The Giants may soar when Barkley and the other injured players return, but a playoff berth already looks unlikely, especially because the Dallas Cowboys, with the fully healed quarterback Dak Prescott, have emerged as one of the top teams in the NFC.
Fans have kept season tickets in their families for generations. They played their home games for 31 years at the Polo Grounds, for crying out loud, followed by another 17 years at the old Yankee Stadium across the Harlem River. “I didn’t feel like the villagers with pitchforks were out,” Billy Fishkin, a long-time Giants season-ticket-holder told me.Ī contending Giants team, the older pro football team in the nation’s biggest metropolis, just makes the league more interesting. The less-than-capacity crowd at MetLife Stadium, disgusted with the home team a week earlier in a grim 38-11 loss to the Los Angeles Rams, were relatively supportive on Sunday, particularly given the Giants’ patchwork lineup. Jones produced enough offense to propel the Giants, who were without Barkley and four other offensive contributors because of injury. That quarterback turned out to be Daniel Jones, who has been inconsistent and turnover-prone, although he can take a pounding and did make a sweet one-handed catch Sunday on a pass by wide receiver Dante Pettis. The Giants took Barkley, in large part, because they thought they could squeeze another decent year or two out of quarterback Eli Manning before moving on. The susceptibility of any NFL bell-cow back to injury makes you wonder why the Giants chose Barkley with the No 2 overall pick in the 2018 draft – until you realize that the top quarterback thought to be available then was Darnold, who went to the Jets at No 3 (in a resounding tribute to the drafting acumen of New York City’s NFL teams, Josh Allen went to Buffalo at No 7, and that Lamar Jackson guy went 32nd, to the Ravens.) Barkley has played in only 20 of the Giants’ 39 games in the last three seasons. Barkley has missed the last two games and is expected to miss the Giants’ game Monday night against the reeling Kansas City Chiefs.
They’d won five of their last eight games in 2020, and the elite running back Saquon Barkley would return from knee surgery.Īnd then the Giants lost their first three games … then lost Barkley to an ankle injury, in a Week 5 loss to the Cowboys. But the Giants had reasons to feel good about this season. That did not happen, because the Washington Football Team beat the Philadelphia Eagles, who benched their quarterback even though they were only a touchdown behind.
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