An inside have a look at Thursday’s Giants-Cowboys matchup in Dallas.
Marquee matchup
Cowboys RB Tony Pollard vs. Giants ILBs Jaylon Smith and Micah McFadden
Transfer over, Ezekiel Elliott. The highest again in Dallas is Pollard, who's establishing himself as a power in his fourth NFL season. Pollard had two landing receptions final week in opposition to the Vikings and is averaging a sturdy 5.9 yards per speeding try.
He ripped via the Giants (13-105) in Week 3 when Tae Crowder and Austin Calitro had been the beginning inside linebackers.
Maybe Smith and McFadden can do a greater job, though the run protection allowed 160 yards on the bottom and 4 speeding TDs final week to a trio of Lions operating backs.
Paul’s choose
The Giants want the Cowboys to be feeling overconfident and glad after trouncing the Vikings by 37 factors. In any other case, that is going to be exceedingly troublesome. These Thanksgiving video games within the Dallas space all the time have a circus-like really feel to them — the Jonas Brothers are acting at halftime — and the house group can be in social gathering mode. How can the Giants spoil the temper?
Cowboys 34, Giants 13.
4 downs
Handed over: Buying and selling out of the No. 11-overall choice within the 2021 NFL Draft may go down as one of many worst strikes in Giants franchise historical past. As soon as the Eagles traded as much as No. 10 to take receiver DeVonta Smith — the participant the Giants’ coveted — the Giants determined to make a cope with the Bears, who took quarterback Justin Fields at No. 11. The Giants handed up taking linebacker Micah Parsons and offensive deal with Rayshawn Slater and moved all the way down to No. 20 and took Kadarius Toney.
Certain, the Giants gained further picks the subsequent 12 months and used two of them on Evan Neal and Daniel Bellinger. Passing up on Parsons, although, is a killer. He's a beast and the Giants need to cope with him twice a season.
Guarded pessimism: Did the Giants give an excessive amount of too quickly to Shane Lemieux? He underwent surgical procedures on his knee and toe and had not performed for the reason that 2021 season opener, and as quickly as he was activated he was inserted at left guard in opposition to the Lions.
Lemieux didn't precisely look prepared for full-time work and now he’s out once more with one other toe harm. Rookie Josh Ezeudu — the participant moved apart for Lemieux — can also be out, with a neck subject. The Cowboys have a rugged defensive entrance. Will backup Jack Anderson (eight snaps this season) need to make his first begin? It's both Anderson, Tyre Phillips transferring from deal with or Devery Hamilton, signed from the observe squad. Gulp. Jon Feliciano (neck) didn't make the journey, which means Nick Gates will transfer in as the middle, making his first begin at middle since Week 1 final season.
The prize: The Giants and Cowboys are each going to satisfy with Odell Beckham Jr. within the coming days.
The Cowboys might use one other huge receiver possibility after CeeDee Lamb and Michael Gallup. The Giants want upgrades in every single place at that place. Will what occurs on this sport have any bearing on the place Beckham lands? The Cowboys have outwardly been much more aggressive of their curiosity. The Giants are low-keying this and first want to search out out if Beckham is wholesome, coming off a second ACL surgical procedure. There isn't any doubt he can be watching this sport.
Numbers man: In some methods it appears as if Daniel Jones simply acquired right here, however the best way the NFL is these days — a passing league, for probably the most half — Jones is rapidly rising up the franchise quarterback charts.
He's the seventh Giants participant to surpass 10,000 passing yards, and if he will get 105 passing yards on this sport he strikes previous icon Y.A. Tittle and into sixth place. With 21 extra completions, Jones strikes previous Fran Tarkenton and into fifth place on the Giants’ profession record. Jones is just midway via his fourth season. The talk rages on whether or not or not he's the long-term reply.
A giant sport on nationwide tv on a nationwide vacation wouldn’t harm the Jones Ought to Keep advocates.
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