{"id":550427,"date":"2025-11-24T12:02:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T12:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/550427\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T12:02:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T12:02:09","slug":"new-york-giants-malik-nabers-rails-against-mike-kafkas-play-calling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/550427\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Giants’ Malik Nabers rails against Mike Kafka’s play-calling"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New York Giants<\/a> suffered their sixth consecutive loss on Sunday, dropping their record to 2-10 on the season and 0-7 on the road, which eliminated them from playoff contention.<\/p>\n

The Giants entered the game as heavy underdogs against a formidable Detroit Lions<\/a> team, but surprised many observers by leading for most of regulation before squandering yet another double-digit lead in the fourth quarter — a recurring pattern this season.<\/p>\n

While poor teams often find ways to lose, the Giants have done so in a particularly improbable fashion throughout the year.<\/p>\n

Late in the fourth quarter, with approximately three minutes remaining and the Giants ahead by three points, interim head coach Mike Kafka opted to go for a touchdown on fourth-and-goal from the six-yard line, aiming to extend the lead to two possessions rather than kicking a field goal to go up by six and compel the Lions to score a touchdown on their final drive.<\/p>\n

Star wide receiver Malik Nabers, who is recovering from a torn ACL sustained in Week 4, publicly criticized Kafka’s decision in a post on X following the loss, which he subsequently deleted. Screenshots preserved the reaction, and it quickly circulated online.<\/p>\n

The Lions tied the game on their ensuing possession, forcing overtime, where they ultimately prevailed by seven points.<\/p>\n

Kafka’s seven-game audition as the Giants’ interim head coach has not gotten off to an auspicious start. Nabers represents a cornerstone of the Giants’ future, and his comments on X do not reflect favorably on the situation, particularly given that Kafka could return with the team next season, whether as head coach or in a coordinator role. The Giants may choose to retain Kafka to provide quarterback Jaxson Dart with some continuity heading into his rookie year.<\/p>\n

Even amid the Giants’ lost season, it has been difficult to witness the team’s repeated fourth-quarter collapses. Nabers’s frustrations are entirely understandable, and many fans share the sentiment in the wake of yet another breakdown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York Giants suffered their sixth consecutive loss on Sunday, dropping their record to 2-10 on the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":550428,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2067],"tags":[247,265,146,113,7,519,20842,11945,147,478,4126,1458,11946,8668,330,246,206,1917,56,88,2321,2469,6,35196,245,338,264,9,266,225],"class_list":{"0":"post-550427","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-giants","8":"tag-american","9":"tag-american-football","10":"tag-detroit","11":"tag-detroit-lions","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-giants","14":"tag-hub","15":"tag-kafka","16":"tag-lions","17":"tag-malik","18":"tag-malik-nabers","19":"tag-mike","20":"tag-mike-kafka","21":"tag-nabers","22":"tag-negative","23":"tag-neutral","24":"tag-new","25":"tag-new-york","26":"tag-new-york-giants","27":"tag-news","28":"tag-newyork","29":"tag-newyorkgiants","30":"tag-nfl","31":"tag-nfl-hub","32":"tag-overall","33":"tag-overall-negative","34":"tag-overall-neutral","35":"tag-sports","36":"tag-sports-news","37":"tag-york"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550427","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=550427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/550428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}