3 Biggest Takeaways From The Giants Week 3 Loss In San Francisco

After Thursday night’s 12-30 loss to the San Francisco 49ers, I’m beginning to think this is about to be a grueling year for the New York football Giants. It’s Week 3 and the Giants have played 2 good quarters of football.

Whatever. Let’s just get into the 3 biggest takeaways from this Giants Week 3 loss to the 49ers:

1. Daniel Jones needs help

Prior to the start of this season, I wrote about the Giants front office not giving Daniel Jones any real help. Last season, Daniel Jones was throwing to one of the worst receiving corps I’ve ever watched. Darius Slayton, Richie James and Kenny Golladay would struggle in the XFL.

And I don’t care how great Saquon Barkley is, a running back cannot be your only offensive star in 2023.

Also had some strangely serious arguments with other Giants fans over Darren Waller’s value and I think Thursday night’s L perfectly shows people why Waller isn’t it. When your ‘star’ tight end has a matchup against another premier tight end, you’d expect him to have his best game.

Here’s what Darren Waller did against the 49ers:

3 catches (on 7 targets)
1 drop
20 yards

Sick.

Crucial drop for Giants TE Darren Waller on third down.

49ers are looking to put this game away. pic.twitter.com/Ct1e1o2ch6

— Arye Pulli (@AryePulli) September 22, 2023

For comparison’s sake, let’s look at George Kittle’s night:

7 catches (on 9 targets)
90 yards
wasn’t completely irrelevant like Darren Waller.

Josh Allen got Stefon Diggs. Tua got Tyreek Hill. Daniel Jones got Parris Campbell.

I don’t know how if Joe Schoen is a good GM yet but Dave Gettleman felt like being handcuffed to a radiator in a windowless basement of an abandoned building and every few months, Gettleman would show up and feed you shit like a 4-year $62 million deal for Nate Solder. Or signing Odell Beckham Jr. to a 5-year $95 million extension, telling you smugly every day he’s never trading him and then trading him for Kevin Zeitler only to cut Zeitler to free up a little salary cap space.

So now that I’ve escaped that trauma, I might be letting Joe Schoen treat me any way he wants like drafting Evan Neal in the first round.

Free me from this cycle of abuse.

2. Give Joe Thomas or Andrew Whitworth a bajillion dollars

The Giants offensive line has been one of the worst in the league since the first Obama administration and I think a lot of organizations are behind the ball as far as coaching goes. The current offensive line coach for the Giants, Bobby Johnson, has been coaching since the 90s.

The NFL is so different than it used to be.

Back in the day, you’d have one great pass rusher on the left end who was unbelievable but still just one man.

In 2023, teams have factory lines of random creatures who weigh 250 pounds of pure muscle with negative body fat and run a 4.2 40-yard dash. Whatever little techniques and strategies these older coaches are teaching current offensive linemen are antiquated and obsolete. Might as well be wearing leather helmets and smoking cigarettes on the sidelines.

The Giants need to call up successful, recently retired linemen and pay them whatever they want to get them on the sidelines coaching Andrew Thomas and the boys.

Joe Thomas is the greatest tackle of his generation and Andrew Whitworth was a crucial member of a Super Bowl team. Plus, Andrew Whitworth wanted to play for the Giants in 2017 and this team chose Ereck fucking Flowers over Whitworth. Nasty work.

Trent Williams just punched A’Shawn Williams in the face lmao pic.twitter.com/TgaxaZJ5fX

— Alex Wilson (@AlexWilsonESM) September 22, 2023

Call Trent Williams next year too. He’ll be 36 and I assume his career will be over. Plus, he’s already familiar with the Giants and understands how to get away with this bullshit without the team really being penalized.

3. The Giants aren’t there yet

So much was going against the Giants this week.

It’s a Thursday night game on the road which means the team didn’t even leave Arizona last week and has been away from home for almost two weeks.

They had less time to prepare.

Saquon Barkley was out with an injury.

The refs were really calling everything by the book with no real gray area.

But the teams who are ready for a Super Bowl run still win these types of games or get a lot closer than the Giants did.

New York’s offensive line has looked like crash test dummies against the actually great teams in the NFC like Dallas and now San Fran.

Deebo Samuel was bullying an entire 11-man defense. Refusing to be tackled is something players on great teams do and missing those tackles is something players on bad teams do.

2023 isn’t the magical year for the Giants. It’s going to be a step back from last year.

The only hope now is to try and stay competitive in games and hope you can get through this muck without those little reports about problems in practice or guys taking weird shots at the coaches or a defensive coordinator quietly resigning after his home gets raided by the FBI.

Thanks for reading.

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