The Giants failed, of course, Jake Bates barely made a 59-yard field goal to force overtime and the Giants lost, 34-27.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur decision was a correct one. I stand by it,\u201d Kafka said after the game. \u201cWe took points to go up 10 points.\u201d<\/p>\n
This is the point I have been making on social media. Kafka went for the one way he knew the Giants could win despite a defense that has again and again come up short in big spots \u2014 by trying to establish a two-score lead with less than three minutes to play.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe did want to be aggressive,\u201d Kafka said of the fourth down call, which saw quarterback Jameis Winston fail to connect with tight end Theo Johnson in the back of the end zone. \u201cWanted to just go up two scores.\u201d<\/p>\n
Here is one analytical model that agreed with the decision:<\/p>\n
Here is one that did not:<\/p>\n
Confidence in Giants\u2019 DC Shane Bowen?<\/p>\n
This was the fifth time this season the Giants have blown a double-digit lead. It was the third week in a row the Giants held a fourth-quarter lead and did not win the game.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a team game,\u201d Kafka said. \u201cEverybody\u2019s got to work together on it, special teams, offense, defense. So, there\u2019s not one group. It\u2019s all of us. It\u2019s the players, it\u2019s the coaches, it\u2019s the staff, it\u2019s the whole organization finding a way to win. And so, we\u2019ve got to find ways to get better, find a way to create an edge for ourselves and that\u2019s what we\u2019re going to do as a – myself, I\u2019m going to evaluate everything. Across the board, where can we find an edge to go win a football game? That\u2019s where we\u2019re at right now.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kafka defended embattled defensive coordinator Shane Bowen.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have a lot of confidence in Shane and his entire staff,\u201d Kafka said.<\/p>\n
We will see on Monday morning if Kafka truly means that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Giants failed, of course, Jake Bates barely made a 59-yard field goal to force overtime and the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":549817,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2067],"tags":[7,519,1917,56,82078,1870,2321,2469,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-549816","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-giants","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-giants","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-giants","12":"tag-new-york-giants-discussion","13":"tag-new-york-giants-analysis","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkgiants","16":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115603215917636094","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549816","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=549816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}