Khalil Mack wasn’t in Sunday’s box score.
“Yeah,” defensive coordinator Chuck Pagano said, “it’s usually not like that.”
It’s Pagano’s job to make sure that doesn’t happen again.
The defensive coordinator needs to scheme a way to make the Giants’ inevitable double- and triple-teams more difficult to apply Sunday. With the next six games meaningless for a team with a 1-in-100 playoff chance, he can afford to more clever in how he deploys his star outside linebacker.
“We’re trying,” he said Thursday. “We’ll continue to try and be creative and put him in spots and try to get him ‘loosed up’ a little bit.