{"id":141419,"date":"2025-06-19T04:50:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T04:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/141419\/"},"modified":"2025-06-19T04:50:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T04:50:09","slug":"the-giants-may-have-talent-where-it-matters-most-but-it-wont-be-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/141419\/","title":{"rendered":"The Giants may have talent where it matters most, but it won&#8217;t be enough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was the high-water mark of the Brian Daboll Era, a 31-24 upset of the Vikings in an NFC wild-card game at U.S. Bank Stadium in January 2023.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA cornerstone franchise like this with such a rich history, this is what we\u2019re supposed to do,\u201d wide receiver Darius Slayton said. \u201cWe\u2019re supposed to go to the playoffs. We\u2019re supposed to be a winning team. We\u2019re just going to keep trying to live up to the legacy that\u2019s been here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Giants have gone 9-26 since. Daboll\u2019s job status became an issue. $40 Million Man Daniel Jones didn\u2019t ascend. Saquon Barkley was treated like just another undervalued running back <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/06\/04\/sports\/saquon-barkley-stunningly-hints-he-could-retire-out-of-nowhere\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">and won a Super Bowl with the Eagles<\/a>. Defensive coordinator Wink Martindale clashed with Daboll and was replaced by Shane Bowen.<\/p>\n<p>And here we are now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was the high-water mark of the Brian Daboll Era, a 31-24 upset of the Vikings in an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141420,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2067],"tags":[291,8190,1483,6653,7,519,4126,1917,56,2321,2469,6,9,2833],"class_list":{"0":"post-141419","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-giants","8":"tag-abdul-carter","9":"tag-andrew-thomas","10":"tag-brian-burns","11":"tag-darius-slayton","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-giants","14":"tag-malik-nabers","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-giants","17":"tag-newyork","18":"tag-newyorkgiants","19":"tag-nfl","20":"tag-sports","21":"tag-sports-columnists"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114708232794970024","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}