MUNICH — Jermaine Eluemunor definitely didn’t sound thrilled in regards to the offensive line swap.
After beginning the primary 9 video games at proper sort out and performing admirably, Eluemunor was moved to left sort out and changed at proper sort out by Evan Neal for the crew’s 20-17 loss to the Panthers on Sunday at Allianz Enviornment.
It marked the primary begin of the season for Neal, whom the crew drafted with the No. 7 choose within the 2022 draft and who has to this point regarded like a whole bust.
Eluemunor, who signed with the Giants as a free agent this previous offseason, had been adamant that he most popular to remain at proper sort out as a substitute of switching to left sort out when Andrew Thomas suffered his season-ending foot harm.
And the Giants had harassed that they solely view Neal without any consideration sort out.
So for each Eluemunor and Neal to start out, one thing needed to give.
“It was one thing that simply occurred,” Eluemunor stated. “It’s exhausting to change sides like that. It’s not probably the most snug factor. I inform folks it’s such as you’ve been writing along with your proper hand for a very long time and out of nowhere they inform you, you gotta write an essay along with your left hand and it’s due on Saturday and you’ve got three days to freaking discover ways to write along with your left hand.”
Eluemunor was overwhelmed badly within the second quarter, leading to Daniel Jones being sacked on a failed flea-flicker.
But when there’s any optimistic to remove from Sunday’s loss, it’s what resulted from the change.
Neal allowed only one strain on 41 pass-blocking snaps, in keeping with Subsequent Gen Stats — a career-low strain price.
“It felt good to get again on the market and play once more after a 12 months,” Neal stated. “I’m simply grateful. Not each play was excellent. I didn’t play an ideal sport. I’m positive there’s going to be issues I’m going to again on tape and see and proper. However I believe it was a stable general outing for my first outing.”
Dexter Lawrence curiously didn’t play the primary 5 performs of the Panthers’ first drive of the second half and was as a substitute on the sidelines.
Each he and head coach Brian Daboll had been coy about why and didn’t provide an evidence, with Daboll saying, “I’m not going to elaborate on that.”
Brian Burns stated earlier within the week he had additional motivation going in opposition to Carolina, the place he spent the primary 5 years of his profession. However his outdated facet had the final giggle.
“It damage,” Burns stated. “Dropping like that and shedding to a crew I spent an prolonged period of time with damage, and seeing all these faces that had been within the constructing was slightly powerful.”
Malik Nabers, who missed two video games earlier within the season for a concussion, was evaluated for one more concussion within the fourth quarter after hitting his head on the bottom whereas being tackled, however he was shortly cleared and returned to the sport.
