The Giants have three wins after 4 video games. Now they’ve to verify they’ve a wholesome quarterback to face the Green Bay Packers in London subsequent Sunday.
Daniel Jones scampered for 2 speeding touchdowns, and the Giants ran for 262 yards in Sunday’s 20-12 win over the Chicago Bears behind Saquon Barkley’s 146 on a career-high 31 carries.
But Jones (left ankle) and backup quarterback Tyrod Taylor (concussion) each sustained important accidents that pressured head coach Brian Daboll to place Barkley at quarterback within the fourth quarter and in addition reinsert Jones.
“When I saw Tyrod go down I kinda realized, like, I’m up next. I’m the quarterback,” mentioned the dynamic Barkley, who ran all day like he was shot out of a cannon.
Jones underwent X-rays after the sport and mentioned he’ll “do everything I can to play” at Tottenham Stadium subsequent Sunday. But he was limping badly after Bears security Jaquan Brisker sacked him and landed awkwardly on his ankle with 3:30 left within the third quarter.
Asked to check his damage to excessive ankle sprains he has had up to now, Jones mentioned: “Each one’s different. I still don’t know exactly what it is. So we’ll look at it.”
The Giants certainly weren’t planning on needing a 3rd quarterback in London, so it will likely be attention-grabbing to see if they should expedite a passport and worldwide clearance for follow squad QB Davis Webb.
They managed to carry on Sunday when Taylor received damage, although, as a result of Daboll actually grabbed a white board on the sideline and drew up performs that he and offensive line coach Bobby Johnson had run earlier than with the Buffalo Bills.
“Like when you were eight years old playing with your friends,” Barkley mentioned with a smile.
Barkley performed QB in a Wildcat formation the subsequent three performs, twice out of the Pistol with working backs Matt Breida and Gary Brightwell flanking him. He handed to Breida twice for 14 yards and stored it as soon as for 4 yards to arrange a Graham Gano area aim.
Jones got here again into the sport after Taylor received damage to relay the play calls to Barkley from his head set. He lined up as a dummy huge receiver on these three performs.
Then Jones performed quarterback the Giants’ remaining two drives, handing a complete of seven instances to Barkley and by no means making an attempt one other go.
It was odd to see Jones return to the sport after head athletic coach Ronnie Barnes and Daboll had been seen on the sideline telling him he was out following the ankle damage.
Daboll mentioned they took Jones out initially as a result of the coach instructed Jones: “I’m not risking you getting injured to try to protect yourself with that limp.”
But Jones, together with his ankle closely taped, mentioned he may return to the sport if wanted and remained accessible.
Jones mentioned he believed “part of the decision” was that his ankle damage left him unable to execute the sport plan. So he knew he would go in if Taylor received damage.
The Giants had been killing the Bears’ protection with Jones’ back-to-the-defense play motion rollouts. He had rushed for 21-yard and 8-yard TDs within the first half, the primary Giants touchdowns scored in any first half this season.
It marked Jones’ first sport with two speeding TDs since his first NFL begin at Tampa in Sept. 2019. But his third-quarter damage left him motionless. And Taylor got here in to run 3 times for 30 yards earlier than his damage.
“That was the communication,” Jones mentioned. “I wanted to go in and considering the game and how it was playing out, probably wasn’t the best thing for the team. So when Tyrod went down, I knew I was going back in.”
Jones admitted “it’s frustrating” to get shut down throughout a sport. He was understandably not happy on the sideline and even put his helmet on when Taylor entered the sport.
“You want to play and be out there with your teammates at the end of a game where you’re fighting and trying to win,” Jones mentioned. “But I thought guys stepped up, played great and finished off the game.”
It stays to be seen how the Giants will preserve successful with this offense. Jones accomplished just one first-half go to a large receiver, David Sills, with beneath a minute left within the second quarter.
The Giants’ main receiver was tight finish Daniel Bellinger with three catches for 23 yards.
Primarily, Don Martindale’s protection was the distinction, retaining Chicago’s NFC-best working sport in examine at 149 yards, 37 under their common. Jaylon Smith rotated in at inside linebacker in his season debut.
Martindale’s crew blitzed younger Bears QB Justin Fields into indecision and sacked him six instances, twice by Dexter Lawrence, who talked a number of trash and backed it up.
“I’m just playing my game,” Lawrence mentioned with a smile. “If they got beef, we got beef, you know what I mean? You wanna talk junk, I’m good at that. So it’s like, whatchu wanna do? Let’s line up.”
Rookie Kayvon Thibodeaux recovered a second quarter Fields fumble pressured by Azeez Ojulari that led to a Giants landing drive. And Brightwell recovered a fourth quarter muffed punt by the Bears’ Velus Jones Jr. to offset a second quarter muffed punt and misplaced fumble by the Giants’ Richie James.
But the Giants additionally misplaced a ton of gamers to damage: Jones, Taylor, security Julian Love (concussion), proper sort out Evan Neal (neck), nook Aaron Robinson (knee), receiver Kenny Golladay (knee), defensive lineman Henry Mondeaux (ankle), Ojulari (calf) and Thibodeaux (again spasms). Right guard Mark Glowinski (ankle) and Jihad Ward (unknown) missed time and returned.
The focus, although, is on the quarterback place and who will begin towards Aaron Rodgers subsequent week.
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The Giants’ inactives have been LB Austin Calitro, OL Tyre Phillips, DL Leonard Williams (knee), WR Wan’Dale Robinson (knee), WR Kadarius Toney (hamstring), CB Cor’Dale Flott (calf) and CB Nick McCloud (hammy).
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