• Giants’ defense shows implementation of the Patriots Way

    Giants’ defense shows implementation of the Patriots Way

    A plan does not have to be inventive to be effective. Some teams — few, but some — are able to line up and win on defense simply by relying on players’ talents and skills — their guys beating the other guys more often than not. The 2020 Giants are not going to be one …
  • Daniel Jones has work to do before becoming Giants captain

    Daniel Jones has work to do before becoming Giants captain

    No one really asks if you are ready to lead. It took Eli Manning three years to get voted in as a Giants team captain. He was named the starting quarterback nine games into his rookie year and started all 16 games in 2005 and again in 2006. It was not until the summer of …
  • Giants’ Alex Tanney may not get to mentor Daniel Jones again

    Giants’ Alex Tanney may not get to mentor Daniel Jones again

    The four biggest influences on Daniel Jones as a rookie all could be gone from the Giants when his second season begins. That new reality was created by recent tinkering with the Giants’ backup quarterback depth chart. It holds even if Colt McCoy’s grasp on the No. 2 job remains unaffected. It began with claiming …
  • Pessimism arrived shortly after Jets’, Giants’ 2020 schedules did

    Pessimism arrived shortly after Jets’, Giants’ 2020 schedules did

    Consider this your secular confessional, dear friends. Here is where you can come and admit to me, your humble columnist, that which you would have difficulty conceding anywhere else, to anyone else. Here, you can come clean: you actually like “Tiger King.” A lot. Here, you can spill your soul and acknowledge you know all …
  • Giants mailbag: Debunking the Chase Young tanking myth

    Giants mailbag: Debunking the Chase Young tanking myth

    You ask, we answer. The Post is fielding questions from readers about New York’s biggest pro sports teams and getting our beat writers to answer them in a series of regularly published mailbags. In today’s installment: the Giants. Why on earth did (Dave) Gettleman want Pat Shurmur to win that Redskins game? Chase Young will haunt …
  • 2020 NFL schedule: 10 can’t-miss games

    2020 NFL schedule: 10 can’t-miss games

    Not since the days of creamsicle uniforms have the Tampa Bay Buccaneers been such a must-see. Tom Brady changing teams headlined the craziest offseason of player movement in NFL history and completely changed the lens through which the coming season is viewed. All the matchups have been known since the minute the 2019 regular season …
  • Giants schedule 2020 takeaways: Tom Brady visits, Eagles test

    Giants schedule 2020 takeaways: Tom Brady visits, Eagles test

    We already knew the Giants, based on 2019 records, have the seventh-easiest 2020 schedule in the NFL, facing opponents with a winning percentage of .482. For what that’s worth. Now we know the order of the opponents, and it certainly doesn’t look very easy. Week 1 Steelers Sept. 14, 7:15 p.m., ESPN Well now, isn’t …
  • 2020 Giants schedule: Complete regular-season slate

    2020 Giants schedule: Complete regular-season slate

    The 2020 season will feature a first for the Giants: They’ll be hosting a pair of Monday Night Football games, something they’ve never done in the history of MNF. The first — Joe Judge’s Giants debut — comes on Sept. 14 against the Steelers, while the second will feature a familiar face for the new …
  • What Giants learned about Joe Judge after first draft with team

    What Giants learned about Joe Judge after first draft with team

    It does not take long after meeting Joe Judge to get the sense he knows what he wants, does not mince words about what he wants and prefers to take the direct route to get what he wants. In his first NFL draft with the Giants — his first anywhere as a head coach — …
  • Joe Judge’s unusual advice to unite Giants players

    Joe Judge’s unusual advice to unite Giants players

    Joe Judge has a plea to the Giants players he is trying to get to know as he attempts, remotely, to turn a collection of individuals into a team: Play more video games together! This unusual suggestion, from a 38-year old novice head coach who gives off a no-nonsense persona, is a sign of the …