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Giants news, 12/17: No QB starter named, John Mara, Malik Nabers, more headlines

New York Giants news for Monday

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Injuries? Performance? Talent? What Gives with the New York Giants Defense? | SI.com

While the Giants might have considered a world in which Daniel Jones wasn’t their quarterback in Week 15, there’s no world in which they’re planning to be without Daniel Jones, Andrew Thomas, Jon Runyan Jr, Greg Van Roten, Theo Johnson, Dexter Lawrence, Rakeem Nunez-Roches, Deonte Banks, Cor’Dale Flott, Dru Phillips, Bobby Okereke, and Tyler Nubin.

As a result, meaningful games are being played, but the Giants are in a place where those games are effectively an advance on the 2025 preseason. They’re getting a look at their depth – the absolute bottom of their depth chart, at some positions – in situations they simply can’t replicate in practice.

Brian Burns gets first sack allowed this year by Ronnie Stanley

Brian Burns sacked Lamar Jackson on second down with an inside swim move vs. Ronnie Stanley.

Burns acknowledged Stanley’s false start before the snap and went inside the “over-set.”

Great job by Chatman intercepting the OG to give the Burns the inside path. pic.twitter.com/ELD7urERLj

— Nick Falato (@nickfalato) December 16, 2024

Giants’ Brian Burns: Brutal blindside block by Ravens ‘just football’ | USAToday.com

“Yeah, he lined me up. I was focused on Lamar as he was trying to get outside. And yeah, he kind of just blindsided me,” Burns told reporters. “I feel like if he wanted to probably hit me harder because I wasn’t looking. But still felt it. Yeah. Football.”

John Mara faces inevitable as Joe Schoen and Brian Daboll lead Giants to rock bottom | SNY.tv

Stability is so important in the NFL. That’s what John Mara wants. You can tell that the co-owner is terrified over the thought of another rebuild. He should be even more afraid of sticking with the wrong people too long, though. No one spends like a desperate regime — bad contracts, worse trades and forced picks are how a bad team extends its rut.

This team might very well be the worst in the NFL. It didn’t get here by accident. Those in place contributed to this mess. It’s getting harder and harder to believe they’re capable of cleaning it up.

We found ‘apathetic’ Giants fan who taunted John Mara with an airplane banner. He has lots more to say | NJ.com

Sunday’s sponsor said his motive was simple: Embarrass the owner who has made being a Giants fan so embarrassing since the team last won a Super Bowl in 2011.

“The biggest thing that the Mara family prides itself on is pride in themselves,” he said. “And so, if you’re able to make it more embarrassing, it will further force them to take action…And the worst part is that all evidence points to Schoen and Daboll doing a poor job. And somehow we have to have this conversation of, ‘Are they coming back?’”

How do you cover this hopeless Giants team? A press box view of their ninth straight loss | The Athletic

So with the New York Giants in the midst of another abysmal season, The Athletic’s Dan Duggan decided to reach into his archives to try and put a creative spin on yet another loss. There isn’t any need to analyze the details of Sunday’s 35-14 loss to the Baltimore Ravens, which dropped the Giants to 2-12 overall, 0-8 at home and matched a franchise record with nine straight losses.

Five years ago, Duggan provided a first-person account of what it’s like to cover a hopeless team. Sadly, not much has changed for the Giants over the past five years other than the cast of characters responsible for the dreadful product on the field.

How challenges Giants WR Malik Nabers is overcoming can help him in the long run | The Athletic

Nabers counts his ability to get open and find different ways to run routes as some of those positives. But for a player who came from an LSU program that only lost seven games over his final two collegiate seasons, Nabers is still trying his best to get that win.

“I’m trying to do that, trying to show my grit, trying to show my dog mentality to go out there and keep playing, being hurt or not,” Nabers said.

Notes & Stats: Giants vs. Ravens Recap | Giants.com

If he maintains his current pace, Nabers will easily top Puka Nacua’s NFL rookie record of 105 receptions, set last season. He would become the fourth rookie receiver in history with 100+ catches, joining Nacua, Miami’s Jaylen Waddle (104 catches in 2021) and Anquan Boldin (101 with Arizona in 2003).

Nabers’ 82 yards increased his season total to 901. That moved him past Jeremey Shockey (894 in 2002) and into second place on the Giants’ rookie list, behind Beckham’s 1,305 a decade ago.

The Giants are so much more than a quarterback away | New York Post

It’s so easy to dream. At the moment, it’s pretty much all Giants fans have.

It’s convenient, after the Giants’ 35-14 beatdown by the Ravens on Sunday afternoon at MetLife Stadium, to look across the field at Lamar Jackson and pray for their own version of a game-changing, franchise quarterback.

TB12

TB 12, letting it rip! pic.twitter.com/Bfaht5BYNG

— Nick Falato (@nickfalato) December 16, 2024

2025 NFL draft: Four-team race for No. 1 pick, top prospects | ESPN.com

It’s not the hardest remaining schedule in the world, especially considering it’s possible the Eagles will have nothing to play for in Week 18 since they’ve already clinched a playoff spot. The Falcons are also struggling, and the Colts are hardly world-beaters. Still, the Giants will be underdogs in all three games and can easily end the season on an epic 12-game skid.

Deion Sanders’ presence as son Shedeur’s NFL Draft stock soars will ratchet up Giants drama | New York Daily News

Keeping focus off of the outside drama is going to get increasingly difficult. Because now ‘Prime Time’ is involved.

Ho! Ho! Ho! We hand out Christmas gifts to all 32 NFL teams | FOX Sports

In your stockings you’ll find a pen and paper so you can all write apology letters to former Giants offensive coordinator Kevin Gilbride. Fans crushed him for years, calling him Kevin “Kill-drive” even though the Giants averaged 24.2 points per game during his tenure. In the nearly 11 years since he left, they’ve averaged 19.5. Under Brian Daboll, they’ve averaged 17.5. This year they’ve averaged 14.9. Start writing. It’s time to cleanse your souls.