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FanPulse.How confident are you in the direction of the team? Last week: 89
percent confidenceDespite the Week 1 loss to the Jacksonville Jaguars, the
Giants have remained confident. Fans aren’t jumping ship in massive amounts ...
yet. If, however, the Giants fall to 0-2 that is probably going to change. Since
2007, only 10 of 91 times to start the season 0-2 have made the playoffs.Will
the Giants win or lose in Week 2?Odds: Cowboys are 3-point favoritesBig Blue
View FanPulse: Giants by 5Blogging The Boys FanPulse: Cowboys by 4Odds Shark has
the Giants as 3-point underdogs. BBV’s Dan Pizzuta is taking the Giants against
that point spread. Our full staff picks will be available Sunday morning.Other
than QB, what is most valuable to an NFL offense? When the New York Giants
drafted running back Saquon Barkley second overall in the 2018 NFL draft,
visions of offensive fireworks danced through fans’ heads. With hyper-athletic
playmakers at every offensive skill position, how could the offense NOT improve?
Unfortunately, the Giants’ offense has yet to realize its potential through the
first quarter of the season. The fault for the offensive slog isn’t at the feet
of Barkley, however. He has racked up at least 100 all-purpose yards in each
game so far, and scored a touchdown in three of them. He is doing his part on
the field, and he also seems to be blossoming rapidly off the field as well.
Despite the way the team has started the season, Barkley sounds like the mature
“Face Of The Franchise” he was drafted to be. He insists that the way forward
for the team is to be optimistic, but also realistic about the hole they have
dug for themselves. “Obviously you’re 1-3, the season is obviously not over,” he
said. “It’s a long season but you can’t say it’s a long season forever because
you get to a point where you get redundant and you keep saying that, then
there’s no chance for you to make the playoffs. Everything that we still
want
Authentic Odell Beckham Jr Jersey , all of our goals are still in reach. Coach said something perfect today, he said the only thing that we’re not
capable of doing this season is an undefeated season, and that only happened one
time. I don’t know if everybody expects to win every single game, but most
likely not going to win every single game. You’ve just got to continue to work,
not get down like I said, have positive energy, come into the building and
continue to work and like you said examine yourself, watch film, learn what you
can do to help the team, learn what you can do better to help yourself better in
certain situations and get ready for the next week.”On the offensive
strugglesDespite having players like Barkley, Odell Beckham Jr., Sterling
Shepard, and Evan Engram on their offense, the Giants have struggled mightily on
offense. They have struggled with execution and mental mistakes, they have
struggled with consistency, and they have struggled to find an identity.“We’ve
got to get back to the basics. We’ve got to kind of do what we did the first
drive against other teams, continue to have that momentum, that first drive
epitomizes what we’re capable of doing on the football field and we have to have
that mindset,” Barkley said. They showed in their first game that that they have
the talent to match up and be a problem for any defense in the NFL. But what the
Giants need to do is find an identity on offense.“Yeah
Color Rush Jon Halapio Jersey , it is that simple,” Barkley added. “We’ve got to get back to playing Giants football. I don’t think really any team so far
that we’ve played, obviously at the end of the game they had the win and they
had more points than we had, but there’s a lot of things we did ourselves to put
us in that situation. If we can fix ourselves and just focus on ourselves, I
think the rest of the season will take care of itself.”‘Giants Football’, as
Barkley referred to it, is “just being consistent, running the ball, making
efficient plays, maximizing on the opportunities when we get the opportunities,
stay away from mistake-free football – obviously you’re going to make mistakes,
but make less mistakes than the other team, not turn the ball over.”On his
rookie seasonBarkley himself has had a good start to his NFL career. So far he
has proven his ability as a runner and receiver, shown that he can create on his
own in both facets of the game, and be the playmaker the Giants drafted him to
be. But that doesn’t mean that he is satisfied.Barkley said, “Even when you win,
win or lose, I’m always going to be my biggest critic because I have the
passion, I want to be great
Color Rush Curtis Riley Jersey , I want to be a great player in this league and I have to hold myself to that standard. When we lose, you’ve got to
look back on yourself.”That passion, the high standards to which he holds
himself and the work ethic with which he drives himself to meet those standards,
bordered on legendary in college. Despite having the kind of start to his rookie
season of which any player would be proud, Barkley wants, needs, to be
better.“I’ve got to be better,” he said. “I think I’ve been doing a pretty good
job of breaking tackles so far, I’ve got to find a way to break more tackles. I
was brought here to be an efficient player and when the opportunity comes,
create big plays, and I’ve got to do a better job there. A lot of the reason we
haven’t been successful is we haven’t been able to run the ball, we haven’t run
the ball as well as we are capable of. That’s where my job kicks in and that’s
where myself and the O line, we’re kind of a whole when it comes to that, where
we’ve got to take that as a personal challenge and continue to work and get
better. When the next game comes, when the opportunity comes, capitalize on
it.”
