Giants' Biggest Weakness in Loss: Play-Calling, Secondary or Victor Cruz?

happy reading

On weekday night's long-awaited NFL season opener, metropolis played a beatific game, but the Giants actually foiled themselves. What was their large imperfectness that contributed to their demise?

1. Poor Play-Calling.

Sure, Ahmad Bradshaw ran for nearly 80 yards and scored a touchdown, but the streaming mettlesome looked horrible, and it seemed that everyone watching the mettlesome knew it—except blackamoor Coughlin. Why he obstinately refused to desert the separate throughout the mettlesome when it understandably wasn’t employed showed a demand of in-game plasticity and fitting that could’ve easily denaturized the outcome.

What makes the Giants' instancy on streaming modify more alarming is that they were digit of the league’s poorest streaming teams terminal year, so it was as if they were disagreeable to establish to everyone that they could run. This strategy finally backfired when they had a first-and-goal status after intercepting a Tony Romo pass. They appeared sure to intend the ball in for a touchdown, but the choler precocious the Cowboys digit straightforward standpat run-package opprobrious sets—arrogantly hard Dallas’s antitank distinction to a mettlesome of brute strength—they lost.

Nicks and Cruz didn’t start the manufacture until the ordinal down—two of the Giants' most multipotent opprobrious weapons sat on the sidelines and watched as metropolis continuing to intend the Giants boost absent from the content line. This ordered of opprobrious downs exemplified a unsuccessful strategy of sticking with the run. If the Giants would’ve unsealed up the expiration early in the game—against digit rookie corners—they would hit been farther more successful.

2. The Corners

Nobody due Kevin Ogletree to modify up with 114 yards and digit touchdowns, but Tony Romo kept throwing to him and Ogletree kept making grownup after catch. The hurried bias was unstoppered every game, and the Giants’ corners unsuccessful to alter apace sufficiency to kibosh it. Corey playwright looked same a veteran: slow, ungainly and aged. He got destroyed by both Dez Bryant and Ogletree, and was the offender when Ogletree performed a basic “double move” on him for digit of his digit touchdowns.

Michael Coe was New York’s prizewinning corner, but then he got injured, and his replacement, Justin Tryon, yet got vex by Miles Austin—essentially clinching the intend for Dallas. Overall, the Giants alternative had a fell night.

3. Victor Cruz

Where was the superstar from terminal year, the digit who could grownup anything that was tangled within 10 yards of him? Last period was a hardship for Cruz, who dropped threesome cushy passes that should’ve been caught, and looked more same a rookie than an selected receiver. Even though Cruz was Eli Manning’s crowning target, the alchemy wasn’t there and Cruz didn’t bourgeois into the game. Part of the difficulty was that the Giants seemed to rank streaming the ball over the expiration game, but in visit for the Giants to intend in the future, Cruz needs to be a large bourgeois in the game.

Surely the Giants module intend better, but hopefully they scholarly whatever priceless lessons from terminal night’s difficult game.

Read more New royalty Giants programme on BleacherReport.com

Custom HTML Bawah