The NY Giants collapsed as a team on Sunday. They gave up 6 sacks in the first half and actually Manning got sack 3 sets in a row. The team’s heart was not in it and the plays were predictable. It was not a normal loss, but a debacle that puts into question the current state and debacle of the franchise.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — There are losses, and then there are totally embarrassing debacles that require an NFL franchise to rethink every single thing it is doing.
Sunday’s 38-0 thrashing at the hands of the previously winless Panthers has to qualify as the latter for the Giants, who stumbled out of Bank of America Stadium dazed, humiliated and staring at an 0-3 start to a season that already looks lost.
“Something’s definitely going to have to happen, because this is intolerable [in] every sense,” Giants safety Antrel Rolle said. “This is just bad all the way around. I don’t have any answers. We have to find our way.”
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“We never gave ourselves competitively a chance to be in the game,” a stunned Coughlin said. “ ‘Disappointing’ is not a strong enough word. I expected more. We built towards more, but it just was not the competitive game I thought it would be.”
Thanks in large part to an inept offensive line that inexplicably allowed seven sacks and at least 20 more hits on Eli Manning, Big Blue had its doors blown off so completely the final 13 games already look like one long evaluation period for the 2014 NFL Draft.
How bad was it? With 13 minutes left in the third quarter, the Panthers had more points (24) than the Giants had total yards (18).
The performance of the NY Giants was so bad, even ESPN had an analysis on it.
Yes, they are 0-3 this year and have been outscored 115-54 (an average of 38.3 to 18 per game). And that’s bad, but this runs deeper. Going back to Halloween of 2012, when the Giants were 6-2 and thinking of themselves as one of the best teams in the league, they have lost eight of their past 11 games.
Sunday’s loss was the third-worst shutout loss in franchise history, but it was only four points worse than the one they took in Atlanta last Dec. 16 when they still had a chance to repeat as NFC East champions. Over their past six games, the Giants are 1-5 and have been outscored by an average of 31.5 to 18.3.
This is worse than a slow start. This is an alarming, systemic trend.
“I thought that we were in a position today that we would be able to put our best foot forward,” a stunned Coughlin said. “But we never gave ourselves a chance, competitively, to be in the game.
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No doubt, but the path the 2013 Giants are on leads to an offseason of overhaul. Two-time Super Bowl champions will start to feel as though they’re on a farewell tour. Coughlin himself isn’t going anywhere — he’ll coach the team as long as he wants to coach it. But this is starting to set up as the kind of year that makes you wonder how much longer he’ll want to. These Giants, because of the deterioration they’ve allowed to happen on their offensive line and in their defensive front seven, are on the cusp of a rebuilding project. There’s no other way to view what they’ve put on tape for the past calendar year.
The collapse of the NY Giants sows the unpredictability of the NFL. Good organizations suddenly become garbage though a combination of bad management and low morale. With an 0-3 start, the NY Giants are done and should now be focused on overhauling their team starting with getting rid of some of the coaching staff.
The Steelers are another team who have collapsed and RGIII’s struggles are the reason Washington is 0-3. Other surprises, San Francisco is at 1-2 and the Colts beat them yesterday and improved to 2-1, thus showing Andrew Luck is not a fluke. The Miami Dolphins are now 3-0 and living in South Florida, the people here are acting as if it’s 1972 all over again. Dolphin Fans and Jet fans are the worse!
