The Giants flew to Los Angeles to play the Rams, and they don’t even deserve to return to New Jersey with a lousy T-shirt.
It is a lousy team, though.
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The Giants are 0-4 after a 17-9 loss to the Rams on Sunday that was surprisingly close for most of it, thanks to a stellar performance on defense. It was still 10-9 as late as the seven-minute mark in the fourth quarter.
But offensively, the Giants remain a disaster, and it’s a unit that has given no reason to believe it can get any better. The Giants have not scored more than 16 points in a game. They haven’t scored a TD in the past two games. It’s been three games since Daniel Jones threw a TD pass. Jones has two TD passes and five interceptions this season -- including the game-sealing interception.
There was a serious opportunity for the Giants to make some noise in a putrid NFC East, where nobody will have more than one win through four games. Instead, the Giants continue to be lost on an island, and nobody is coming to save them.
Here are the six people to blame for the latest disaster:
Jason Garrett
The Cowboys lost on Sunday and fell to 1-3 which, as many pointed out, they never did with Garrett as their head coach for a near-decade. What those tweets failed to mention: Garrett is in charge of the Giants' offense this season.
It might be the worst offense in the NFL.
On a day when the Giants' defense shut down one of the NFL’s best offenses, the Giants trailed 10-9 in the fourth quarter.
Those nine points came despite three trips to the red zone. Last week, the Giants never even reached the red zone. Garrett is unwilling to take risks, as evidenced by a decision to punt on fourth-and-four from the Rams' 48 in the fourth quarter. The Giants reached fourth down only because Garrett called a screen pass to Golden Tate, lined up behind the line of scrimmage, that failed miserably on third-and-short when Jalen Ramsey blew it up.
Joe Judge, of course, deserves blame for the fourth down call, too.
Garrett’s offense though has been wildly uninventive.
The Giants continued a trend of not attempting passes down the field and the offensive line remains a disaster. The Giants had 48 passing yards at halftime.
Garrett is failing in just about every way as this team’s offensive coordinator, and the blame for Sunday’s loss in particular falls largely on his shoulders.
It’s becoming obvious that the Cowboys' decision to strip Garrett of play-calling power back in 2012 was the correct decision.
The Giants have scored three touchdowns on offense ... all season.
Three.
Pathetic.
Daniel Jones
The quarterback wasn’t especially bad — he was worse last week — but he wasn’t particularly good, either. He missed open receivers on multiple occasions and still makes some questionable decisions, including on an interception at the end of the game.
Still, it’s not as if he’s getting much help.
He couldn’t guide the Giants on a scoring drive into Rams territory late in the game, throwing an incomplete pass on fourth down at the Rams' 31-yard-line with 2:37 left that left the Giants with their last-gasp chance at the end.
As mentioned, Garrett has been the bigger problem on offense. Plus, the offensive line is still struggling — the Rams had five sacks and six QB hits — and Giants wide receivers are just simply not getting open, especially down the field.
Jones had an impressive 13- and 11-yard runs in the fourth quarter in avoiding a sack, and remains the Giants' leading rusher this season.
He finished 23 of 36 for 190 yards (33 of which came on the final drive on a pass to Darius Slayton) and no touchdowns.
Andrew Thomas
The fourth overall pick had an impressive debut in Week 1, and it’s only gotten worse since then. He might deserve to be credited with at least two of the sacks allowed on Jones on Sunday, and possibly three. He wasn’t good in the running game, either.
In a season in which the tackles drafted quickly after him — Mekhi Becton, Jedrick Wills and Tristan Wirfs — have all been impressive in the early going, it’s fair to be concerned that offensive line coach Marc Colombo hasn’t been able to figure it out with Thomas yet.
Isaac Yiadom
He started for the second game in a row, but he didn’t last long. Yiadom was benched after tight end Gerald Everett scored on a jet sweep for the game’s first touchdown. Yiadom was covering him.
He was replaced by Ryan Lewis from then on, and Lewis acquitted himself well for the most part. Expect Lewis to take over as the starter going forward.
Gerald Everett was Isaac Yiadom’s man on that Rams early TD jet sweep. Followed him in motion and never got close tot he play.
Whoever was covering Cooper Kupp
The Rams clinched the game on a fourth quarter 55-yard touchdown pass from Jared Goff to wide receiver Cooper Kupp.
There appeared to be a miscommunication in the secondary and Kupp was wide open.
The defense played quite well otherwise, but this was a poor play.
Dave Gettleman
He has a place secured on this list for every week the Giants lose even after (or if) he’s fired before the end of the season. Gettleman didn’t add a single wide receiver of note this offseason and his attempted rebuild of the offensive line has been a miserable failure.
The roster lacks top-end talent, and that remains entirely his fault.
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