For the past two weekends, the Giants were the one NFL team assigned to take a seat back and watch, with no responsibility to take the sphere and play a game.
All good things have to return to an end. The schedule demanded the Giants come out of their semi-hibernation and truly proceed their season.
That was too bad for the Giants. After they weren’t playing, they couldn’t lose and couldn’t look bad along the way in which.
They played Monday night they usually looked bad. Very bad.
In a season rapidly filling up with embarrassing performances, the Giants added to the pile one other dud, as they were dominated every which way in a 24-3 loss to the Seahawks at MetLife Stadium.
The Giants were never really in it they usually were shoved completely out of it late within the third quarter.
Trailing 14-3 and driving, Daniel Jones from the Seattle 5-yard line threw to the improper side of Parris Campbell, the ball sailing into the hands of rookie cornerback Devon Witherspoon.
It was off to the races from there. Witherspoon, in stride from the 3-yard line, sped 97 yards with the interception return for a touchdown, cutting inside Jones on the Seattle 44-yard line, leaving the quarterback flat on the turf because the Seahawks went ahead 21-3.
It was altogether fitting. The Giants have fallen they usually can’t rise up.
They’re 1-3 and face back-to-back road games at Miami and Buffalo, with their season in free fall.
This was a pathetic display on so many fronts, most egregiously from an offensive line that in some way, a way, continues to worsen.
Jones was sacked 10 times — there have been 11 sacks in all — and compelled to run for canopy so often that it was difficult to decipher what precisely the Giants were attempting to get done once they had the ball.
In 4 games, the Giants have been outscored 77-9 in the primary half. Slow starters? More like nonstarters.
The primary boos could possibly be heard early within the second quarter, in spite of everything Jones could do, running out of a closing pocket, was to toss the ball out of bounds on third down.
There was the familiar Pacific Northwest chant of “Sea-hawks” after Kenneth Walker scored to make it 14-3 late within the second quarter.
The jeers cascaded down when, on third-and-11, the Giants went with the give-up call of a handoff to Matt Breida (again subbing for injured Saquon Barkley) for 4 yards.
And, when the Giants trudged off the sphere at halftime, they ran through the tunnel with the sound of more boos ringing of their ears.
All this was bad and likewise with great precedent.
It was the eighth consecutive loss for the franchise on “Monday Night Football” and the tenth loss within the last 11 on what should be called Blue Monday. J
ones is now 1-13 in games he has began in prime time.
The battered and depleted offensive line took one other hit, this one on the opening series, because the Giants got here up short on a quarterback sneak on fourth-and-1.
Rookie center John Michael Schmitz injured his shoulder on the play, forcing one other forced lineup alteration.
Ben Bredeson moved from left guard to center and Shane Lemieux got here off the bench to play left guard. Lemieux didn’t make it through the night before he, too, left with an injury.
This didn’t help stabilize a gaggle already playing without its best player, left tackle Andrew Thomas, who missed his third consecutive game with a strained hamstring.
Jones finished 27 of 34 for 203 yards, two interceptions and, little question, several bruises and black and blue marks after he was battered for 60 minutes.
Jones was sacked by Witherspoon to wreck the second series and the third series was worse. Much worse.
Jones sensed his pocket had collapsed in a flash as Mario Edwards Jr. sped past an immobile Matt Peart, in as an additional “blocker.”
Jones eluded that rusher but Edwards from behind chopped down on Jones’ arm, forcing a fumble that Jordyn Brooks recovered and took to the Giants’ 7-yard line.
Two plays later, Geno Smith found DK Metcalf, who beat rookie Deonte Banks at the back of the tip zone for a 7-0 Seattle lead.
Breida was dropped for a 5-yard loss and Jones was pressured and threw the ball away to finish the subsequent inept offensive series.
Kayvon Thibodeaux nearly had a pick-six — the ball deflected off his left hand — and the Giants actually dug themselves out of a hole, backed as much as their 2-yard line.
A screen to Breida picked up 22 yards but an attempted gadget play, a pass by receiver Parris Campbell, was wrecked when he was sacked for an 8-yard loss. Leave it to the Giants to get a large receiver sacked.
Graham Gano’s 55-yard field goal within the second quarter was the extent of the Giants’ scoring.
Smith hurt a knee after he was tackled near the sideline after catching a deflected pass. Was this a break for the Giants? Apparently not.
Backup Drew Lock on third-and-10 took advantage of an enormous defensive breakdown. He found tight end Noah Fant alone and all-heck broke loose.
Fant tight-roped the appropriate sideline as Bobby Okereke and Adoree’ Jackson took turns failing to knock him out of bounds. I
saiah Simmons finally dragged Fant out of bounds on the 1-yard line, which only delayed the inevitable, as Kenneth Walker scored to make it 14-3.
For the past two weekends, the Giants were the one NFL team assigned to take a seat back and watch, with no responsibility to take the sphere and play a game.
All good things have to return to an end. The schedule demanded the Giants come out of their semi-hibernation and truly proceed their season.
That was too bad for the Giants. After they weren’t playing, they couldn’t lose and couldn’t look bad along the way in which.
They played Monday night they usually looked bad. Very bad.
In a season rapidly filling up with embarrassing performances, the Giants added to the pile one other dud, as they were dominated every which way in a 24-3 loss to the Seahawks at MetLife Stadium.
The Giants were never really in it they usually were shoved completely out of it late within the third quarter.
Trailing 14-3 and driving, Daniel Jones from the Seattle 5-yard line threw to the improper side of Parris Campbell, the ball sailing into the hands of rookie cornerback Devon Witherspoon.
It was off to the races from there. Witherspoon, in stride from the 3-yard line, sped 97 yards with the interception return for a touchdown, cutting inside Jones on the Seattle 44-yard line, leaving the quarterback flat on the turf because the Seahawks went ahead 21-3.
It was altogether fitting. The Giants have fallen they usually can’t rise up.
They’re 1-3 and face back-to-back road games at Miami and Buffalo, with their season in free fall.
This was a pathetic display on so many fronts, most egregiously from an offensive line that in some way, a way, continues to worsen.
Jones was sacked 10 times — there have been 11 sacks in all — and compelled to run for canopy so often that it was difficult to decipher what precisely the Giants were attempting to get done once they had the ball.
In 4 games, the Giants have been outscored 77-9 in the primary half. Slow starters? More like nonstarters.
The primary boos could possibly be heard early within the second quarter, in spite of everything Jones could do, running out of a closing pocket, was to toss the ball out of bounds on third down.
There was the familiar Pacific Northwest chant of “Sea-hawks” after Kenneth Walker scored to make it 14-3 late within the second quarter.
The jeers cascaded down when, on third-and-11, the Giants went with the give-up call of a handoff to Matt Breida (again subbing for injured Saquon Barkley) for 4 yards.
And, when the Giants trudged off the sphere at halftime, they ran through the tunnel with the sound of more boos ringing of their ears.
All this was bad and likewise with great precedent.
It was the eighth consecutive loss for the franchise on “Monday Night Football” and the tenth loss within the last 11 on what should be called Blue Monday. J
ones is now 1-13 in games he has began in prime time.
The battered and depleted offensive line took one other hit, this one on the opening series, because the Giants got here up short on a quarterback sneak on fourth-and-1.
Rookie center John Michael Schmitz injured his shoulder on the play, forcing one other forced lineup alteration.
Ben Bredeson moved from left guard to center and Shane Lemieux got here off the bench to play left guard. Lemieux didn’t make it through the night before he, too, left with an injury.
This didn’t help stabilize a gaggle already playing without its best player, left tackle Andrew Thomas, who missed his third consecutive game with a strained hamstring.
Jones finished 27 of 34 for 203 yards, two interceptions and, little question, several bruises and black and blue marks after he was battered for 60 minutes.
Jones was sacked by Witherspoon to wreck the second series and the third series was worse. Much worse.
Jones sensed his pocket had collapsed in a flash as Mario Edwards Jr. sped past an immobile Matt Peart, in as an additional “blocker.”
Jones eluded that rusher but Edwards from behind chopped down on Jones’ arm, forcing a fumble that Jordyn Brooks recovered and took to the Giants’ 7-yard line.
Two plays later, Geno Smith found DK Metcalf, who beat rookie Deonte Banks at the back of the tip zone for a 7-0 Seattle lead.
Breida was dropped for a 5-yard loss and Jones was pressured and threw the ball away to finish the subsequent inept offensive series.
Kayvon Thibodeaux nearly had a pick-six — the ball deflected off his left hand — and the Giants actually dug themselves out of a hole, backed as much as their 2-yard line.
A screen to Breida picked up 22 yards but an attempted gadget play, a pass by receiver Parris Campbell, was wrecked when he was sacked for an 8-yard loss. Leave it to the Giants to get a large receiver sacked.
Graham Gano’s 55-yard field goal within the second quarter was the extent of the Giants’ scoring.
Smith hurt a knee after he was tackled near the sideline after catching a deflected pass. Was this a break for the Giants? Apparently not.
Backup Drew Lock on third-and-10 took advantage of an enormous defensive breakdown. He found tight end Noah Fant alone and all-heck broke loose.
Fant tight-roped the appropriate sideline as Bobby Okereke and Adoree’ Jackson took turns failing to knock him out of bounds. I
saiah Simmons finally dragged Fant out of bounds on the 1-yard line, which only delayed the inevitable, as Kenneth Walker scored to make it 14-3.
