Presser Points: Takeaways from GM Joe Schoen at bye week

📰 GM Joe Schoen: “Not where we want to be. No one is happy about it.” The rest of the week will be about self-evaluation and finding solutions.

📰 “Everybody’s got a hand in this, myself included. It starts with me. … We’re going to look at solutions.” The Giants have to find a way to “make plays at critical moments.”

📰 Asked about the quarterback position, Schoen said “any decisions we make will be football decisions.”

📰 Schoen: “We have seven games left in the season, and that’s what we’re focused on.”

📰 There is a “young nucleus” of players with some veterans that will be together. “I like the young foundation that we’ve put in place.”

📰 Schoen said they’re not giving up on CB Deonte Banks. “He works hard. He wants it. I still believe he’s got a bright future.”

📰 Schoen noted they have the youngest defense in the league that went through a scheme change this year.

📰 Evan Neal played well at right tackle on Sunday and had good energy. He had been practicing at a high level and was able to transition that to the game. “What I liked about it is when his number was called, he was ready.”

📰 It’s “painful” to go through it but Schoen believes in the building process.

📰 Schoen reiterated they need to build an identity of closing out tight games. They are 1-5 in one-possession games.