Look into your crystal ball and what do you see? Interested in what you're thinking about after 22 games under the Brian Daboll regime. My thoughts/guesses can be summarized as follows:
#1 -- Who the hell knows how the Giants perform this season? It's too dependent on injuries, young player development and just plain ol' dumb luck.
#2 -- It will be more or less a re-run of Daboll's tenure so far in which the Giants win several games against bad-to-mediocre teams while getting blown out by top echelon teams.
#3 -- Or, maybe #2 is just not that realistic since, if the Giants continue to perform so poorly against the NFL's best, then they are also vulnerable to everyone else, thus limiting the number of wins in 2023.
#4 -- The Giants will continue to win the majority of games against bad-to-mediocre teams, and we will also see them start to perform better against the top echelon. They may not win against top teams, but we should begin to see more competitive games.
I said in summer I don’t see anything more than 7 wins and could even see a 5 or 6 win finish. Still feel that way.
I'm a big Brian Daboll fan. I didn't care for his pre-season program, but there's a lot of people involved in that decision IMO. I say take the training wheels off and let him coach. Patience be dammed I say.
We may not win either way, but it's better than seeing how things play out I feel.
Dallas and Philly figure to have the East and #5 seed under control until further notice.
So now you’re talking about Seattle, Detroit, Green Bay, and possibly the likes of LAR, New Orleans or Tampa in the mix as well. Every year there are surprise teams that stick around to the end.
A Seattle win means that if they can hover around .500 until mid-November there will be an opportunity for them to make a push to the playoffs. Without the Seattle victory, falling to 1-3 will cause a lot of problems both short term and playoff related.
I thought this team was closer but I also expected better from L.William, Okerake, Neal, Waller and staying healthy, especially with their best players (Barkley and Thomas).
Maybe expectation grew too much for year 2 of the most current rebuild.
I have lower expectations to beat the teams the Giants should beat. I hope, I do not need to lower them again
If we keep playing like we did the first 3 weeks, we ain't winning alot of games and even making the playoffs.
We should just focus on Seattle for now and hope we can pull a win. Nothing is guarantee.
If we keep playing like we did the first 3 weeks, we ain't winning alot of games and even making the playoffs.
We should just focus on Seattle for now and hope we can pull a win. Nothing is guarantee.
Agreed
Let’s see how the next 14 go
This is still a poor roster, the draft classes have shown nothing, and this is a BAD football team.
At this point, I’m back to wondering if Schoen and Daboll are the right guys.
At season’s end, there may be a lot more people here agreeing with me.
So we have Daboll who I believe is a better coach than Shurmur or Judge ever were. We have "potential" with our youth so I'm banking on Thibs, Neal, Banks, Hawkins, Schmitt, Ezedeu, Riley, Pinnock, Hyatt, Bellinger, McEthan all improving as the season moves along.
Beat Seattle to get the ship righted. No excuses with this big layoff to Monday night. Get healthy, win the game and stay healthy doing it. This defense will improve cause it can't get worse AND this OL will begin to get their act together with playing time.
But we will struggle against elite front seven's and OL's.
Last year - we made those plays, this year I think we probably come up short.
But - overall - I think we'll be a better overall team than last year even if the record (and playoffs) don't indicate that.
I was hoping this year would be the year to make the jump but opening day showed me we aren't ready against the really good teams yet.
Next year.