4:25 pm
September 11

Giants @ Titans

Who will WIN this matchup?

New York Giants (0-0)

@ Tennessee Titans (0-0)

 

Current odds:

New York Giants: (+205)

Tennessee Titans: (-250)

 

• The spread for the game is Tennessee by 5.5 points.

• Vrabel has built the Titans into a juggernaut in the AFC South with back-to-back division titles. Tennessee went 12-5 last season, largely on the back of Derrick Henry, who led the NFL with an average of 117.1 rushing yards per game but was limited to eight games by a foot injury. “I think we just have to go in with the approach that there’s a game plan and we’re to try to execute it and going to do whatever we can to win,” Vrabel said Wednesday. “Derrick is a large part of what we do.”

• Anything but modern, Tennessee thrives on play-action and is wary of asking too much of quarterback Ryan Tannehill. He had 21 touchdown passes last season and ran for seven touchdowns, but the Titans had a meager minus-3 takeaway margin and found themselves in plenty of nail-biters. Tannehill’s weapons on the outside are newcomers Robert Woods (formerly of the Los Angeles Rams) and rookie Treylon Burks, the No. 18 pick in the 2022 draft, as the Titans move forward without top receiver A.J. Brown. Brown was traded to the Philadelphia Eagles on draft day following a brief contract squabble. The Titans also signed tight end Austin Hooper to beef up underneath receiving options.

• If pressure is a must, the Giants might be perspiring. Daboll might not know the status of his top pass rushers until later in the week. No. 5 overall pick Kayvon Thibodeaux (knee) did individual drills this week and Azeez Ojulari (calf) wasn’t a participant in the team portions of practice, either. Thibodeaux, who was injured Aug. 28 on a cut block, said he wants to be on the field for his first NFL game.

• New ideas and personnel are a start. But the Giants generated only 287 yards and 15.2 points per game last season without the dominant defense to make those below-average numbers hold up. There is again optimism around running back Saquon Barkley, who had 593 rushing yards while playing in only 13 games last season due to ankle issues after ACL surgery in 2020. Just 25, Barkley said missing the end of every season since he was the second overall pick in 2018 has him hungry to prove he remains worthy of the featured role.

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