Following a Thursday Night defeat against the San Francisco 49ers, the New York Giants had little answers for questions on another unconvincing defensive performance. For a team that made a run into the divisional round of the playoff in the year prior, the 2023 New York Giants seemingly have lost their identity as a tough and rough team.
The 49ers were yards-after-contact machines on Thursday. According to Next Gen Stats, an extraordinary 215 of 49ers QB Brock Purdy’s 310 passing yards came as yards after contact.
To put that into perspective, 11 starting QBs threw for under 215 yards in week 3.