Giants quarterback Daniel Jones’s first-glance statline from New York’s 24–3 loss to the Seahawks Monday evening was rough enough—27-of-34 passes completed for 203 yards and two interceptions.
However, it was the 10 sacks he took that raised eyebrows across the league. Jones was under constant pressure from a feisty Seattle defense, and gradually crumbled as the Giants dropped to 1–3 on the season.
Jones became the 10th quarterback in the 21st century to take double-digit sacks in a game, and the first since the Titans' Marcus Mariota in a 21–0 loss to the Ravens in 2018. Even more shocking, however, is the sheer pace at which Jones is being sacked in ’23.
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In four games, Jones has been sacked 22 times—an average of 5.5 times per game, and a number that would put him on pace for 93.5 sacks this season. He’s already halfway to his ’22 total of 44, achieved in 16 games.
A 93-sack season would obliterate the all-time record of 76 held by David Carr, set in 2002 for the expansion Texans.
Record sack numbers have not always been an end-all be-all indicator of poor quarterback performance—the Jets‘ Ken O’Brien and Houston’s Deshaun Watson made Pro Bowls after 62-sack seasons in 1985 and 2018, respectively—but it’s clear something has to change if New York is to repeat its 2022 playoff surprise.
