Following a 24-3 loss to the Seattle Seahawks on Monday night, which dropped the team to 1-3 on the season, many New York Giants fans wanted to bash their heads into the wall.
As it turns out, they’re not alone.
A completely dejected Darius Slayton stood at his locker in the wee hours of the morning struggling to find answers for what had gone wrong. He was candid in his responses and commiserated with the fans.
“Right now, I want to bash my head into the wall,” Slayton told reporters after the game. “I haven’t lost any belief. We still have talented players. We have players that are capable and that’s the frustrating thing. We have capable players that just aren’t doing what we need to do.
“It’d be a different thing if everybody just sucked. Then it’d be like, ‘All right, well, there’s no hope.’ But we have talented players that are capable of doing it and we’ve just got to do it.”
While Slayton was looking to bash his head into the wall, veteran cornerback Adoree’ Jackson sounded like someone who was looking for a way out.
“Man, honestly we got our (expletive) whooped,” Jackson told NJ Advance Media. “That’s the only thing that happened. I can’t even describe it no other way. We just lost. And that’s what we’ve been doing.
“I’m frustrated. Just as mad as y’all are writing about this (expletive), I’m frustrated being in this (expletive).”
Jackson did say he believes the team will turn it around before saying they have to turn it around.
Safety Xavier McKinney, meanwhile, sees the writing on the wall. He realizes the Giants aren’t very far off from having the entire season go off the rails, leading to another massive overhaul — something that has become all too familiar in East Rutherford over the past decade.
“It could definitely go sideways,” McKinney said. “I’ve been a part of a team where it has gone sideways. I do understand this league, it’s tough and you’ve got to be able to respond quickly or it could go south.”
Like Slayton and Jackson, McKinney then expressed faith that the team can turn it around but they really sound like men who are simply trying to convince themselves it’s not as bad as it actually is.