The 2023 common season didn’t go as deliberate for the New York Giants however that’s nothing new for vast receiver Darius Slayton, who has seen his justifiable share of shedding since being chosen within the fifth spherical of the 2019 NFL draft.
The Giants have made the playoffs simply as soon as in Slayton’s profession — a shock 2022 look wherein they picked up a win over the Minnesota Vikings — however that’s as a lot success as he’s seen.
Expectations had been larger this season however the Giants got here out flat, shedding eight of their first 10 video games earlier than happening a mini-winning streak that by some means stored their playoff hopes alive.
Sadly for the Giants, these good occasions had been short-lived and so they had been formally eradicated from the playoffs following a Week 16 loss to the Philadelphia Eagles. They adopted that up with a heartbreaking 26-25 loss to the Los Angeles Rams.
After the sport, Slayton couldn’t assist however to precise his disappointment and frustration.
“It’s positively disappointing,” Slayton instructed reporters. “We had a number of possibilities to win the sport by seven or extra. If we executed somewhat bit higher in just a few spots, and Jalin’s massive play doesn’t get referred to as again, in all probability would’ve had a some extra factors there on the finish that possibly we may simply kneel it out. But it surely simply didn’t go that means.”
That disappointment is one thing Slayton has felt completely too typically all through his profession. For each one step ahead, it’s two steps again.
“We simply haven’t made sufficient performs on the finish,” he added. “If we execute somewhat higher on just a few performs, we may in all probability have 14 extra factors there on the finish. So, on the finish of the day, that’s what it comes right down to. You’ve bought to make them when it counts.”
The Giants stay tormented by the identical points which have haunted them for greater than a decade: poor offensive line play, dropped passes, missed tackles, killer penalties and, above all else, accidents.
However this season greater than every other, it’s been the self-inflicted wounds which have led to probably the most frustration.
“Lots of performs that form of go beneath the rug usually are typically those that come again to chunk you ultimately, whether or not that’s win or lose,” Slayton mentioned.
“We simply should proceed to deal with the little issues and it begins with myself,” working again Saquon Barkley added. “A easy choice route that I’m interested by taking it to the home as a substitute of simply securing the catch, and different performs all through the sport. That’s what it’s; it’s the little issues. That’s what it comes right down to; specializing in the main points and doing the little issues proper, and nearly all of time, that group will come out with the win.”
On the finish of the day, it’s simply extra of the identical for Slayton, Barkley, and these floundering Giants.
