The latest lesson in a season stuffed with remedial achievement is that this: Neglect this one. Depart it on the tarmac when the Giants’ crew constitution goes wheels-up out of Seattle-Tacoma Worldwide Airport. Flush the residue from the collective reminiscence someplace over Nebraska or Iowa. Let it's gone by the point the airplane touches down in Newark.
It's one loss. It's one misstep. There shouldn’t be a purpose to learn any deeper into this. The Seahawks beat the Giants Sunday, 27-13. The Giants misplaced to a surprisingly robust opponent in an all-but-impossible place to play, Lumen Subject, 68,921 filling the joint with roars for 3 straight hours.
“Powerful loss,” Giants coach Brian Daboll stated. “They did all the pieces somewhat higher than we did at the moment.”
It was robust, and it comes with a problem: One loss needn’t change into two — or three or 5. That’s been the best way so many Giants seasons of latest classic have appeared to go. Lose a troublesome one to Dallas/Washington/Philly, and it carries over to the following one in opposition to San Francisco/LA/Arizona. After which on to the following. And the following.
Now, these Giants are nonetheless 6-2. That is still (alongside the Cowboys) the third-best document within the NFC behind solely the Eagles and the Vikings. So, in contrast to their latest predecessors, they've a basis of success to construct on. They've a bye subsequent week; it all the time stings to take a seat on a loss for 14 days, but it surely’s not a horrible time to relaxation aching our bodies.
“Get your physique to relaxation, regroup, do no matter it is advisable to prepare for the second half,” stated Adoree’ Jackson, whose fumble force-and-recovery arrange the Giants’ lone landing. “We’ll be able to go.”
Daboll’s message to his gamers was a easy one.
“Preserve your head up, get a superb week at apply,” he informed them. “Issues occurred this sport now we have to remove from occurring. Come Monday, we’ll make corrections, we’ll have the bye week, come again able to go.”
And the 1-5-1 Texans might be ready for the Giants again at MetLife Stadium, on the opposite aspect of the bye, with the Lions on deck every week later. There is no such thing as a purpose 6-2 shouldn’t be 8-2 by the point the Giants head to Arlington, Texas for a Thanksgiving Day matchup with the Cowboys.
From there, the schedule will get considerably stiffer, with 5 of the Giants’ six NFC East showdowns nonetheless to return, plus a visit to the 6-1 Vikings on Christmas Eve. However that’s to this point sooner or later, it’s like one other season. This season remains to be a feel-good success story, with an opportunity to change into one thing extra.
And the reality is, even this loss shouldn’t weigh heavy on the Giants’ minds. Sure, the offense took a number of steps backwards. Sure, the rating may’ve been much more one-sided if not for Jackson jarring the ball free from Tyler Lockett and recovering the fumble on the Seattle 2-yard-line halfway by the second quarter.
Nonetheless, it's unimaginable to not surprise how in another way issues may have gone if not for 2 killer fumbles by Richie James on punts. It's unimaginable to not surprise if the magical fourth-quarter mojo that has carried the Giants would’ve been completely different with out the ten factors they primarily gifted the Seahawks.
Surprise about that. However don’t obsess.
There’s no want. These Giants have been completely different from their forebears in each conceivable manner. After the one different loss this season, in Week 3 at dwelling to the Cowboys — one other completely winnable sport that bought away — the Giants took benefit of the schedule and piled up 4 straight wins, everywhere in the globe.
“We will’t let this be like ‘tank the remainder of the season.’ ” Giants receiver Darius Slayton stated. “It’s not going to kill our vibe. We’re going to be taught from it, watch the movie and be higher from it.’’
Stated Daboll: “We’ve bought a protracted season to go. We have been 3-1 within the first quarter [of the season] and 3-1 within the second quarter. We don’t just like the outcomes at the moment, Seattle earned these outcomes, and we didn’t. You all the time do some self-scouting and repair among the issues we have to repair like we do each week.”
Daboll’s tone and his temper have been precisely the identical because it was final week in Jacksonville, and the week earlier than that again in Jersey, and the week earlier than that over in London. The Giants received all of these video games. They misplaced this one. You wouldn’t comprehend it trying, or listening, to Daboll.
That’s a superb place to start out. No highs. No lows. Per week off, and let it go. No purpose in any respect to consider they received’t.
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