3 Giants who should be fired if season doesn’t turn around

1. Jason Garrett

Cowboy fans probably still cannot believe their luck that Dallas gets to go against Garrett twice a year. The former Cowboys head coach provided the perfect illustration of why the Giants’ NFC East rivals should have no fear of facing his offense with his play-calling horror show against Washington.

With the chance to score a touchdown and take at least a five-point lead late in the fourth, Garrett called successive runs that were stuffed for short gains before an incomplete pass to Sterling Shepard.

That gave Washington the opportunity to win the game with a field goal, with Garrett’s play-calling reflecting the conservative approach of his head coach when the game situation, and all the evidence from the previous 58 minutes, called for aggressiveness with the passing game or a running play implementing Jones into the mix.

Jones had continually frustrated the Washington defense with his legs while passes from the Giants quarterback produced 7.8 yards per play compared to 4.4 for runs from Barkley.

With the game on the line, the ball needed to be in the hands of Jones on early downs, not in the grasp of a running back only recently returned from a torn ACL.

An understanding of the situation and an understanding of how your players are performing is crucial to success in such close games. Garrett appears to have neither and, regardless of how this year ends, it should probably be his last with New York.