New York Giants followers are reeling after watching what unfolded at MetLife Stadium in a 28-6 loss to the Minnesota Vikings in Week 1, however it isn’t simply followers going by a whirlwind of feelings.
Former gamers are annoyed too, together with one of many franchise’s legends.
The Giants wore their century pink uniforms to commemorate the workforce’s a centesimal season, and a number of other workforce legends had been honored on the stadium among the many franchise’s 100 best Giants.
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Lawrence Taylor is surrounded by Giants followers throughout Fan Fest at MetLife Stadium to have a good time 100 seasons of the New York Giants Friday, Sept. 6, 2024. (IMAGN)
Amongst them had been Lawrence Taylor and Carl Banks, two important members of the Giants groups that introduced residence Tremendous Bowl titles in 1987 and 1991. Taylor ranked first total among the many 100 best Giants ever, whereas Banks was seventeenth.
Throughout an look on the “Bleav in Giants” podcast, Banks revealed that, after watching the primary half the Giants performed towards the Vikings, Taylor wished to place his pads again on.
“I can inform you after we had been lining as much as be launched as the highest 100 gamers, a man who by no means actually feedback on video games as a result of he doesn’t watch lots of them was Lawrence Taylor. He checked out me and — it is a true story, people. If you wish to know what we [the 100 greatest Giants] had been considering at halftime,” Banks defined.
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“Lawrence checked out me at halftime and mentioned, ‘Carl, I may decide 22 of us proper now and exit and play higher than these guys. We’d be on this recreation.’ The youngest man in that line was most likely 50 years previous. Lawrence Taylor checked out me and mentioned, ‘I can get 22 of us proper now and go on the market proper now and whoop these guys’ a–.’”
The championship pedigree that was most lately seen through the 2011 NFL season hasn’t shined in East Rutherford, New Jersey, for a while. The Giants have solely made the playoffs twice since then, the latest coming in 2022 throughout head coach Brian Daboll’s inaugural season.
New York Giants quarterback Daniel Jones jogs off the sphere through the first half of a recreation towards the Minnesota Vikings Sunday, Sept. 8, 2024, in East Rutherford, N.J. (AP Photograph/Adam Starvation)
And it doesn’t seem like a championship-caliber workforce within the Giants’ locker room this season after the catastrophe that unfolded Sunday. Quarterback Daniel Jones and the Giants’ offense had been booed off the sphere after an atrocious outing that resulted in no touchdowns.
Jones has been the goal of Giants followers after Week 1. He went 22-for-42 for 186 yards with two interceptions whereas getting sacked 5 instances within the loss. Getting into his sixth season, and, extra importantly, the second 12 months of the four-year, $160 million deal he signed earlier than final season, Jones is predicted to be main the Giants again to the playoffs like he did in 2022.
As a substitute, in his first recreation after tearing his ACL halfway by the 2023 marketing campaign, Jones seems to have regressed.
The Giants have an opportunity in Week 2 towards the Washington Commanders, a workforce that was blown out by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in Week 1.
However the product Taylor and the remainder of the sold-out crowd in MetLife Stadium witnessed has the previous linebacker wanting to assist his previous workforce out as a result of the grit and struggle simply wasn’t there.
New York Giants legend Lawrence Taylor enters the sphere earlier than a recreation between the New York Giants and the Minnesota Vikings at MetLife Stadium. (John Jones-Imagn Photographs)
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“To begin your season off wanting the way in which you probably did on each side of the ball … you seem like you’re caught in 2023,” Banks mentioned.
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