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The G-Men fell to 1-5 on the season with a 9-14 loss to Josh Allen’s Buffalo Bills on Sunday Night Football but this time it was Tyrod Taylor behind center for the New York Giants instead of Daniel Jones who was ruled out with a neck injury.
Tyrod Taylor’s performance seemed to pass the smell test for Giants fans. Despite not throwing for a single touchdown, he at least didn’t cough the ball up like Daniel Jones who has 6 interceptions for the New York Giants through just 5 regular season games.
The NY Giants Offense Is Making History
Daniel Jones, Tyrod Taylor, Saquon Barkley, and the rest of the G-Men are making history this season, just not the kind of history they’d like to be a part of.
The Giants failed to score an offensive touchdown on Sunday night which brought their streak to THREE GAMES without an offensive touchdown. ESPN’s Stats & Info tracked down the historical data on this and it’s the Giants’ longest drought without an offensive TD since 1976 when they went 4 games without an offensive touchdown.
After sharing that piece of historical information, the ESPN Stats & Info X account fired off some more stats revealing the Giants’ offensive woes.
Here are three more stats from the ESPN Stats & Info account that really drive home how bad things are at Met Life Stadium:
1) “The Giants have been outscored by 84 points in their 4 prime-time games this season. That’s the worst point differential over a span of 4 prime-time games since the 1970 merger.”
2) “The Giants are the first team since the 2009 Raiders to have 2 Pass TD through 6 games in a season and have gone 4 straight games without one for the second time in the last 40 seasons (they also did so in 2020).”
3) “The Giants’ final drive of each half on Sunday reached the Bills’ 1-yard line, and New York failed to score points each time. It’s the first time New York has had multiple drives reach the 1-yard line without scoring points in a game since at least 2000.”
Where to go from here? Step 1: the New York Giants and their struggling offense need to stay as far away from prime-time games as possible. Their historically bad 84-point differential has no business being featured in prime-time games.
Step 2: The NY Giants Offense needs a makeover on the staff side of things. The fact that they twice reached the 1-yard line and failed to score any points isn’t something that should get chalked up to chance, not when the other offensive woes are considered.
Alas, the NY Giants’ offensive woes aren’t likely to change anytime soon. Their injured QB Daniel Jones got a hefty 4-year contract with $92 million guaranteed… Hopefully, we at least see less fights from the G-Men than we did on Sunday night, there’s no sense in risking any more injuries.