Giants see reasons to believe offense is ready to break through

Darius Slayton has been around long enough to know what it looks like and what it feels like when it is feeble.“Exactly,” he said Monday.“Yeah, I definitely have.

So, I know the difference.”Slayton, Daniel Jones and Dexter Lawrence are the longest-tenured Giants players, all arriving in the 2019 NFL Draft.Slayton has seen some good (the 2022 playoff team) and far more bad during his time with the Giants.

He has most often been the pass-catching leader for offenses that ranked near the bottom of the league.He and his guys are once again bringing up the rear, averaging only 15 points a game, which is 30th in the league, tied with the winless Jaguars.

This is nothing new for Slayton, but he sees signs that the offense has more hope this season than in past years, when the numbers were grim and the vibes were more grim.“I don’t know if you remember way back, like the mid-2000s, Alabama and LSU played the national championship game and it was like the worst offensive game ever because neither team got past the 50,” Slayton said of the BCS title game in January 2012, won by Alabama 21-0.“That’s not us.

If that was the case, then that would be, ‘We’re in Hell.We can’t get anything going.

We can’t move the ball.’“We got into scoring position multiple times against Dallas.We scored I think on every drive in the first half, and then in the second half, we got into scoring position other times.

If it wasn’t for a penalty here or there, or better execution by us here or there, we would have been in scoring position some more.That tells you that we’re getting into the scoring position and now you just have to finish from there.

The encouraging part of that is that we are getting down there.If you’re not getting down there then you don’t have a chance in the first place.

I would say that going forward is what we will try to hang our hat on is, ‘All right, we have done a good job of getting there and now we have to finish when we get...