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Penalties are an under-discussed aspect of NFL success and failure. Average teams can become playoff contenders with good discipline, and good teams can become great simply by winning the penalty battle.
Let's look at how the New York Giants performed from a penalty perspective in 2024 and where they can improve in 2025.
How Did Penalties Impact the New York Giants?
The Good
- The Giants ranked 23rd in penalties per game at home.
- The Giants defense ranked 28th in penalties per game.
- The defense and special teams accounted for a below average 40% of the team's overall penalties.
The Bad
- The Giants were a top-five penalized road team.
- The Giants offense accounted for 60% of the team's penalties, a percentage that's far too high for an offense with limitations at quarterback.
- Pre-snap infractions accounted for 50% of Giants penalties, significantly higher than the NFL average of 38.5% in this category. The three primary issues were all on the offensive side of the ball: false start, delay of game, and illegal shift.
- This team became more undisciplined as the game progressed, with the highest percentage of Giants penalties occurring in the fourth quarter of games last season.
Grade: C
Returning to respectability would be a starting point for a dysfunctional Giants franchise, with their ownership and management ranking among the league's worst over the past decade.
Defensively, this team has the chance to be lights out, but even a great defense requires complementary football from the offense. Therein lies the Giants' problem headed into 2025.
Brian Daboll is a good coach, but he is up against it with a well past his prime Russell Wilson as his best option to keep the Giants in the mix.
A best case scenario would be a top-five Giants defense wreaking havoc on opponents and a career resurgence from Wilson that has the offense averaging 20 points per game.
If that sequence of events unfolds, the Giants can be around a .500 team with faint hopes of a Wild Card spot if factors out of their control break right in late December.
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