The New York Giants will host the Dallas Cowboys on Thursday Evening Soccer to kick off Week 4 of the NFL season.
The Giants are contemporary off their first win of the yr this previous Sunday in Cleveland. In the meantime, Dallas simply dropped their second recreation in a row, so each groups will enter Thursday’s divisional matchup with an similar 1-2 document.
Regardless of the sport being at MetLife Stadium, the Giants have opened up as residence underdogs in opposition to their rivals. This would be the first of the 2 matchups between the 2 groups this season, the second approaching Thanksgiving Day.
The sport actually picked up just a little extra steam with the Giants profitable on Sunday and coming in at 1-2 as a substitute of 0-3.
With the division rivals going through off on Thursday, listed below are three causes for concern.
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Trevon Diggs
Trevon Diggs is a ballhawk who has a knack for forcing turnovers in opposition to the Giants. In Diggs’ final 5 video games in opposition to the Giants, he has three interceptions and a compelled fumble.
With the Giants going to Malik Nabers early and infrequently, the Cowboys are doubtless going to attempt to get a takeaway off of Nabers. New York must watch out and Head Coach Brian Daboll could should get inventive in getting Nabers the ball with out risking a turnover.
Daniel Jones had an excellent day on the stat ebook in Week 3 in opposition to the Browns. Nevertheless, he had an interception on the workforce’s first offensive play of the sport that was known as again as a result of a penalty, and two different balls that simply may have been picked off — one being Nabers’ most spectacular catch of the day, stealing the ball from the defender’s palms.
The Giants should shield the ball on Thursday in any respect prices.
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Giants secondary
The Giants got here into the season with a perception in Deonte Banks as a powerful No. 1 cornerback after a formidable rookie season.
Banks was torched by Amari Cooper and regarded misplaced on the sector on Sunday. And the Cowboys rank first within the league in passing yards per recreation.
The highway is not going to get any simpler on Thursday as CeeDee Lamb will go to MetLife Stadium. Lamb performs effectively in opposition to the Giants and Banks must step as much as sluggish him down.
Lamb has seen no less than 9 targets in 4 of his final 5 video games in opposition to the Giants and with the Cowboys’ working recreation not what it was once, he’ll doubtless see a heavy workload on Thursday.
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Particular Groups
The Giants have had points on particular groups the previous few weeks. In Week 2, they misplaced their kicker, Graham Gano, on the primary play of the sport.
With Gano on IR, the Giants signed Greg Joseph to fill in. Joseph naturally continued the Giants particular groups woes on Sunday by lacking a kick with three minutes left within the fourth quarter, which might have made it a two-possession recreation.
Head coach Brian Daboll was noncommittal on Joseph being the kicker in Week 4 on Monday regardless of the sport only a few days away.
The Giants have additionally had their fair proportion of points at each kick returner and punt returner during the last two weeks, together with a fumble on the opening kickoff this previous Sunday which rapidly put Huge Blue behind within the recreation Sunday.
The Giants might want to clear up the particular groups miscues going into Thursday.
