from 2016 (11-5) 2nd Best Defense in the NFL
to 2017 (3-13) 26th best Defense in the NFL
I'm still scratching my head as to how that happened. Seemed Spags stopped blitzing and adopted McAdoos small ball (keep it close) strategy.
Frankly our offensive Stats last year slipped but nothing like the Defense. If Beckham had played we likely would have repeated 2016 offense.
We have changed the Defensive Co-Ordinator and the scheme to a 3-4
There is little to say here. Have we done anything to correct this appalling yr to yr decline?
This is the main Reason I wanted Chubb as our pick at #2
there were plenty of top notch RBs on the board in round #2
Our Running game with Darkwa and Gallman was more than adequate especially when we changed the Oline and Gallman finished strong .... if it aint broke, dont fix it.
To add to the misery our best d
defensive player just underwent surgery. I hope he is a quick healer.
I havent entered a new season with less Trophy hope since the mid- 70s. In the mid 70s Giants fans prayed for 1 game wins not SBs
Defense gave up.....after the they knew the offense had no chance to win
Defense gave up.....after the they knew the offense had no chance to win
In my opinion the whole team cratered when Perkins put up 4 50 Burgers and OBJ got hurt.
I want to know why McAdoo started Perkins and stuck with him....he signed his own pink slip with that move
Besides, teams go up or down in rankings (sometimes drastically) from 1 year to the next. New year. New personnel and coaches
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Thats comforting....what kind of odds would Vegas give you on that bet?
It's hard to talk about the defense given that we don't know some of the players (Mauro and Martin) haven't seen others at their new prospective positions (e.g., Vernon), and aren't really familiar with the new DC since he coached in another Division.
As others have said, an offense that can at least attempt to control TOP will help us a lot.
Besides, teams go up or down in rankings (sometimes drastically) from 1 year to the next. New year. New personnel and coaches
They opened the season (presumably on the freshest legs they'd have all year) with an 8-play drive (punt), 9-play drive (FG), 14-play drive (FG). From jump, they just never got themselves off the field. It doesn't help that the Giants offense turned around two 3-and-outs in between those three extended drives, obviously, but the defense contributed as much to their own fatigue as the offense did, IMO.
That same routine seemed to continue all year. Anyone who lets the defense off the hook at all for their YOY decline is being way too kind.
But those guys put very little effort into playing defense after they saw the same bull-shit being produced by the Offense in early 2017. Bad attitudes, lack of effort, injuries (and so-called "injuries") than spiraled the whole crew into a bad defense.
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for 55 minutes of every game, have fingerpointing and injuries, you are in all likelihood going to plummet.
Besides, teams go up or down in rankings (sometimes drastically) from 1 year to the next. New year. New personnel and coaches
They opened the season (presumably on the freshest legs they'd have all year) with an 8-play drive (punt), 9-play drive (FG), 14-play drive (FG). From jump, they just never got themselves off the field. It doesn't help that the Giants offense turned around two 3-and-outs in between those three extended drives, obviously, but the defense contributed as much to their own fatigue as the offense did, IMO.
That same routine seemed to continue all year. Anyone who lets the defense off the hook at all for their YOY decline is being way too kind.
Im not. I was trying to make the point about the impact of a woeful offense that was sorely crippled. Of course The D has to be culpable to whatever degree
And he couldn't motivate Alexander the Great. A key part to a good D.
And the right move was to draft offense early. The TD's were mostly due to OBJ's greatness. You can't continue to eb so one dimensional on offense.
it is that we have not significantly upgraded from last year
and we lost two defensive leaders in JPP and DRC
Btw, I expect the Giants to take advantage of their second slot in waivers to add dbs and wrs. They did that at cb today. And also add at least one of each via FA.
they added alot of DL guys with both rush and run defending skills and that hybrid front will prevent offences from sticking with a single blocking scheme anymore as you wont know who is going to do what apart from snacks who will anchor that DL in the middle
mad and spags completely lost the secondry as they ended up suspending 3 of them,apple slid due to off field problems the team has made a big focus on upgrading the secondry depth and looking for the best safety to pair with collins
shurmur will put a proper scheme in place that will make the offence more effective and make better use of the guys they already had and barkley will ignite this team if they run so much deep safety to choke the passing game barkley will kill them they will have to pick thier poison blanket cover OBJ/Engram and shepard or play box safety to slow barkley they wont be able to do both
Defense, also injuries played a role but players lost hope in MacAdoo and his ability to coach winning football.
With that said, we have kept most of the players but there have been more changes on the Defense vs the offense. New coach, going to a 3-4, losing DRC/JPP, gaining a great MLB in Ogletree. An upgrade of a DC. Some interesting draftees.
There is talent on D still but it will depend on how some wild-cards like Apple play.