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Unlike the Giants, Jets giving fans hope for next season
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Unlike the Giants, Jets giving fans hope for next season

It is always football season around here, the same way it’s always baseball season. And it feels that way more than ever these days, even in the spring, because of free agency and the upcoming draft. So, you better believe the Giants and Jets are very much in the conversation lately, one that can start here as well as anywhere else, whether the Giants like it or not: They’re no better than the Jets now. And they might turn out to be worse if a quarterback older than the East River and coming off a torn Achilles — Mr. Rodgers himself, now playing in our neighborhood — manages to stay healthy for the 2024-25 NFL season. Stay with the Giants for now. You know how much went wrong for them last season, starting with their opening drive of the season against the Cowboys, one that ended with a b...
Joe Schoen and Brian Daboll have put a pathetic Giants product on the field
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Joe Schoen and Brian Daboll have put a pathetic Giants product on the field

Joe Judge got fired and ridiculed after running two straight QB sneaks with Jake Fromm to create room to punt the ball in Week 18 of the 2021 NFL season. And on Monday night, with America watching, Brian Daboll’s Giants offense did exactly the same thing. On 3rd and 11 at the Giants’ 24-yard line, trailing 14-3 with 1:14 left in the first half, Daniel Jones handed the ball off to Matt Breida for a measly 4-yard gain to set up a punt. The crowd booed. The fans couldn’t believe it. Maybe that’s because they’ve seen it before. Have they seen this kind of ineptitude before, though? This glaring lack of discipline? This level of underachieving from a team with legitimate talent that reared its head again in a pathetic 24-3 loss to the Seahawks on Monday Night Football at MetLife Stadium? J...