New York Giants head coach Brian Daboll gestures on the sidelines in the first half of an NFL football game against the Dallas Cowboys, Sunday, Nov. 12, 2023, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
New York Giants head coach Brian Daboll attempted to pull off yet another masterclass of short, terse answers to describe another embarrassing result for his team on Sunday evening.
The Giants were blown out for a second time this season by the Dallas Cowboys, falling 49-17 in Week 10 after getting shut out in the season opener at MetLife Stadium 40-0. They’re now 2-8 — outscored 89-17 by the Cowboys this year and 79-23 in their last two games with Tommy DeVito under center for the injured Daniel Jones, who is done for the year with a torn ACL.
Tempers continued to seemingly boil on the sidelines as multiple animated conversations were caught by the FOX television crews — though Daboll bombarded the media in Dallas with his usual frenzy of “not what we wanteds” and “give credit to Dallases.”
He did his best to downplay the tension seemingly building on the sideline every week. Saying that what television viewers and fans alike saw was “not a big deal,” and “normal stuff during a game.”
But what happens to content that can’t alleviate pressure that has been building for weeks? Ultimately, it explodes.
Safety Xavier McKinney first blew the whistle on things growing rotten within the Giants’ ranks last week following a 30-6 loss to the Las Vegas Raiders, saying that leadership hasn’t “done a great job of letting the leaders lead and listening to the leaders and the captains.” (h/t Jordan Raanan of ESPN.com)
On Sunday in Dallas, after Saquon Barkley was stuffed on a 4th-&-2 attempt in the first quarter of a 7-0 game to ensure the Giants stayed off the board after picking off Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott deep in plus territory, the star running back was, per FOX’s Tom Rinaldi, having a spirited conversation with…
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