Week 3: San Francisco 49ers at Denver Broncos 

By : Ross Mazin

This edition of Sunday Night Football should definitely be an interesting one. Both play in markets that are already saturated with baseball, hockey and basketball. The owners of both teams aren’t much better. 

Let’s start with the home team in the Denver Broncos. The days of John Elway and Peyton Manning are gone. The new leader is Russell Wilson. The Broncos last game against the Texans was quite a barn burner. Russell Wilson was 14/31 219 yards a touchdown and an interception. In both of their first two games the Broncos offense has scuffled including going 0-6 in the Red Zone. If Denver wants to be the team they hope to be Russell Wilson and New head coach Nathaniel Hackett have to get on the same page. 

Now let’s look at the San Francisco 49ers. In their 27-7 victory over the Seattle Seahawks, Quarterback Trey Lance broke his ankle and was replaced by Jimmy Garoppolo who went 13-21 for 154 yards and two touchdowns ( 1 pass 1 rush). The Niners might be getting All Pro Tight End George Kittle back this week he has missed the last two games with a groin injury. Through two games the Niners defense has given up the fewest yards per game. Prediction:  49ers win 25-10 over the Broncos . Russell Wilson will have 125 rushing yards.

Battle Of The Unbeatens

By : Mike Rifkin

On Sunday in Miami the undefeated Dolphins will take on the undefeated Buffalo Bills. Miami is coming off an impressive 42-38 comeback win over the Baltimore Ravens. Quarterback Tua Tagovailoa threw for 469 yards and six touchdowns. Tua in three career starts against the Bills has struggled, he has a 56.4 completion percentage with a touchdown and four interceptions. The Bills defense will once again be without star Cornerback Tre’davious White who is still recovering from a torn ACL. The Dolphins have to get the ball in their playmakers hands Tyreek Hill and Jaylen Waddle have been sensational in the first two games of the season. Hill is very familiar with the Bills, in five career games (regular season and playoffs) he has 37 catches for 446 yards and a touchdown. 

The Bills are coming off of back to back beat downs of the defending Super Bowl Champion Rams and the Tennessee Titans who were the number one seed in the AFC last season. In those two games the Bills have a +55 point differential. Josh Allen has straight up owned the Miami Dolphins defense in eight meetings he has 21 touchdowns, five interceptions and a passer rating of 106.8. Allen also has 430 yards rushing and four touchdowns. The Bills defense currently is second in yards allowed, sacks and fourth in turnover differential through two games. Free agent addition Von Miller has two sacks and has really opened things up for the rest of the Bills pass rush. While Tre White is out the Bills still have the best safety tandem in the NFL with Jordan Poyer and Micah Hyde. 

The Bills have won seven consecutive meetings against the Dolphins. This is an opportunity for the Dolphins to send a message to the rest of the AFC that they are a real contender. This is a massive game in Miami.

TWIW – This Week In Wrestling 9/12 – 9/16

By Jeff Knapp

From new rivalries brewing to title changes and debuts this was a busy week and we got it covered on This Week In Wrestling.

Over in the WWE & NXT, we saw Priest and Balor try to recruit Matt Riddle into the Judgment day. It was to no surprise that didn’t so well because Matt declined and ended up in a match with Finn that he lost due to outside interference from the rest of Judgment Day. After the match, Seth Rollins came back down to stomp a defenseless Riddle. Although Rollins turned down a rematch, he seemed to welcome a future retaliation from Riddle in the coming weeks. 

Logan Paul returned to the WWE and had a massive what if, that was him challenging and defeating Roman Reigns for the Championship. This match is supposedly going to happen at the next Crown Jewel PPV in Saudi Arabia, but there is no official word yet. This brought down the entire Bloodline, minus Reigns. After Paul Heyman was unable to get through to Logan, Honorary Uso, Sami Zayn tried to get through to him and was punched in the face for his troubles. This set up a match with Ricochet that he eventually lost oddly enough due to Jey Uso. 

This week we had plenty of other great in ring action. 

Nikkita Lyons & Zoey Stark defeated Arianna Grace & Kiana James with Lyons’ split legged pinn that has the entire WWE universe wanting more. 

Bayley defeated Raquel Gonzalez thanks to outside interference from the rest of Damage Control, but before things could get out of hand, a returning Shotzi came down to make the save in an apparent face turn. 

It’s not every week that we get to see a championship change hands and this week we had 2 of them, The 1st one was on Raw when Iyo Sky & Dakota Kai AKA Damage Control defeated Raquel Rodriguez & Alyiah to become the new WWE Women’s Tag Team Champions in their rematch when it was brought to light that Alyiah pinned Dakota the previous week when she wasn’t the legal participant. 

The 2nd title change happened the next night on NXT when, in his return from injury, Solo Sikoa defeated Carmelo Hayes in one of the best matches in the current version of NXT to become the new NXT North American Champion.

Johnny Gargano defeated Chad Gable in his RAW debut

Speaking of debuts, The Super Diva Quincy Elliott pinned Sean Gallagher very easily after connecting with what can be described as a Banzai drop.

Fallon Henley pinned Lash Legend in a very quick match 

Solo Sikoa retained his NXT North American Championship on Smackdown against Madcap Moss

Bianca Belair(c) vs Sonya Deville in an Championship open challenge match

The D’Angelo Family lost in a match they thought would be an easy win when they assumed Cameron Grimes would be alone, but he had a partner come down to assist him, one he did NOT want. It was the master manipulator, Joe Gacy. Grimes refused to tag him in, but Gacy eventually got into the match and proved to be the difference maker and was the one who got the pin fall. Will Grimes grow to trust Gacy, who possibly has an alliterative motive, or will Gacy show his true colors before that happens? 

Edge defeated Dominik Mysterio by DQ, but that came at a huge price when the Judgment Day tried to destroy Edge’s left knee with repeated chair shots to that knee.

Pretty Deadly retained their NXT Tag Team Championships against The Creed Brothers in a steel cage thanks to the help of Damon Kemp when he came down and handcuffed Julius Creed to the top of the steel cage. 

And finally in a match with the biggest consequence, in which the winning team will be the next to challenge The Usos for the Tag Team Championships. The Brawling Brutes (Butch & Ridge Holland) defeated vs Hit Row (Ashante “Thee” Adonis & Top Dolla) vs the New Day vs Imperium (Ludwig Kaiser & Giovanni Vinci)

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The biggest news coming out is that after defeating Sammy Guevara and Chris Jericho, Jon Moxley and Bryan Danielson will both represent the Blackpool Combat Club as they fight next week in NYC for the vacant AEW World Title.

We found out that Stokely Hathaway and his stable that includes W. Morrisey, Ethan Page, The Ass Boys among others are called The Firm and they are also a stable on retainer for MJF whenever they are needed.

The in ring action was all in CAPITALS this week and AEW settled into the capital of NY, Albany.

Jungle Boy locked in his Snare Trap submission on Jay Lethal for the victory

Powerhouse Hobbs continued his dominance and as somebody to be reckoned with as he easily defeated local wrestler Matt DeMartino 

Darby Allin responded to Matt Hardy’s challenge on Dynamite and proved why he was one of the forming pillars of AEW when he defeated Matt with his Last Supper finish for the 1-2-3.

The newish look Penelope Ford defeated Willow Nightingale via submission with an Indian death lock

Ethan Page pinned the very nice, very evil Danhausen after hitting the ego’s edge

AEW Tag Team Champions had another fight on their hands by the way of lucha great and former tag champions and 2/3s of the AEW Trios Champions, the Lucha Brothers.

In other tag team action, Serena Deeb & Dr. Britt Baker DMD defeated Athena & AEW women’s champion Toni Storm. 

Is there tension with Britt and Jamie? After the match, Jamie came down and took the steel chair away from Britt and didn’t allow her to use it on Toni. How will the good doctor keep this team together or has that ship sailed?

Samoa Joe retained his ROH TV Title against one of his toughest opponents while in AEW, Josh Woods when he connected with his Muscle Buster finisher.

It was 2 big nights in the NY capital, and next week it will be even bigger when AEW crowns a new world champion. 

From Albany, NY we now head southwest to the big D and by that I mean Dallas, Texas for Impact Wrestling. 

Who was going to make the biggest Impact? That’s tough to say, we saw current X-Division Champion and possible top 10 wrestler of the year in my opinion, “Speedball” Mike Bailey who defeated Mascara Dorada (who had a few year run in the WWE as Gran Metalik) with his Ultimate Weapon finisher.

The others who made an impact were the Motor City Machine Guns who apparently sent the Good Brothers a loss in the final Impact match before presumably going back to Japan.

Now, getting back to Mike Bailey, he will face Delirious at Victory Road for the X-Division championship and his opponent at Bound For Glory after that will be determined at Victory Road in a Triple Threat Revolver 3 way elimination gauntlet match with AEW’s Kazarian, Impact’s Kenny King, Trey Migiel and Mia Yim, AAA’s Laredo Kid & Black Taurus (also is in Impact’s Decay stable) and New Japan Pro Wrestling’s Yuya Uemura and Alex Zayne.

Speaking of Black Taurus, he and fellow Decay member Crazy Steve defeated the team of Moose and Steve Maclin, who just couldn’t get on the same page. With that said, good luck to them when they try to beat Sami Callihan.

Also in action this week we saw Killer Kelly easily defeat an outmatched Alisha Edwards, Mickie James kept her winning ways and her career going when she pinned Hyan 

The Impact Wrestling Tag Team Championships were on the line when The OGK of Mike Bennett and Matt Taven of Honor No More got the win over Impact World Champion Josh Alexander & Rich Swann. This was a match I thought should have been the Impact main event. 

From arenas and halls to now the studio, for some NWA action. Tag teams seem to be on the rise and tag team action started things off this week on Power when Pope & Kratos defeated Question Mark (Rodney Mack) who some referred to him as Question Mack & KC Roxx 

Things got heated when Matt Cardona interrupted WWE hall of famer Bully Ray and set up a match in which Bully will have to find a partner and face the duo of Mike Knox and VSK.

In a Queen Bee match Max The Impaler, Natalia Markova, & Angelina Love defeated Roxy, Ella Envy, & Kenzie Paige, then Max went on to defeat Natalia Markova, & Angelina Love and received the Queen Bee crown then Max immediately stomped the crown into the mat.

In the main event, the NWA World Television Champion, Tyrus defeated Mims and left the ring without his title. Does this mean he’s going to relinquish the championship in order to face Trevor Murdoch for the NWA Worlds title? 

A very busy week in the world of professional wrestling. Thank you for reading This Week in Wrestling.

Tua Legit Tua Quit

By : Mike Rifkin

With 14 seconds left in the Fourth Quarter Tua Tagovailoa connected with Jaylen Waddle on a seven yard touchdown to give the Dolphins a 42-38 win over the Baltimore Ravens on Sunday. For Tagovailoa he threw for 469 yards and Six Touchdowns, both a career high. The Six touchdown passes tied a franchise record with Dan Marino and Bob Griese. The four fourth quarter touchdown passes tied an NFL record. Tyreek Hill and Jaylen Waddle both had 11 catches and two touchdowns. Hill had 190 yards and Waddle had 171 yards. Tua was accurate on Sunday and pushed the ball down the field, something Dolphins fans have wanted to see. 

At two separate points during the game the Dolphins trailed by 21 points. Miami outscored Baltimore 35-10 in the second half including 28 in the Fourth Quarter. The Dolphins trailed from the opening kickoff when Devin Duvernay returned it 103 yards to give the Ravens an instant 7-0 lead. 

Lamar Jackson had another sensational game passing for 318 yards and rushing for 119 yards and four total touchdowns. Lamar went over 100 yards for the ninth time in his career which passed Michael Vick for the most in NFL history. Both Rashod Bateman and Mark Andrews had over 100 yards receiving and a touchdown in the loss. Ravens coach John Harbaugh said after the game “Never did you think we were going to have that many balls thrown over our head. That just can’t happen. That’s not OK. I don’t care who’s back there.” Marcus Peters was playing his first game off ACL surgery he had last season and Marlon Humphery battled a groin injury all week. When healthy this is the best cornerback duo in the league but the Dolphins receivers speed gave them fits in that second half. 

Next week the Dolphins play their AFC East rival Buffalo Bills at home while the Ravens go to Foxborough to play the Patriots.

Titans Bills MNF

The Buffalo Bills head into their Monday night home opener against the Tennessee Titans 1-0. 

In week one, they routed the defending Super Bowl Champions, the Los Angles Rams winning 31-10 after being tied at halftime 10-10. 

Josh Allen looked good, having three touchdowns; the downside was having two interceptions. Stefon Diggs looked like he was already in mid-season form, having 122 receiving yards and a touchdown.

 Most impressively, the Bills defense came up big, picking off Matt Stafford three times Boogie Basham, Jordan Poyer, and Dane Jackson got the ball away from the Rams. The Bill’s defense got seven sacks on Stafford, two of which came from veteran Linebacker Von Miller. 

The Bills looked great in this game. The first half was a little ruff, but in the second half, they showed they could already be in contention to be in the big game come February. Embarrassing the Rams in what was supposed to be the celebration of their Super Bowl win was Like a Hollywood spoiler and was enjoyable to watch. 

Now to the visitors, the Titans come to Buffalo looking for their first win after losing in their home opener against the New York Giants 21-20.

The offense with the Titans looked good. Ryan Tannehill had a good game, 20/33 266 passing yards and two touchdowns, Derrick Henry 21 carries and 82 rushing yards, and Dontrell Hilliard had three receptions, 61 receiving yards, and two touchdowns. They had five sacks on Giants Quarterback Daniel Jones and got an interception off him. The two X-Factors were that one, they could not stop the giants on the game-winning 2-point conversion, and two, they could only put up seven points in the second half. 

The last time these two teams faced each other was back on October 18th of the 2021 season in Tennessee, where Henry helped the Titans to victory with 20 carries, 143 rushing yards, and three touchdowns final score was 34-31. 

Heading into Monday Night, The Bills have a little monkey to get off their back as they have not won on Monday Night at home since the 2014 season, where in week one of that season, they routed the Jets 38-3, where Kyle Orton had 232 passing yards and two touchdowns. 

Three Key Players for Monday’s Game.

  1. Derrick Henry: The Bills need to find a way and shut down Henry after what happened last time. If the Bills can do this, they can shut down what is an excellent run game by the Titans. On the flip side, if Henry breaks free, watch out cause it will be TD City when he is free. 
  2. Josh Allen: I have stated this before the key to Allen is to throw the ball away when he does not have a play, and he had a situation last week where he got picked off when he tried to make a play happen, so getting rid of the ball when there is nothing there. 
  3. Von Miller: Miller broke through in week one against the rams O-Line for two sacks. If he can do this again against the Titans, the pressure will be on Tannehill to get the ball away. If not, hold on to the ball when the Miller Train comes threw, and that, my friend, will be a rough collision. 

Looking To Bounce Back

By : Lawrence Lang 

The Packers will look to get their first win of the season as they host the Chicago Bears in their home opener in a Sunday night showdown at Lambeau Field.  

In week one The Packers lost to the Minnesota Vikings 23-7.  Running back A.J. Dillon got the only score for the Packers when he ran for a two-yard touchdown in the third quarter. Other than that the Packers underperformed.

The same thing happened  last year when they got blown out by The New Orleans Saints in week one where they only put up three points. Now in an era without Wide Receiver Davante Adams who was traded to Las Vegas Raiders the Packers now have a wide-receiver core that is young and inexperienced and that can smell trouble for Aaron Rodgers.  In the loss to the Viking Dillion lead the way with receiving with five receptions and 46 receiving yards , Rookie Wide receiver Romeo Doubs had four receptions and 37 receiving yards and Rookie Wide receiver Christian Watson had two receptions for 34 receiving yards, Watson also had a dropped ball that could have been his first career touchdown and with that drop it set the tone that it was going to be a long game. Rodgers being the only star going 22/34 with 195 passing yards did have one interception as well. 

The Bears come into Green Bay 1-0 after they beat the San Francisco 49ers at home in the Monsoon Bowl as the weather made every player feel like a kid again because of the rain. Quarterback Justin Fields looked good going 8/17 121 passing yards two touchdowns and one interception Running back Khalil Herbert had nine carries for 45 rushing yards and a touchdown, Wide receivers Dante Pettis and former packer Equanimeous St. brown had touchdowns. The Bears defense also held the 49ers to 10 points in the 19-10 victory and also got two sacks and an interception of 49ers quarterback Trey Lance. Overall it was a great win for the Bears especially with the weather they played in. 

This will be the 203 third meeting between the Bears and Packers with the Packers leading the oldest rivalry in the NFL with a 103-95-6 record and winning the last six meetings between the two. With how young this Packers receiver core is this could play a factor in Sunday nights game. 

Three Key points to the game.

  1. Packers Wide Receivers: This receiver core needs to R-E-L-A-X and forget the week one loss. Granted Randall Cobb has faced the bears many times before its the others that need to relax. Doubs, Sammy Watkins, Watson can read their routes right and break free from the Bears defense they can put week one behind them.
  2. Aaron Rodgers: Rodgers needs to get his offense on the same page as him as they looked awful and looked like they were still in the preseason. Hopefully during practice this week Rodgers met with his receivers to figure out the game plan for Sunday cause if they are not on the same page it will be a long season for them because you can’t just relay on the run game and kicking game to win games this is not the 60’s where they perfected the Jets Sweep.
  3. Justin Fields: Week one we did not get to see the Bears offense truly perform due to the harsh weather in Chicago yes they still produced and did well in the weather. I would love to see how this Bear offense will do when it’s not raining. If Justin Fields can step up again especially in Green Bay we can be looking at the 2-0 Bears and the 0-2 Packers last time Packers started 0-2 was 2006. Fields is out to prove that he belongs here in the NFL and what better way to make a statement than trying to beat the Packers. 

Week 2: Chicago Bears at Green Bay Packers

By Ross Mazin

This is one of the marquee matchups this weekend and on the young season. You have the old guard in Aaron Rodgers and the new guard in Justin Fields. These two teams have had quite the history over the last few decades. Being so close to each other doesn’t help. 

The Bears edged the 49ers 19-10 last weekend. Trey Lance had 164 passing yards and an average of 5.9 yards. The Bears defense had 2 sacks. The teams had a combined 155 passing yards and 176 rushing yards. Justin Fields was 8-17 for 121 yards, two touchdowns and an interception.

The Vikings edged the Packers 23-7 last weekend. Aaron Rodgers had 195 passing yards. In the game rookie second round pick Christan Watson dropped a sure touchdown. With Davante Adams now in Vegas, Rodgers is trying to find an instant connection with his receivers. But don’t jump off the Packers ship yet remember the Saints trounced them in week one last year.  Rodgers has won back to back MVPS. He’s also not a bad game show host. 

The Bears have been in the NFL’S basement for a bit. I still don’t know why ownership is not stepping in.  You hope second year quarterback Justin Fields is the answer. The defense has the potential to be good. If the Offensive line and skill positions step up then the Bears have something.

Now some numbers between these two teams.

Green Bay have beaten the bears 12-2 while out scoring Chicago 406-215. The Packers are 23-5 against the Bears with games started by Rodgers.  Rodgers has 61 touchdowns and 10 interceptions in 27 games against his division rival.

My prediction is Bears 23- Packers 10

Baltimore Showdown

By : Mike Rifkin

On Sunday the Baltimore Ravens and Miami Dolphins will meet in a clash of AFC Playoff hopefuls looking to go to 2-0 on the young season. Miami is coming off a 20-7 win over the New England Patriots. It was the Dolphins fourth consecutive win over the Patriots. In the game the Dolphin defense had three sacks, forced three turnovers and scored a defensive touchdown. Receiver Tyreek Hill had eight catches for 94 yards in his Dolphins debut. In three games against the Ravens Hill has 16 catches for 230 yards and a touchdown. It will be interesting to see the matchup of Hill and Jaylen Waddle against Ravens corners Marlon Humphrey and Marcus Peters who for my money is the best cornerback duo in the NFL. 

For the Ravens they are coming off a 24-9 win over the New York Jets. Lamar Jackson threw for three touchdowns, Two to Devin Duvernay. The Ravens defense had three sacks and forced two turnovers. The Ravens will be without Offensive lineman Ja’Waun James who tore his Achilles last week and Cornerback Kyle Fuller who tore his ACL. We don’t know the status of offensive lineman Ronnie Stanley who is coming off Ankle Surgery and it looks like Running Back JK Dobbins will be back after tearing his ACL in training camp last year. 

Last season the two teams met in Miami and the Dolphins won 22-10. It was their second consecutive win during their seven game winning streak. In that game both teams had four sacks, but the Dolphins forced two turnovers including an Xavien Howard fumble return for a touchdown. Tua Tagovailoa relieved Jacoby Brissett and went 8-13 for 158 yards and a rushing touchdown. Lamar Jacksonwas 26-43 for 238 yards a touchdown and an interception and ran for 39 yards on nine carries. 

Two AFC playoff hopefuls meet on Sunday in Baltimore, who will go to 2-0?

Tom’s Kryptonite 

By : Mike Rifkin

Sunday will be the first time Tom Brady and the Bucs play division rival Saints in New Orleans. Since joining the Bucs Brady is 0-4 in the regular season against the Saints. In fact the Bucs have lost seven consecutive games to the Saints and have not won in New Orleans in the regular season since 2017. Brady and the Bucs did defeat the Saints in the NFC Divisional playoffs in 2020 on their way to a Super Bowl victory. In Four regular season games against New Orleans Brady has a 61.1 completion percentage, averages 259 yards per game, six touchdowns and eight interceptions. Last season the Bucs lost both meetings to the Saints by Nine points. In both meetings Chris Godwin was the Bucs leading receiver, that may not be the case on Sunday. Coach Todd Bowles said about Godwin who left last week’s win with a Hamstring injury “He’s in play by a small margin, but we’ll see Sunday, but if I had a guess I’d say he wouldn’t.” Left Tackle Donovan Smith will also be a tough call to see if he plays on Sunday. If Godwin is out that would mean more snaps for Julio Jones who had three catches for 69 yards in his Bucs debut last week against the Cowboys. In 18 games against the Saints Jones has 102 catches, 1,615 yards and three touchdowns. We also get one of the best individual matchups in Football with Mike Evans taking on Marshon Lattimore. These two go back and forth often in his career Evans 48 catches and five touchdowns against the Saints, while Lattimore has a interception and a fumble recovery against Tampa. 

Jameis Winston who was selected Number One overall by the Bucs in 2015 is now the Quarterback of the Saints. Winston who tore his ACL last season, threw for 269 yards and two touchdowns last week against Atlanta. Winston was not the only major return for the Saints last week. Receiver Michael Thomas came back after essentially after two seasons out with an Ankle injury and had five catches for 57 yards and two touchdowns. Thomas in nine games against Tampa has 74 catches for 899 yards and four touchdowns.Running Back Alvin Kamara 464 yards and 11 touchdowns in 10 games against the Bucs. In 22 career games against the Bucs Edge rusher Cameron Jordan 55 tackles, 17.0 sacks, and two fumble recoveries, if Donovan Smith is out those numbers could be increased. 

So will Sunday be Tom Brady’s first win against the Saints in the regular season or will the Saints continue to be Brady’s kryptonite. The winner goes to 2-0 and will be at the top of the NFC South.

A Giant Statement

By Jeff Knapp

The start of the 2022 NFL season is here and the New York Football Giants, along with new head coach Brian Daboll headed into Tennessee to face the defending AFC South Champions Titans who were 5.5 point favorites.  The Giants also entered the game with new OC Mike Kafka, DC Don Martindale and new QB coach Shea Tierney.

The 1st half didn’t look that good and seemed to be the same old Giants as the Titans started their series off with a 46 yard punt return and ended the 1st half with a 13-0 lead. In the 1st half, The Giants also only had 131 total yards and 1 strip fumble by Daniel Jones which was late in the 2nd quarter. 

The defense allowed 185 total yards and 3 sacks in the 1st half for a total of a loss of 16 yards. 

I’m not sure what coach said to the team at half time, but they turned things around and had a much improved 2nd half. Although they allowed Tannehill way too much time in the pocket throughout the game, the defense seemed to swarm to the ball much faster in the 2nd half. 

I was very happy to see that nobody had a dropped pass, which was a plague for them last year. I’m still waiting on Kenny Galladay to either step it up or be involved in the play call a lot more. He was paid too much to be thrown to only two times.

The game was decided on basically 2 things. The 1st one was the inability of the Titans to finish off the Giants when they had plenty of opportunities, for instance when they tried some trick play on 3rd and 1 with Henry in the back field and although not dropping any balls, but not coming up with the catch when needed in the 3rd and 4th quarter. 

I will never question the toughness of Daniel Jones, but he had a golden opportunity to put the game away early in the 4th quarter but Jones threw one of the worst endzone passes to Barkley that was easily intercepted by Amani Hooker. 

The 2nd thing that turned things around for the Giants was the fact that Barkely put that team on his back and gave them 164 yards rushing and 30 yards receiving with a TD and a 2 point conversion that he should thank the Titans defense for forgetting how to tackle that close to the endzone. 

In Giants fashion, Darnay Holmes decided that with under 60 seconds remaining in the game was the perfect time to be called for not 1 but 2 defensive holds that nearly cost the Giants the game

Besides all of that, a few other things went through my mind.

What was with the lack of playing time for Kadarius Toney, Daniel Jones needs to feel the pressure a bit better. Although the O-Line gave up those sacks, there were 2 sacks he might had had a puncher’s chance if he just stepped up a little. And finally, how great was it that Daboll went for the 2 point lead instead of playing it safe and going for the extra point?

I might be alone, but I still have plenty of faith in a healthy Sterling Shepard who had a 65 yards TD reception that ties the game at 13 in the 3rd quarter. 

Sadly, Giants rookie receiver Wan’Dale Robinson was only able to get 1 catch for 5 yards after injuring his knee in the 1st half and not being able to return. Let’s hope that not only he’s good for week 2 in the home opener against the Carolina Panthers, but we will get to see Azeez Ojulari and Kayvon Thibodeaux take the field.

Sunday’s opening day win was the Giants 1st season opener since 2016 against the Dallas Cowboys.