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Giants news, 11/1: Giants possibly missing four starters for Sunday, Jaylen Waddle, Wan’dale Robinson, more headlines

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From Big Blue View

Other Giant observations

Coach Brian Daboll 1-on-1: Developing Jaxson Dart | Giants.com

Q: Everyone has this vision of Skatt in their head that he’s just running through brick walls without thinking, which in a way he is. But even Brady was talking on the broadcast that he plays like a veteran. He slipped the defensive end on his touchdown in Philly and then the week before showed incredible patience to set up his blocks on his other touchdown in Denver.

Daboll: “I would say, you asked about Jaxson too, instincts are a hard thing for people to evaluate. You can watch it, and you can see certain things they do on tape and say, boy, he’s got some pretty good instincts. But until he’s in your system and until you can – guys learn in different ways. You can sit in a meeting room with them and go through a pass installation or you can go through a defensive installation or a kicking game. You can watch it on the board and then go out there, and then when things move and change, they freeze up. Then there’s other guys that just play, that – it’s hard to explain – they can just see it. ‘Well, he’s here, so I’m going here, why would I do this?’ [Rob] Gronkowski was a perfect example of that just relative to an instinctive player that was smart. I’m not comparing the two guys, but they’re tough-minded, hard-nosed, want the ball in their hands, you want to give it to them in critical situations. And it’s not too big for them when the picture changes [from the defense] or something’s different. They just know what to do. And the more you can have of those guys, the better off you are because the guys that don’t have that, it’s tough to play in this league. I’d say his is elite relative to that.”

Robert Saleh would have gone into the tent

PFF Bets of the Week: NFL Week 9 | PFF

QB Jaxson Dart, New York Giants: Under 39.5 rushing yards. Dart has rushed for just 28 yards combined over his past two games after totaling 167 in the previous three. The 49ers haven’t allowed more than 37 rushing yards to a quarterback in any game this season. With Cam Skattebo sidelined, San Francisco’s zone-heavy defense and athletic second-level defenders should be able to key in on Dart and limit his scrambling opportunities.

“The one thing I’m really proud of is how our guys have handled it … Jaxson’s done a great job of kind of getting everyone on the same page,” lauded Kafka. “Whether he’s meeting with them extra or talking to them on the sideline, just those open lines have been great in getting everyone on the same page.”

Giants WR Wan’dale Robinson will record seven or more receptions. San Francisco nickelback Upton Stout is allowing 1.5 yards per coverage snap, the most among all slot corners with at least 100 coverage snaps. Stout has a shoulder issue, and if he cannot go, then Robinson would face a fill-in. Either way, he’s got a good matchup.

2025 trade deadline needs for all 32 NFL teams | PFF

If the Giants were to be buyers at the deadline, they would need to keep the future in mind. Next year, they are hoping to have quarterback Jaxson Dart as their starter in his second season with Cam Skattebo and Malik Nabers back and healthy. Wan’Dale Robinson is a free agent this spring, and Darius Slayton has not been a focal point of the offense with a 13.0% threat rate (wide receiver usage rate). This would be for a Chris Olave or an A.J. Brown type of player, if they make such a move.

Andrew Thomas discusses playing with Jaxson Dart

1 Trade That Makes Sense for Every Team Before 2025 NFL Deadline | Bleacher Report

New York Giants: Trade edge Kayvon Thibodeaux to Panthers for RB Chuba Hubbard and draft capital

I understand the Giants may not want to trade Thibodeaux, but with Brian Burns and Abdul Carter on the roster, a team that is still realistically rebuilding has to be practical. Hubbard could help with the loss of Cam Skattebo to injury but also serve as a potential long-term option, and getting some draft capital as well (while dodging a $14.8 million 2026 contract year) for the disappointing Thibodeaux would make sense.

Why has the New York Giants’ hyped defense flopped? | The Athletic

The Giants’ defense has shown glimpses of being a top unit. The unit appeared to be turning a corner for a seven-quarter stretch in Weeks 6-7 when it held the Eagles and Broncos to a combined 17 points. The defense abruptly fell off a cliff, allowing an incomprehensible 71 points over the past five quarters, covering New York’s 33-32 fourth-quarter collapse in Denver and a 38-20 blowout loss in Philadelphia last week.

The biggest concern as the Giants prepare for a stretch against some of the league’s best offenses — Green Bay, Detroit, New England — is that Bowen hasn’t shown any signs of being able to fix a defense that entered the season with such promise.

Giants secondary could give fans a real scare vs. 49ers | New York Post

That could leave the Giants starting Banks (who was benched and limited to three snaps Oct. 9) and rookie seventh-round pick Korie Black (who was on the Jets practice squad as recently as Oct. 20).

“Deonte always prepares the same way no matter what’s going on with his role,” Dru Phillips said. “He always knew his time would come. He’s stepped up in big ways on special teams. You never know what’s going to happen throughout the season. Now he’s guarding No. 1 [receivers] again. The real pros stay locked in, and he was one of those guys.”

Cam Skattebo injury: New insight into how ‘underdog’ will persevere (again) to rejoin Giants | NJ.com

Jack Garceau, who coached Skattebo at Rio Linda High, has no doubt that he will respond with his usual ferocity.

“The way that I’ve seen him operate, I don’t think this is something that’ll bring him down,” he said. “It’s just something that he’ll take on as another challenge and fight it to the very end. It takes a lot to get that dude down. If anything, when he’s down, I think he becomes more motivated to come back. He’s a true underdog, so no matter what happens, he’s going to fight. So I don’t expect anything less from him.”

The traditional rookie Halloween parade

Dolphins’ firing of GM Chris Grier highlights Giants’ low standards for Joe Schoen | New York Daily News

Grier ran the Dolphins for nine full seasons and part of a 10th. He finished with a .490 regular season winning percentage (77-80), a .517 AFC East winning percentage (30-27), three playoff berths and no postseason wins. Schoen, meanwhile, has a .347 regular season winning percentage (20-38-1), a .217 NFC East winning percentage (5-17-1), one playoff berth and one postseason win in 2022.

It’s wild, though, that the historic Giants franchise continues to tolerate being a laughingstock under Schoen when a franchise like the Dolphins is putting its foot down on a GM who hovered around .500. It reinforces how far they’ve fallen.

Daniel Jones’ resurgence not a surprise to Giants’ Darius Slayton | New York Post

“I can’t say I’m surprised,” Slayton said following practice in advance of Sunday’s game at MetLife Stadium against the 49ers. “I’m well-documented in my opinion of him. Some people like to wait for things to happen and say, ‘I said it the whole time.’ I actually said it the whole time. He put in the work, and he’s talented and it’s showing.

“I know when you do anything in life, whether it’s school, a job [or] a sport, people that work a certain way, prepare a certain way [and] behave a certain way, they’re bound to succeed. They might not succeed at one moment or you might not see it at a particular time, but a certain level of effort and approach is eventually gonna work. And that’s him.”

This week’s opponent

3 reasons why this week is a potential get-right spot for the 49ers | Niners Nation

New York’s defense has allowed 148.9 rushing yards per game, third-worst in the league. A few weeks back, I mentioned how Atlanta’s run defense was the worst the 49ers had faced at that point of the season, and it needed to be a big Christian McCaffrey game. McCaffrey came through with a season-high 129 rushing yards and a pair of touchdowns. The Giants’ run defense is significantly worse than Atlanta’s, meaning Sunday will need to be another big McCaffrey game.

McCaffrey has yet to gain more than 20 yards on a run this season, with his longest rush being a pair of 15-yard runs, one against the Cardinals and one against the Falcons. Sunday might be his best chance to get one of those patented McCaffrey explosive runs, finally.

The 49ers are averaging just 20 points per game, their lowest mark through eight games since coach Kyle Shanahan’s first season (2017). This week, they face a Giants defense that has allowed 215 points, its most in an opening eight-game stretch since 2019. For the 49ers to take advantage of that, they will need their offensive line to protect better than it did against Houston. “[They’re] similar in the fact they have an elite defensive line, as good as there is from the five rushers that they get on the field at the same time and the depth they have behind them,” Shanahan said. “[They are] as good as it gets from a pass rush standpoint.”