This BBV article series published in early Sept (2023) concluded that the Giants had probably closed or come close to closing the talent gap in the NFC East, outranking the Cowboys but not the Eagles. As it concluded:
“So, let’s tally all the scores up and see how the division shakes out:
Eagles: 36 points
Giants: 35 points
Cowboys: 32 points
Commanders: 17 points”
Were we totally delusional or was it just injuries and bad luck?
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I think our schedules between last year and this year combined with the crazy amount of injuries are the main culprit. On paper, we are more talented this year than we were last year but with an insanely harder schedule. And people don’t realize that we won 9 games last year, 8 of which were by one score or less. The only team we dominated were the dying Colts. We were 1 play away in those 8 games from going 1-15-1.
Neal hasn’t progressed. Waller’s hype didn’t pan out. Jones is clearly rattled behind this O-Line. Murphy’s Law hit us hard this year.
Mix of delusion and bad luck, this team has some very good core pieces in sexy dexy, AT, Thibs, banks, Hyatt, etc. imo in terms of pure talent regardless of position sexy dexy and AT are 2 top 5 players in the division but in terms of having lots of talented players, we lack in that category.
But this year we expected Daniel jones and offense line to take a step forward from last year. That didn’t happen, in fact it seems they took a major step back.
Factor in injuries to core players on offense, a brutal starting schedule loaded with multiple primetime games and shortened weeks and you got a recipe for disaster