Giants @ Commanders · Week 5

WEEK 5 · FINAL

THE READ

Giants win a 19-7 rockfight

Not one for the highlight reel. Giants 19, Commanders 7. Jaxson Dart did the damage for Giants — 20/29, 244 yards, 1 TD. Jayden Daniels did the damage for Commanders — 20/33, 225 yards, 1 TD — in a losing effort. Jayden Daniels has not had a better afternoon this season. Total yards: Giants 405, Commanders 272.

The Wire · league beat

THE WIDER PICTURE

Team	SRS	SOS	MARGIN	TO +/-
Giants	-13.6	+3.1	-16.7	-26
Commanders	-1.0	-3.2	+2.2	-4

SRS is how many points a side beats an average team by once you account for who they played — beat a good team by 3 and it counts for more than beating a bad one by 20. SOS is how hard that schedule has been. Full table.

Commanders — in the hunt · 5-5 Playoff picture →

IN THE BOOTH

Nicole Santos Beat reporter

Washington's ground game vanished—47 rushing yards forced them into a one-dimensional attack that New York's defense could tee off on, even in a low-scoring slog where the Giants managed just 19.

Talia Morgan Beat reporter · replying

Jayden Daniels put up his best numbers of the season—20/33, 225 yards, a touchdown—and still lost by 12 to a 1-4 team. When your quarterback has to shoulder that much of the load and it's still not enough, you don't have an offense problem.

They only ever read the box score and this league's own numbers — none of them has a source, and none of them can report anything that did not happen.

Jaxson Dart

Giants

20/29, 244 yards, 1 TD

Jayden Daniels

Commanders

20/33, 225 yards, 1 TD

Chris Olave

Commanders

8 catches, 113 yards, 1 TD

THE STORY SO FAR

⭐ Jayden Daniels has not had a better afternoon this season.

⭐ Chris Olave has not had a better afternoon this season.

⭐ Cam Skattebo has not had a better afternoon this season.

📈 Malik Nabers is in form: 127 receiving yards a game over his last three, against a season average of 84.

WHAT DECIDED IT

Total yards Giants 405, Commanders 272 Giants

On the ground Giants 161, Commanders 47 Giants

Through the air Giants 244, Commanders 225 Giants

Pressure Commanders 2 sacks, Giants 1 Commanders

THE ROOM Final. The recap is below.

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THE MATCHUP SCOUT every number below is counted from the export or read off the roster — nothing is inferred about playcalling

LEAGUE DATA counted by Madden, and arithmetic on top of it

Pass-heavy Pass 66% · Rush 34% · 22.2 scored, 38.9 allowed

8.4 yds/att 52.4% completions 4.9 yds/carry 337.0 yds/game 3.8 giveaways/game 8.3% sack rate last 5: 2-3

Primary weapon: Malik Nabers WR — 37% of the receiving yards · DEPENDENCY HIGH

SAPPHIRE METRICS QB efficiency 51 · Aggressive Balance 84 Ball security 0 Back usage 30% QB runs 1.6/game

Most exposed: ball security -- 3.8 giveaways a game

PERSONNEL off the roster — unit averages, best starters only

QB 84 WR 84 TE 78 RB 82 OL 82 DL 82 LB 81 DB 82

Best: Andrew Thomas LT 94 Fastest: Malik Nabers WR 96 SPD 5 at star dev or better

YOUR NOTEBOOK what you wrote about them — private, and never a Sapphire statistic

HOW THEY PLAY the man, not the franchise — only weeks the record attributes to him, this season

gokublack444

Commanders · his last 8 games

Balanced

Pass / run58% / 42% Points for / against23.4 — 24.2 Margin-0.9 Giveaways a game1.5 Sacks taken5.3% of dropbacks Lead backAshton Jeanty · 11.9/g Top targetChris Olave · 28% QB carries4.2 a game

CSav3105

Giants · his last 8 games

Throws it Gives it away One target

Pass / run64% / 36% Points for / against23.8 — 35.4 Margin-11.6 Giveaways a game3.1 Sacks taken7.9% of dropbacks Lead backCam Skattebo · 12.2/g Top targetMalik Nabers · 45% QB carries1.0 a game

Counted from the weeks each man actually held his team — so a franchise that changed hands is not credited to whoever has it now. Nothing above is a playcall: the export does not carry those, and neither does this.

THE SERIES CSav3105 against gokublack444 — the men, not the teams

All square at 1-1. gokublack444 won the last one.

2 meetings avg 21.0 — 19.0 biggest: 12 pts to CSav3105

S2 · week 9 CSav3105 23 — 31 gokublack444 GOKUBLACK444

S2 · week 5 CSav3105 19 — 7 gokublack444 CSAV3105

Only meetings Sapphire can attribute to both men are counted — a Madden export never says who owned a team last season, so the series starts where the record does.

MATCHUP ADVANTAGES unit averages against each other — inside three points is a push

Giants receivers vs Commanders secondary 84 v 86 EVEN

Commanders receivers vs Giants secondary 83 v 82 EVEN

Giants line vs Commanders front 82 v 84 EVEN

Commanders line vs Giants front 81 v 82 EVEN

Giants backs vs Commanders run defence 82 v 84 EVEN

Commanders backs vs Giants run defence 82 v 82 EVEN

Giants passer vs Commanders secondary 84 v 86 EVEN

Commanders passer vs Giants secondary 87 v 82 COMMANDERS

TOP PERFORMERS

Jaxson Dart QB Giants 244 pass yds

Jayden Daniels QB Commanders 225 pass yds

Chris Olave WR Commanders 113 rec yds

Malik Nabers WR Giants 78 rec yds

Cam Skattebo HB Giants 74 rush yds

Chigoziem Okonkwo TE Commanders 55 rec yds

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BOX SCORE

GIANTS

PLAYER	C/ATT	YDS	TD	INT	SCK	LNG	RTG
Jaxson Dart QB	20/29	244	1	0	2	29	106.1

COMMANDERS

PLAYER	C/ATT	YDS	TD	INT	SCK	LNG	RTG
Jayden Daniels QB	20/33	225	1	0	1	27	91

GIANTS

PLAYER	CAR	YDS	AVG	TD	BTK	YAC	LNG
Cam Skattebo HB	16	74	4.6	1	3	18	18
Tyrone Tracy Jr HB	8	47	5.9	0	2	29	20
Devin Singletary HB	8	25	3.1	0	0	0	4
Jaxson Dart QB	3	12	4	0	0	0	9
Theo Johnson TE	1	3	3	0	0	0	3
Tank Dell WR	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
Malik Nabers WR	0	0	0	0	1	0	0

COMMANDERS

PLAYER	CAR	YDS	AVG	BTK	LNG
Ashton Jeanty HB	11	30	2.7	0	10
Jayden Daniels QB	5	16	3.2	0	7
Antonio Williams WR	1	3	3	0	3
Chris Olave WR	0	0	0	1	0
Chigoziem Okonkwo TE	0	0	0	1	0
Kaytron Allen HB	1	-2	-2	0	0

GIANTS

PLAYER	REC	YDS	AVG	TD	YAC	DRP	LNG
Malik Nabers WR	6	78	13	1	10	0	29
Isaiah Likely TE	4	46	11.5	0	7	1	24
Tyrone Tracy Jr HB	2	30	15	0	6	0	18
Tank Dell WR	2	29	14.5	0	13	0	20
Devin Singletary HB	1	28	28	0	4	0	28
Malachi Fields WR	3	21	7	0	7	0	10
Victor Snow WR	1	10	10	0	2	0	10
Cam Skattebo HB	1	2	2	0	0	0	2

COMMANDERS

PLAYER	REC	YDS	AVG	TD	YAC	DRP	LNG
Chris Olave WR	8	113	14.1	1	17	0	27
Chigoziem Okonkwo TE	4	55	13.8	0	17	0	27
Ben Sinnott FB	2	20	10	0	3	0	11
Antonio Williams WR	2	17	8.5	0	4	0	14
Ashton Jeanty HB	3	14	4.7	0	7	0	11
Ted Hurst III WR	1	6	6	0	3	1	6

GIANTS

PLAYER	TKL	SCK	PD	CMP ALW
Greg Newsome II CB	8	0	0	6
Paulson Adebo CB	4	0	1	4
Abdul Carter LEDG	4	0.5	0	1
Tremaine Edmunds MIKE	4	0	0	2
Arvell Reese WILL	3	0	0	1
Kyle Dugger SS	2	0	1	3
Brian Burns REDG	2	0.5	0	1
Dru Phillips CB	2	0	0	1
David Stone DT	2	0	0	0
Jevon Holland FS	1	0	0	1
Colton Hood CB	1	0	0	0

COMMANDERS

PLAYER	TKL	SCK	PD	CMP ALW
Amik Robertson CB	8	0	0	4
Nick Cross FS	6	0	0	3
Odafe Oweh REDG	6	0	0	0
Jeffery Simmons DT	5	1	0	0
Christian Wilkins DT	5	0.5	0	0
Kristian Fulton CB	5	0	1	2
Sonny Styles MIKE	4	0.5	0	1
Dorance Armstrong LEDG	2	0	0	0
Quan Martin FS	2	0	0	3
Leo Chenal WILL	2	0	0	1
Brian Branch SS	1	0	0	2
Tyler Owens SS	1	0	0	0
Trey White LEDG	1	0	0	0
Calijah Kancey DT	1	0	0	0
Kamari Lassiter CB	1	0	0	0
Joshua Josephs REDG	1	0	0	0
Germaine Pratt SAM	0	0	0	1

GIANTS

PLAYER	FG	XP	LNG
Ben Sauls K	2/3	1/1	36

COMMANDERS

nothing recorded

RECENT FORM

Giants

L 28–44 vs Buccaneers WK 4

L 14–56 vs Jets WK 3

L 26–66 vs Lions WK 2

Commanders

L 21–27 vs Cowboys WK 4

W 23–15 vs Eagles WK 3

L 18–24 vs Patriots WK 2

TEAM STATS

Giants		Commanders
405	TOTAL YARDS	272
244	PASSING YARDS	225
161	RUSHING YARDS	47
2	SACKS ALLOWED	1
1	SACKS MADE	2
0	GIVEAWAYS	0
0	TAKEAWAYS	0

Bold is the side that won that line. Giveaways come off a team's own offensive rows and takeaways off its own defensive rows — two separate payloads, so they need not tie out against each other.

ALL-TIME HEAD-TO-HEAD

1 GIANTS — 1 COMMANDERS

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