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How the heck did we lose to Denver?

bceagle05 : 2/23/2026 9:27 pm
NFL Network is replaying the game tonight as part of a “rookie showcase” of Jaxson Dart.

It’s the third quarter, 13-0, Bo Nix can’t complete a pass, Dart/Skatt/Theo/Wan’dale are all making plays. Crowd is dead.

No way I’m watching the fourth quarter, but man I remember jumping around when Theo caught the ricochet TD and thinking “we are back.”

Lot has changed since that game.
Also, John Franklin-Myers is very active in this game.  
bceagle05 : 2/23/2026 9:33 pm : link
I remember Sy mentioned him as a free agent target in his game review of this one, and he was absolutely right. He’d be a great fit.
Agee on Myers  
uconngiant : 2/23/2026 9:52 pm : link
He looks good and being next to Allen doesn't hurt like it wouldn't be bad next to Dex
there will be more and more big comebacks  
SirYesSir : 2/23/2026 10:01 pm : link
in the changing nfl.

With the new kickoff rules and letting kickers prep their balls all week so they can regularly make 60 yarders it's become harder and harder to protect leads.

What happened in Denver was bad, and was a breakdown on a lot of levels, but get used to it because we're going to see more and more of them. The Giants were not the only team last season to blow a big lead.
Yep I get that no lead is safe  
bceagle05 : 2/23/2026 10:21 pm : link
but after the win against Philly it felt like some real momentum was building during the Denver game. Would’ve been a great win for the Schoen/Daboll regime - instead it was the beginning of the end.
Paulson Adebo got hurt. Deonte Banks,  
shockeyisthebest8056 : 2/23/2026 10:37 pm : link
who was benched previously, replaced him in the lineup.

The Broncos scored immediately and the Giants defense seemingly didn’t make a stop for a month afterwards.
Denver decided to start playing  
HomerJones45 : 2/23/2026 11:17 pm : link
And blew our doors in.
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Route 9 : 3:17 am : link
Why would you watch that game?

That's number one, without a doubt my #1 Giants game that pisses me the fuck off.

That my BBI is a very, very ... VERY hard list to top.

What is it with this fucking team? No matter who the head coach is, the starting QB, who the teams barber is, they have this INFURIATING obsession with blowing large leads.

I thought that 49ers game could never be topped and I thought the Desean Jackson game was overblown but there's something about this one that just makes me blow my fucking top.
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DefenseWins : 6:04 am : link
In comment 17108431 Route 9 said:
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What is it with this fucking team? No matter who the head coach is, the starting QB, who the teams barber is, they have this INFURIATING obsession with blowing large leads.

I thought that 49ers game could never be topped and I thought the Desean Jackson game was overblown but there's something about this one that just makes me blow my fucking top.


Rt 9
To me it is all coaching. Everyone knows when you take your foot off of the pedal while the other team goes into desperation mode, it will not end well.

We stopped playing defense and the play calling on offense was criminal.

You saw the same thing in that 49er playoff game except is started in the 3rd quarter. We actually stopped trying to score on offense. Plus, the players on defense had a melt down and could not compose themselves. Do you remember the penalties?

The Desean Jackson game to me was more of Coughlin deciding to fold up the offensive tents too early. I do not think we got a single first down on our last few posessions and we went prevent mode on defense. I thought it was crazy to blame that loss on a punter simply because he kicked it to Jackson. That game was over before his foot touched the football. Everyone in that stadium knew it. That was Coughlin's worst coaching job as a Giant and he scapegoated the fucking punter and cut him.

If anyone here disagrees with my take on the Eagle's game, just watch the second half again with an open mind and ask yourself why we lost that game.
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Route 9 : 6:31 am : link
If any Giants fan didn’t know that Eagle game was going sideways the second they saw Manningham’s fumble spin on the sidelines and conveniently stay in bounds, well, I’m not sure what to say and I cannot help them there.

I think maybe the Desean Jackson game doesn’t make me as mad because I saw it coming from a mile away and, well, I was on the toilet. I swear, all I remember was the ball getting booted up and by the time I was taking my Matt Dodge, I see Buck or whoever on the Fox post game talking and the game was over, they weren’t talking about a score so I quickly checked online, I said wow they scored right away, very quickly, and I was puzzled why they won by 7 and not 6 since it was in OT. I said huh? They actually scored on that? I would never expect something so stupid to happen, but then I remembered exactly what team I followed. Good thing my father gave me some dark chocolate earlier in the day lol.

Also, that Vikings game in 1997 might be number three now. Underrated one is the 2018 road Philly game. Talk about stupid coaching.
Strange to think  
Kanavis : 8:10 am : link
That people were lamenting that they didnt have these Bo Nix lead Broncos in the superbowl instead of the Pats. Shows you how narrow the gap is.

I couldn't watch that game again. But if I did, every screw up would be seem as bringing us one step closer to Harbaugh! Without Denver I am not sure the season plays out the way it did and who knows where we are now.
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Inexcusable loss, but I do think there's something to the altitude catching up with road opponents in the second half. The point differential in Denver's favorite after halftime this past season was staggering.
IMO the team is mentally weak - when things start to go wrong the  
PatersonPlank : 9:13 am : link
D just sits back and expects more bad things to follow. Its like once it starts they just get in the mindset of waiting to lose. Good teams step up and say no. We saw this multiple times during the season. This attitude in my experience is driven from the top down, basically the coaching staff and veterans. No one grabbed the flag and ran back forward like Mel Gibson in the Patriot.

Its not as simple as Denver started playing, all teams do at home late. A lot of things needed to go right for Denver, and our team had a losing attitude
Lost season  
AlbanyGmen : 9:15 am : link
In the end it needed to happen and now we have JH. Im super pumped NYG!
Even crazier is we came back  
Including a required 4th & 17th conversion or something like that... and still blew it lol.
RE: Even crazier is we came back  
bceagle05 : 9:55 am : link
In comment 17108521 Mike in Long Beach said:
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Including a required 4th & 17th conversion or something like that... and still blew it lol.

And when Hey Jude shanked the extra point you knew we were losing on a FG.
The reason this loss hurt me more  
bceagle05 : 9:58 am : link
is because they reeled me in for the first time in several years. Those other meltdowns happened when the Giants were good, which is a different type of pain. This Denver performance was giving me hope after the Philly win the week before, then the rug gets pulled out. That was my first Giants-related sleepless night in a long time.
my 8 year old daughter  
The Jake : 10:44 am : link
watched that game with me and cried her eyes out at the end. now she doesn't want to watch football anymore.
The Skattebo injury was hugely demoralizing  
regulator : 11:06 am : link
the book on the 2025 Giants is they were a mentally weak team that couldn't get back on track after hitting adversity. Giants faced some adversity on both sides of the ball in that game and the wheels fell off.
Defense, defense, defense……..  
Simms11 : 12:26 pm : link
It shit the bed in the second half, especially that 4th Quarter.
NYG never played their best ball in the 2nd half  
djm : 1:09 pm : link
under Daboll. It is simply who they were. Whether the reports of a soft training camp and soft practice schedule were true doesn't matter, all that matters in the end is the Giants didn't play their best ball down the stetch of games or even seasons, under Daboll.

Also, as stated the Giants lost 2 guys from the secondary or at least 1 during the game and 1 was already out. The chicken came home to roost.

I turned last night's replay off before the 4th. No point watching that garbage but man is Scat really good. His vision and patience is Tiki-esque.

My favorite hill to die on with assessing NFL talent is which guys can see. Scat and Dart see everything. That's why they will be great.
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djm : 1:10 pm : link
In comment 17108492 SFGFNCGiantsFan said:
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Inexcusable loss, but I do think there's something to the altitude catching up with road opponents in the second half. The point differential in Denver's favorite after halftime this past season was staggering.


That too. I went from giddy to terrified once we lost the DB and Denver got some traction, even with the big lead still in place. Teams lose in Denver all the time for good reason.
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