The battle between New York teams should be entertaining. You know, worthy of Broadway? Not these Giants and Jets. For those of us in the greater NYC area, this matchup was the only game on TV for the 1 p.m. ET local window. And it was about the worst pro football you could ever behold.
This stat about sums up the essence of the Jets’ 13-10 victory.
Jets and Giants combined for
23 points
24 punts pic.twitter.com/2Kr2jH0gOz— NFL on CBS 🏈 (@NFLonCBS) October 29, 2023
And there’s plenty more where that came from!
Jets and Giants a combined 0-17 on third down pic.twitter.com/w6pEKVh7OM
— Mina Kimes (@minakimes) October 29, 2023
The futility and deficiencies of both these offenses was on display all afternoon. But the way in which this game got pushed to overtime is so bizarre.
Giants…
– Don't go for it on 4th and 1 with 28 seconds left
– Attempt 35 yard FG
– Gano misses
– Jets drive down field to force OT
– Giants get ball first in OT
– 3 plays, -11 yards
– Punt
– Jets get in FG range
– Giants lose 13-10 pic.twitter.com/U5mGIGPkC8— Pickswise (@Pickswise) October 29, 2023
It’s really hard to celebrate in @ShaunMorash’s face when the Jets offense played so bad today. Brutal game and as ugly as a win as you can get against a 3rd string QB.
But just wanted to make sure you saw this graphic. That the Giants had a 99.9% win probability and lost pic.twitter.com/miwZz3Bg4O
— NYJ Matt (@NYJ_Matt) October 29, 2023
It’s so fitting that the team that had a 99.9% chance to win this game that late would be the side to ultimately lose. Then again, the Giants deserved this, because I’m sorry, you have no business having a chance to win in the NFL while passing for literal negative yards as a team.
…But look how close the Giants were to winning anyway!
OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG#NYJvsNYG on CBS pic.twitter.com/5R9weXnh41
— New York Jets (@nyjets) October 29, 2023
Thanks in part to the Jets bullying the G-Men in the trenches, and the loss of starting QB Tyrod Taylor to injury, the Giants did, indeed, throw for negative net yards.
the giants just finished regulation with -8 passing yards as they head into overtime against the jets pic.twitter.com/eKKCl71pRv
— Tej Seth (@tejfbanalytics) October 29, 2023
Just the insanity of some of the stats alone tell such an illuminating, entertaining story about an otherwise horrible experience to bear witness to.
Even by Giants standards, having -9 net passing yards for an entire game is…something.
We might never see anything like that again. pic.twitter.com/YUAKJLtmS4
— Brett Kollmann (@BrettKollmann) October 29, 2023
And yeah…a lot of the great reactions have already been featured throughout this article, but here are some more.
From the Jets’ SNY postgame show, former player Bart Scott spurred on a lively group talk by saying, “This was ridiculous!”
.@SteveGelbs, @BartScott57, @willcolon66 and @ConnorJRogers react to the Jets' 13-10 win over the Giants: pic.twitter.com/fukMasVCB8
— Jets Videos (@snyjets) October 29, 2023
Then you have the X meme extraordinaires who are built for making us all laugh in these moments of bad-football misery:
Jets and Giants fans walking into work tomorrow: pic.twitter.com/moyVQRvtsi
— FanDuel Sportsbook (@FDSportsbook) October 29, 2023
"Dad, what was it like watching the 2023 Giants vs Jets football game?"pic.twitter.com/5DNwKBObG6
— Rob Rāchetó (@Strike1080) October 29, 2023
Giants and Jets fans going at it to see who has the worst football team pic.twitter.com/9QkuDzDoJ7
— Evan Daniel (@itsmrevandaniel) October 29, 2023
Me watching The Jets vs Giants pic.twitter.com/WxKsvYG4HB
— Blake Garman (@FrostedBlakes34) October 29, 2023
Jets/Giants OT pic.twitter.com/SUMpmFtAF0
— Barstool Sports (@barstoolsports) October 29, 2023
giants vs jets 10/29/23 pic.twitter.com/gIFPZaQpLm
— Ava (@avatarrant) October 29, 2023
OK now since I’ve started writing this, the novelty of the reeactions are beginning to wear off. That only picked me up mentally for a brief while. Now I’m having horrible memories of what the Jets and Giants just presented us with as professional football. Seriously, anyone who watched this entire game will not be able to shake it off for quite a while.
Even the winning kick barely went through…like make it stop…
Greg Zuerlein's kick is good and the @nyjets win! #NYJvsNYG pic.twitter.com/4wU8hwYXhY
— NFL (@NFL) October 29, 2023
"Not my best hit, not going to lie. I was a little nervous there for a second. if that was practice, I wouldn't think that would be good"
– Greg Zuerlein on his game-winning kick in overtime pic.twitter.com/pHS8w08zp4
— Jets Videos (@snyjets) October 29, 2023
