You don’t have to sit in front of a screen for hours dissecting every player’s performance on every play the way the people at Pro Football Focus do to figure out why the New York Giants lost on Sunday. Furthermore, PFF only grades players, not coaches and general managers. Still, let’s see how many pleasant surprises (if any) there were yesterday in the Giants’ unfathomable 34-27 overtime loss to the Detroit Lions.

Offense

PFF grades

First, the offense as a whole, which is playing admirably without its top skill players:

Now let’s look at the details. First, the passing:

Patrick Mahomes? Josh Allen? Lamar Jackson? Matthew Stafford? I don’t know that you could ask any of those players to give you more than Jameis Winston gave the Giants Sunday. He was the No. 1 pick in the 2015 draft,

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