Focused on Fiske. There were more then a few times he got absolutely blown out in the run game. Numerous key pressures on the pass game, so still think his PFF score is too low.
Sometimes we ask him to do things that don't suit his attributes. Fiske is all about quickness and explosion. He belongs in an attacking, one-gap style system where try to disrupt runs by slanting, penetrating, stunting and using their athleticism to mess up the blocking scheme. Asking Fiske to 2-gap and hold ground vs
Francis Mauigoa or set the edge vs
Andrew Thomas, it is predictable what is going to happen. Mauigoa is a monster. A coach can't expect Fiske to win that battle, just ask him not to lose as badly. There's a play where the RT and TE double team blows out Fiske. Similar deal, Fiske isn't good in that type of situation. Still, the TE shoving him out of the way is a blocking specialist,
Chris Manhertz. The reason he's on their roster is to block. He literally only had one catch all of 2025. He's in his 11th NFL season, but only has about 300 career receiving yards.
The Giants aren't very good overall, but I think they have some talented young players. Someday, maybe they'll become a decent team.
Fiske gets pushed around. He isn't a big guy with ideal length. On the other hand, give credit where credit is due. Some of the opponents blocking him are pretty good. That's one reason I don't like PFF grades. When Aaron Donald faced Pro Bowl level guards, he typically would dominate and they'd have bad PFF grades for that game, lowering their season PFF score. I don't understand that. The "expected win rate" if you're facing a HOF defender should be low. Sure, AD made you look silly, but he does that to everybody. I noted the opposite thing happen with Austin Blythe when he had a good PFF grade one season. I noted that he was a "lamb killer", because he had strong performances against some DTs who weren't very good.
