community posts<\/a>Comment on articles, community postsRec comments, community postsNew, improved notifications system!<\/p>\nAaron Stinnie \u2014 It isn\u2019t easy to sit on the bench most of the year and then play in Week 16. But, Stinnie is a veteran offensive lineman and being ready when called upon is his job. Stinnie committed three penalties. Not good.<\/p>\n
Jaxson Dart \u2014 This was truly the first game in which Dart looked like a rookie. He was overmatched by Minnesota defensive coordinator Brian Flores, and the Giants knew it. They used an exceptionally conservative game plan to try and nurse the quarterback through, and they nearly got a victory out of it.<\/p>\n
It was clear that Dart wasn\u2019t sure what he was seeing at times. He was also under duress due to the Vikings\u2019 pass rush, or the makeshift Giants\u2019 offensive line\u2019s inability to stifle it.<\/p>\n
Dexter Lawrence \u2014 Lawrence had two penalties, a defensive holding and a neutral zone infraction, on Minnesota\u2019s game-winning drive. His only other contributions to the stat sheet were a tackle for loss, a QB hit and a pass defensed. To win games your best players have to come up big when it matters, just like Justin Jefferson did for the Vikings. Lawrence did not.<\/p>\n
Giants\u2019 receivers \u2014 Man, do they miss Malik Nabers. And, man, do they need more than just Nabers\u2019 return next season. The pass blocking wasn\u2019t good, obviously. It wasn\u2019t helped by the receivers inability to get open or catch the ball.<\/p>\n
The two drops by Johnson we already talked about. Veteran receiver Darius Slayton dropped a ball on the Giants\u2019 final drive that would have been a gain of about 20 yards and given New York a first down in Minnesota territory. As a staff, we\u2019re arguing about whether the floater down the middle to Wan\u2019Dale Robinson was a drop. I say no because Dart hung him out to dry with a poor throw. Chris and Tony say yes. Either way, the work by the receivers left a lot to be desired.<\/p>\n
Abdul Carter \u2014 Carter had a sack for a third straight game. He also added a tackle for loss and four quarterback hits. His neutral zone infraction that nullified a 96-yard pick six by Jevon Holland, though, was a crusher. I simply never understand how guys at the line of scrimmage can line up offside. Unforgivable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York Giants lost again on Sunday. of course. That is nine straight and the Giants are…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77416,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[12269,9,7692,11,10],"class_list":["post-77415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-kudos-wet-willies","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-giants-analysis","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}