Blueprint for Giants Rebuild: Key Strategies for Success
The New York Football Giants have had their trials and tribulations. They have been struggling to make ends meet the entire season. The team has been doing the best they can, but their current best just doesn’t seem to be enough anymore. This year's draft class was a big help in putting this team back together. If the Giants want to even be a candidate for playoffs or even the Super Bowl next season. Here are a few things that they will need to do to make this happen.
1. The Daniel Jones Era Is Over
Everyone who watches the Giants at this point knows that the Daniel Jones era with New York has officially reached its end. Despite everything with how positive they have been, Jones seems to have fallen out of touch with the Giants. He has had only one good season with the Giants during his time in New York. Currently this season it hasn’t been great whatsoever. The Giants have only scored one touchdown at home in the Meadowlands all season. Jones has been making things worse. Last weekend's game was a complete bust and so were the two weeks before. If it comes down to it, they may place Jones on the bench before the season comes to a close and play Drew Lock and fan favorite Tommy DeVito to make things easier to let him go when the regular season comes to an end.
2. The Defense Needs New Mechanics
The Giants’ defense has been falling apart since earlier in the season. It should not take two bodies, Dexter Lawrence and Brian Burns, to hold off an entire offensive line on the opposing teams. With Kayvon Thibodeaux and Andrew Thomas being out, there are currently massive gaps on the defensive line where there shouldn’t be. The Giants are doing their best to try and replace them but they seem to be having trouble. They put Joshua Ezeudu and it backfired. Hopefully, the Giants will be able to pull from other areas and they will be able to put their defense back together before the end of the season.
3. The Giants Need to Be Smarter
The Giants have not made great decisions all around. Both on and off the field they have struggled. The decisions made by management have not been the best. They want to keep playing Jones and others, however, from week to week, they are met with the question of if they should. Manager Joe Schoen has been in serious consideration of signing the Rams’ current quarterback Matt Stafford or others to try and get a better quarterback onto the team so they can replace Jones at this point in the season. They made decent decisions in this year's draft. Bringing in new players right out of college who are making so much of a difference.
On the field has not been the best. Every decision that the offense line has made has not been great. Some of them are decent and have pulled them as far as the red zone. The Giants have been using the same tactics and everyone knows how they play at this point. They need to begin to work smarter, not harder.
The defense has done very well. They have been working hard and making stops, Lawrence and Burns have been the only ones to pull through on the stops. Maybe a few others but not by much. It takes a village to run a team. Big Blue is struggling. However, a few minor fixes should be able to get them to a better place in the league. They currently are last in their division. Management and the Giants need to work together to bring this team back to being Super Bowl champions as they once were several years ago.
