As offensive strategies go, it would have been a bold one.
Then again, it might not have looked much different than previous weeks, either.
A frustrated Tom Coughlin couldn’t believe the way his team blew a 21-0 lead to a team which had won one game previously, and it made him wonder what they’d have done differently.
“We’ve talked about this and we’ve talked about the turnovers. Two turnovers for touchdowns?” Coughlin said, via Jordan Raanan of NJ.com. “We could have knelt on the ball in the second half and had a better chance to win.”
So for whatever misery the Jaguars have endured, the Giants topped them, by giving them a pair of touchdowns in the second half and losing their seventh straight game.
“A very disappointing, discouraging [loss], all of the above for us,” Coughlin said. “We came down here feeling like we could win. Thought we again prepared well. And nothing happens on game day. It’a a long game. Sixty minutes. That is why it’s that. You have to play four quarters. We’re playing two, maybe three sometimes.
“But for whatever reason the other guy kind of figures out wheat they are going to do and we have trouble responding to that. Again, a disappointing, disappointing loss.”
That’s a summation as the season as a whole, and what could be Coughlin’s final run with the team he took to two Super Bowls.
Planned offensive fixes haven’t taken hold, and injuries have kept the offensive line from having any chance at continuity. Now, you can only wonder what the next wave of changes hold, and who will get swept up in it.