pping extravaganza"The New York Giants watched on Monday http://www.giantsfanshop.com/Darius-Slayton-Jersey , the first day of the NFL free agency negotiating window, as prices around the league skyrocketed. Their only move of the day was to re-sign center/guard Spencer Pulley to a three-year, $9.6 million deal that turns out to look like the Giants went bargain-hunting at the dollar store.Will the Giants get on the scoreboard today?It’s going to cost if they doAs the salary cap continues to climb so, too, does what players are commanding on the free agent market.The safety market, a year after it was virtually non-existent, has exploded.Ex-Giant (at least when he can officially put pen to paper with the Washington Redskins) Landon Collins got the biggest safety contract ever at six years, $84 million with $45 million guaranteed. That set new safety marks for total value, annual value ($14 million) and guaranteed money.Tyrann Mathieu matched that annual value, getting three years, $42 million from the Kansas City Chiefs.Kareem Jackson got three years, $33 million with $23 million guaranteed. Eric Weddle looks like an absolute bargain for the Los Angeles Rams at two years, $10.5 million ($5.25 million per year).The offensive line market has also gone through the roof. If you can block, or at least stand in front of someone and try, you get big money. How else do you explain Bobby Hart getting three years, $21 million from the Cincinnati Bengals? Mitch Morse got four years, $44.5 million from the Buffalo Bills, making him the league’s highest-paid center in terms of annual value. Perhaps more of interest to the Giants, right tackle Ju’Wuan James is receiving a four-year, $52 million deal from the Denver Broncos. At $13 million per year, that is the richest right tackle contract ever in terms of annual value.The market went nuts in other areas, too. Edge rusher Trey Flowers is reportedly getting a deal worth $16-17 million annually from the Detroit Lions. Linebacker Kwon Alexander is getting four years and $54 million, $13.5 million annually, from the San Francisco 49ers. Even pedestrian wide receiver Devin Funchess is getting a one-year Rhett Ellison Color Rush Jersey , $13 million deal from the Indianapolis Colts.How are the Giants, with limited salary cap space and a desire to get better at right tackle and across the board on defense, going to reel in any fish in this market?The primary targets remain the sameDespite all the deals there were apparently agreed to on Monday none of the players believed to be the Giants’ primary free agent targets came off the board, with the possible exception of Anthony Barr landing with the free-spending New York Jets.We told you Monday that right tackle Daryl Williams, edge Markus Golden, safety Adrian Amos and cornerback Bryce Callahan appeared to the Giants’ top targets at those positions.As we begin Day 2 of “legal tampering,” all of those free agents remain in play.Williams, drafted by Gettleman for the Carolina Panthers, remains an object of desire despite what will be an exorbitant cost.Golden was converted from defensive end to edge in Arizona by James Bettcher, and had a 12.5-sack season in 2016 before a knee injury derailed him. Amos is reportedly closing in on a deal with someone. Could that be the Giants? If it’s not, the safety market remains flush with less expensive options.Callahan is apparently seeking a deal worth $7-8 million annually. Can the Giants play in that ballpark for a cornerback?Day 2 of the NFL shopping season is here. Will the Giants be able to strike a deal, or two? Keep it here as we find out. The New York Giants returned to their losing ways against the Tennessee Titans. The Giants fell to the Titans 17-0, but the game didn’t even feel close when the two teams were tied 0-0. The days of the Giants feeling hopeful and as though they were on the rise seem long gone, though they were 4-1 and coming off of a 40-point divisional win cominginto the game. So then, what did we learn about the Giants on this cold, rainy afternoon in New Jersey?The Giants are who we thought they wereThe feeling all along has been that the first game of a three-game season-ending stretch which would tell us who the Giants are heading in to the 2019 offseason. If this game is any indication, they aren’t who we hoped they were — the team which won four of its last five and appeared to be heading in the right direction. Instead, this game was a carbon copy of the Giants’ 1-7 start to the season. The offensive line couldn’t block anyone on the Titans’ defense — in pass protection or run blocking. The offense tried to depend on ball-control plays but couldn’t get traction throwing horizontally. The defense was undisciplined, shooting itself in the foot with penalties, losing contain, and struggling to tackle. The tackling, in particular, was simply atrocious. Outside of the Giants’ defensive tackles and B.J. Goodson, the Giants’ defense hemorrhaged yards after contact throughout the game. The inability to tackle Olivier Vernon Color Rush Jersey , and the Titans’ reliance on the running game, made it was mystifying why the Giants stayed in a nickel package for most of the game.The Giants desperately missed Odell Beckham Jr.If the Giants thought that their offense would be fine against the Titans without Beckham after scoring 33 points against the Washington Redskins ... They were mistaken. With Beckham out, the Giants could not find a consistent threat in the passing game. Manning struggled to find his chemistry with Sterling Shepard. For the second week in a row, Evan Engram emerged as the Giants’ best receiving option with 8 receptions for 75 yards on 12 targets.Engram showed his impressive YAC ability several times this game, but the Giants still had him running shallow routes until they were desperate to move the ball at the end of the game. While Engram has shown his potential worth to the offense, the Giants desperately need their superstar receiver back. Beckham not only has the ability to cover up many of the Giants’ mistakes and poor plays on offense, but his mere presence forces defenses to account and scheme to defend him.The Giants just cannot run the ball consistentlyThis is NOT a knock on Saquon Barkley. The narrative on him is that his tendency to dance behind the line of scrimmage and try to bounce plays for home runs rather than just taking the “dirty yards” makes him a boom or bust running back.That was anything but the case today.The Giants ran the ball for all of 31 yards on 14 carries (not counting the run by Eli Penny , and it had nothing to do with Barkley — who had one of the Giants’ longest plays when when he forced a missed tackle in the backfield — and everything to do with the offensive line’s inability to give him any kind of room to run. All too often, Barkley was either met in the backfield or swarmed as he crossed the line of scrimmage. The Giants tried to run Barkley up the middle and off tackle (including pitches), but couldn’t find any running room. The team has largely been unable to run the ball consistently all season, but Barkley had been able to put on his cape often enough and create magic out of nothing. Those big highlight-reel plays were enough to convince the Giants that they could run the ball, but they were outliers. Outside of those plays, the running game has largely been a collection of wasted downs. If the Giants want to be a run-first team, if they TRULY want their offense to run through Barkley, they will need to do quite a bit of soul-searching and self-scouting between now, free agency, and the draft.The Giants’ season is (finally, mercifully) overThe Giants suffered their first shutout of the season. But if that wasn’t bad enough, the Minnesota Vikings dealt the Miami Dolphins put paid to the Giants scant hopes of playing post-season football.With the Giants well and truly out of the hunt and mathematically eliminated from post-season contention, it will be interesting to see how the Giants respond. Will they sit Eli Manning in favor of Kyle Lauletta (who’s first on-field performance was disastrous enough to get him promptly sat back down)? Will the Giants fiddle with their roster or scheme, using their last two games as pre-preseason games as they enter the 2019 offseason? We’ll just have to see.If we’re being perfectly frank, the way this team has played — not only against the Titans, but for most of the year — they earned this ignominious end to their season.