The New York Giants need a step up in pass rushing this season if they want to be a competitive team. Their defense couldn’t hold in several close games and one of the big factors in that was the team finishing 31st in sacks – in a passing focused league, getting sacks can be the difference to winning and losing, and the Giants were one of the absolute worst when it came to achieving them.
The team responded to the problem partly by moving on from outside linebacker Olivier Vernon, a highly paid player who definitely didn’t live up to the expectations during his time with the Giants, not quite performing up to the expected standard during the last couple of years and also struggling with injuries… Injuries that Vernon came back to a little too slowly for the tastes of many, leaving a lot of fans dissatisfied with the player for reasons outside of just his play.