Surely, new head coach Pat Shurmur will accentuate the positives for his New York Giants, but that tells only part of the story of their 20-15 loss to the Jacksonville Jaguars in the NFL season opener. The positive were very evident. This week, Odell Beckham was Odell Beckham, and it still wasn’t enough to carry the team to victory. And while rookie running back Saquon Barkley‘s 68-yard touchdown scamper was a thing of beauty, it was an outlier in the contest where the rookie halfback had few running lanes.
The proof was in the pudding as Barkley only gained 38 yards in his 17 other carries (2.