Back from the Game

My son took me to the game today.
We had great seats in the coach's area.

The great seats afforded me an unfettered view of the game.

It was the worst coached game that I have ever attended.
Plenty of blame can be laid on the players, but the coaching let them down.

The defense could not apply pressure. They rarely blitzed.
Darnold's Achilles heel is that he does not handle pressure well. So the strategy is to rush 4.

He had all the time to survey the field. The coverage was good but they lost containment after 4-5 seconds. What is very disturbing is that there was no attempt to change the strategy.
The tackles pushed the ends out wide and they double-teamed Dex. The defense never changed its tactics. Thibodeaux was non existent.

Dabol should fire himself as the play-caller. With all of these great weapons other than Robinson, nobody was open.

Part of the problem was the Giants ran a lot of 12 sets. The TEs never challenged the Vikings' secondary. Manhertz is a blocker and does nothing else. It is not surprising that the receivers were not open. The Vikings doubled Slaton (Hyatt) and Nabors. The plays were called two-man patterns.

Everything else was within 5 yards of the line.
The Vikings were jumping every swing pass. There was only one play where the Slayton used a double move. Jones pumped on that play and Slayton was wide open. This only occurred once.

The Vikings were anticipating the play calls. You could see it on their sidelines the Giants must have predictive tells and it appeared that they knew the plays.

This is only the tip of the iceberg.
The team was not ready to play. It was sloppy and uninspired. The play-calling was defensive and risk-averse.
12 personnel, short passes, etc.. It was playing to shorten the game and emphasize not losing.
This is on Dabol. He coached scared.

One other observation. Daniel Jones is shot. Almost all of his throws were off. He was throwing the ball into the ground. He was uncomfortable and was not setting his feet.

He was feeling pressure that wasn't there. He did not attempt to extend plays. If his first read wasn't there he took off. The OL played well. of the sacks only one or two were due to the OL.

I fear that Jones is done. I am not certain that he can be an effective QB. He should have been benched. The Giants will have a new QB next year.