Blame Brian Daboll for another blown double-digit lead.
Blame offensive coordinator Mike Kafka for continuing to call running plays that left Jaxson Dart susceptible to a concussion.
Blame defensive coordinator Shane Bowen, cornerback Deonte Banks’ penalties or the vaunted pass rush of Brian Burns, Dexter Lawrence, Abdul Carter and Kayvon Thibodeaux for combining for zero sacks.
Choose who is at fault Sunday for the Giants losing 24-20 to the Bears, but Lawrence — who often speaks for the team — doesn’t want to hear any of it.
“I don’t care, man,” Lawrence said. “It don’t matter. It never has and never will matter what anyone outside the facility really has to say, we just gotta keep coming back every week reloading and keep going.”
The outside noise is about to reach a fever pitch with the Giants at 2-8 if no changes are made.
That only makes Lawrence feel angry.
“Whatever they say don’t really matter,” Lawrence said. “ We just got to come back Wednesday ready to practice and erase the loss.”
Who is responsible for the latest fourth-quarter collapse?
“The players,” Lawrence said.
There was no storybook comeback for Russell Wilson.
If Wilson, after getting benched in Week 4 and not traded at the deadline last week, had rescued the Giants from a fourth-quarter collapse after Dart’s concussion, there would have been vindication that maybe there is more left in the 10-time Pro Bowler’s tank than anyone suspected.
Instead, Wilson finished 3-of-4 for 45 yards (41 of which came on a screen-and-run by Devin Singletary) and took two sacks.
He needed to drive 65 yards in 1:47 for a touchdown to win the game late, but only gained 11 yards on six passes.
“I felt mentally ready and all of us being ready to respond,” Wilson said. “[The Bears] made a couple key plays up front.”
It turns out all the attention was paid to the wrong Giants kicking mess.
One of the biggest storylines of last week was whether the Giants would yet again risk playing an injured Graham Gano or turn to Younghoe Koo.
It turned out that the Giants went with Koo, who converted all four of his kicks (two field goals and two PATs).
But punter Jamie Gillan had his worst game of the season: He was penalized twice on kickoffs that put the ball at the 40-yard line and shanked a 26-yard punt between the two Bears touchdowns in the final four minutes.
OT Evan Neal was the only healthy scratch for the Giants.
He has not played a snap in 10 games (nine healthy scratches).
The other inactives were Gano, CB Paulson Adebo, OLB Victor Dimukeje, DL Chauncey Golston, C John Michael Schmitz Jr. and third-string quarterback Jameis Winston.
Former NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue died Sunday morning.
“Commissioner Tagliabue was a smart and considerate leader,” the Giants said in a statement. “He was a collaborator and united people, not an easy task. And he did so thoughtfully with grace and dignity. He will be remembered as one of the greatest commissioners in professional sports. Our thoughts are with the Tagliabue family.”
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