Giants' Brian Burns gets vocal after 3rd straight loss: 'The team needs to grow up'

New season, aforesaid effect for the New York Giants, who are present 2-6 aft losing to the Pittsburgh Steelers connected "Monday Night Football."

For the seventh clip successful the past 8 seasons, the Giants person 2 oregon less wins astatine this stage, and a newcomer connected the roster isn’t happy. 

Brian Burns, who was traded for and extended this offseason to stay with the Giants long-term, was vocal astir his displeasure with the team’s show done 8 games. 

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New York Giants linebacker Brian Burns (0) looks astatine his sideline for instructions astatine MetLife Stadium. (Julian Guadalupe-NorthJersey.com)

"The squad needs to turn up," helium said, via NJ.com.

Burns isn’t the lone Giant that can’t basal the three-game losing streak and a grounds that has them astatine the bottommost of the NFC East. 

"I deliberation we person to amusement much passionateness arsenic a squad — oregon arsenic leaders," antiaircraft skipper Dexter Lawrence added. 

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Of course, it’s inactive aboriginal successful the season, and immoderate squad has the accidental to rip disconnected a triumph streak that tin get them backmost successful playoff contention.

But, with the remainder of the NFC East there, including the 3-4 Dallas Cowboys, the Giants volition request to get things going instantly if they privation to play done January 2025. 

Effort is what Burns, Lawerence and the remainder of the Giants privation to see, arsenic it wasn’t connected afloat show Monday nighttime successful Acrisure Stadium arsenic they went down 26-18 to the Steelers. 

Head manager Brian Daboll benched cornerback Deonte Banks, the team’s first-round draught prime successful 2023, who had different play with a deficiency of effort aft it showed up connected portion successful the rout against the Philadelphia Eagles past week. 

New York Giants linebacker Bobby Okereke (58) and linebacker Brian Burns (0) observe aft Burns portion sacked Cleveland Browns backmost Deshaun Watson (not pictured) during the archetypal fractional astatine Huntington Bank Field. (Ken Blaze-Imagn Images)

Lawrence, usually 1 to power his emotions, was seen ripping into his teammates connected the sideline arsenic the Steelers were having their mode with the defence passim the game. 

"We’ve got to play harder!" Lawrence yelled. "We’ve got to halt that play!"

Lawrence was directing his choler toward the secondary connected the sideline, which led to jawing backmost and distant earlier the hostility dissipated. 

Unfortunately for the Giants and their instrumentality base, they’ve been utilized to this feeling midway done the season, albeit the 2022 campaign, wherever they not lone made the playoffs, but bushed the Minnesota Vikings to determination connected to the divisional round.

That was Daboll’s and GM Joe Schoen’s archetypal twelvemonth successful New York, but it hasn’t gone good since for the franchise, bringing their occupation information into question if this inclination continues for the remainder of the year. 

Brian Burns #0 of the New York Giants looks connected against the Seattle Seahawks astatine Lumen Field connected Oct. 6, 2024 successful Seattle, Washington.  (Steph Chambers/Getty Images)

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Things are not going good for Big Blue, but the team’s leaders are calling everyone retired present up of Week 9’s matchup against the division’s person — the Washington Commanders.

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