{"id":419165,"date":"2025-12-02T09:19:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T09:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/419165\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T09:19:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T09:19:22","slug":"heroes-zeros-from-giants-loss-to-patriots-a-special-teams-nightmare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/419165\/","title":{"rendered":"Heroes, zeros from Giants&#8217; loss to Patriots: A special teams nightmare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heroes, zeros and the full blitz\u00a0from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/01\/sports\/giants-look-the-part-of-a-futile-team-in-embarrassing-loss-to-patriots\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the\u00a0Giants\u2019 33-15 road loss\u00a0to the Patriots<\/a> on Monday night:<\/p>\n<p>Hero<\/p>\n<p>Drake Maye was 24-of-31 passing for 282 yards and two touchdowns, showing the Giants exactly what they were missing because they were unable to entice the Patriots into a blockbuster trade before the 2024 draft.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37818872\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/marcus-jones-25-new-england-116545392.jpg\" alt=\"Marcus Jones #25 of the New England Patriots returns a punt for a touchdown.\" class=\"wp-image-37818872\"  \/>Marcus Jones of the New England Patriots returns a punt for a touchdown. Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Zero<\/p>\n<p>Special teams coordinator Michael Ghobrial \u2014 the last of the four top coaches without an interim tag \u2014 had a nightmare of a game. <\/p>\n<p>His unit allowed a 39-yard opening kickoff return and a 94-yard punt return touchdown, and also botched a field goal attempt and fumbled a kickoff.<\/p>\n<p>Unsung Hero<\/p>\n<p>Three years after he beat the Jets in Gillette Stadium with an 84-yard punt return touchdown with five seconds remaining, Marcus Jones sunk the Giants with a 94-yard punt return touchdown in the first quarter.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGo behind the scenes with Big Blue\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSign up for Inside the Giants by Paul Schwartz, a weekly Sports+ exclusive.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThank you\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Key Stat<\/p>\n<p>256: Games between times the Giants allowed 30 first-half points \u2014 from the 2009 season finale until Monday night\u2019s 30-7 halftime deficit.<\/p>\n<p>Quote<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe got embarrassed on national television. Not a good feeling.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Guard Jon Runyan Jr.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Heroes, zeros and the full blitz\u00a0from\u00a0the\u00a0Giants\u2019 33-15 road loss\u00a0to the Patriots on Monday night: Hero Drake Maye was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":419166,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,29345,533,405,403,4716,5226,5225,1232,5228,5227,62,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-419165","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-drake-maye","10":"tag-new-england-patriots","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-new-york-giants","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkcity","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-ny","18":"tag-nyc","19":"tag-sports","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-of-america","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115649234843367298","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}