Matty Brown put out his evaluation on Twitter today. He's pretty hard on Russell, and I don't know that I go along with all the plays where he graded Russell poorly, but what I will say is that it is absolutely not true that A) there wasn't enough time to throw, and B) there were no underneath routes available for Russell to throw to because OC.
That doesn't mean the play calling is perfect, but the narrative that we're calling all deep shots without adjustment to opposing pressure, which is strong in gameday forum, is flat wrong. Brown's criticism of the OC, in one example, is that he felt some of the posts could have been shallower, but that's a lot more nuanced than the typical fare around here. He did agree with a major theme here that we shold have run the ball more, but my thought on that is, Carson was very effective buy Hyde is less so. Carson we have to keep healthy, so it's not as simple as give Carson 20 carries. I'd rather boot a game here and there (long as we make the playoffs) and have Carson for the stretch. But there will be criticism if we feed Hyde and he doesn't get it done as well, which he won't.
His criticism of Russ is more nuanced than many are guilty of, and I'm as guilty as anyone of it. It's not all "Russ won't take the underneath"; a lot of his dings on Russell were when Russ had guys open deeper but hesitated and checked down. Although there are definitely plays, I think his V14 post, where he has DK wide open across the middle and stares at it for 2 seconds and just doesn't pull the trigger because he's far too afraid of a LB that isn't in position to make the play at all.
I came away thinking that the Giants had a good game plan that took Russ out of his comfort zone, and that Russ just wasn't seeing things as well as he needed to to counterbalance it.
I'd like to go back and see if Brown has analyzed Russ's earlier multiple turnover games and how that looked. vs the Rams Russ was pressing due to our defense sucking, in other games our D was good enough and I scratched my head as to why Russ would throw picks into double coverage or other mistakes.