Written by Sean Wagner-McGough at CBS Sports.com
After the Giants’ 51-17 home loss to the Rams, coach Ben McAdoo denied that his team quit. Two of his players disagree.
On Wednesday, ESPN’s Josina Anderson reported that two Giants players told her (anonymously) that the team has quit on McAdoo. Of note: The comments below were made before the Giants’ loss to the Rams.
“McAdoo has lost this team,” one player told Anderson. “He’s got us going 80 percent on Saturdays before we get on a plane to play a game. It’s wild. Changed our off day. He’s dishing out fines like crazy. Suspended two of our stars when we need them the most. Throws us under the bus all the time. He’s ran us into the ground and people wonder why we’ve been getting got.”
“Guys are giving up on the season and nothing’s being done. Guys just don’t care anymore,” the second player said.
Unsurprisingly, their opinions didn’t change after the loss to the Rams.
“I would say this last week [against the Rams]. Even after the game, a lot of guys were like at their wit’s end,” the player said. “You could tell even on the sidelines. I just got the vibe. You can tell when the team has quit, and it just felt like we did. It felt like nobody wanted to be there, and the whole week [McAdoo] didn’t give us the day off last week [after players returned from the team’s bye]. Guys were a little upset about that — even though we did get a bye week, so the morale was kind of shaky.”
The player even cited McAdoo’s press conference behavior.
“I think a lot of the guys watched the press conference after the game like a lot of guys do just to see what [McAdoo] says,” the player said. “When [McAdoo] said ‘um’ to the question ‘What did you tell the team at halftime?’ and [McAdoo] just said ‘um,’ he didn’t really have anything. Man, he didn’t really have anything for us when we came back in the locker room, too. It was just kind of like the same old, same old. You can just see guys were like, you can just tell that nobody was kind of following it.”
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