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There are always personnel decisions that arise in depressing situations such as the one the Giants have been in, and are unquestionably diving into even deeper in the last five games.
Five more games! That sounds like a prison sentence, doesn’t it?
OK now, for football crimes committed, you are hereby confined to quarters for the next five weeks, and by court order are required to watch the remaining five games on the Giants schedule. Every game, every week. Failure to do so will result in the additional punishment of reviewing each and every snap from the first 12 games from this season, heretofore referred to as “The Dirty Dozen.’’
There is almost no conceivable way that what has been bad will not get worse, as able-bodied players such as Dexter Lawrence — the biggest-bodied and most able of them all — and promising rookie tight end Theo Johnson are now lost for the remainder of the season. There will be more because that is what happens down the stretch of lost seasons — players fall by the wayside, either from wear and tear or a business-decision reality that fighting through physical issues is no longer a wise career move.