The Giants had built up such a good feeling after they finally won last weekend. They just expected the feeling to last a little more than four days.
Instead, the feeling and their one-game winning streak vanished into the thin, mile-high air as they gave a pitiful Thanksgiving night performance and lost to the Denver Broncos, 26-6. They were startlingly bad, particularly on offense, where they managed just 38 yards in the entire first half.
And now they're back where they were a week ago: reeling and searching for answers with their season in jeopardy.
"It's very disappointing for me to stand here in front of you and talk about this game," Tom Coughlin said. "We didn't play well. We don't have a lot of good things to say. As a whole it was not a good performance."
"I'm frustrated, disappointed, angry," added linebacker Michael Boley. "For us to come in and play the way we did was unacceptable. We're better than this."
That's getting harder and harder to believe now that the Giants (6-5) have lost five of six games - especially after their hideous performance Thursday night. Their offense was absolutely anemic in scoring its fewest points since Eli Manning's second NFL start back in 2004. Their running game was nonexistent. with only 57 yards. Their game plan was suspect with 44 passes to 15 runs in a game that wasn't out of reach until the fourth quarter.
Meanwhile, the defense managed to give up 26 points to a team that had scored a total of 37 in losing its last four games. And the Giants' composure seemed to disintegrate when an admittedly "frustrated" Osi Umenyiora was caught on camera screaming at Brandon Jacobs and the offense on the sidelines after he got into it with Broncosquarterback Kyle Orton on the field.
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