Giants Sink Again in Latest MMQB Power Ranking Poll
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As the New York Giants 2023 season continues to spiral out of control and beyond salvaging, so does their status on the weekly MMQB power ranking.
The Giants, who ranked 28th in the weekly poll last week, dropped one spot to No. 29 this week, ranking just ahead of the Patriots (whom they'll see in two weeks), Bears, and Panthers.
Notes Conor Orr of this week's Giants ranking:
I had a long wishlist of narratives I wish had come to fruition on Sunday, the grandest of which would have been Tommy DeVito, with his committed and loving New Jersey-based family in attendance, whooping the Cowboys on national television. Alas, we can’t have it all. That said, we need to leave the Giants alone. They are doing the absolute best they can. This is not the tire fire some would like to make it out to be.
Currently, the holder of the second overall pick in next year's draft, the Giants are coming off another embarrassing blowout loss, this one handed to them by the Dallas Cowboys last week. The loss was of epic and, in some cases, historic proportions in a season gone astray.
The Cowboys held sizeable advantages in total yards (640-172), first downs (32-16), net passing yards (472-61), and time of possession (37:21-22:39). Their 49 points were the most allowed by the Giants since a 51-17 loss to the Los Angeles Rams on November 5, 2017. They topped the previous high of 48 points allowed to Philadelphia last season on December 11, allowed by a Brian Daboll-coached team.
The Cowboys’ 640 total yards were the second-most ever allowed by the Giants, nearly topping an 80-year-old record of 682 yards gained by the Chicago Bears on November 14, 1943, in a 56-7 victory and blowing the doors off the 524 yards gained by the Dolphins against a Daboll coached team back on October 8.
The Cowboys' 472 net passing yards were the third-highest total allowed by the Giants, falling just shy of the Saints' 505 yards on November 1, 2015, and the Bears' 488 yards in the 1943 game mentioned above.
And the 32 first downs allowed by the Giants defense to the Cowboys tied for the third-highest total by a Giants opponent, falling behind the 38 recorded by the Rams on November 13, 1966, the 35 recorded by the Saints in 2015, and the 21 recorded by the Cowboys on September 10, 1978.
That said, Orr is spot on in his opinion of this lost Giants season not being a tire fire. The Giants have been (again) decimated by injuries to many of their top players on offense--quarterback Daniel Jones, left tackle Andrew Thomas, running back Saquon Barkley, and tight end Darren Waller all come to mind--and have not been able to take the next step that they showed hints of looking to take during the spring in summer.
The defensive struggles of the last two weeks have been a headscratcher for sure. Still, things could be worse for the Giants in that they could lack a core group of players and have an unstable coaching/management situation, which does not appear to be the case, regardless of how this season has unfolded.
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