The New York Giants are 2-8 through 10 weeks of the season and appear destined for another top-10 draft pick come April.
Despite the poor play, general manager Joe Schoen insists the team is close to turning a corner and becoming serious contenders. He expressed as much during his bye week press conference this past Tuesday.
“Yeah, the results have not been what we wanted them to be. I don’t want to be sitting up here at 2-8. Like that’s not what we want and nobody’s happy about it,” Schoen said. “And I understand that, but I do see progress and we’re better in different areas. And again, we’re going to evaluate all that stuff this week, but we’re better in a lot of areas.
“We just got to figure out how to finish games. And again, we’re in the games. We’re not getting blown out in those games. We’re 1-5 in close games and that’s the league. We have to develop the mentality that we’re going to win and close out those games. And that’s what we’re going to look to do these last seven games of the season.”
The Giants’ inability to close out one-possession games is an indictment of poor coaching more than anything else. Many want to point fingers at quarterback Daniel Jones and while he’s certainly not without blame, much of it falls on the shoulders of head coach Brian Daboll.
However, it matters not who is saddled with the blame. The reality is that Schoen is hypothetically correct and if all one-score games in the NFL were flipped, the Giants would be among the best teams in football.
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The NFL standings with all one-possession games flipped: pic.twitter.com/f7Ox0Bw0Vq
— Nash Henry (@NashJagsNats22) November 14, 2024
Maybe they are close but that only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades. The above graphic is very much an alternate universe fantasy land. The Giants aren’t 6-4 and among the top three teams in the NFC, they’re 2-8 and dead last.
For far too long this team has relied on “ifs” and “buts” and if they were candies and nuts, we’d all have a Merry Christmas. But they’re not and 2024 will be another holiday season in which the Giants franchise fails to deliver any gifts to their fans.
