ATLANTA — It's been 77 days since the Giants last won.
In a demanding sport with extreme physical risks, the need to find ways to keep moving forward and sometimes force yourself to smile even when you lose is essential for your mental and emotional health.
People outside the building don't really care about the feelings of the people inside the building.
Don't worry, we are on a 9-game losing streak.
The Giants won against Seattle in Week 5, but have been losing for months since then.
He left the field with nine consecutive walks, but despite all the sweat he put into it, he had nothing to show. Nine consecutive locker room autopsies. Nine weeks of media sessions included questions about failures and disappointments.
Can anything other than misery be extracted from this?
“Yeah, I think on game day we try to enjoy the process of being in the conference room and adjusting with the players,” offensive coordinator Mike Kafka said. “The results will come. So you have to believe in that part, and I think we believe in that, too, but it was tough. Those things were tough. That's in the past. “Today What can we control?’ That’s our mentality. That's our way of thinking. ”
It's hard to know what the collective mentality will be for the Giants (2-12), who face the Falcons (7-7) on Sunday at Mercedes-Benz Stadium.
No Giants team has lost 10 games in a row in 99 years, and if what has happened every week since Oct. 6 is repeated this weekend, it will give this team a bad name.
The game was a key point for the Falcons, who benched veteran free agent Kirk Cousins and gave rookie quarterback Michael Penix Jr. his first NFL start in the midst of playoff contention.
Either way, this would be an important development for the Falcons.
That's not the case with the Giants, who continue to turn the most important position on the field into irrelevant, redundant, or a disaster.
Please choose.
Five quarterbacks have thrown passes for the Giants in the past five games. Sharing is good, but this is not it.
Over the past 31 games (all of last season and the first 14 of this season), the Giants have started four quarterbacks: Daniel Jones for 16, Tommy DeVito for eight, Tyrod Taylor for five, and Drew.・Lock has 2 games.
They are 8-23 in those games, providing further evidence that more quarterbacks are bad for a franchise.
Injuries and chaos were the talk of the town. And lest we forget, there was some woefully substandard play as well.
“It's part of business, it's part of football,” Kafka said. “Really, it happens at any position — whether it's on the offensive line, whether it's at receiver, things like that happen. So it's really about being prepared and making sure you're not only preparing your starters but also your backups. It's unfortunate. We obviously don't want this to happen, but if it does, we have to get over it.”
It's part of the business, but usually not to this extent.
“This is probably the first time I've had an experience like this as a coach,” Kafka said.
Jones was sidelined in 2023 with a neck injury. He returned for just one game before tearing his anterior cruciate ligament.
Taylor took over, breaking four ribs and making way for DeVito. Jones started the first 10 games this season before the decision was made to send him to the bench, but Jones experienced a red zone fumble and was unable to miss a throw on a flea flicker, and the Giants They lost badly with 2 wins and 8 losses. Munich Panthers.
Surprisingly, DeVito was head coach Brian Daboll's choice to replace him, and that only lasted until DeVito was beaten by the Cowboys and Lock took his place.
Jones joined the Vikings' practice squad and is now largely an afterthought for the Giants, but the performance of DeVito and Lock makes it clear that the Giants kept their best quarterback on the roster and let him go.
Last week, DeVito was sidelined with a concussion and newly acquired Tim Boyle played in the second half of a 35-14 loss to the Ravens.
Lock has recovered sufficiently from his heel injury to return to the starting lineup.
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