By Jeff Knapp
This past Sunday, we saw an embarrassment of a game when the New York Giants lost 27-13 to the Denver Broncos. The offensive line was an absolute joke, and Daniel Jones was lucky to have only been sacked 2 times. Daniel Jones threw for 267 yards and 1 TD and ran for another, but Daniel Jones did what he does best, and that was cough up the ball. How many plays on 3rd down he did not throw past the 1st down marker? Why was Jason Garrett calling those plays? Speaking of play calling, we are told Saquon Barkley is back at 100% with no carry count, but he only ran the ball 10 times for26 and averaged 2.6 yards per carry, which the “bad News Bears” offensive line was of no help. Even if he had no luck running, maybe they could have passed him the ball out of the backfield, did they? One time for ONE yard.
So the o-line was a joke; Jones decided it was ok to fumble at the Denver 22 down by 10, which led to a Denver field goal. The Giants pay the big bucks for Kenny Golladay, and they throw him the ball 6 times? I honestly don’t remember him even in the game until the 3rd quarter. Let’s not forget Darius Slayton, who charmed us with 4 drops.
Now that I’ve gotten a few of the bad things out of the way let’s talk about the good things. I’d love to say that Sterling Shepard played exceptionally well. Shepard went 7 for 9, 113 yards receiving, and a touchdown.
Although the secondary gave up some big plays, they played decently, considering the front 4 couldn’t manage to garner any type of pass rush on Teddy Bridgewater.
This was an extremely hard game to watch, and I’m hoping they turn things around since they have a short week playing this Thursday night against 4th year QB Taylor Heinicke, who has played in only 9 games, thrown for under 600 yards and 3 TD over that span.
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