ATLANTA — It has been 77 days for the reason that Giants final received.
In a brutal sport with excessive bodily threat, the necessity to discover methods to maintain pushing ahead and power a smile once in a while amid the shedding is important for psychological and emotional well-being.
Nobody on the surface cares a lot concerning the emotions of these contained in the constructing.
Relaxation assured, it’s a wrestle going by means of a nine-game shedding streak.
The Giants received at Seattle in Week 5, and since then it has been months of shedding.
9 consecutive walks off the sphere with nothing to point out for all of the sweat. 9 straight locker-room submit mortems. 9 weeks of media periods peppered with questions on failure and disappointment.
Can there be something apart from distress extracted from any of this?
“Yeah, I feel you attempt to benefit from the course of with the blokes within the assembly rooms, on recreation day making the changes,’’ offensive coordinator Mike Kafka mentioned. “The outcomes will come. So, you’ve simply bought to consider that a part of it, and I feel we do, and it’s been powerful. These issues have been powerful. That’s previously. ‘What can we control today?’ And that’s our mentality. That’s our mindset.’’
It’s powerful to discern what the collective mindset of the Giants (2-12) will likely be Sunday as they face the Falcons (7-7) inside Mercedes-Benz Stadium.
No Giants crew within the earlier 99 years has ever misplaced 10 consecutive video games, and that’s the infamy that awaits this group if what has occurred each week since Oct. 6 occurs once more this weekend.
This recreation is a pivot level for the Falcons, as they despatched veteran free agent addition Kirk Cousins to the bench — within the midst of a playoff race — to provide rookie quarterback Michael Penix Jr. his first NFL begin.
A technique or one other, this will likely be a big growth for the Falcons.
Not so for the Giants, as they proceed to show an important place on the sphere into an irrelevancy or a redundancy or a calamity.
Take your decide.
Up to now 5 video games, 5 quarterbacks have thrown passes for the Giants. It’s good to share, however not like this.
Up to now 31 video games — all of final season and the primary 14 video games this season — the Giants have began 4 quarterbacks: Daniel Jones for 16 video games, Tommy DeVito for eight video games, Tyrod Taylor for 5 and Drew Lock for 2.
They’re 8-23 in these video games, providing additional proof that the extra quarterbacks, the more serious it’s for a franchise.
Damage and upheaval have been the story. And, lest we neglect, additionally painfully sub-par play.
“It’s a part of the enterprise, it’s a part of soccer,’’ Kafka mentioned. “Actually, it occurs at each place — whether or not it’s offensive line, whether or not it’s receiver, these issues occur. So, you’ve simply bought to be actually ready and ensure we’re staying on high of not simply the starters, however we’re prepping the backups. It’s unlucky. You clearly don’t need these sort of issues to occur, however after they do, you’ve started working by means of it.’’
It’s a part of the enterprise, however normally to not this extent.
“It’s most likely a primary for me going by means of that as a coach,’’ Kafka mentioned.
Jones incurred a neck damage in 2023 that put him on the sideline. He returned for one recreation then tore his ACL.
Taylor took over, cracked 4 ribs and gave strategy to DeVito. Jones this season began the primary 10 video games earlier than the choice was made to ship him to the bench, with the Giants at 2-8 after Jones skilled red-zone failures and didn’t uncork a throw on a flea flicker in a brutal loss to the Panthers in Munich.
DeVito, surprisingly, was head coach Brian Daboll’s selection because the alternative and that lasted solely till DeVito was banged round by the Cowboys and Lock needed to step in.
Jones joined the Vikings on their observe squad and these days is just about an afterthought across the Giants, although the work of DeVito and Lock make it clear the Giants sat then launched the perfect quarterback on their roster.
Final week, DeVito was pressured out with a concussion and newly acquired Tim Boyle performed the second half of a 35-14 loss to the Ravens.
Lock is healed sufficient from a heel damage to return to the beginning lineup.
Obtained all that straight?
