Brian Daboll wants Daniel Jones to ‘turn it loose’ in critical Giants year

The biggest fallacy repeated over and over about the Giants is that Daniel Jones needs to play like he will in 2022 to silence his critics. The reality is that Brian Daboll's Giants are looking for a mix of rookie Daniel Jones (circa 2019) and career-old Daniel Jones (circa 2022) — an aggressive but not […]

Vikings’ Ivan Pace Jr. shades Giants in pre-Week 1 trash talk

The Giants were planning to post the abuse on message boards ahead of their season opener on Sunday. Vikings linebacker Ivan Pace Jr. criticized a Giants offense that changed its play-caller (head coach Brian Daboll) during the offseason and added a potentially elite rookie receiver (Malik Neighbors). “We're going to be crazy. We're not going […]

Giants’ offensive line overhaul banking on Raiders Way

Although we are new to the team, we are not new to each other. Do they need to bring in some new players on the right side of the offensive line? Of course, they'll raid the Raiders. “I don’t know if there’s any precedent for it, but it definitely helps with continuity,” coach Greg Van […]

What Giants’ new-look defense under Shane Bowen will look like

The Merriam-Webster Dictionary lists five different definitions of “offensive.” So it's certainly possible that the Giants could field a different “aggressive” defense in coordinator Shane Bowen's debut against the Vikings on Sunday than the one they employed for two seasons under predecessor Wink Martindale, who was obsessed with blitzes. Leading four defensive linemen to rush […]

Giants need to send message with Week 1 win

The Giants were booed early and criticized frequently in their Sunday night home opener last September. Brian Daboll said this after a brutal 40-0 loss to the Cowboys early in his second season: “There's a lot of criticism going around, but I intend to be at the forefront of it.” And Sterling Sheppard said, “One […]

How the Jets and Giants can give their fans hope again in 2024

This time a year ago, there was genuine excitement among New York football fans on both sides of the aisle. Jets fans were enjoying every bit of Aaron Rodgers' weekly adventures in “Hard Knocks” and dreaming of all the possibilities that could come. Giants fans were basking in the joy of a 9-7-1 playoff win […]

Adoree’ Jackson thrilled to reunite with Giants for probable starting role

Adoree Jackson walked through a door Monday she never expected to find closed. Jackson returned to the Giants' practice field for the first time since last season ended. He re-signed a one-year contract on Friday after spending more than five months as a free agent, representing a marriage of convenience between a player who needed […]

This is Daniel Jones’ last chance to win over Giants fans

Daniel Jones laughs a lot, not just when he's pleased, happy, or finds something funny. He also laughs when he hears a question he doesn't want to answer or is faced with a topic he doesn't want to think about. It's not an actual smile, but more like a frown, a closed-mouth look, and a […]