Brian Daboll still coaching the Giants, Drew Lock still QB1 if healthy
Injuries also continue to mount for a team that is already down a slew of key players and starters.
John Mara and the Tisch family didn’t take the pilot’s advice.
Not yet anyway.
Brian Daboll was still the Giants’ head coach on Monday morning, despite a plane carrying Sunday’s message “MR MARA ENOUGH – PLZ FIX THIS DUMPSTER FIRE” over MetLife Stadium and numerous fans wearing paper bags over their heads.
Mara and the Tisches are sitting by and watching as Joe Schoen’s Giants (2-11) limp towards what promises to be a ninth straight loss on Sunday against the Baltimore Ravens in New Jersey.
Lamar Jackson‘s Ravens (8-5) opened as 14-point favorites in the Vegas sportsbooks, and the line already has moved to 14.5. Baltimore incredibly is -1400 on the MoneyLine, which means a $10 bet on the Ravens to win would earn just 71 cents.
That would have been almost enough to buy a secondary market to Sunday’s Giants game.
The upcoming defeat will drop the Giants to 0-8 at home this season. Then they’ll have a chance to become the first NFL team to finish 0-9 at home in a season when they host the Indianapolis Colts in Week 17.
“We’ve got to do a better job ultimately on gameday,” Daboll said during his Zoom press conference early Monday afternoon.
No kidding.
Drew Lock “will be our quarterback this week unless he can’t because of injury,” Daboll said.
Lock was undergoing MRIs Monday for “a couple things” after throwing 49 passes and taking a beating in Sunday’s 14-11 loss to the New Orleans Saints.
But it really doesn’t matter at this point.
Daboll’s offense ranks dead last in scoring at 14.9 points per game. No other NFL team is scoring fewer than 17 points per game.
On Sunday, Lock became the first NFL quarterback since Cam Newton in 2017 to have his first eight passes fall incomplete. Two were drops.
His third pass of the game was complete to Wan’Dale Robinson but was negated due to an illegal formation penalty on left tackle Josh Ezeudu.
Daboll’s Giants have committed 25 accepted penalties the last two weeks.
It takes work to be this bad.
Daboll’s offense has failed to score a touchdown in the first half in eight of their 13 games this season, an absurd statistic for a head coach who was hired for his offensive acumen.
They have also failed to score a touchdown in the first three quarters of six games, another ridiculous reality.
The Giants’ defense just set an NFL record streak of 11 consecutive games without an interception before Tre Hawkins snapped it with a pick of Derek Carr on Sunday.
Injuries also continue to mount for a team that is already down a slew of key players and starters.
Left guard Jon Runyan Jr. (right ankle) is “sore” and “week to week, maybe more than week to week,” Daboll said. Center John Michael Schmitz’s (neck) MRI “looks OK, but “he’s sore.” And safety Tyler Nubin has an ankle injury and an undetermined status.
That’s in addition to left tackle Andrew Thomas (foot), defensive tackle Dexter Lawrence (elbow), tight end Theo Johnson (foot) and defensive tackle D.J. Davidson (shoulder) being out for the season. Linebacker Bobby Okereke (back) is week to week.
And former starting quarterback Daniel Jones, of course, is on the Minnesota Vikings.
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