NFL Week 11: Trends which will decide each game
Off: New York Giants (3-7) and San Francisco 49ers (4-6)
Giants: First-time NFL head coach Joe Judge has steadily built the Giants into a solid squad and Big Blue is currently playing its best football of the season. While the team is still four games below .500, strides are certainly being made. A year ago, quarterback Daniel Jones was a turnover machine. He threw a dozen interceptions (to go along with 24 scores) and lost 11 of his 18 fumbles. This season started out with much of the same (13 turnovers in his first 8 outings) by the 2019 first-round pick but the last two weeks, Big Blue has not coughed up the ball at all and came away with key wins vs. Washington and Philadelphia. New York is 3-2 in its last five games after a 0-5 start.
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49ers: The club has been dealing with injuries and other issues all year and has lost twice as many games as they did a year ago. But the tone for the season was set with the Week 1 home loss to the Cardinals. Seven days later, defensive linemen Nick Bosa and Solomon Thomas went down and 2019 postseason standout Raheem Mostert has missed the majority of the year. Quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo has struggled with inconsistency and injuries and is currently on the sidelines. Nick Mullen has played in a half-dozen games and made four starts for the defending NFC champions (1-4 at home this season) and has thrown for six scores and turned over the ball eight times. San Francisco has lost three consecutive games (all by 10-plus points) and by a combined 98-57 score.