Who’s responsible for the worst offense in NY Giants’ history?

The NY Giants’ offense has been the achilles heel of the team all season – Sunday’s loss against the Baltimore Ravens was just another example of their inadequacy.  

If you’ve found yourself thinking that you’ve never seen anything this bad while watching the NY Giants’ offense this year, you’re right – you haven’t. Ladies and gentleman, we’ve been treated to the worst offense in NY Giants’ history this season.

They’re currently ranked 31st in both offensive yards and points – above only their MetLife Stadium roommates, the NY Jets.

The last time the NY Giants had an offense even close to this bad, the much maligned Ben McAdoo was fired. Before that, Dan Reeves was still coaching the Giants.

The NY Giants’ have never had an offense this inept, and this is a team who didn’t reach thirty points for over an entire year just a couple seasons ago. Every game is like pulling teeth watching them attempt to drive down the field.

There’s enough blame to go around for everyone, but there are three main culprits for their insufficiency – general manager Dave Gettleman, offensive coordinator Jason Garrett, and quarterback Daniel Jones.

The NY Giants are simply not talented enough on offense. At the end of the day, that lack of talent falls on the man who brings it in – Dave Gettleman.

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The National Football League is more offensively driven than it’s ever been. The Green Bay Packers and Kansas City Chiefs are going to get first round bye weeks because of their offense – the Giants’ are going to the top of the draft because of theirs.

GMEN HQ site expert, Matt Lombardo, said it best when he tweeted “Watching Aaron Rodgers and the Packers feels like watching a completely different sport than whatever they’re doing in the NFC East.”

The NY Giants’ offense has them in danger of falling to last place said NFC East.

The Giants’ lack of talent on offense isn’t for lack of trying, they’ve actually invested more into the offense than the other side of the ball. The offense has Gettleman’s fingerprints all over it.

The offensive line that can’t block anyone, the receivers that don’t feature a game-changer, and everything in-between all cost the Giants a pretty penny to acquire. High draft picks, big money contracts and assets traded away to build the worst offense in team history.

Offensive coordinator Jason Garrett was supposed to come in and build on the promising rookie season Daniel Jones had, instead he’s done the opposite. Jones and the offense as a whole has regressed under his watch.

Garrett’s offense is just bland – it doesn’t scare anyone. Defensive coordinators salivate at the chance to go up against it.

Players have had career days against the Giants’ offense – Haason Reddick’s agent will probably just put on the Cardinals-Giants game when trying to get his client paid.

When play-callers like Andy Reid or Sean McVay get creative, it results in touchdowns and wins. When Garrett tries to get creative, the Giants lose ten to fifteen yards.

Tight end end-arounds, cross field screens and flea flickers have all resulted in negative yards for the Giants. Heck, they didn’t even incorporate motion into their offense for the first couple weeks – something that almost every other offense uses.

Garrett simply hasn’t put the offense in position to succeed, and his unit just looks completely overmatched far too often.

Finally, you always have to look at the quarterback when you have the 31st ranked offense in the league.

The underdog quarterback from Duke, Daniel Jones, endeared himself to many Giant fans last season – but this year he’s just not provided them with starting quarterback quality play.

The stats don’t lie – nine touchdowns and nine interceptions is gross in the modern NFL.

The last Giants quarterback to pass for under ten touchdowns this late into a season was Scott Brunner in 1983. He was then traded to the Denver Broncos for a fourth round pick, and was out of the league by 1985.

The Giants’ opponent this week, the Dallas Cowboys, feature two quarterbacks with just as many touchdowns as Jones. Dak Prescott had nine touchdowns in just 4.5 games, and current starter Andy Dalton has 14 touchdowns in eight games.

They each have less interceptions as well.

In today’s NFL, to see those numbers from your starting quarterback and think your offense is on the right track is downright ludicrous.

Following Sunday’s loss, Jones said “There are positives we can take from today, positives we can take from where we’ve improved throughout the season as an offense and as a team.”

If this is an improved offense, it’s by the smallest of margins – they still don’t put up points, they still don’t scare opponents, and the unit is still plagued by the same deficiencies as the beginning of the season.

Jones draft-mate, former Washington Football Team quarterback Dwayne Haskins, has already seen the clock run out with his team. Jones will more likely than not get another year to prove his worth, but seeing other teams from the same draft move on from their quarterbacks should be a wake up call.

The NY Giants are a team built on history, a prideful bunch – proud to don their beautiful royal blue colors. There’s a thing about history though – those who do not learn from it are doomed to repeat it.

It’s time for the Giants to right their wrongs, and learn from the mistakes that led to the worst offense in franchise history.