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“What adversity?’’
Brian Daboll wasn’t trying to be a wiseass. He honestly wasn’t.
It’s simply the way the Giants first-year head coach is wired.
That was his straight-faced response when asked, some 30 minutes after the Giants survived and advanced in a bizarre and wild 20-12 decision over the Bears at MetLife Stadium to raise their record to an unlikely 3-1, how he felt about his team handling the adversity of not having a heathy quarterback to play the final 8:35 of the game.
“Both of your quarterbacks got hurt,” was the reminder/clarification the reporter offered to Daboll, referring to the moment when starter Daniel Jones was limping on the sideline with an injured left ankle and his backup, Tyrod Taylor, was laying on the turf with a concussion, leaving the Giants with no healthy quarterback on the game-day roster to play the final 8:35 of a game they were leading 17-12 at the time.
“Oh, no … sorry,” Daboll responded apologetically, realizing his response may have come off accidentally arrogantly. “I didn’t mean to … oh … yeah, you just move on. I mean look, you feel for the players that get injured that give everything they have during the week to get their bodies and their minds right. And if somebody’s out, that’s why you have other players on the roster that you have confidence and faith in.”
The story to this game — and very much this Giants season — is about the confidence and faith the Giants players have in Daboll and his uncanny preparedness.
This is, indeed, a new era for the Giants, who in the second-to-last game last season lost to the Bears, 29-3, in Chicago in what was a low-point to a dismal season.
