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New York Post
3 Oct 2023


NextImg:Dreadful offensive line leaves Daniel Jones out to dry versus Seahawks

After years of failing to protect quarterbacks, the Giants’ offensive line situation has devolved into wide receivers getting sacked.

The Giants used a bunch of short throws to set up a trick play that saw Parris Campbell circle in motion behind Daniel Jones and catch a poorly placed lateral.

Before Campbell could cock his arm, he was dragged down for an 8-yard sack that blew up a scoring drive.

Yes, that’s the state of the Giants’ offensive line — again — after allowing a debilitating 11 sacks and earning boos in a 24-3 loss to the Seahawks.

Without starting left tackle Andrew Thomas for the full game and rookie John Michael Schmitz for all but their first possession, the Giants still put five — and sometimes six or seven — offensive linemen on the field at the same time.

It only looked like they were playing with ghost blockers, including on the healthy right side where tackle Evan Neal’s two-year-long struggles are sounding alarms.

Jones, the NFL’s most-pressured quarterback through the first three weeks of the season (nearly 47 percent of his dropbacks), found himself in the uncomfortably familiar spot of running for survival throughout most of the half.

Daniel Jones sacked during the fourth quarter when the Giants played the Seattle Seahawks on Monday Night Football.
Robert Sabo for NY Post

He was sacked three times in the first half and endured enough whiplash to run under phantom pressure.

And in the second half, the Seahawks could smell blood in the water — approaching the NFL record of 14 sacks by the Eagles in 1952.

None were more devastating than when Matt Peart — as a jumbo tight end — blocked inside and allowed Uchenna Nwosu to come unblocked off the edge as Jones turned his back for a play-action fake.

Jones set his feet just in time to avoid Nwosu, but the rest of the pocket collapsed and a scrambling Jones was hit from behind and stripped by Mario Edwards Jr. to set up a short touchdown drive.

But that’s not to sell short the 1-yard sack on a drive that ended with a failed fourth-and-1 … or the 6-yard sack that derailed a manageable second-and-5 … or either of the two times that back-to-back sacks preceded a punt. Neal was beaten so badly by Boye Mafe’s speed on one third down that he nearly fell over chasing empty space after Jones was on the ground.

Actually, the failed fourth-and-1 contributed to the broader issue because Schmitz injured his shoulder at the bottom of the pile when the Giants tried the Eagles’ patented “tush push.”

Suddenly, there were no calls to ban the play because of its 100 percent success rate because the Giants didn’t execute it as well.

Daniel Jones reacts on the bench during the fourth quarter.
Daniel Jones reacts on the bench during the fourth quarter.
Charles Wenzelberg / New York Post

“Why it works so well for the Eagles is their offensive line,” one NFL source told The Post. “Biggest difference between the teams.”

Ben Bredeson — in his first game back from a concussion — moved from left guard to center to replace Schmitz, and Shane Lemieux slid into the lineup.

Then Lemieux left with an abductor injury and $6.1 million-per-year free-agent disappointment Mark Glowinski returned from banishment.

The Giants averaged 3.7 yards per carry in the first half of their second straight game without an injured Saquon Barkley, but that misleading total was inflated by Jones’ four carries for 26 yards, some of which were scrambles and not zone-read keepers.