After 4 quarters of soccer, Giants followers are already feeling hopeless.
Nothing felt completely different for the Giants on Sunday as they had been embarrassed by the Vikings 28-6 of their season opener at MetLife Stadium, with followers booing and leaving early as they watched what gave the impression to be indicators that this season might be no higher than the final.
Put up readers responding to a ballot contained in the story on-line of the Giants’ loss on Sunday are overwhelmingly resigned to a different depressing marketing campaign.
As of early Monday afternoon, with 2,000 respondents, 92.7 % of followers stated they don’t have hope for the Giants in 2024 they usually really feel it’ll be much like 2023, with solely a small few taking the optimistic strategy that they’ll bounce again after one dangerous efficiency.
“An overreaction is suitable when one thing dangerous occurs to one thing that ought to be good. The Giants are a humiliation as a company and have been for over a decade,” Giants fan Ed A wrote in response to a column by Mike Vaccaro.
“No must be alarmed or over react to a loss from a staff that can NEVER be something however rubbish.”
Daniel Jones started his make-or-break season within the worst manner attainable, going 22-for-42 with 186 yards, no touchdowns and two interceptions whereas getting sacked 5 instances.
He appeared extra haunted than his Vikings counterpart Sam Darnold, who as soon as stated he was “seeing ghosts” whereas enjoying a 2019 sport at MetLife for the Jets throughout a blowout loss to the Patriots.
Darnold, beginning for Minnesota with rookie J.J. McCarthy out for the season following knee surgical procedure, was 19-for-24 with 208 yards, two touchdowns and an interception on Sunday.
Some Giants followers who attended the sport had been so fed up with Jones, who’s within the second 12 months of a four-year, $160 million contract, that they heckled the 27-year-old as he walked out of the participant’s entrance after the sport.
“I believe it’s our job to offer them one thing to cheer about and to play nicely, to execute,’’ Jones, the No. 6 total decide in 2019, stated after the sport. “We take that significantly. They count on us to play nicely, we count on to play nicely. We’ve obtained to do this.’’
If the Giants resolve to maneuver on from Jones after this season, they’ll lower him and tackle a manageable $22.2 million in useless cap house.
Within the short-term, in the event that they resolve to bench Jones, they’ve fellow 2019 draft decide Drew Lock, whom they signed within the offseason to interchange Tyrod Taylor because the backup, and Tommy DeVito, who as a fill-in final 12 months went 3-3 as a starter, which included a three-game successful streak.
