Here are some offensive numbers from profootball reference.
.....TEAM...PASS.. ....Catch..YDS./Catch..TD..Fumb
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2014.13th...7th....Donnel...63..623...9.9....6.....4
2015.6th....7th.....Donnel...29..223...7.7....2.....0
.................._______Tye.....42..464...11.0...3.....1
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................._____TOTAL....71..687...9.7....5.....1
2016.26th!...17th!.Donnel..15...92...6.1....1.....1
.................._______Tye....48..395...8.2....1.....0
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................._____TOTAL....63..487...7.7....2.....1
I apologize for the dots that were used to prevent the table from collapsing, and I admit this is a narrow view of the Giants problems. The production at TE tanked in 2016 along with the entire offense. I'll save my comments for later. Is this correlation or causation? And was LD's decline a cause or effect?
Playmaking at TE was non-existent last year, even though everyone's game plan was designed to stop OBJ....
And correcting Tiki's fumbling problem, which turned him into a borderline HOF (maybe tangential, but his numbers were unreal) candidate.
Larry Donnell worked his way into TC's doghouse. Deservedly. But nobody coached him out of it, so we lost the only playmaking ability we had at that position. And then the offense sucked. I believe this was a significant part of the problem.
PLEASE, Mr. Reese!!! No more big, athletic "finds" that aren't football players! For every diamond-in-the-rough you find, there are a too many t***s this club gets stuck with for years that the coaches try to make something out of that are only a tease.
Donnell's limitations are limitless. Next topic.
Egregious decision that should have gotten him cut that very evening....
'People' were convinced that Dan Campbell and Greg Comella were going to return with a vengeance, and they didn't catch 3 tds on a nationally televised game. Enough said?