The New York Giants have been one of the NFL's most disappointing teams this season.
That disappointment turned into public frustration on Sunday during a humiliating 49-17 road defeat to the division rival Dallas Cowboys.
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Footage showed Giants players going at each other on the sideline while New York fell to 2-8.
Only the one-win Carolina Panthers are worse than the Giants, who were outscored 89-17 by the Cowboys this season.
“That’s unfathomable,” Dallas owner Jerry Jones said.
The Giants apparently thought the same and let out their inner disbelief during a game that was over before halftime.
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Running back Saquon Barkley, and wide receivers Darius Slayton and Sterling Shepard were seen working their emotions out in full public view.
"There’s interaction every game. Every game," Giants coach Brian Daboll said. "No different. Standard."
Except for the fact that this game was a 49-17 blowout loss and much more was expected from a Giants team that won a playoff game last year in Daboll's first year.
Little has gone right for New York in 2023, starting with losing franchise quarterback Daniel Jones to a season-ending injury.
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While the cross-town Jets have been up and down without Aaron Rodgers, the Giants have been a football disaster.
It didn't make it any easier that New York's latest loss featured the unknown Tommy DeVito at QB and was to the Cowboys, a longtime NFC East nemesis.
“Just getting beat by anybody like that sucks,” Barkley said.
The Giants don't have any easy answers for a quick fix.
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Jones is paid like one of the NFL's best QBs but has never played like one.
Daboll went 9-7-1 last year while coaching a gritty team.
But the Giants have fallen to the bottom of the league this season and they spent Sunday bickering on the sideline while getting blown out by the Cowboys.
New York was so bad that Dallas' CeeDee Lamb called himself the NFL's best wide receiver after the Cowboys' easy win.