Copr. Julian Leshay-Guadalupe USA Today Network 2025
The San Francisco 49ers soundly defeated the New York Giants yesterday by a score of 34-24. Don’t let the score fool you, it was never that close. Three and outs, an embarrassment for the receiving core, and an awful defensive effort all contributed to a drubbing by the G-Men’s biggest west coast rival.
Jaxson Dart was once again the lone bright spot on an offense that’s still reeling from the loss of rookie sensation Cam Skattebo. Although the statistics may not reflect his effort, Dart never gave up even after the game was well out of reach, although his receivers offered him little to no support on some well-placed passes. “I think he battles,” head coach Brian Daboll said, “Kid gives everything he has.”
Speaking of Daboll, the entire collective Giants fanbase was left groaning once again this week as he repeated in one of his signature bland press conferences that Shane Bowen will continue to call plays on the defensive side of the ball, a skill that he hasn’t proven in the slightest that he possesses as was evident yesterday.
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The Giants defense gave up 159 rushing yards against a 49ers team that has been struggling in that respect for the majority of the 2025 season. Although it’s said that the Giants run “a lot of man defense,” it then makes no sense as to why no one was assigned to cover running back Cristian McCaffrey, a back who’s made a career of being just as deadly in the receiving game as he is on the ground. McCaffrey led his team in both aspects yesterday with 173 total yards on 33 total touches.
The Giants offense on the other hand, was only able to muster 14 of their 24 points when the game was already well out of reach, although both drives that lead to those scores were impressive and an example of Dart’s refusal to surrender games. The young prospect took another beating yesterday, leading his team in rushing in Skattebo’s absence with 56 yards on 8 carries, although he took full contact hits on a majority of those runs, not to mention a plethora of drops by receivers Darius Slayton and Theo Johnson did nothing to aid the rookie’s efforts to keep Big Blue alive in this contest.
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The General Consensus
The Giants have become what no team in the NFL wants to become: a ‘get-back’ game. In other words, Big Blue allows previously struggling opponents, as the Eagles and 49ers were when they played them over the last two weeks, to get their groove back at the Giants expense; a thought reinforced by Giants legend Tiki Barber on the New York sports radio station WFAN yesterday during the Giants postgame show. The receiving and running cores are both in critical condition, and their defensive unit might be one of the most underachieving units of all time thanks to a lack of heart, effort, and an utter buffoon of a defensive coordinator running the show. But worst of all, this fanbase has to deal with a stubborn and conceited front office that refuses to do what must be done by cleaning house, despite MetLife stadium quickly turning into a neutral sight at every ‘home game.’
-Jack Barber
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