ARLINGTON, Texas — There's nothing the Giants can do to get their season back, but there is something they can do to temporarily stop the most important person on the franchise from thinking of all the bad thoughts that must be running through his head. There are many.
For everyone involved, especially head coach Brian Daboll, the best advice heading into this Thanksgiving is co-owner John Mara summoning some holiday spirit at a time when free teams have nothing to be happy about. It's about being able to do that. autumn.
There are certain games that resonate differently. One such example was the game they lost to the inferior Panthers on the international stage in Munich. Returning home after a bye week, Sunday's game against the Buccaneers, an embarrassing — yes, soft — game was one of those games.
It was an anomaly, not that the Giants lost, but as if they had no interest in competing at a respectable level.
This 30-7 loss puts a disastrous season in jeopardy as far as the fallout that could await Daboll and general manager Joe Schon after the Daniel Jones saga left a bitter aftertaste for everyone involved. Changed.
This is what happens here. Of all the teams in the league that Mara wants to win more than any other team, the Cowboys are near or near the top of that list.
Wellington Mara, the father and team patriarch, said that after the Giants' come-from-behind victory over the Cowboys (then Super Bowl champions) in 1996, Dallas owner Jerry Jones irritated Mara by parading him until the end. “It's nice to see arrogance become humble,” he once said. The zone during games at the old Giants stadium.
Wellington Mara was never a soft talker, and this was a public expression of the hostility he felt toward Dallas' ownership that had been passed down from father to son.
John Mara's Giants are in very bad shape, and a fragile, shaky, potentially collapsing team arrives at AT&T Stadium on Thursday to take on Jones' Cowboys.
This is an unusual position for a home team, and with 4 wins and 7 losses they are almost out of contention. This is familiar territory for the Giants, who are 2-9 and on a six-game losing streak, which must be taxing the patience of Mara and co-owner Steve Tisch.
Mara wants to keep Daboll and Shane in 2025 — he said when the Giants were 2-5 that he “anticipates” no major changes to those two next season. But that's what will happen if this downward spiral continues. It was very difficult for Mara to come to any other conclusion than cleaning the house.
The hits continue.
Quarterback Tommy DeVito is suffering from a right forearm injury and did not accompany the team for further testing. That makes it unlikely that he will play, leaving Drew Lock expected to make his first start for the Giants.
You'd have to look long and hard to find a week more eventful than the one the Giants left us with.
They've been bad for most of the past 12 years, but blame it on the way Jones handled the situation, the elevation of DeVito over Lock, and the shockingly inept play that led to a disastrous 6-0 loss against the Bucks at MetLife. He was reduced to the status of a laughing stock. The stadium and the immediate aftermath of a crushing loss to a Bucks team that came in on a four-game losing streak.
The Giants are “terrible” (Brian Burns), “soft” (Dexter Lawrence), “soft as an FK” (Malik Nabors), and “Personally, everyone is giving 100 percent.” I don't think so (Germain) insisted that Eluemunor) was doing everything in his power to help Daboll cope.
He has fairly unconvincing denials of losing the locker room, giving too much reason to believe he is in charge of a team in turmoil.
“Well, no one is happy with where we are,” Daboll said. “But look, we have a positive mindset. We have to be prepared. We control what we can control, and that's this week. But I said it before. But I really appreciate the people in the building.”
It's critical that Mara, the most powerful man in the building, find something going forward that makes him want to move forward with this coach and this general manager.
Something that has been on display for so long it's hard to believe that continuity is the way to go.
