New York Giants: Giants don’t need to beat 49ers, just play better than the Jets

The New York Giants head into Monday Night Football against the 49ers still seeking their second win of the season. However, as long as they play better than the Jets did in Week 10, we can count it as a win.

It is not often that one city shares two teams, but when it comes to the New York Giants, they not only share the City with the New York Jets, they share a stadium.

The fact of the matter is, they share a this market.

Despite being in different conferences and rarely playing against each other in the regular season, it will always be fair game when comparing the Jets to the Giants or vice versa.

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Luckily for the Giants, the Jets’ loss to the Buffalo Bills at home was so pathetic on Sunday afternoon, that all the Giants have to do to gain some respect is play better in San Francisco than the Jets did vs Buffalo.

Much like the Jets were, the Giants are facing a non-starting QB. Not even the backup. The Giants will be playing Nick Mullens and his 49ers team.

The Giants have played so poorly that even that is alarming and far from a win.

However, the Jets lost to Matt Barkley they looked uninspired and lost the football game for the entire 60 minutes in every single aspect.

On Sunday vs the Jets, Matt Barkley has his career game. The Bills scored 41 points and he has his career-long completion.

To ease this story back into the Giants, their opponent, the 49ers, and their QB, Mullens, played their best game of the season last Week when they throttled the Oakland Raiders on Thursday night football.

Mullens went off that game throwing for three TDs and the 49ers lost the tank war against the Giants, for now.

So, when a more than unlikely QB has games like that, it is embarrassing. But, there always lies a sliver of hope. The hope that it was a fluke, more specifically, a one-game wonder.

That is how the Giants can benefit immensely.

Mullens might have already had his game of the year and the Giants can expose the “third string” QB back on him and make him look that once again.

The Giants are 1-7. Even a win on Monday Night football would put them with a worse record than their fellow Met Life Stadium tenants, the Jets.

However, the Jets’ loss to the Bills was so outright pathetic, that it was shameful it should as three losses.

The Jets look like the hottest mess in football, seemingly happening because of the loss.

So, if the Giants play as terribly against the 49ers, in what is a very similar narrative to the Bills’ season, then they would instantly go back to being the laughing-stock of not only the city but the whole NFL.

All the Giants need to do is go on the road, on a big stage, and show they have a pulse and a life.

The Jets failed to do that.

The Giants have rarely ever been a joke of a team. The Jets are usually the ones who are a joke.

This year, it really looked like the tides of the city were going to turn. The Jets looked like they are well-built for a future and New York’s blue side looked like the lost, awful, joke of the city.

In one game, for one week, the Giants got their Mulligan. One really solid performance can make them look like Kings of the City and would wipe away a lot of terrible weeks.

The battle for supremacy in New York for its football team has been dreadful this year, no one seems to want it.

However, the Giants can show they somewhat care about their dignity by not losing in embarrassing fashion to a not 100% 49ers team on the road.

All the Giants have to do is show an ounce of life. Make some nice plays keep it remotely close, and they will be fine.

The Giants and the Jets both stink, but there are different levels of stinking. Let’s hope the Giants don’t break the standard for stinking just 24 hours after the Jets set it.