Giants get glaring reminder that Malik Nabers needs help around him

He is the precocious apple of the Big Apple’s football eye, No.1 for a reason.Malik Nabers had already done wonders for Daniel Jones, and kept the sky from falling on the Giants 2024 season.Malik Nabers had made play-calling fun again for Brian Daboll.Malik Nabers had given the restless fan base hope.Nabers had made the Giants watchable again.He once again tried to will the Giants past the Big, Bad Cowboys and damn near almost did.He would finish with 12 catches for 115 yards … and his first NFL concussion.He was standing at his locker chatting with Giants senior VP of medical services Robbie Barnes and Jalin Hyatt following Cowboys 20, Giants 15.“Malik’s tough … he is a dawg,” Jon Runyan Jr.

said.“He gives all-out every single play, making tough catches, taking some big hits, popping right back to be.

Love to see that as a rookie.I think he’s one of the leaders on this team being so young.

Puts everything out there, plays really hard, we love to see that.That kinda fires us up when he’s out there making plays with a lot of passion.”Nabers suffered his first NFL concussion on a fourth-and-6 sideline throw from Jones at the NYG 45 with 3:30 remaining with Trevon Diggs on his back that was ruled incomplete.

He appeared to have gotten both feet in bounds and the Giants believed it was a catch.“It looked like he did from my view on it,” Jones said.“He played a heck of a game again and he showed up for us big-time.

Keep trusting him.”Nabers, chin in hand, posted on Instagram afterward: “All good [prayer hands emoji] Thanks for the prayers.”But you can’t be the hero when your team cannot run the ball and you cannot threaten the entire field and your quarterback cannot get your team in the end zone.Jones had lost 12 of 13 in prime time and the Cowboys had used him as a piñata in the 40-0 2023 home-opener humiliation.He had been jeered unmercifully during and after the 2024 home opener.He had gotten off the mat.There had been five FGs...