In baseball, stats are king. In soccer, not a lot. Positive, fantasy soccer lovers will disagree however within the context of profitable and dropping video games, stats in soccer may be deceiving.
One stat, nevertheless, does have some which means. It’s referred to as “sack differential” — the margin between the sacks your offense permits and the sacks your protection amasses.
In 2023, the New York Giants managed to rack up a sack differential of minus -51, the best of this present millennium, per NFL stat analyst Warren Sharp.
worst historic sack margins*
-51: 2023 NYG-50-49-48-47-46-45-44-43-42-41: 2002 HOU-40: 2000 CAR, 2016 CLE-39: 2018 OAK-38: 2023 CAR, 2022 CHI-37-36-35: 2019 MIA, 2001 DET
*since 2000 https://t.co/0QWhcmD6si
— Warren Sharp (@SharpFootball) July 1, 2024
The growth Houston Texans of 2002, the staff that allowed rookie quarterback David Carr to be sacked an NFL file 76 instances, was a distant second with a minus -41.
The Giants allowed 85 whole sacks in 2023, essentially the most within the NFL because the 1986 Philadelphia Eagles allowed 104. Their protection had simply 34 sacks of their very own in 2023 which was twenty ninth within the NFL.
All three of the Giants’ quarterbacks fell sufferer to the staff’s leaky offensive line. Tommy DeVito was sacked 37 instances in his 9 video games performed (six begins). Daniel Jones was sacked 30 instances in six video games and Tyrod Taylor 17 instances over 11 video games (5 begins).
Extensive receiver Parris Campbell was charged with a sack on a poorly executed choice play.
On protection, the Giants cross rush was largely ineffective when it got here to getting dwelling and sacking the quarterback regardless of coordinator Wink Martindale’s extreme blitzing. They had been thirtieth in sack share at 5.52 p.c.
Kayvon Thibodeaux had 11.5 sacks to guide the staff adopted by Jihad Ward (5.0) and Dexter Lawrence (4.5). No different participant had greater than 2.5 sacks.
