It says a lot about where the New York Giants are as a franchise when avoiding total catastrophe is considered a successful season. That’s the takeaway from Brad Gagnon of Bleacher Report, who recently laid out every NFL team’s nightmare 2025 scenario in one sentence or less. For the G-Men? The only thing that could derail the season is a quarterback injury pile-up.
“Because this is still a rebuild and there is limited pressure on either quarterback as a result, it would take major injuries to both Russell Wilson and Jaxson Dart for 2025 to be a nightmare here,” Gagnon wrote.
And just like that, we’ve officially entered the part of the rebuild where performance doesn’t even factor into the definition of failure. The Giants could underachieve across the board again—offensive line implodes, defense gets run over, quarterback play is average at best—and it still wouldn’t meet the threshold for a true letdown. Apparently, the only way to crash and burn is to not have any quarterbacks left.
Low expectations define Giants season before it even starts
No one’s arguing that losing both quarterbacks wouldn’t be a nightmare. It absolutely and objectively would be terrible. But the problem isn’t the scenario—it’s that that’s the only one being considered. The bar has moved so far down that mediocrity and underwhelming play are no longer viewed as dangerous territory.
The franchise is essentially being judged on its ability to survive the season, rather than improve.
The Giants have one of the most expensive offensive lines in football, a new rookie quarterback to develop, and a veteran starter on his last real shot. If that combination still doesn’t come with real expectations—if nothing short of an ambulance tandem under center qualifies as a bad season—then what exactly are we doing here?
This is where the frustration sets in. The idea that another season of bottom-tier offense or a three to four-win campaign wouldn’t be a disaster just shows how normalized losing has become. And that’s the real nightmare: not a worst-case injury spiral, but a culture where failure barely registers as long as it doesn’t come on a stretcher. This team is not the Jets, and it should stop acting like it is.