From Greg Hanlon of capitalnewyork.com…
“It’s just details,” Giants linebacker Michael Boley told me over the phone last Thursday, referring the two straight shaky games the Giants defense had played, the second of which led to last Sunday’s loss to the Seattle Seahawks.
“As a unit, we keep missing out on small things,” he said. “We keep shooting ourselves in the foot. A guy not being in his gap, a guy going the wrong way. It’s not like it’s anything big, when somebody just didn’t know what they were doing.”
These “small things” can result in big plays.
Such was the case this Sunday, when a couple of missed assignments by the Giants yielded two long touchdowns for the Buffalo Bills. The first of these was an 80-yard run by the Bills’ Fred Jackson, on which Boley appeared not to be at fault. The second of these was a 60-yard slant pass, on which Boley failed to drop back into the middle zone in time. If Boley had executed his assignment, he could have limited the play to a short gain.
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