The New York Giants reached one other new low on Sunday afternoon at MetLife Stadium, falling to the New Orleans Saints, 14-11, after their particular groups unit left 13 factors on the sphere.
Not solely did they’ve a punt return for a landing and a discipline objective negated by separate penalties, however additionally they watched helplessly because the Saints blocked a game-tying discipline objective try with simply seconds remaining.
The embarrassing method by which the Giants misplaced the sport was secondary solely to the fan protest earlier than the sport, the place a chartered airplane circled the stadium with a banner studying, “Mr. Mara, enough. Please fix this dumpster fire.”
Then, in fact, there was a literal dumpster fireplace within the car parking zone. Can’t make these things up.
Listed here are the snap counts that contributed to the Giants’ Week 14 loss.
Offensive snaps: 78Defensive snaps: 68Special groups snaps: 29
Given the workforce’s overswell of accidents, snap counts have been a bit off on Sunday. Nonetheless, maybe nothing was stranger than quarterback Tommy DeVito taking a single snap in the course of a drive for no obvious purpose.
“We had a few plays for Tommy this game. We only got to the one. It happened to be a kind of zone read, but it wasn’t just all zone reads. It was a few plays in there,” head coach Brian Daboll advised reporters after the sport.
O…kay…
Additionally of observe, rookie large receiver Malik Nabers took 73 snaps regardless of pre-game experiences suggesting he may have a “limited role” attributable to a large number of accidents.
Defensively, rookie security Tyler Nubin took simply 36 defensive snaps after getting injured, ending his streak of video games by which he took one hundred pc of the snaps.