The New York Giants have lost six games in a row, including most recently to the New York Jets. They should be relegated to the XFL. Bring up the Guardians!
Outside of the Southern Ohio abomination that is the Cincinnati Bengals, the longest active losing streak in the NFL belongs to the putrid New York Giants at six games. After handing the keys over to Daniel Jones as the G-Men’s starting quarterback, all we’ve seen is Jones fumble the ball like he’s Jameis Winston and drive this once-proud franchise into the ground, wall, or whatever.
After beating the Washington Redskins and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the Giants have lost consecutive games to the Minnesota Vikings, at the New England Patriots, the Arizona Cardinals, at the Detroit Lions, the Dallas Cowboys and now in a road game at home vs. the Jets. The Giants are so bad, they should be forced to relegate to the XFL and call up the New York Guardians.
You think we’re kidding, right? On matters such as these, absolutely not. We could not be more serious than we are right now. It’s pretty clear that Jones isn’t ready to hold on to the football like a quality starting quarterback and head coach Pat Shurmur needs to start racking up some wins over Bob Stoops and the like in the NFL minor leagues.
So if you want to know what to expect when the Guardians get called up, get ready for some Matt McGloin and Marquise Williams action with former Giants offensive coordinator Kevin Gilbride calling the shots. How sure are we it’s not better than the product the Giants trot out there every fall Sunday to get waxed like the floor of a high school cafeteria. They’ve made Jimmy Hoffa cry.
McGloin thought about winning games with the Oakland Raiders after going undrafted out of Penn State. Williams, if you care to remember, kept Mitchell Trubisky on the North Carolina Tar Heels bench. He actually took the Tar Heels to an ACC Championship game before falling to the Clemson Tigers, something Jones never did at Duke or Trubisky at North Carolina.
And Gilbride, well, it will certainly be better than the Ben McAdoo era or whatever we’re seeing out of Shurmur these days. He’ll have success in the league because if he can offensive coordinate Eli Manning and the G-Men to two Super Bowl victories, the guy can do anything. Let’s just hope he didn’t pick up any bad habits at MetLife last time such as screaming himself Tom Coughlin purple.
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So down to the XFL you go, Giants. You were a blue-blood cornerstone of the NFL for so long. Now, you’ve resolved into getting Concrete Charlie-d by Sam Darnold and the Jets and you’re the late Frank Gifford. Your playoff dreams are dead in the NFL, but you have an XFL season to get ready for. If you’re lucky you can claim a halfway championship like Steve Spurrier did. So Orlando.
