Grading the Giants’ 17-7 loss to the Bengals on Sunday:
Offense
Not ok.
Not even shut.
Loads of first downs (24) however solely 5 of 15 on third down — and three of 5 on fourth down.
One awful landing shouldn’t be gonna minimize it. Daniel Jones (22 of 41, 205 yards) threw an egregious interception.
The passing recreation was not precisely crisp — longest completion was solely 15 yards. Jones (11-56) additionally was the main rusher, which isn’t splendid.
Rookie Tyrone Tracy (17-50) acquired began too late.
LT Andrew Thomas was beat cleanly by Trey Hendrickson within the second quarter for a nine-yard sack.
Thomas later was flagged for an unlawful man downfield penalty to wipe away a 56-yard completion to Darius Slayton.
Not splendid.
Slayton (6-57) was focused 11 instances. There was not sufficient manufacturing.
Wan’Dale Robinson caught solely 5 of 11 targets. Dangerous stuff throughout.
Grade: F
Protection
This was a successful efficiency in so some ways.
The Bengals got here in averaging 28 factors and so they had 10 till the closing minutes.
Joe Burrow (19 of 28, 208 yards) was held far under his season averages. Tee Higgins (7-77) and Ja’Marr Chase (5-72) had been good however not nice.
Burrow was sacked 4 instances and fill-in starter Azeez Ojulari acquired him twice in a powerful outing.
Brian Burns got here to play. He had a sack on the primary collection and dropped Zack Moss for a 4-yard loss on third down.
Micah McFadden pressured two fumbles — Bobby Okereke recovered one in every of them however Jason Pinnock did not safe the opposite one.
Large breakdown early allowed Burrow to race 47 yards for a TD and a breakdown late handed Chase Brown a 30-yard TD run. Bengals had solely 13 first downs.
Grade: A-
Particular groups
Greg Joseph has had higher days. He tried subject objectives of 47 and 45 and missed them each, large left.
That is named a nasty day on the workplace.
New punter Matt Haack dealt with his Giants debut with no mishaps.
He dropped down a 43-yarder within the second quarter that pinned the Bengals again on their 12-yard line.
He averaged 46.8 yards on his 4 punts.
Grade: D
Teaching
Brian Daboll was The Gambler, going for it on fourth down 5 instances.
Need to admit, it appeared like a determined and ill-advised danger by Daboll, going for it on 4th-and-2 on his personal 37-yard line early within the fourth quarter.
It didn’t value the Giants but it surely was a wierd choice nonetheless.
Daboll because the play-caller has to discover a strategy to generate extra large performs and determine why his staff can not discover the tip zone when it performs at house.
Shane Bowen’s protection stored the warmth on Burrow and did sufficient to win.
Grade: C
