It’s too late for the Giants.
Seriously and seriously.
Yes, it was the Monday of the calendar the day after their nasty 27-13 defeat against the Broncos, but it was already treated as a day much later in the week in the hearts and minds of the Giants. They have an extremely quick change as they get their first road game of the season, Thursday night in Washington, in a 0-1 team “battle” east of the NFC.
Essentially, the Giants have a full day to practice this game (which would be on Tuesday) and went out on the lane to take a charter train trip to Washington on a Tuesday afternoon.
This could work to your advantage. They weren’t hit badly, at least not physically, and their bodies are cooler than they would be if their Thursday night game arrived in a month or two. Also, getting rid of their minds as soon as possible from the handful of games they played, in attack and defense, at the opening of 2021 is a positive fact.
“We’re playing some football again,” security Logan Ryan said. “Honestly, it’s positive after a loss. You have to play faster and we are excited ”.
There’s no time to waste when it comes to getting a counterattack offense to generate more than the Giants ’seven points until Daniel Jones ran for a pointless touchdown when the clock expired. This led to the predictable and understandable claim that offensive coordinator Jason Garrett’s system is not up to the modern standards of the current NFL scoring market.
“The big goal for us now is to make sure we continue to put players in position to be successful,” coach Joe Judge said on Monday, which certainly doesn’t sound like major changes are coming. “There are several plays you can play with and you can draw many different patterns and routes. Viously, obviously, we have to be creative and give players a chance. I’m more focused on the fundamentals and the execution we’re going with. ”
It takes a derrick to dig up welfare performances hidden deep beneath the surface of all the unevenness that the Giants served. The blockade of the race was abysmal: they averaged just 3 yards per attempt, with a rusty Saquon Barkley not yet in sync. The nicest thing that can be said is that the offensive line was not terrible. Of course, this is not a high bar. But it is something.
Jones threw out of a clean pocket 74.4 percent of his reductions, the second-best protection in his three-year career, according to Pro Football Focus. Left-back Andrew Thomas, everyone’s favorite target, had the highest blocking score (87.6) of his career, spanning 17 games. Left guard Shane Lemieux, who was dealing with a knee problem (kneecap tendinitis), was limited to just 17 snapshots, but PFF gave him the highest pass-blocking score in his two years career.
“You won’t win too many games if you can’t throw the ball to the ground, be able to hit the rock,” center Nick Gates said. “I felt that the pass-pro was much better than it was at this time last year. We have to move forward when it comes to that. “
Advancing will happen faster once the new players are fully acclimatized, as Kenny Golladay, Kyle Rudolph and rookie Kadarius Toney played in the opening despite losing most of the training ground and all three preseason games. who dealt with injuries. Barkley played 29 snapshots on his return from knee reconstructive surgery in his first game in 11 months.
Golladay took four 64-yard passes in his Giants debut and, especially at the end of the game, felt he began to develop some chemistry with Jones.
“I’m glad I was able to do these works because not everything will be open and I want you to have that confidence in me and I know this will take time,” Golladay said.
Time will pass. Golladay warned last week that because of all these factors, the foul could start slowly. It proved to be accurate.
“First of all, like I said, this is week 1 and the guys are really starting to come back now,” Golladay said. “I think we can be explosive, almost what everyone thinks. When you just look at it, you have a lot of guys who are in this offense [have] he made a lot of great plays. To be honest, the sky is the limit for us whenever we put in the work. “
This work should be condensed into the shortest week of the season for the Giants.