Mike Francesa blasts ‘disgraceful’ Giants for late two-minute drive in blowout loss

Sunday’s game had long been over when the Giants took over with 2:14 left in the fourth quarter against the Cowboys, but instead of killing the clock to get to the team plane as fast as they could, Brian Daboll let his undrafted rookie quarterback, Tommy DeVito, run a two-minute offense.

So there DeVito was, attempting pass after pass down 39 points as the Giants used all three of their timeouts en route to the New Jersey native throwing a touchdown pass to Sterling Shepard with six seconds left to make the final score 49-17.

The final drive did not sit well with Mike Francesa, who trashed the Giants as a “disgraceful product.”

“There is competitive, and then there is nonsense. What we saw from the Giants at the end of the game was nonsense,” Francesa said on his podcast. “The idea is don’t get your players hurt at that point. The die has been cast. The Cowboys are on the sideline laughing. Their starters already have their shoes and pads off. So for you to run 12 plays and call three timeouts after the two-minute warning in a 49-10 game — you think it matters if you lose 49-10 or 49-17? Like that last touchdown is somehow symbolic? ‘Hey we didn’t quit, we scored that last touchdown.’ Who cares?! You’re scoring against the scrubs, and who cares anyway? How is that symbolic of anything?

“You want to show competitiveness? You want to show some kind of competitiveness in the game? Then you know what, here’s what you do: You block somebody, you tackle somebody, you hit somebody, you cover somebody, you stop somebody. That’s how you show competitiveness, not this nonsense at the end of the game, where you take the score from 49-10 to 49-17 and run 12 plays after the two-minute warning and call three timeouts, two in the last 20 seconds, to make sure you score that last touchdown.”

The Giants called their first timeout with 1:04 left after DeVito completed a 26-yard pass to Daniel Bellinger to get to the Cowboys’ 37-yard line.

They used another timeout with 26 seconds left after DeVito’s nine-yard completion to Darius Slayton led to a fourth-and-1 at the Dallas six-yard line, and they took their final timeout with 20 seconds left after Jashaun Corbin converted the fourth down with a one-yard rush.

“That just shows you how sad things are for the Giants, that they felt that was going to somehow send a message or impress somebody,” Francesa said. “They are now putting a product on the field at this point of the season, the middle of November, a few days before Thanksgiving, that is a disgraceful product in every way.”

DeVito finished 14-for-27 with 86 yards, two touchdowns and an interception as the Giants were outgained by Dallas, 640-172.

The Giants (2-8), who line up to get the No. 2 pick in the 2024 NFL Draft, travel to play the Commanders on Sunday, followed by a home game against the Patriots on Nov. 26, before their bye week mercifully arrives in Week 13.