Giants dominated by Seahawks in embarrassing MNF loss
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At one point in the latest football fiasco for the Giants, coach Brian Daboll Monday night showed Daniel Jones something on an electronic tablet and then tossed the tablet to the side, with extreme exasperation.
“See what he thought and tell him what I saw,” Daboll explained.
What we are all witnessing is ugly.
In a season rapidly filling up with embarrassing performances, the Giants added to the pile another dud, as they were dominated every which way in a 24-3 loss to the Seahawks at MetLife Stadium.
Was this the worst of the three losses thus far this season?
The 40-0 rout by the Cowboys and the 30-12 lesson administered by the 49ers also are in the running.
“I know the scores,” Daboll said. “Not good.”
The Giants were never really in it and they were shoved completely out of it late in the third quarter.
Trailing 14-3 and driving, Jones from the Seattle 5-yard line threw to the wrong side of Parris Campbell, the ball sailing into the hands of rookie cornerback Devon Witherspoon.
It was off to the races from there. Witherspoon, in stride from the 3-yard line, sped 97 yards with the interception return for a touchdown, cutting inside Jones at the Seattle 44-yard line, leaving the quarterback flat on the turf as the Seahawks went ahead 21-3.
“Terrible decision, awful mistake,” Jones said. “Can’t afford to do that.”
It was altogether fitting.
The Giants have fallen and they can’t get up. They are 1-3 and face back-to-back road games at Miami and Buffalo, with their season in free fall.
“Yeah, we can definitely go sideways,” safety Xavier McKinney said. “I’ve been a part of a team where it has gone sideways. I do understand this league, it’s tough and you’ve got to be able to respond quickly or else it can go south. I believe in the guys we got in this locker room. I believe in the coaches we have.”
That belief is getting stretched to the limit.
This was a pathetic display on so many fronts, most egregiously from an offensive line that lost rookie center John Michael Schmitz to a shoulder injury and was playing again without left tackle Andrew Thomas.
The product continues to get worse. Jones was sacked 10 times — there were 11 sacks in all — and forced to run for cover so often that it was difficult to decipher what exactly the Giants were trying to get done when they had the ball.
Jones threw two interceptions and lost one fumble.
“As an offensive lineman you want to protect your quarterback and keep him upright and we haven’t been doing a great job of doing that so obviously it sucks,” right tackle Evan Neal said.
The first boos could be heard early in the second quarter.
There was the familiar Pacific Northwest chant of “Sea-hawks” after Kenneth Walker scored to make it 14-3 late in the second quarter.
The jeers cascaded down when, on third-and-11, the Giants went with the give-up call of a handoff to Matt Breida (again subbing for injured Saquon Barkley) for 4 yards.
Daboll said that was a miscommunication — the play was supposed to be a pass and Jones heard it wrong.
When the Giants trudged off the field at halftime, they ran through the tunnel with the sound of more boos ringing in their ears.
“Yeah, I’d be upset too if I was a fan,” Daboll said.
All this was bad and also with great precedent. It was the eighth consecutive loss for the franchise on “Monday Night Football” and the 10th loss in the last 11 on what must be called Blue Monday. Jones is now 1-13 in games he has started in prime time.
Jones finished 27 of 34 for 203 yards, two interceptions and, no doubt, several bruises and black and blue marks after he was battered for 60 minutes.
“We had a tough game, all of us,” Daboll said. “I’ve got to do a better job of helping him.”
Jones on the third offensive series sensed his pocket had collapsed in a flash as Mario Edwards Jr. sped past an immobile Matt Peart, in as an extra “blocker.”
Jones eluded that rusher but Edwards from behind chopped down on Jones’ arm, forcing a fumble that Jordyn Brooks recovered and took to the Giants’ 7-yard line.
Two plays later, Geno Smith found DK Metcalf, who beat rookie Deonte Banks in the back of the end zone for a 7-0 Seattle lead.
Graham Gano’s 55-yard field goal in the second quarter was the extent of the Giants’ scoring.
“I don’t ever take the field expecting to put a performance like that on the field, on any team I’ve ever been on,” tight end Darren Waller said. “Offense is just not good enough in all facets. I don’t even have anything to really say. It’s just not good enough.”
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