The New York Giants have fallen to 0-3 for the third time since 2020, and the dream of this season being a successful one is starting to dwindle. What’s worse is that on top of the team cratering in embarrassing fashion on Sunday Night Football to the Kansas City Chiefs, 22-9, there’s also some fallout brewing on social media.
Malik Nabers, who had been a lightning rod in the passing game through the first two weeks, was grounded against Kansas City. His impact was handcuffed for a couple of reasons, which led to a postgame clip making the rounds featuring Nabers and two former Giants legends.
The short video showed Odell Beckham Jr. and Antonio Pierce chatting with Nabers — either to calm down the second-year wide receiver or to light a fire under him. Either way, Nabers didn’t say much in the clip. He just listened — locked in on the experience in front of him.
Former #Giants greats @obj and Antonio Pierce speaking with Malik Nabers postgame outside the Giants locker room. Looked like a very interesting conversation. pic.twitter.com/jdWrwidr95
— JosinaAnderson (@JosinaAnderson) September 22, 2025
Nabers was invisible in the Giants' Week 3 loss to the Chiefs
In the Week 2 Dallas game, Nabers was a central part of the offensive plan. Despite being matched up with one of the best corners in the league, Trevon Diggs, No. 1 hauled in nine catches for 167 yards and two touchdowns. The Chiefs matchup was a different story: two catches for 13 yards on seven targets.
That's it.
One of those targets was a 50-plus-yard Hail Mary from Russell Wilson that nearly put Nabers on injured reserve. It was a similar play that worked in Week 2 against Dallas during that wild shootout. This time, it felt reckless given the situation.
With the Giants down 10 in the fourth quarter, Wilson launched the ball into double coverage, almost getting the best receiver the Giants have had since OBJ (fittingly mentioned above) absolutely leveled. That might have been part of the postgame conversation between Beckham and Nabers—one legend to another in the making.
It honestly felt like Nabers wasn’t even part of the game plan. He was completely neutralized by the Chiefs’ secondary, which falls on offensive coordinator Mike Kafka to fix. That said, Nabers isn’t free of blame here, nor is Wilson.
None of them could figure out how to get Big Blue's most valuable weapon going.
As for the video, that conversation could’ve been about a million things. But it’s clear the former Giants greats were trying to offer some wisdom to a young star coming off the worst game of his career. If the Giants want to turn things around, it starts and ends with Malik Nabers.