Daniel Jones and the New York Giants have an extended journey house from Germany and per week off to mirror on what’s mistaken with a 2-8 season.
There’s so much to contemplate.
“I’m unsure it is a constant factor,” Jones mentioned after a go to to Munich ended with the Giants’ first loss in a regular-season worldwide sport. “I take into consideration a number of issues, and in each sport we now have to give attention to all these crucial issues that decide victory and defeat.”
A sluggish begin price the Giants, who did not rating till the third quarter of a 20-17 extra time loss to the Carolina Panthers on Sunday. Jones was sacked twice and threw two interceptions in his staff’s fifth straight loss.
Trailing 17-7, Jones ran for a 2-yard landing within the fourth quarter to cap a 13-play, 96-yard drive that lasted almost seven minutes. He led a 12-play drive that tied the sport on Graham Gano’s 42-yard subject objective with 5 seconds left that compelled extra time.
“It’s very irritating,” Jones mentioned. “We failed, clearly we harm ourselves so much. Turnovers had been a crucial issue within the sport. Very irritating.”
When Giants edge rusher – and former Panther – Brian Burns sacked the Panthers’ Bryce Young on the primary drive of the sport, it regarded prefer it is likely to be one other lengthy day for Carolina.
Instead, the Panthers led 10-0 at halftime after Young’s 5-yard cross to Ja’Tavion Sanders and Eddy Pineiro’s 53-yard subject objective. The Giants entered the sport with a league-low 139 factors, and did not add to that whole till Tyrone Tracy Jr.’s 32-yard landing run within the third quarter.
“We have to begin sooner and keep on the sector, maintain the momentum within the first half,” Jones mentioned.
Tracy fumbled the Giants’ first play from scrimmage in extra time. Josey Jewell recovered on the 23-yard line for the Panthers, and Pineiro’s 36-yard subject objective clinched the victory for Carolina.
Coach Brian Daboll mentioned he did not think about benching Jones at halftime. “I believed we might do one thing, which we did,” he mentioned.
Before going through the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Nov. 24, the Giants have two weeks to regroup.
“Obviously, we’re not the place we need to be,” Daboll mentioned. “We’ll consider issues this week, do the issues we have to do.”
Associated Press reporting.
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