Malik Nabers not shying away from Giants responsibility after crucial drop
NY Post
Malik Nabers said he wants to be a role model for young fans, and then he made himself an example of accountability.
The Giants are off to an 0-2 start despite Nabers’ breakout game of 10 catches for 127 yards and a touchdown last Sunday in a 21-18 loss to the Commanders.
The rookie receiver also dropped a late fourth-down pass that might have allowed the Giants to move into position for the winning score.
“It’s hard to wash that kind of thing away,” Nabers told The Post on Tuesday night. “Once you look back on the record, you are going to feel like one of those losses was mine. I’m going to continue to move forward, get better and work on how I cannot drop that pass again.”
Nabers was speaking as a co-host of the VIP kickoff reception for the “NY Team of Heroes” Gala that will be held Dec. 9 and is expected to raise $2 million to benefit the SBH Health System (St. Barnabas Hospital) in The Bronx.
His work with the not-for-profit Safety Net Hospital is his first major charity association in New York.
With the Yankees on an impressive run of mostly correct decisions, there’s some reason to leave them alone and just let the best team in the American League continue to roll. But they did raise serious doubt and leave room for suggestions (and even ridicule) following maybe the most inexplicable decision of this season, or any season.
The Giants have never been 0-2 under Brian Daboll, until now. They were 2-0 and flying high in 2022 and 1-1 after a rousing comeback in Arizona in 2023. So, this represents a low point as far as early-season difficulties for Daboll and the Giants. They had no business beating the Vikings in the opener and no business losing to the Commanders in Week 2. But here they are.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Harrison Butker kept making a lonely walk to midfield after each quarter Sunday to check on the direction of the wind, which tends to swirl inside Arrowhead Stadium. He did it one last time during the 2-minute warning, when his Chiefs were trailing the Bengals by two and trying to give him a winning field-goal attempt.