Quote from: DaveBrown74 on December 20, 2022, 04:54:21 PMAgain I'm just not sure what exactly you're asking me to give him credit for. A couple of our receivers (James is the subject of this thread so I'll key on him in this post) had a couple of plays that they looked decent on. No Giant receiver even had 50 yards in this game, and overall our passing offense put up 160 yards on 32 attempts (5.0 YPA) and no touchdowns. It is unclear to me why you're put off by the fact that I'm not rushing to give Jones credit for either his or the receivers' performance in this game. By any rational measure our passing offense was poor, and we won this game for other reasons.
I have never bought into the narrative that our receivers are horrible. I certainly don't think they are good either. I think they're below average and we clearly lack a number one receiver, but we have NFL caliber players in this receiver room who are capable of making plays. So when a Richie James has a scrappy 42 yards and perhaps a nice play or two on specials, that's decent for him, but I'm not sure why I am expected to jump to heap credit on Jones for that.
I think the 97 yard drive which was almost all passing had a little something to do with the win.