How this dismal Giants era has swallowed potential of so many

There is a generation of them, adrift, either banished or escaped. Or, in the case of a scant few, still wearing the uniform and, for all intents and purposes, continuing to fight the fight as failure infiltrates from every crevice and refuses to leave. They are the Lost Boys with no Peter Pan to guide them. They are the Lost Giants, players sucked into the vortex of defeat.

There are so many of them now, gone and often forgotten because they came and went and did little or nothing to turn the tide and get the franchise out of the malaise. Some were individual disappointments but many were fairly innocent bystanders, performing at a reasonable level, and what might have been a winning level if only there was more help around them to find a way out.

This is why the most troubling words to come out of the most recent setback, a 22-9 loss to the Chiefs last Sunday night in another muted home opener, were the few sentences uttered by wide receiver Malik Nabers immediately after he was part of a Giants loss for the 16th time in his 18 NFL games.

“I’m bummed,” Nabers said. “Anybody would feel beat up after going 0-3.”