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Originally Posted by Déjà Bru
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If this doesn't make you scream "Fire the coach!", I don't know what will. The Giants were up 19-0 after three quarters, and 26-8 with 10:14 to play in the fourth. The over-confident defense went to sleep, the Broncos made them pay, and that's on the coaching. It's also on management and ownership for putting out the perpetually sorry production that is the New York Giants.
The Broncos scored three touchdowns in less than three and a half minutes. Then, when Dart, now losing 30-26, rallied the offense to score one last touchdown but their kicker MISSED THE POINT AFTER — you knew, you just knew because it followed the same script as so many times before — that the Broncos with 33 seconds left would march down the field and kick the winning field goal.
For years, the Giants have found all sorts of bizarre ways to lose games, including those that they should have won but bungled away. To me, that is an indication of an ongoing problem with team management. And I am SO glad that I did not watch this game. If I was not a New Yorker, it might have been exciting. Since I remain a New Yorker, the game would have been a disgrace in my eyes.
One other thought: Jaxson Dart deserves better. Maybe he will go the Saquon Barkley route.
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The 33 points the Broncs scored in the 4th quarter is a record for teams who had 0 points before that. I believe the record they broke is from
Week 13, 1985, when the Eagles led Minnesota by 23-0 with under 9:00 left in the game before…stuff happened. (Apologies for the sound quality.)
This pretty much settled Marion Campbell's hash, although the Eagles let him finish out the season and the Birds got their revenge three weeks later in the Metrodome. (This was back when the teams that had finished 5th in a 5-team division played a home-and-home the next season; the easy "5th place schedule" that helped some teams bounce back from one bad season.) Still, when Buddy Ryan decided to seek greener pastures after the Bears won the Super Bowl, the Eagles welcomed him with open wings.
Who's kicking for the Giants these days? Or is the better question, who is kicking for the Giants
next week?