NY Giants’ good, bad, ugly as Daniel Jones, Saquon Barkley hurt in loss to Cowboys

The NY Giants lost to the Dallas Cowboys Sunday, and also lost three of the offense’s most important players as Daniel Jones, Saquon Barkley, Kenny Golladay were all injured

This week’s NY Giants matchup against the Cowboys was rough, to say the least.

With the combination of injuries and poor play flooding the field it only seemed like it was destiny for the Giants to lose again, this time a 44-20 to the Dallas Cowboys, and drop to 1-4 on the season.

While there was some good in this game, there was a whole lot of bad and ugly.

Here is the good, the bad, and the ugly from the NY Giants’ loss to the Cowboys:

The Good:

Kadarius Toney:

To keep it simple, Kadarius Toney looked like a star this week.

Toney finished the game with 10 receptions for 189 yards. Breaking the Giants rookie record for receiving yards in a game, previously held by Odell Beckham Jr.

The Florida product looked nothing short of a star this game. Whether it be making defenders miss in the open field, or making spectacular catches down the field, Toney looked amazing.

The elusiveness that Toney brings at the receiver position is something the Giants have not seen since Odell Beckham Jr.

However, Toney’s game was cut short after being ejected due to a thrown punch. While it is currently unknown if Toney will be suspended for next weeks game against the Rams. If he suits up you can expect to see another elite game from the first round pick.

The pass rush:

After a worse than lackluster start to the season, the pass rush finally had their night. Tallying 5 QB hits and 2 sacks.

Before this game the Giants ranked 31st in total sacks, 29th in QB pressures, and 29th in QB knockdowns.  Not good at all, let alone when you take into consideration the talent the Giants have in this area.

However, against a tough matchup in the Cowboys offensive line, the pass rush did a pretty solid job at getting to Dak Prescott.

Leonard Williams has had a slow start to the season. Only tallying 8 solo tackles, 12 assists, and 1 sack through 4 games.

This game, however, he garnered 6 total tackles and half a sack, combining for one with interior lineman Danny Shelton on a play.

Austin Johnson has continued to look great, putting up 4 total tackles, a sack, and 2 tackles for loss, all while splitting snaps with Danny Shelton.

Another good game from Tae Crowder:

Tae Crowder has been shining since the Blake Martinez injury. Tallying 8 total tackles this week, which was good enough to tie for first on the team with Logan Ryan.

Ever since Blake Martinez went down with a torn ACL in week 3 against the Falcons Tae Crowder’s snap percentages have gone up. This has resulted in tremendous play from the former Mr. Irrelevant.

In 5 games this year, Tae Crowder has tallied 35 tackles. Somewhat taking over the role of tackling machine that Blake Martinez held.

The Giants got a steal when they took him with the last pick of the draft in 2020. Hopefully he can continue this success.

Devontae Booker looked like a solid backup: 

So far during his time on the Giants Devontae Booker has not really produced much of anything.

But when the team needed him to produce in the absence of Saquon Barkley, he showed up.

It started right after Daniel Jones went out with a concussion. On the play right after Jones’s injury, Booker made a beautiful leap over the line of scrimmage for a TD to tie the game up.

Booker ended the game with 16 rushes for 42 yards and a TD, alongside 3 receptions for 16 yards and a TD. A very solid game for the veteran backup.

As much as I’d love to point out more good things from this game. There really isn’t a whole lot of good that came out of this game.