I was so pissed during game that I was screaming for them to just take a knee and end game. What is the point of scoring with one second left when they game is totally out of reach and the D has stopped trying? Does that make the team feel better? Statistic padding? Make loss look less bad?
One could argue that you always try to score, no matter how badly you are losing, but I thought it was putting "lipstick on a pig"
That is about the best I can say as to being pleased with the Giants today...
At the end of this season the front office and many fans will point to Jones's rushing contributions as a reason that he may finally explode in year 4, and that touchdown will be pretty of the stats to support the argument.
I don't call it giving up when you are behind by 20 with one second left. To me, taking a knee would be a point to your players that a final second touchdown in a blowout is meaningless and they not take anything positive away from that last drive that made the score look a little better after a completely disgraceful showing.
Offensive stats for this game will look closer when people look back in a couple of months. Some will say DJ didn't play that bad - 2:1 TD to turnover ratio. This loss was much wore than score. Giants got a lot of breaks including Ryan fumble recovery (could easily have been overturned and no doubt Broncos would have scored TD) and Denver D dropping an easy INT or 2.
A 35-7 score would have a better reflection of what happened out there.
At the end of this season the front office and many fans will point to Jones's rushing contributions as a reason that he may finally explode in year 4, and that touchdown will be pretty of the stats to support the argument.
The front office may so this but I guarantee you fans like myself (who I think are most) who are/were willing to give him this year will be off the bandwagon like it's on fire. We'll know I think before midway threw this year. He lost a lot of support yesterday. I who have remained in the " I don't know for sure whether he will or will not be the future QB" camp took a slide further to the back after the fumble yesterday. I don't even blame him for the loss. The D was horrible. But the fumble? Another story.
Maybe Tom Coughlin was in the room...Actually I had stopped
watching by that point. I stopped watching before Gordon's
70 yard run. (Although unfortunately saw it on NFL RZ).
Scoring that last TD is in "the book" as sending the "never give up" message, but had Jones or Barkley gotten hurt, the Giants would have been worse off.
Should a basketball team which is down 20 with 3 minutes to play just walk up the court, hold the ball for 24 seconds and then hand it to the ref?
Should a basketball team which is down 20 with 3 minutes to play just walk up the court, hold the ball for 24 seconds and then hand it to the ref?
More honorable than merely padding stats, if you ask me. That was much worse than being behind by 20 with 3 minutes left in BB game. There literally was 1 second on the clock. It allows players and coaches a false narrative about the game ("we fought to the end" "if only we'd done the same earlier", "we just needed more time" "we showed heart in the end" etc). They were drubbed much worse than score and DJ was much worse than his stats. But excuse makers will use these garbage stats to claim that it wasn't as bad as we all saw it was.
Should a basketball team which is down 20 with 3 minutes to play just walk up the court, hold the ball for 24 seconds and then hand it to the ref?
Should a basketball team which is down 20 with 3 minutes to play just walk up the court, hold the ball for 24 seconds and then hand it to the ref?
A basketball team down 20 with 3 minutes left doesn't have their starters in the game, and at the end of the year, nobody is going to look at the stats for the 12th man.
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has ever taken a knee to close out a game WHEN THEY ARE LOSING. It is the ultimate sign of a LOSER.
Should a basketball team which is down 20 with 3 minutes to play just walk up the court, hold the ball for 24 seconds and then hand it to the ref?
More honorable than merely padding stats, if you ask me. That was much worse than being behind by 20 with 3 minutes left in BB game. There literally was 1 second on the clock. It allows players and coaches a false narrative about the game ("we fought to the end" "if only we'd done the same earlier", "we just needed more time" "we showed heart in the end" etc). They were drubbed much worse than score and DJ was much worse than his stats. But excuse makers will use these garbage stats to claim that it wasn't as bad as we all saw it was.
Actually, quitting is poor sportsmanship.
The Giants were bad on Sunday, thankfully they weren't poor sports.
"take a fucking knee?" get the fuckouttahere!