{"id":132801,"date":"2020-12-14T07:35:40","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T04:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/giants-jarring-buzzkill-doesnt-mean-its-over\/"},"modified":"2020-12-14T07:35:40","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T04:35:40","slug":"giants-jarring-buzzkill-doesnt-mean-its-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/giants-jarring-buzzkill-doesnt-mean-its-over\/","title":{"rendered":"#Giants’ jarring buzzkill doesn’t mean it’s over"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Giants’ jarring buzzkill doesn’t mean it’s over<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Well, in the immortal words of Charlie Brown: \u201cRats!\u201d<\/p>\n

Someone called the cops to your house because the music was too loud. Someone narced on your dorm-room party because they spotted you sneaking in a quarter keg. Someone told that beautiful girl (or handsome dude) you\u2019ve been chatting up that you have a serious girlfriend (or boyfriend). Someone found out you\u2019d been borrowing their passwords to Netflix, Hulu and HBO Max.<\/p>\n

You were having too much fun as a Giants fan. The Giants were having too much fun as a football team. The past five weeks had been a dream ride nobody could\u2019ve seen coming with a Hubble Telescope, the Giants winning four game<\/a>s in a row, rising like a phoenix out of the dust, 1-7 to 5-7, hapless slapstickers to division contenders.<\/p>\n

The ride was downright intoxicating.<\/p>\n

So this was the buzzkill: a pillar-to-post pounding by the Arizona Cardinals, a team that had been free-falling every bit as rapidly as the Giants had been ascending the past few weeks. The final score was 26-7, but that was mere semantics.<\/p>\n

From the moment the Cardinals separated Daniel Jones from the ball 112 seconds into the game \u2014 an unwanted d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu moment if ever there was one \u2014 the visitors could have named the score. They settled on 26-7. It was a thrashing. It was a trashing. It was a bashing.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were outplayed,\u201d Giants coach Joe Judge said, \u201cand we were outcoached.\u201d<\/p>\n

Said running back Wayne Gallman: \u201cWe have to be better.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Joe Judge talks to the Giants during their loss to the Cardinals<\/figcaption>
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That summed it up concisely, properly and painfully. It doesn\u2019t necessarily affect the Giants\u2019 position within the NFC East all that much, the teams are too tightly bunched, too like-minded. Still, this wasn\u2019t a good day for the local 11. The Cowboys gained ground in Cincinnati \u2014 and have the most manageable portion of their schedule ahead of them. Washington ground out a win against San Francisco in Arizona (sentence copyright, 2020) and slipped past the Giants into first place; Jalen Hurts led the Eagles to a stunning win against the Saints, ending New Orleans\u2019 nine-game winning streak.<\/p>\n

But it was just a week ago that the Giants had walked into Seattle\u2019s Lumen Field and sent a chilling message to the Seahawks and the rest of the NFC, one that essentially said this: We\u2019re not just planning on qualifying for the playoffs, we\u2019re of a mind to stay a while if and when we get there.<\/p>\n

It was a different message this time.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a tough moment,\u201d said Blake Martinez, the Giants\u2019 tackle-machine linebacker, who shook off a back injury to make seven stops, five of them solo. \u201cWe didn\u2019t perform the way we needed to today. You can\u2019t be too high and can\u2019t be too low on yourself. Now we have to focus on the coming week and make improvements like we have been during the season.\u201d<\/p>\n

The defense was actually plenty feisty, and helped keep the Giants in the game well past the point where they deserved to be. But the offense \u2026 10 first downs. Only 159 total yards. Nobody could stop Arizona\u2019s Haason Reddick, a Haddon Heights, N.J., kid who collected five sacks and forced three fumbles, the best Jersey homecoming since Springsteen opened the Meadowlands with six straight sellouts back in 1981.<\/p>\n

Daniel Jones was clearly not right the whole time, reluctant to use his legs early, limping on them late, three times allowing himself to be separated from the ball. It took an hour and a half for him to emerge from his postgame treatment, which doesn\u2019t speak well for his usefulness next Sunday against the Browns in prime time.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s extremely disapp<\/a>ointing for all of us,\u201d Jones said. \u201cTo play like that \u2026 we didn\u2019t execute throughout the whole game. I didn\u2019t do enough and we didn\u2019t move the ball on offense at all.\u201d<\/p>\n

So the Giants will wake up Monday morning with a little headache, maybe an upset stomach, feeling a little hazy. Maybe intellectually the Giants, and their constituents, understood the party couldn\u2019t last forever. But the hangover is still going to be jarring. And so will this harsh reminder that they don\u2019t own a margin of error so much as a sliver of one.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have to get back to work,\u201d Judge said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAny time you lose, it\u2019s always a wake-up call,\u201d Martinez said. \u201cThe really good teams focus on getting better with a win or a loss.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Giants believed they were headed toward that neighborhood these last five weeks. One terrible day doesn\u2019t erase all that came before. It was a day that felt like false spring, but the Giants don\u2019t have to be false contenders. It\u2019s all still in front of them, starting in prime time next Sunday. Time was, there was nothing in football quite like an important Browns-Giants game. Some things never change.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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