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12	August 2019

The New York Giants fell in heartbreaking fashion

on Sunday afternoon George Asafo-Adjei Jersey Draft , dropping their fourth loss of the season to the Carolina Panthers 33-31. Panthers kicker Graham Gano hit a 63-yard field goal to win the game. Let�s take a look at what the players are saying following the tough loss. Landon Collins on how the Giants locker room is dealing with Odell Beckham�s comments from earlier this week...�I don�t know what comments you guys are talking about,� Collins said. �I didn�t hear about them, but when Odell [Beckham] came to talk to us, he spoke from the heart, he talked gratefully, and we knew where he was coming from. We knew he was coming from the heart, so you know he�s a great teammate, a great guy, a great person and a leader. This offense, this team, we have to look up to him, so we knew where he was coming from.�Panthers quarterback Cam Newton on Gano�s game-winning kick...�I am happy that we got a kicker like that,� Newton said. �A wise man once told me that a great quarterback is only as good as his kicker. Over the years you see so many quarterbacks get bailed out by the kickers. I shouldn�t say bailed out, I�ll just say helped out and Graham put the whole team on his back today. Well, on his toe today.�Gano on the reaction on the field following his game-winning kick...�That was madness,� Gano said. �That�s the only word I can use to explain it. I just don�t think it�s hit me yet. I was going nuts. I think the first thing I saw was Mike (Palardy) reacting that it went in because I couldn�t really see over those giants in front of us � not the other team, just our offensive lineman. But I just have no words for it.�Saquon Barkley on the on the go-ahead touchdown...�At the moment, it felt great,� Barkley said. �We wanted to go down and find a way to score and put seven on the board. We needed seven on the board. Coach, the offensive coordinator and the whole offensive staff called great plays and put us in great positions to get into the end zone. We found a way to get into the end zone. Like I said, Carolina came up with a 63-yard field goal. I don�t know what else you can say about that. We played our butt off and you have to give credit where credit is due. They made a 63-yard field goal and won the game.�Beckham on regretting any comments criticizing head coach, Pat Shurmur and teammates...�I don�t regret anything George Asafo-Adjei NFL Jersey , I don�t regret anything that I said,� Beckham said. �If it took that for us to come together as a team like we did today, I can take that every single time. I spoke to the team just to kind of relay the message that sometimes stuff comes off the wrong way. Words can be portrayed in any kind of light. The conversation is between us. But the way we responded as a team to what was said, I felt like it would�ve been too easy after what was said, and after what I said to them for us to come in here and have heart, energy and all that stuff. Grit, whatever the words you want to use for that. We had it today, and we came up short, but I�m proud of this team, and this is the team that we are going to be for the rest of the season. Like I said, if it took that to get us going, I can take that. I�m trying to be a leader, I�m in a position I�ve never been in. I�m trying to grow, I�m learning on the way, on the fly, but I�m proud of where we went today. We gave it our all, we came against adversity, calls here and there. We can never rely on the referees to win the game, but there was calls here and there that were questionable or this and that, but we kept fighting, kept fighting, and kept fighting. That�s all I could ask for.� When the New York Giants drafted running back Saquon Barkley second overall in the 2018 NFL draft George Asafo-Adjei NFL Draft , visions of offensive fireworks danced through fans� heads. With hyper-athletic playmakers at every offensive skill position, how could the offense NOT improve? Unfortunately, the Giants� offense has yet to realize its potential through the first quarter of the season. The fault for the offensive slog isn�t at the feet of Barkley, however. He has racked up at least 100 all-purpose yards in each game so far, and scored a touchdown in three of them. He is doing his part on the field, and he also seems to be blossoming rapidly off the field as well. Despite the way the team has started the season, Barkley sounds like the mature �Face Of The Franchise� he was drafted to be. He insists that the way forward for the team is to be optimistic, but also realistic about the hole they have dug for themselves. �Obviously you�re 1-3, the season is obviously not over,� he said. �It�s a long season but you can�t say it�s a long season forever because you get to a point where you get redundant and you keep saying that, then there�s no chance for you to make the playoffs. Everything that we still want, all of our goals are still in reach. Coach said something perfect today, he said the only thing that we�re not capable of doing this season is an undefeated season, and that only happened one time. I don�t know if everybody expects to win every single game, but most likely not going to win every single game. You�ve just got to continue to work, not get down like I said, have positive energy, come into the building and continue to work and like you said examine yourself, watch film, learn what you can do to help the team, learn what you can do better to help yourself better in certain situations and get ready for the next week.�On the offensive strugglesDespite having players like Barkley, Odell Beckham Jr. George Asafo-Adjei Buffalo Bills Jersey , Sterling Shepard, and Evan Engram on their offense, the Giants have struggled mightily on offense. They have struggled with execution and mental mistakes, they have struggled with consistency, and they have struggled to find an identity.�We�ve got to get back to the basics. We�ve got to kind of do what we did the first drive against other teams, continue to have that momentum, that first drive epitomizes what we�re capable of doing on the football field and we have to have that mindset,� Barkley said. They showed in their first game that that they have the talent to match up and be a problem for any defense in the NFL. But what the Giants need to do is find an identity on offense.�Yeah, it is that simple,� Barkley added. �We�ve got to get back to playing Giants football. I don�t think really any team so far that we�ve played, obviously at the end of the game they had the win and they had more points than we had, but there�s a lot of things we did ourselves to put us in that situation. If we can fix ourselves and just focus on ourselves, I think the rest of the season will take care of itself.��Giants Football�, as Barkley referred to it, is �just being consistent, running the ball, making efficient plays, maximizing on the opportunities when we get the opportunities, stay away from mistake-free football � obviously you�re going to make mistakes, but make less mistakes than the other team, not turn the ball over.�On his rookie seasonBarkley himself has had a good start to his NFL career. So far he has proven his ability as a runner and receiver, shown that he can create on his own in both facets of the game Infant Christopher Slayton Jersey , and be the playmaker the Giants drafted him to be. But that doesn�t mean that he is satisfied.Barkley said, �Even when you win, win or lose, I�m always going to be my biggest critic because I have the passion, I want to be great, I want to be a great player in this league and I have to hold myself to that standard. When we lose, you�ve got to look back on yourself.�That passion, the high standards to which he holds himself and the work ethic with which he drives himself to meet those standards, bordered on legendary in college. Despite having the kind of start to his rookie season of which any player would be proud, Barkley wants, needs, to be better.�I�ve got to be better,� he said. �I think I�ve been doing a pretty good job of breaking tackles so far, I�ve got to find a way to break more tackles. I was brought here to be an efficient player and when the opportunity comes, create big plays, and I�ve got to do a better job there. A lot of the reason we haven�t been successful is we haven�t been able to run the ball, we haven�t run the ball as well as we are capable of. That�s where my job kicks in and that�s where myself and the O line, we�re kind of a whole when it comes to that, where we�ve got to take that as a personal challenge and continue to work and get better. When the next game comes, when the opportunity comes, capitalize on it.�