2026 Season | Week 1 | Gameday Chatter Thread | Cowboys @ Giants | 09/13/2026

At least on the Durant one I think his spacing was better, he just got straight up beat with the move. Your hope is that Downs gets more depth that but Downs was put in a bind with the RB in front of him. If he gets too deep that's an easy pass to the RB for a big gain.

Bland was definitely worse, especially because there was no other receiver on that side of the field.

Then he got beat for the TD like two plays later in a similar coverage, except that time he stupidly pressed up on a receiver when there was a LB right there, leaving Likely wide open in the end zone.
 
Maybe they can get it together on D. EZ and Gary having to learn to play OLB which means they'll have coverage duty from time to time instead of straight up DE work.

Inside LB looks like it is still horrid. RunOvershown hurt again and hasn't impressed for a while. Winters looks like a jag, and the rookie everyone likes looks like he's on a pretty steep learning curve as well.

Not sure that Downs fucked up too much, but only had one splash play that I saw. Other than Durant, unimpressive.

And AubreyJagt.....jesus...wtf?
 


Double use of flinch.


Who’s going to say something to Schotty about flinching. Uninspired offense. Afraid to go for fourth down in 2026. Sometimes our team looks like it got portaled into the nfl in a time machine.
 
I am not going to read back through the full 1000 posts I missed. Everybody still mad? Yes? Good.
 
The first play there is the one I've been talking about with Bland.

The Giants are on their own 46, Bland is lined up 8 yards off the LOS, within 2 seconds of the snap he has his back to the LOS and is running damn near full speed the opposite direction, 20 god damn yards off the LOS.

There's literally no other receiving target on that side of the field, for anybody to even get to that part of the field they'd have to run a crosser all the way across the field from the opposite side and get 25-30 yards downfield, which would take probably at least 4-5 seconds.

That leaves a cavernous hole between Ezeiruaku, a god damn edge rusher, and Bland because he's bailing all the way downfield. Then you see the exact same thing happen either 1-2 plays later (second play of the clip) with Durant.

Either the players have no idea what they're doing on that technique, because they should be at least 5 yards closer to the LOS at the time the ball is thrown in kind of a muddy look they're reading the WR while keeping an eye on anybody coming from the opposite side, ready to push up if the route combos on the other side aren't doing much.

I have no idea if the players are idiots, if the coaches have no idea what they're teaching, or both, but this is basic stuff and the same inability to play a simple technique is what took the Giants all the way down the field on that drive. It was almost the exact same thing as the 3-4 swing passes in a row, where the Giants saw our secondary/LB's leaving huge gaps unoccupied and just went to it with the simplest of plays 3-4 times in a row.

What you describe, I’ve seen before.

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Oh, then you missed Booze excoriating you for using that gif in post #1.
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