What happens next with Kenny Golladay?
By all metrics, Golladay — who has two receptions for 22 yards all season — has not contributed anything to what the Giants have built and are constructing as this remarkable season rolls on.
His hard-to-believe dropped pass on a crossing route in last Sunday’s victory over the Texans actually looked and felt like a rock-bottom moment. It won’t be.
If Golladay doesn’t get a uniform this Sunday, when the Giants face the Lions — his former team — at MetLife Stadium, it’ll be a ship-has-sailed denouement for the team’s second-highest-paid player (four-year, $72 million) and No. 1 disappointment, now that Kadarius Toney is catching touchdown passes for the Chiefs.
Playing for the primary time in six weeks after missing time as a consequence of a sprained knee, Golladay heard boos on the second offensive series against the Texans when he didn’t secure a pass along the sideline that was tailing away from him. It was catchable, but calling it a blatant drop might be a bit harsh.
Late within the second quarter, Golladay broke free on a crossing route — this doesn’t occur often — and Daniel Jones put the ball into Golladay’s midsection, however it didn’t stick. On the time, it seemed harder for Golladay to drop the ball than to catch it. That was the twenty sixth and final snap for Golladay. Brian Daboll had seen enough. Golladay was sent to the bench, and he was replaced by Isaiah Hodgins, a recent signing with all of three NFL games on his resume.
Will we see Golladay on the sector again this season?
“I actually have conversations with our guys on a regular basis. I’ll keep those private,’’ Daboll said. “Again, all I expect these guys to do is are available in on Wednesday, learn from the tape, exit to practice, have an excellent week at practice, after which by the tip of the week, we’ll determine where everybody suits. And that’s how we approach it. Really not way more than that.’’
There’s a bit greater than that with Golladay. There might be no uproar amongst Giants fans in the event that they never see him again and he fades from view because the last vestige of a failed regime. In spite of everything, their team is 7-2. Golladay is under contract for 2 more years, but there may be zero likelihood he’s on the team in 2023. Daboll has to find out whether Golladay can provide him anything in anyway in the ultimate eight games. He gave him nothing in the primary nine.
Daboll will not be about burying players, but he’s about making them earn it, regardless of the contract, repute or popularity. Heck, given what has transpired recently, it’s difficult to recall back to the beginning of the season when Darius Slayton was a non-entity. He was a healthy scratch within the season opener in Nashville, quite a comedown for a player considered to be a steal from the fifth round of 2019 draft after he caught a combined 98 passes and had 11 touchdowns his first two seasons. In Week 2 this season, Slayton got 4 snaps. In Week 3, he got 14. He was an afterthought on an offense that wasn’t lighting anything up within the passing game.
Slayton earned his playing time together with his work through the week, and Daboll gave him the time. Slayton played a season-high 55 snaps within the 24-16 victory over the Texans, and his 54-yard catch-and-run escape job for a touchdown qualifies as perhaps the offensive highlight of the season.
“It was obviously slightly different,’’ Slayton said of being disregarded within the early going by the brand new coaching staff. “I hadn’t really experienced that yet in my profession to date. I sort of just approached it like the whole lot else — made sure I used to be on my plays, made sure I used to be keeping my body right, things like that. Ensuring I used to be going to be ready when my opportunity got here.’’
It is likely to be too late for Golladay to make an identical comeback. Slayton kept quiet and never complained about his situation. After logging just two snaps in Week 2 against the Panthers, Golladay said, “I don’t agree with it. I must be playing regardless … that’s a fact.” But he stopped far wanting causing a distraction.
It might be Golladay, with $40 million in guaranteed money coming to him from the Giants, has lost his edge. It’s more likely he has lost his wheels. He didn’t show much burst or explosion in training camp, and evidently he will not be showing an ideal deal of that behind closed doors in practice.
As one Giants insider put it, “Kenny will not be a nasty guy. It’s not his fault he can’t get open.’’
Golladay spent his first 4 years within the NFL with the Lions, and what happened in Detroit definitely stayed in Detroit. He put together back-to-back 1,000-yard seasons in 2018 and 2019, the second of which he also led the league with 11 touchdown receptions. Never a speed guy, his great size at 6-foot-4 and talent to grapple with a smaller defensive back and are available away with a contested catch placed him within the second tier among the many NFL’s elite receivers entering free agency. The previous Giants front office regime was desperate to seek out targets for the young Jones, and overpaid mightily for Golladay in 2021 with a contract price a mean of $18 million per yr, a deal immediately stamped across the league as an overpay. It was great money for an excellent player.
Because it turned out, it was great money for a declining player. Golladay had played in only five games for the Lions in 2020, however the hip injury that sidelined him was speculated to be completely healed when he arrived to the Giants. Golladay played in 14 games in 2021, but did he ever look remotely explosive? Did he have a look at all like a physical force going up for the ball? He was targeted 76 times, and got here away with 37 receptions for 521 yards — making lower than 50 percent of catches when the ball got here his way. As a substitute of being a reliable red-zone goal, he was red-zone allergic, ending with no touchdowns catches.
Benching Golladay against his former team figures to be devastating for him, whether he chooses to confess it or not. He doesn’t play on special teams, making it difficult for Daboll to justify activating him for 10-20 snaps on offense. Hodgins, who played for the past two seasons in Buffalo, where Daboll was the offensive coordinator, was more productive in his 43 snaps on Sunday — he had two receptions for 43 yards — than Golladay has looked all season. Marcus Johnson, Richie James and David Sills should not exactly intriguing options, but a case might be made that every one of them deserve a shot ahead of Golladay.
Or possibly Daboll takes the opposite approach. If Golladay comes out and kills it this week in practice, perhaps he gets the decision on Sunday against the Lions’ Twenty seventh-ranked pass defense. Daboll, in spite of everything, has pushed so a lot of the best buttons navigating his roster. Take, for instance, the choice to maneuver on from Toney, who is barely 23 and might have been a part of the plan in 2023 if he were capable of stay healthy and persuade the Giants he had his head on straight. Toney’s departure hasn’t hamepered the team yet.
Golladay’s issues are different, and he likely was all the time going to be on a one-and-done yr with the Giants due to his bloated salary cap hit of $21.4 million in 2023. But does Daboll consider Golladay has completely outlived his usefulness? We will see.
Sigh Eagles sigh
They weren’t even halfway there, and the Eagles never really gave off the vibe of a team capable of creating a legitimate run at an undefeated season. Their winning streak to begin this season lasted a formidable eight games, and the longer it went on, the more it was going to disclose about them once they’d to react to their first loss.
At first glance, it seems that they handled it in stride.
A defeat to the Commanders on “Monday Night Football’’ by a deceptive final rating of 32-21 was doomed by three turnovers. One among them, a fumble by tight end Dallas Goedert, got here after he had his head twisted on an obvious facemask penalty that was not called.
Nick Sirianni, the Eagles’ second-year coach, wasn’t happening that path.
“We now have to have higher ball security there,’’ he said. “We take numerous pride in the best way we protect the football. We were obviously loose with it there, that’s how they got it out.’’
The Eagles’ fate was sealed when defensive end Brandon Graham was called for an unnecessary roughness penalty as he made light contact with Taylor Heinicke after the Commanders quarterback gave himself up with a slide to maintain the clock running.
Once more, no dice from the pinnacle coach.
“That’s not what lost us the football game,’’ Sirianni said.
So what did his team do to lose the sport?
“You create your individual luck, and we played like crap,’’ Sirianni said. “We didn’t do an excellent enough job. It looks like things go against you. Those plays, those scenarios that occur while you play like that get magnified, whether it was the best call or improper call. So we made our own luck today, and it was bad.’’
The Giants actually will get to see the Eagles in some unspecified time in the future this season. The NFC East rivals finally meet up in Week 14 at MetLife Stadium and on the other hand 4 weeks later within the regular-season season finale in Philadelphia.
Asked and answered
Listed below are two questions which have come up recently that we’ll try and answer as accurately as possible:
Brian Daboll sounded genuinely regretful for screaming at offensive lineman Jack Anderson after Anderson was flagged for a false start early within the second quarter. Was it that big of a deal, and did Daboll really must be so apologetic?
Daboll didn’t should say anything about this aside from to disclose his honest feelings. “Real’’ is the word that involves mind most frequently when considering what Daboll has shown about himself in his first season as a head coach. Sure, the best way he lambasted Anderson was a bit excessive, however it was not any harsher than many coach-player sideline interactions on a weekly basis. This one was caught by the tv camera and circulated widely. Seeing himself red-faced and irate understandably didn’t sit well with Daboll. It was the warmth of the moment, he said. I wear my emotions on my sleeve, he said. Anderson stood there and took it, and in some unspecified time in the future after the sport Daboll did smooth things over with Anderson. Here’s a hunch that Anderson had no issue with any of this. Players admire Daboll’s feistiness — and his honesty.
Adoree’ Jackson returned two punts against the Texans — the primary time he has been back there with the Giants. Is that an excellent move or too dangerous?
Too dangerous. Jackson is putting together an exquisite season because the team’s bona fide top cornerback. The Giants absolutely needed this out of him after they’d to make James Bradberry a salary-cap casualty (now the Eagles are benefitting from the roster albatross latest general manager Joe Schoen inherited). The Giants defense cannot afford to be without Jackson for one snap, much less a portion of a game. A punt returner cannot simply call for a good catch each time, and any hit Jackson takes on special teams is one hit too many. Yes, we all know Richie James botched the sport in Seattle with two lost fumbles. There is no such thing as a problem sitting him down. The Giants got it out of their system with Jackson, who said he enjoys getting the ball in his hands. But playtime must be over. Now let another person handle the punt return duties. Jackson is simply too worthwhile on defense.
What happens next with Kenny Golladay?
By all metrics, Golladay — who has two receptions for 22 yards all season — has not contributed anything to what the Giants have built and are constructing as this remarkable season rolls on.
His hard-to-believe dropped pass on a crossing route in last Sunday’s victory over the Texans actually looked and felt like a rock-bottom moment. It won’t be.
If Golladay doesn’t get a uniform this Sunday, when the Giants face the Lions — his former team — at MetLife Stadium, it’ll be a ship-has-sailed denouement for the team’s second-highest-paid player (four-year, $72 million) and No. 1 disappointment, now that Kadarius Toney is catching touchdown passes for the Chiefs.
Playing for the primary time in six weeks after missing time as a consequence of a sprained knee, Golladay heard boos on the second offensive series against the Texans when he didn’t secure a pass along the sideline that was tailing away from him. It was catchable, but calling it a blatant drop might be a bit harsh.
Late within the second quarter, Golladay broke free on a crossing route — this doesn’t occur often — and Daniel Jones put the ball into Golladay’s midsection, however it didn’t stick. On the time, it seemed harder for Golladay to drop the ball than to catch it. That was the twenty sixth and final snap for Golladay. Brian Daboll had seen enough. Golladay was sent to the bench, and he was replaced by Isaiah Hodgins, a recent signing with all of three NFL games on his resume.
Will we see Golladay on the sector again this season?
“I actually have conversations with our guys on a regular basis. I’ll keep those private,’’ Daboll said. “Again, all I expect these guys to do is are available in on Wednesday, learn from the tape, exit to practice, have an excellent week at practice, after which by the tip of the week, we’ll determine where everybody suits. And that’s how we approach it. Really not way more than that.’’
There’s a bit greater than that with Golladay. There might be no uproar amongst Giants fans in the event that they never see him again and he fades from view because the last vestige of a failed regime. In spite of everything, their team is 7-2. Golladay is under contract for 2 more years, but there may be zero likelihood he’s on the team in 2023. Daboll has to find out whether Golladay can provide him anything in anyway in the ultimate eight games. He gave him nothing in the primary nine.
Daboll will not be about burying players, but he’s about making them earn it, regardless of the contract, repute or popularity. Heck, given what has transpired recently, it’s difficult to recall back to the beginning of the season when Darius Slayton was a non-entity. He was a healthy scratch within the season opener in Nashville, quite a comedown for a player considered to be a steal from the fifth round of 2019 draft after he caught a combined 98 passes and had 11 touchdowns his first two seasons. In Week 2 this season, Slayton got 4 snaps. In Week 3, he got 14. He was an afterthought on an offense that wasn’t lighting anything up within the passing game.
Slayton earned his playing time together with his work through the week, and Daboll gave him the time. Slayton played a season-high 55 snaps within the 24-16 victory over the Texans, and his 54-yard catch-and-run escape job for a touchdown qualifies as perhaps the offensive highlight of the season.
“It was obviously slightly different,’’ Slayton said of being disregarded within the early going by the brand new coaching staff. “I hadn’t really experienced that yet in my profession to date. I sort of just approached it like the whole lot else — made sure I used to be on my plays, made sure I used to be keeping my body right, things like that. Ensuring I used to be going to be ready when my opportunity got here.’’
It is likely to be too late for Golladay to make an identical comeback. Slayton kept quiet and never complained about his situation. After logging just two snaps in Week 2 against the Panthers, Golladay said, “I don’t agree with it. I must be playing regardless … that’s a fact.” But he stopped far wanting causing a distraction.
It might be Golladay, with $40 million in guaranteed money coming to him from the Giants, has lost his edge. It’s more likely he has lost his wheels. He didn’t show much burst or explosion in training camp, and evidently he will not be showing an ideal deal of that behind closed doors in practice.
As one Giants insider put it, “Kenny will not be a nasty guy. It’s not his fault he can’t get open.’’
Golladay spent his first 4 years within the NFL with the Lions, and what happened in Detroit definitely stayed in Detroit. He put together back-to-back 1,000-yard seasons in 2018 and 2019, the second of which he also led the league with 11 touchdown receptions. Never a speed guy, his great size at 6-foot-4 and talent to grapple with a smaller defensive back and are available away with a contested catch placed him within the second tier among the many NFL’s elite receivers entering free agency. The previous Giants front office regime was desperate to seek out targets for the young Jones, and overpaid mightily for Golladay in 2021 with a contract price a mean of $18 million per yr, a deal immediately stamped across the league as an overpay. It was great money for an excellent player.
Because it turned out, it was great money for a declining player. Golladay had played in only five games for the Lions in 2020, however the hip injury that sidelined him was speculated to be completely healed when he arrived to the Giants. Golladay played in 14 games in 2021, but did he ever look remotely explosive? Did he have a look at all like a physical force going up for the ball? He was targeted 76 times, and got here away with 37 receptions for 521 yards — making lower than 50 percent of catches when the ball got here his way. As a substitute of being a reliable red-zone goal, he was red-zone allergic, ending with no touchdowns catches.
Benching Golladay against his former team figures to be devastating for him, whether he chooses to confess it or not. He doesn’t play on special teams, making it difficult for Daboll to justify activating him for 10-20 snaps on offense. Hodgins, who played for the past two seasons in Buffalo, where Daboll was the offensive coordinator, was more productive in his 43 snaps on Sunday — he had two receptions for 43 yards — than Golladay has looked all season. Marcus Johnson, Richie James and David Sills should not exactly intriguing options, but a case might be made that every one of them deserve a shot ahead of Golladay.
Or possibly Daboll takes the opposite approach. If Golladay comes out and kills it this week in practice, perhaps he gets the decision on Sunday against the Lions’ Twenty seventh-ranked pass defense. Daboll, in spite of everything, has pushed so a lot of the best buttons navigating his roster. Take, for instance, the choice to maneuver on from Toney, who is barely 23 and might have been a part of the plan in 2023 if he were capable of stay healthy and persuade the Giants he had his head on straight. Toney’s departure hasn’t hamepered the team yet.
Golladay’s issues are different, and he likely was all the time going to be on a one-and-done yr with the Giants due to his bloated salary cap hit of $21.4 million in 2023. But does Daboll consider Golladay has completely outlived his usefulness? We will see.
Sigh Eagles sigh
They weren’t even halfway there, and the Eagles never really gave off the vibe of a team capable of creating a legitimate run at an undefeated season. Their winning streak to begin this season lasted a formidable eight games, and the longer it went on, the more it was going to disclose about them once they’d to react to their first loss.
At first glance, it seems that they handled it in stride.
A defeat to the Commanders on “Monday Night Football’’ by a deceptive final rating of 32-21 was doomed by three turnovers. One among them, a fumble by tight end Dallas Goedert, got here after he had his head twisted on an obvious facemask penalty that was not called.
Nick Sirianni, the Eagles’ second-year coach, wasn’t happening that path.
“We now have to have higher ball security there,’’ he said. “We take numerous pride in the best way we protect the football. We were obviously loose with it there, that’s how they got it out.’’
The Eagles’ fate was sealed when defensive end Brandon Graham was called for an unnecessary roughness penalty as he made light contact with Taylor Heinicke after the Commanders quarterback gave himself up with a slide to maintain the clock running.
Once more, no dice from the pinnacle coach.
“That’s not what lost us the football game,’’ Sirianni said.
So what did his team do to lose the sport?
“You create your individual luck, and we played like crap,’’ Sirianni said. “We didn’t do an excellent enough job. It looks like things go against you. Those plays, those scenarios that occur while you play like that get magnified, whether it was the best call or improper call. So we made our own luck today, and it was bad.’’
The Giants actually will get to see the Eagles in some unspecified time in the future this season. The NFC East rivals finally meet up in Week 14 at MetLife Stadium and on the other hand 4 weeks later within the regular-season season finale in Philadelphia.
Asked and answered
Listed below are two questions which have come up recently that we’ll try and answer as accurately as possible:
Brian Daboll sounded genuinely regretful for screaming at offensive lineman Jack Anderson after Anderson was flagged for a false start early within the second quarter. Was it that big of a deal, and did Daboll really must be so apologetic?
Daboll didn’t should say anything about this aside from to disclose his honest feelings. “Real’’ is the word that involves mind most frequently when considering what Daboll has shown about himself in his first season as a head coach. Sure, the best way he lambasted Anderson was a bit excessive, however it was not any harsher than many coach-player sideline interactions on a weekly basis. This one was caught by the tv camera and circulated widely. Seeing himself red-faced and irate understandably didn’t sit well with Daboll. It was the warmth of the moment, he said. I wear my emotions on my sleeve, he said. Anderson stood there and took it, and in some unspecified time in the future after the sport Daboll did smooth things over with Anderson. Here’s a hunch that Anderson had no issue with any of this. Players admire Daboll’s feistiness — and his honesty.
Adoree’ Jackson returned two punts against the Texans — the primary time he has been back there with the Giants. Is that an excellent move or too dangerous?
Too dangerous. Jackson is putting together an exquisite season because the team’s bona fide top cornerback. The Giants absolutely needed this out of him after they’d to make James Bradberry a salary-cap casualty (now the Eagles are benefitting from the roster albatross latest general manager Joe Schoen inherited). The Giants defense cannot afford to be without Jackson for one snap, much less a portion of a game. A punt returner cannot simply call for a good catch each time, and any hit Jackson takes on special teams is one hit too many. Yes, we all know Richie James botched the sport in Seattle with two lost fumbles. There is no such thing as a problem sitting him down. The Giants got it out of their system with Jackson, who said he enjoys getting the ball in his hands. But playtime must be over. Now let another person handle the punt return duties. Jackson is simply too worthwhile on defense.
