When friends, family, co-workers come up to you with the "Heh, what's wrong with your Giants?" question, how have you been responding? (I assume most / all of us have been receiving that question and we will even more so now that the Giants are 0-5).
Basically there are two types of folks who ask: 1) The jerk big fan of another team who's been looking to needle you for years and 2) the casual fan who is at least semi-honestly surprised and wants some kind of explanation.
For 1) (especially Cowboys, Redskins or Eagles fans), the proper reply is "#$%*@! you, your team can only dream of the success the Giants have had in recent years".
For 2), what have you been saying? Well, we've had a higher than average number of injuries, our GM didn't pay enough attention to our OL and LBs, teams have figured out our game plans ...
Looking for some good, meaningful answers for 2) (I've got 1) covered).
The Raiders even can win games weirdly enough. The Seahawks have had 3 starters out.
So "lol, are you serious?" all you want. Some of us actually watch other NFL teams play.
We decided to take two additional runs with the same 9-7 football team that managed to morph into a playoff juggernaut, doubling down on what got us there, rather than taking a rather harsh but needed self-assessment.
We won the SB in a low percentage manner, and decided that was somehow the best way moving forward to maximize our chances because it had actually worked, and therefore it must have been the best way.
1. Giants organization has failed totally when it comes to adding young talent. They have virtually nothing to show for the drafts and free agency over the past few years.
2. This summer GM put a count down clock in the Giants locker room because he thought the team he had assembled was a legitimate contender to be the first team in NFL history to play a SB in its own stadium. In other words, the single most important evaluator of talent for the team, didn't have a clue how little talent there was on his own team.
End of story.
We were "patching" when we needed some selected demolition and rebuilding. Now it's time to essentially bulldoze the whole thing (save Eli, Cruz, Prince, and maybe Randle and JPP).