The calendar has officially turned to October, which means Halloween is right around the corner. It’s time for chilly nights, horror movies, and checking the closet for monsters. It’s a time when imagination runs wild and nightmares come to life.
And there might not be anything more frightening right now than the New York Giants’ lack of ball security on Sunday.
Talk about a nightmare — Big Blue’s colossal 26-14 meltdown against the New Orleans Saints in Week 5 will go down as one of the worst losses this team has suffered in recent memory. And that’s saying something.
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The loss was an all-around brutal affair. Rookie quarterback Jaxson Dart was unable to build off his impressive Week 4 debut. The penalties and turnovers turned into goblins and ghouls, rearing their ugly heads and derailing the little momentum and happy feelings fans had. And just like that, the Giants turned a feel-good sequel into a horror movie nobody asked for.
Giants’ frightening turnover trend was the nightmare on Bourbon Street
Jaxson Dart, Cam Skattebo, and Darius Slayton all took turns swapping Halloween costumes, doing their best impressions of Edward Scissorhands and Freddy Krueger. Seriously, the way that trio held the football, you’d think they had scissors for hands or replaced their gloves with Kreuger’s razor-sharp ones.
It was terrifying, to say the least.
Ironically, the game started off well. The 22-year-old led the G-Men to back-to-back scoring drives to start the game, putting the team up 14-3. The offense looked unstoppable. The energy from their 21-18 victory was a vibe. Then, like something that crawls out of the shadows, things got spooky.
New Orleans is historically a haunted city, which might have had something to do with what fans saw at Caesar's Superdome. What started off as just fumbling the football three times on three consecutive drives in the second half turned even scarier. Dart fully embraced the Halloween spirit by turning into a pumpkin, throwing two consecutive interceptions right after.
For those counting, that’s five drives in a row that ended prematurely due to turnovers. So yes, viewer discretion advised. This game should forever be remembered as The Nightmare on Bourbon Street.
The Giants aren’t just haunted by their past anymore — the ghosts are here, and they’re literally fumbling everything in sight. If Daboll and Co. can’t find a way to exorcise these turnover demons, this season is going to stay spooky long past October.
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