The New York Giants are 2-7 after 9 weeks of the 2024 season, one wherein their possession and entrance workplace believed they might be aggressive.
As an alternative, they sit in final place within the NFC East with little hope of profitable it after getting swept by division chief Washington this previous Sunday.
Because the commerce deadline handed on Tuesday afternoon, the Giants have been neither consumers nor sellers, principally sitting silently except for some minor housekeeping.
The Giants would want the seas to half to ensure that them to even determine into the wild card hunt. In response to NFLGSIS.com, they’re sixteenth out of 16 within the NFC.
They’re tied with the Carolina Panthers and New Orleans Saints with 2-7 information however are behind them by advantage of their 1-5 convention file.
To place issues into perspective, the Saints simply fired head coach Dennis Allen and the Panthers have been a tire fireplace for years now.
Since final qualifying for the postseason in 2017, the Panthers have averaged 5 wins per yr. The Giants play them this week in Germany in a sport that isn’t match for public consumption.
The Giants are final in factors per sport (15.4) which is a sliver decrease than they have been final season (15.6) and are twenty sixth in whole offense. This after head coach Brian Daboll took over the play calling this season in hopes of turning the offense right into a prime unit within the NFL.
The Giants are lifeless final in pink zone scoring share (40.0) which speaks volumes to their incapacity to attain factors. They’ve scored over 20 factors solely thrice this season and received two of these video games.
With Tuesday being the NFL commerce deadline, their most marketable participant — outdoors linebacker Azeez Ojulari — didn’t return a palatable sufficient draft choose in proposed offers, and huge receiver Darius Slayton’s commerce worth slipped away after struggling a concussion final Sunday.
So, what do Large followers should look ahead to for the rest of the season? Clearly, the draft and presumably one other top-5 choose, however after that, not a lot.
After their sport in Germany this Sunday, they’ll head right into a much-needed bye. After that, they’re up in opposition to a gauntlet of playoff contenders in Tampa Bay, Baltimore, Atlanta, Indianapolis, and Philadelphia.
The one respites, imagine it to not, are a Thanksgiving sport in Dallas in opposition to a reeling Cowboys crew and a house sport versus New Orleans.
The Giants have tried nearly every little thing to cease this free fall however nothing has labored. In the event that they win 4 video games, they’ll contemplate themselves lucky.
