Giants lose to Tampa Bay 30-7

"It's been a disappointing season for the Giants, especially for the home fans. Daniel Jones is off the team now, and that was hard to take as the season still has seven games left. Jones is a spectator now, and I don't know who he'll be rooting for the way things went down. Tampa Bay is a tough team, and I was hoping the Giants could squeeze out a win against them as they've lost a few coming into this game.
Tampa Bay got the ball first, and Tommy DeVito was sitting on the sidelines as they game started waiting for his shot. He was watching along with the rest of us for a long eight and a half minutes. DeVito finally got up to take the field with the Giants trailing 7-0. He got to sit again pretty soon after. Things started with a promising 16-yard run by Tyrone Tracy, but DeVito was sacked three plays later.
On his next drive DeVito was sacked on the first play, and the Giants went three-and-out. DeVito completed a nice 23-yard pass to Theo Johnson during his next drive, but was sacked again two plays later. Before you knew it the half was over, and the Giants had no points. Meanwhile Tampa Bay was busy scoring on all their drives but one, and had a 23-0 lead.
You almost didn't want to see any more, but the third quarter started with things looking much better. DeVito was hitting Malik Nabers with first down passes, and Wan'Dale Robinson got in the mix. Tyrone Tracy was running the ball, and the Giants soon had a first-and-goal at the Tampa Bay 5-yard line. That's when Tracy fumbled the ball over. If you thought you'd seen the worst today, you next watched Tampa Bay take the ball 95 yards into the endzone for a touchdown, and 30-0 lead.
That drive took over 7 minutes, and not to be outdone, the Giants put together a long drive into the fourth quarter, and put points up on the board for the first time in this game. It was mostly DeVito throwing passes, and he had a nice 17-yard scramble to the Tampa Bay-1 yard line. Tracy wasn't on the field during all this, and Devin Singletary ran the ball in for a touchdown, and 30-7 score.
Tampa Bay muffed the kickoff return, and they had to start near their goal line. That didn't seem to matter much as two plays later, their running back ran the ball to the Giants side of the field, with a 56-yard run. Quarterback Baker Mayfield fumbled the ball soon after, and it was great to see. The turnover wasn't wasn't going to matter much the way this game was going, but earlier Mayfield had mimicked DeVito's hand gestures when he scored a touchdown. So small satisfaction for that.
Neither team scored on the following drives, and that was it. The Giants have a short week to regroup as they'll be headed out to play the Cowboys on Thanksgiving day. That might not be something to look forward to for an enjoyable day. I don't know where things will go for the rest of the Giants season, but I'm guessing not very far."

"The Giants figured they'd be better off without players like Saquon Barkley and Daniel Jones, and now here they are taking one of their worst losses of the season. There were others where they had scored seven or less points, but the defense looked terrible giving up 30, and the overall stats were nothing like you would ever like to see. In the first half, Tampa Bay had 17 first downs leading to three touchdowns and a field goal. They scored on all the drives they had but one.
The Giants offense came up with 3 first downs for a total 45 yards, as 21 yards were lost with Tommy DeVito taking three sacks. Tampa Bay was averaging 7.4 yards a play, and the Giants 2.5. The time of possession was just as lopsided, with Tampa Bay controlling the ball for 20 minutes to the Giants 10. The score was 23-0, and nothing the Giants were doing on either side of the ball inspired you to think that a comeback was in order.
Brian Daboll's play calling was suspect in the first quarter. The Giants were on the field for only the second time, and already had to make a switch on the offensive line. Jermaine Eluemunor, filling in for Andrew Thomas, was out early, and Chris Hubbard was in there at left tackle. At this point in the first quarter the Giants were down by just 7 points. They had a 4th-and-1 at their own 37 yard line, and Daboll had wide receiver Wan'Dale Robinson run for it. He was stopped, and with the benefit of good field position, six plays later Tampa Bay kicked a short field goal and the score was upped to 10-0.
The Giants looked to be getting their act together at the start of the second half. They worked their way down the field, and had a 1st-and-10 at the Tampa Bay 5-yard line. Daboll got clever again, and instead of Devito handing the ball off to Tyrone Tracy, the rookie running back took a direct snap, and fumbled the ball over. Tampa Bay scored a touchdown on their next series, and the Giants got their first touchdown of the game right after that. It cost them a lot of clock time from the third into the fourth quarter. That was the Giants last score, and they ended up with a 30-7 loss.
DeVito looked better in the second half of this game, getting passes off to Malik Nabers who caught 6 of them for 64 yards. DeVito finished up completing 21 of his 31 passes for 189 yards. He was sacked four times, but didn't turn the ball over passing or running. DeVito was the second leading rusher, with 7 carries for 32 yards. Tracy carried the ball 9 times for 42 yards, and had that one costly fumble The defense came up with no sacks, and allowed Baker Mayfield to average over 12 yards a pass on his 24 completions, for 294 yards. They gave up 4 rushing touchdowns, and 157 rushing yards.
The team experienced a tough week seeing how things went down with Jones, who was released from the team. They didn't know what to think with third stringer DeVito getting the call to step into his quarterback role over Drew Lock, who was the backup. Their problems on the offensive line have continued, and they can't score points. The defense has been in a downturn, missing tackles, and giving up big plays. There were no improvements in this game at all, and if nothing changes over the next six games, the losses will just keep on coming."

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