development of Daboll’s Giants shedding on the margins by failing to have wholesome kickers accessible in essential moments the previous three years, from a 2023 extra time loss to the Jets to a 2024 street defeat at Washington.
The top of Sunday’s second quarter, although, bolstered how damaged Schoen’s and Daboll’s operation is.
With the sport tied 6-6, Patrick Mahomes threw a backwards move on the toes of operating again Isiah Pacheco.
Center linebacker Bobby Okereke raced to choose up the unfastened ball, however Mahomes stripped the ball proper out of Okereke’s fingers to cease the Giants from taking on inside Kansas Metropolis’s 10-yard line with 1:24 to play.
Kansas Metropolis nonetheless punted. However Wilson adopted that up along with his second interception of the primary half on a lollipop into the top zone meant for Nabers with 49 seconds to play.
That allowed Mahomes and the Chiefs to drive downfield for a 3rd Harrison Butker area aim for a 9-6 lead at half – the tenth time that the Giants have trailed at half of their final 12 video games.
Then Mahomes got here out of the halftime locker room and engineered an 11-play, 74-yard landing drive, capped by a 5-yard TD move to Tyquan Thornton, to take a commanding 16-6 lead with 8:22 to play within the third.
Schoen and Daboll now must resolve whether or not Wilson is an appropriate beginning quarterback for an 0-3 workforce that’s in fixed rebuild as a result of this GM and coach don’t know the way to construct a workforce that competes.
Making Dart the starter in opposition to the Chargers would possibly purchase them extra time, since their workforce isn’t in a position to get any wins to take action.
Then once more, in the event that they break glass and go to the rookie as their beginning quarterback for good, they’ll don’t have any different recourse to guard their job safety if Dart is unable to rescue this disappointing franchise.
That is simply extra of the identical. Extra shedding.
That’s what Mara and the Giants get for operating again a 3-14 workforce into 2025.
Initially Revealed: September 21, 2025 at 11:48 PM EDT
