{"id":77623,"date":"2025-12-22T05:00:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T05:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/77623\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T05:00:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T05:00:11","slug":"heroes-zeros-from-giants-loss-to-vikings-max-brosmer-delivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/77623\/","title":{"rendered":"Heroes, zeros from Giants&#8217; loss to Vikings: Max Brosmer delivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heroes, zeros and the full blitz from the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/21\/sports\/giants-crawling-toward-wrong-side-of-history-with-woeful-loss-to-vikings\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Giants\u2019 16-13 loss to the Vikings<\/a> on Sunday:<\/p>\n<p>Hero<\/p>\n<p>The Vikings\u2019 Will Reichard kicked three field goals, including the tie-breaker from 30 yards out with 4:15 remaining.<\/p>\n<p>Zero<\/p>\n<p>Giants head coach and offensive play-caller Mike Kafka devised a game plan so vanilla against blitz-heavy coordinator Brian Flores that it made Jaxson Dart look like he is regressing.<\/p>\n<p>Unsung hero<\/p>\n<p>Undrafted rookie Max Brosmer, who threw four interceptions in his only career start, played the entire second half for the injured J.J. McCarthy. <\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37990052\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/max-brosmer-12-minnesota-vikings-117712239.jpg\" alt=\"Max Brosmer #12 of the Minnesota Vikings throws a pass during a game against the New York Giants.\" class=\"wp-image-37990052\"  \/>Max Brosmer attempts a throw during the Vikings\u2019 Dec. 21 win over the Giants. Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>He led the game-winning 14-play, 57-yard drive. <\/p>\n<p>He passed for 52 yards \u2014 19 more than Dart.<\/p>\n<p>Key stat<\/p>\n<p>2.9 Yards per play by the Giants (141 on 48 offensive snaps). <\/p>\n<p>Their first 15 plays were runs.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGo behind the scenes with Big Blue\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSign up for Inside the Giants by Paul Schwartz, a weekly Sports+ exclusive.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThank you\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Quote of the day<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re paid to win in this league, be competitive, and we\u2019re not right now, so got to figure it out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Andrew Thomas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Heroes, zeros and the full blitz from the Giants\u2019 16-13 loss to the Vikings on Sunday: Hero The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77624,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2681,9,2683,11,10,22,319],"class_list":{"0":"post-77623","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-minnesota-vikings","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-giants","11":"tag-new-york-headlines","12":"tag-new-york-news","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77623","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=77623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}