MUNICH — It is never, or rarely, the fault of one player, but it is time.
It is not all on Daniel Jones. Of course it is not.
It was on the run defense, or lack thereof. It was on Tyrone Tracy, a rookie running back, who kept the Giants in the game and then took them out of it with a devastating fumble in overtime. It was on head coach Brian Daboll for calling a gadget play instead of a quarterback sneak for a first down. It was on Graham Gano, the veteran kicker, who missed a mid-range field goal in what turned out to be a tight one.
So many of them are complicit for transgressions big and small that conspired to doom a doomed team, once again. There are fingerprints galore smeared across the 20-17 loss to the Panthers, and that this game came in Germany, and not on U.S. soil, does not mitigate the damage done to a franchise that has specialized for more than a decade in losing games every which way, here, there, everywhere and, in a new twist, even in the capital of Bavaria.
