2022 will not be a good season for the New York Giants.
New head coach Brian Daboll inherited a mess left behind from a series of failed regimes that won 22 games the last five seasons. His quarterback, Daniel Jones, is in the final year of his rookie contract. The lasting image he threatens to leave behind is an uncanny ability to trip over his own feet like a newborn giraffe. Running back Saquon Barkley, drafted ahead of players like Josh Allen, Denzel Ward and Minkah Fitzpatrick in 2018, has been unable to stay healthy, leaving the New York rushing attack stuck in slow motion each of the past two seasons.
That leaves 2022 as a reckoning — a chance for Daboll to parse his roster and figure out who stays and who is merely the means to providing a top five draft pick next spring. There aren’t going to be many football reasons to watch the Giants this fall.
