Brian Daboll tries to address Malik Nabers’ criticism of play-calling – Ed Valentine, BigBlueView.com

If you thought the situation in Dallas was bad, take a look at New York.

New York Giants Head coach Brian Daboll tried to put out the inferno caused by rookie wide receiver Malik Nabers’ comments after Sunday’s game seemed to be an indictment of the coach.

Nabers was obviously dissatisfied, and not just with the 30:7 defeat against them Tampa Bay Buccaneersbut rather by not being given the opportunity to do anything about it. Nabers caught six passes but wasn’t targeted until the second half, when the Giants were already down 23-0.

Below are the most important things about Naber, who the Giants selected No. 6 overall in 2024 NFL Draftsaid after the game:

“First, second quarter, I can’t get the ball.” Nabers said. “At the end, start setting goals. I mean, there’s nothing I can do. Start getting the ball when it’s 30-0. What should I do?”

“Talk to Dabs about it,” Nabers said when asked why he didn’t get the ball earlier in the game. “They come up to me and ask me what pieces I want to play, and that’s it. I don’t know.”

“Obviously it’s not the quarterback,” Nabers said. “Same result when we had DJ at quarterback. Look: It’s not the quarterback.”

“I don’t know what it is,” Nabers said. “Everyone knows better than me.”

Daboll said he spoke with Nabers both Sunday evening and Monday morning.

“He’s a very competitive person,” Daboll said. “You want to get the ball in his hands, and I have to do a better job of getting the ball in his hands early. He is a smart young man who is very competitive. And again it’s frustrating when you lose like that. But we had good communication as always.”

Troy Aikman roasts Giants over Saquon Barkley and Daniel Jones during “MNF” – Andy Nesbitt, Sports Illustrated

The former Cowboys QB silenced New York by laying out the facts Monday Night Football.

Troy Aikman was on ESPN for Monday night’s Baltimore Ravens-Los Angeles Chargers game, and while he was at the big AFC showdown, he took a quick moment during the broadcast to throw some shade at one of his former rivals . the New York Giants.

The Giants have had a brutal season and on Sunday night they watched their former star running back, Saquon Barkley, rush for 255 yards and beat the Rams in Los Angeles.

Aikman talked a bit about Barkley, since the game between the Ravens and Chargers was on the same field where Barkley made a mistake 24 hours earlier, and explained how sick the Giants must be feeling.

“John Mara, if he had a little heartburn when Saquon Barkley left and signed with the Eagles, you can only imagine the heartburn he had watching him do what he did,” Aikman said of the President and CEO of the Giants.

Joe Buck then chimed in with a line about a clip from Hard hits This is shown over and over again: “John Mara must be so sick of this clip and the statement ‘I won’t be able to sleep if he goes to Philly.'” Well, he’s in Philly and he seems to be one of the best RBs out there have ever visited this planet.”

Aikman then ended the whole thing with this brutal line: “And they decided to keep Daniel Jones, and now they have neither.”

That was all pretty accurate and probably painful for Giants fans to hear, especially since their team wasn’t even playing on Monday night.

The light at the end of the tunnel seems pretty far away for the Giants.

The surprise at MetLife Stadium on Sunday afternoon wasn’t that the New York Giants were booed off the field at halftime. It’s that there were any Giants fans in the stands at all.

The Giants made the surprising and baffling decision to select Tommy DeVito at quarterback after benching and cutting Daniel Jones, and it worked out just as everyone thought. DeVito had 31 passing yards at halftime, and 23 of those yards came on one play. The Giants were defeated 290-45, and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers had 17 first downs, three for the Giants. The Giants were completely embarrassed by the Buccaneers, 30-7. And guess what, New York still has six of those games left.

Whatever the Giants did on Sunday, it wasn’t NFL-level football. The fans were right when they informed the team about this.

The Giants’ frustration is growing.

“It’s not the quarterback,” rookie receiver Malik Nabers said after the game, via Charlotte Carroll of The Athletic. “Same result (when) we had DJ at quarterback. Take a look. Take a look. It’s not the quarterback.”

Nabers was asked what the problem was at the time.

“I don’t know. I don’t know what it is,” Nabers said. “Everyone knows it better than me.”

Nabers was asked if it was the game. There was a pause.

“I don’t know,” Nabers said. “Like I said, I don’t know what it is.”

Whoever plays quarterback doesn’t matter. The Giants are going to be terrible the rest of the season (and we’ll all be very lucky to see them play the Cowboys on Thanksgiving). The problem is that they will probably be terrible next season too. And maybe the season after that.