The Giants offense is a mess right now. It’s averaging just 6.5 points a game through two weeks and is the sole reason the team currently sits at 0-2. But all is not lost, Giants fans. Yes, the offensive line is terrible, but there are still more than enough good pieces on the roster to work around bad blocking and produce a good offense. Here are four ways the Giants can do it…

1. Give Ereck Flowers some help

Flowers is a lost cause at the left tackle position. How the Giants front office didn’t realize this before the season is beyond me. But it’s too late to bring in a viable replacement, so the coaching staff is going to have to help him out.

How can they do that? Keeping a tight end to block would be a good place to start. But if Ben McAdoo doesn’t want to sacrifice a receiver to help in pass protection, he can just ask his tight end to chip Flowers’ man before going out on a route. The Giants did this only twice during the Lions game. They were the only snaps Flowers completely stonewalled his man.

We need to see more of this in the coming weeks.

2. More two-tight end sets

McAdoo loves him some 11 personnel. That is three wide receivers, one tight end and one back. The Giants used this personnel grouping over 90% of their offensive snaps in 2016. They led the league by a wide margin.

While New York has dialed back on 11 personnel early in the season, we’re still not seeing enough two-tight end sets.

Rookie tight end Evan Engram is essentially a wide receiver in a tight end’s body. Defenses treat him as such. So do the Giants, which makes it much easier for the defense to figure out what New York is doing. When backup tight end Rhett Ellison, who is more of a blocker than a receiver, is on the field as the lone tight end, you can expect a run almost every time.

So why not put both on the field more often to make things harder on the defense? It would give the Giants more flexibility, as Engram has proven he can flex out into the slot and get open.

That would allow Ellison to stay in as a blocker on passing downs. He’d also act as an extra blocker in the running game.

3. More no-huddle

Engram’s positional flexibility would make a Giants no-huddle attack difficult to defend. If defenses treat him like a wideout and counter with a nickel defense, the Giants can line up in a condensed formation with two tight ends and run it down the defense’s throat. Put in a third linebacker, and Engram will feast on safeties and linebackers in the slot. A quicker pace would also tire out the pass rush and help out the offensive line.

4. Give Eli some options in the run game

This Giants offensive line isn’t good enough to produce a good running game on its own, but we’ve seen bad offensive lines in Seattle and Carolina produce top-five rushing attacks in recent years. Of course, those teams have the luxury of mobile quarterbacks, who force defenses to account for another potential runner, evening up the numbers in the box.

Now, you’re not going to run Eli Manning on read option keepers, but you can give him run-pass options. An extra defender creeps into the box? Have Manning read him and decide whether to hand the ball off or throw it out wide based on his movement.

Here’s an example from the Cowboys…

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And here’s an example where the Giants could have done something similar to hold the safety that ends up making the stop on this play…

Had Manning been reading him and had an option to throw a quick pass out to Brandon Marshall, the safety would have been wrong either way. Either he’s leaving Marshall one-on-one with an undersized corner, or he’s allowing the back to get extra yards by not crashing into the box sooner.

The Giants do give Manning some run-pass options under center. Here’s an example…

But this is pre-snap reads, meaning Manning decides whether to throw the bubble screen based on the defense’s pre-snap alignment. The Giants need to allow him to do this after the snap as well.

There’s no way to completely work around a terrible offensive line, but if the Giants utilize these tactics a little more often, the offense should be able to produce a lot more than 6.5 points a game.