The Daniel Jones era may have ended in New York, but the same struggles remain front and center. The New York Giants are in the middle of another lost season, Â and no closer to returning to the playoffs. Everyone within the franchise claims to be frustrated with losing, but it’s still continuing. When losing becomes accepted by a franchise year after year, it’s time to consider why the franchise is failing.
The number one and most obvious sign a franchise is failing, the unhappy superstar. After their embarrassing 30-7 loss to Tampa Bay, Malik Nabers did not hold back on his thoughts of the team’s performance.Â
Is he wrong? What is the Giants’ game plan week after week if not to get the ball to Nabers? You chose to draft one of the flashiest receivers with the sixth overall pick, but are not focusing the offensive game plan around him. How does that make sense? Â The offensive line continues to play awful week after week and the game plan still isn’t to put the ball in your best player’s hands. Â
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It’s not just Nabers either. Last year the team drafted speedy receiver Jaylin Hyatt who never gets to show off his skill set on the field. What was the point of drafting explosive receivers if you hand the ball off on every play? What was the reason for letting your star running back walk if you’re still going to be a run-first offense?
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So maybe it wasn’t all on Daniel Jones, huh? Jones deserves plenty of blame for the poor offensive performances these last few years, but to say it was only him would be a lie.  It’s not surprising the team would try to downplay the turmoil within the organization by benching a struggling Jones. Putting Tommy Devito under center only further proved that it wasn’t a simple one-player fix. On Sunday we saw a team playing without effort after seeing one of their own get scapegoated. If there is any doubt that players are preserving their bodies and not giving maximum effort on every play, enter this clip of LB Bobby Okereke and his “tackling efforts.”Â
If it’s not all on Jones, then who should the blame be placed on for the year-after-year struggles? That’s the next element, you have management, franchise owners, and coaches all passing blame around like a hot potato. In front of the cameras, head coach Brian Daboll is in denial. After Sunday’s game, he spoke about how his guys played with effort and the effective communication still happening in the locker room. Clearly, that’s not the case. Everyone is pointing fingers and no one is taking accountability for the trainwreck this organization has become. We’ve seen highly respected coordinators like Wink Martindale walk out the door despite receiving praise from multiple players.
Maybe the current players also see players who walked away in free agency thrive while the Giants brass never appreciated them. Â Xavier McKinney leads the league in interceptions and is a potential defensive player of the year candidate while Saquon Barkley is a legit MVP candidate. Both players were excellent captains who led the locker room. What did the Giants do when both became free agents? Let them walk without a fight, leaving the franchise with massive voids at both positions.
There are a lot of problems within the Giants organization from top to bottom. Failures like this are caused by issues at all levels. However, from many sources, both GM Joe Schoen and Daboll’s jobs are safe. Why should they be given job security when they aren’t leading this franchise back to relevancy? Take out that one playoff win in Minnesota and it’s been miserable for Giants’ fans. The team never surrounded Jones with the skill players to cover his shortcomings. Letting Saquon walk, a fan favorite, to a division rival might be the final nail for this
Under Tom Coughlin and Eli Manning, this organization exemplified professionalism. There were never players who spoke out against coaches. Ever since letting Coughlin walk the Giants have lost their way.
