The New York Giants have been the surprise of the 2022 season, having one of the best records in the NFL through seven weeks. A franchise that had fallen on hard times in the past decade, the Giants are now 6-1 to start the year and are one of only two teams in the league to have six wins (their NFC East rival Philadelphia Eagles are the other).
New York already has more wins in 2022 than it had all of last year (four), equaling the most wins in any season for the franchise out of the past six (the Giants won six games in 2020). The Giants are on a four-game winning steak — matching their 2021 win total.
Despite a 22-59 record over the last five years (tied with the New York Jets for the worst in the NFL), the Giants have turned a corner under Brian Daboll. They’ve accomplished a 6-1 start despite a limited passing game, a struggling offensive line, injuries at cornerback, and with linebacker Azeez Ojulari out for the majority of the year.
How improbable is the Giants’ 6-1 start? These numbers will blow your mind.
Jones has five game-winning drives through seven games this season, the most by any player through seven games since 1950. No other player in the league has more than three game-winning drives in 2022.
Game-winning drives are defined as offensive scoring drives in the fourth quarter or overtime that puts the team ahead for the last time. Jones has accomplished the task in awkward ways at times (he had only one pass attempt in the fourth quarter Sunday), but he’s not turning the football over frequently either.
Jones is on pace for 12 game-winning drives this season, which would shatter the single-season record of eight by Matthew Stafford in 2016.
Daniel Jones fourth quarter passer rating
What’s even more incredible about Jones’ game-winning drives are his fourth quarter stats. Jones ranks 28th in passer rating in the fourth quarter of one-score games this year (58.4), completing 20 of 33 passes for 166 yards with one touchdown and two interceptions. Jones is above Davis Mills (29th), Jimmy Garoppolo (30th), Trevor Lawrence (31st), and Marcus Mariota (32nd) for fourth quarter passer rating in one-score games.
Jones is only completing 63.5% of his passes in the fourth quarter, throwing for 250 yards with two touchdowns and two interceptions for a (75.0 rating) while only rushing for 94 yards and a touchdown (3.8 yards per carry). He has…
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