It is always one of those uncomfortable confluences that arise: the arrival of the holiday season with the impending end of a terrible football season. Ho, ho, ho, and woe, woe, woe.
The Giants will not work this Christmas day. Head coach Brian Daboll changed up this week’s schedule, having the players in the building on their usual day off (Tuesday) to give them the day off on Wednesday. How much revelry and good cheer is mustered is up to the individual. As far as the collective, the Giants are 2-13 after losing their past 10 games, and anyone truly looking forward to Sunday’s final home game against the Colts was either born in Baltimore (if you are an old-timer) or Indianapolis or has little else more productive to do other than to sit out in the cold (and possible rain) and watch a bad team try to avoid becoming the first NFL team ever to go 0-9 at its own stadium.
The Giants currently own the No. 1 overall pick in the 2025 NFL Draft, but that is looking ahead. Looking back, there are so many reasons for so many losses.
Here are five of the most disappointing aspects to the 2024 New York Giants: