The New York Giants have been one of the worst teams in football so far this season.
Nine months ago, Giants fans were feeling hopeful again. A playoff victory for the first time in 11 years, a Coach of the Year winner in Brian Daboll, and a magical feeling that something was brewing in East Rutherford. So far in the 2023 season, all of that hope has been stripped away from fans.
Sitting with a record at 1-3 and a critical game early in the season, the Giants hosted the Seattle Seahawks on Monday Night Football. This game was a chance for the Giants to make a statement and show that last season wasn’t a fluke. The statement made was that there are some massive issues with this team.
To start, the offense has been a total debacle. Yet to score a touchdown in the first half and having been outscored 122-43 over four games, things have not gone well to say the least. With an offensive line who’s allowed 22 sacks over those four games, a quarterback who’s thrown just two touchdowns with six interceptions, and seemingly can’t get anything going well, the offense is simply broken.
The Giants added star tight end Darren Waller in March to give quarterback Daniel Jones a No. 1 target, and Waller has been almost nonexistent thus far. The play calling is extremely conservative, the aforementioned offensive line has been pitiful, and that results in poor quarterback play.
The defense for this Giants team hasn’t been necessarily good either. Between a pass rush with only four sacks, which is second worst in the league, having no takeaways, and poor tackling, opposing offenses have been able to move the ball pretty much at will.
The most recent example of this poor defense happened Monday Night when Seahawks quarterback Drew Lock dropped back on a 3rd & 10. Lock threw a dart to tight end Noah Fant who picked up the first down and then continued to run all the way to the one yard line when nobody wanted to tackle him.
So far for the Giants, it’s been Murphy’s First Law of “Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.”
The Giants face the Miami Dolphins next week, who recently put up 70 points in a game two weeks ago. After that, they will face the Buffalo Bills on Sunday Night Football, and the Bills just beat the Dolphins 48-20. The Giants are staring down a potential 1-5 record.
Things need to turn around fast for the Giants, or they’ll be out of the playoffs come November.
