The Giants show more ineptitude with their loss to the Saints due to a late blocked field goal

If the Giants wanted to make it look good and then lose a close game, more power would be theirs.

They did it in spectacular fashion.

They rallied from a 14-3 fourth-quarter deficit and were poised to send Sunday’s slugfest with the Saints into overtime.

Graham Gano set up for a 35-yard field goal and the Giants’ orchestrated rally turned ridiculous when Gano’s kick was blocked by Bryan Bresee with eight seconds left, ensuring the Giants would lose again, this time with 14:11 at MetLife Stadium.

It added another layer of ineptitude to a season full of ineptitude.

For everyone who stuck around until the end, there was some fighting and flirting, meaning the Giants didn’t give up. They didn’t win either because there was more or less bad offensive football all day.

For a change, the defense the Giants put on the field was pretty relentless, despite several lineup changes due to injuries depleting the starting lineup.

Now to the downside. A historically bad Giants offense was even worse.

The inability to run the ball was largely overshadowed by the complete inability to make the so-called forward pass.

Above all, it was sad and funny and painful and embarrassing all at the same time watching Drew Lock try to get in the bag and locate his targets. There were bad throws, bad defense and bad receiver hands in an underwhelming performance that wasn’t NFL-caliber.

For those keeping count, this is the eighth straight loss for a team that is inexorably moving toward the coveted top pick in the 2025 NFL Draft.

The Giants (2-11) entered the weekend as the No. 3 overall seed, according to Tankathon. After the Jaguars (3-10) defeated the Titans, the Giants moved into second place.

The Giants trailed 14-3 before moving 82 yards in 13 plays, with lock Malik Nabers hitting for 22 yards and Tyrone Tracy scoring a 1-yard touchdown plunge with 4:11 left.

On the two-point conversion, Lock’s pass was deflected and Nabers was able to snatch it out of the air and lean across the goal line to cut the deficit to three points.

Micah McFadden made a third-down stop and the Giants had the ball back on their 14-yard line with 3:07 left. They reached their own 38 before the mini-rally failed when lock Demario Davis threw an interception with 1:44 left on fourth down.

The Giants got the ball back with 1:21 left. Lock gained 25 yards on fourth-and-10 and hit Malik Nabers for 23 yards to the Saints’ 12-yard line. Lock attempted two throws into the end zone and then Gano came onto the field and disaster ensued.

There were a lot of unfilled gray seats, which is to be expected, but actually not as many as there could have been given the product paying customers were dealing with this season. Expect those same imbalance seats to be filled with Ravens fans next weekend.

The Saints (5-8) didn’t have to do much. They got an eight-yard touchdown run from Kendre Miller in the first quarter and didn’t really need any more points.

The Giants failed to get into the end zone, with a Graham Gano field goal summing up their scoring output. It was two field goals from Gano until his 48-yarder was taken off the field early in the fourth quarter when an offensive lineman named Jake Kubas was called for an unnecessary roughness penalty.

Lock was unwell and had plenty of company. He started 0-for-8 and finished 21 of 49 for 227 yards and one interception. He fought almost every step of the way.

The Giants are dangerously approaching a point where none of their teams have ever gone in the last 99 years of their franchise existence.

Their eight straight losses are approaching their longest ever losing streak of nine games, an infamous record achieved three times: 1976, 2003, stretching into 2004 and 2019.

Contrary to established NFL data that it is beneficial for a team to play at home, the Giants are now 0-7 at their Meadowlands venue. The only year the Giants went winless at home for an entire season was 1974, when they played in the Yale Bowl in New Haven, CT. and finished 0-7 at their temporary home.

There are two home games remaining – against the Ravens and Colts – for the Giants to break through at home this season.

The Giants entered the game with an NFL-low 183 points, an average of 15.3 points per game. The last time the Giants scored the fewest points in the league for an entire season? 1953. That was a long time ago.