Big Blue Huddle

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By Marcus Mosher

 NEW YORK GIANTS (O/U 6.5)
The New York Giants are back to square one of their rebuild. Daniel Jones isn't the answer at quarterback, and New York still has several question marks on its offensive line.

The Giants' defense should be improved, but the team plays in a tough division and has a brutal schedule (AFC North, NFC South). It'll be a struggle for New York to win seven or more games.

Record Prediction: 6-11

https://www.the33rdteam.com/2024-nfl-schedule-release-predicting-every-teams-win-loss-record/

https://x.com/NFL_Journal/status/1791144090220040261

Quote from: LennG on May 16, 2024, 12:09:56 PMI hated those jerseys. Not because of any superstitions, just we just aren't a red jersey team.

Considering how much of the Giants are tied to blue (so many podcasts and websites have blue in their name), red does seem a bit jarring

WHAT NFL EXECUTIVES LOOK FOR
The team president, general manager and coaches will pay close attention to the spacing of home and away games. They prefer not to have three in a row on the road. The bye week is also of great interest, with the preference for it being around Week 8 or 9 at the midpoint of the regular season.

Thursday night, Monday night, Thanksgiving Day and late-season Saturday games require changing the normal schedule teams have for a Sunday afternoon game. Those non-Sunday games solicit a mixed reaction from team execs. They enjoy seeing their team in the spotlight during prime-time games that most players and the fan base love, but they understand the disruption those games cause compared with the regular weekly schedule.

Team execs, coaches and the team operations staff members will quickly check the 2024 schedule for potential hot- or cold-weather games. Those are an extra challenge in terms of travel concerns and planning for things such as cooling or heating equipment in the bench area at outdoor stadiums.

I was the Minnesota Vikings' director of team operations early in my career, so I know very well that immediately upon the schedule coming out, the team operations staff will begin to set up travel plans. Those include negotiating with airlines and hotels on the road, as well as with the in-town team hotel for the night before home games.

That group also sets up team buses and equipment trucks for road games and obtains extra security and police escorts. In some cases, teams will make arrangements to practice in the road city on the day before a game, so the team operations staff will coordinate that, too.

Much more from former GM Jamie Diamond

https://www.the33rdteam.com/how-team-executives-approach-nfl-schedule-release/

https://x.com/FOS/status/1790838563086422493

https://x.com/RealTannenbaum/status/1791125029108752391

https://x.com/BigBlueVCR/status/1791110332993224807

https://x.com/giantswfan/status/1790895186232414465

https://x.com/Giants/status/1791106340045377904


https://x.com/Giants/status/1791118155739258942

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https://x.com/Giants/status/1791113879986098440

Quote from: H-Town G-Fan on May 16, 2024, 10:30:06 AMI think Weeks 3 to 7 are pretty rough. Each of those teams were above .500 in 2023. The Browns, Cowboys, and Eagles were well above that, winning 11, 12, and 11 games (respectively). Bengals were 9-8 with Joe Burrow only starting 10 games. Seahawks are usually a tough team and its an away game. I don't know what you define as killer, but the Giants could easily go 0-5 during that stretch.

There is no question that the stretch you described is the hardest part of the Giants' season.  I think Dallas took a step back.  The Bengals might be, though, but I think that is TBD, as are the Browns and Seahawks (in my view).   So there is a potential that could be a killer stretch, but I don't think it's a sure thing.  Heck, I am not even sure I could say it's the likely outcome.