The New York Giants didn't have their best performance for about three quarters against the New Orleans Saints last week, and then J.J. McCarthy happened. Though he brought them back, they weren't able to seal the deal, and they probably shouldn't have put themselves in such a big hole in the first place.

The defense has some of that blame, and defensive coordinator Dennard Wilson didn't seem pleased with their performance, so much that he could be making changes to personnel going into the next game.

“Giants defensive coordinator Dennard Wilson confronts that there was not enough ‘effort' in chasing some plays down the field vs the Saints. Wilson says he calls guys who don’t play with effort ‘traitors' to their teammates, and says there will be changes because of it,” Pat Leonard of NYDN wrote on X, formerly Twitter.

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