The New York Giants season will lastly, mercifully, be over after simply three extra video games.
Regardless of the favored sentiment that the Giants’ season ended with Thanksgiving, their season isn’t over simply but. The Giants’ gamers are nonetheless taking part in for satisfaction, whereas the teaching employees is making their case for continued employment. The Giants are additionally jockeying for place within the 2025 NFL Draft and hoping to maintain their choices open.
The elephant within the room is, after all, the quarterback place. We’ll have loads of time to over-analyze the quarterbacks within the draft in addition to free brokers, so it doesn’t make sense to get into that right here.
Suffice to say, having as a lot draft capital as doable to go along with their anticipated $60 million in cap area can be the popular state of affairs.
So with that in thoughts, we requested the Huge Blue View neighborhood for those who consider that the Giants will get the primary total decide within the upcoming draft.
Considerably surprisingly, lower than a 3rd of followers assume the Giants may have the primary total decide.
In our earlier survey, most followers assume the Giants will lose out and end the season with a 2-15 file. So why accomplish that few assume the Giants will get the primary total decide?
The truth that the Las Vegas Raiders are forward of the Giants and simply as dangerous complicates issues. It’s doable that each groups lose out, and if that’s the case, the Giants would seemingly lose the power of schedule tie breaker.
It’s additionally very doable that the Giants win this week in opposition to the Atlanta Falcons, subsequent week in opposition to the Indianapolis Colts, and even each video games. In that case, the Giants would end 4-13 and doubtlessly drafting on the backside of the highest 10. The NFL tries for parity amongst their groups, however dangerous play and dangerous harm luck league-wide has led to about twice as many dangerous groups as traditional.
There are a variety of shifting components in play. So whereas the Giants could have the most effective likelihood to complete with the primary decide, they need assistance from the remainder of the league.
Curiously, there’s been a large leap in fan confidence over Week 15.
If I needed to guess, the leap in confidence is because of followers shopping for into the potential worth of a excessive decide on the subject of their long-awaited rebuild.
Whether or not the Giants use a excessive decide on a quarterback, draft a lineman or talent place participant, or commerce down for extra picks, having a excessive decide is effective.
Besides, this leap in confidence is fairly unimaginable. Final week, fan confidence was at 26, marking a close to doubling in confidence regardless of the Giants’ 35-14 loss to the Ravens.