The New York Giants will host the Dallas Cowboys on Thursday Night time Soccer to kick off Week 4 of the NFL season.
The Giants are contemporary off their first win of the 12 months 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 equivalent 1-2 file.
Regardless of the sport being at MetLife Stadium, the Giants have opened up as house underdogs towards 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 a little bit extra steam with the Giants successful on Sunday and coming in at 1-2 as an alternative of 0-3.
With the division rivals dealing with off on Thursday, listed here are three causes for concern.
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Trevon Diggs
Trevon Diggs is a ballhawk who has a knack for forcing turnovers towards the Giants. In Diggs’ final 5 video games towards the Giants, he has three interceptions and a compelled fumble.
With the Giants going to Malik Nabers early and sometimes, the Cowboys are probably going to attempt to get a takeaway off of Nabers. New York should watch out and Head Coach Brian Daboll might must get inventive in getting Nabers the ball with out risking a turnover.
Daniel Jones had an excellent day on the stat e-book in Week 3 towards the Browns. Nevertheless, he had an interception on the staff’s first offensive play of the sport that was known as again resulting from a penalty, and two different balls that simply might 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 robust No. 1 cornerback after a powerful rookie season.
Banks was torched by Amari Cooper and regarded misplaced on the sphere on Sunday. And the Cowboys rank first within the league in passing yards per recreation.
The street is not going to get any simpler on Thursday as CeeDee Lamb will go to MetLife Stadium. Lamb performs effectively towards the Giants and Banks should step as much as sluggish him down.
Lamb has seen not less than 9 targets in 4 of his final 5 video games towards the Giants and with the Cowboys’ working recreation not what it was, he’ll probably 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 over the past two weeks, together with a fumble on the opening kickoff this previous Sunday which shortly put Large Blue behind within the recreation Sunday.
The Giants might want to clear up the particular groups miscues going into Thursday.
