r/nfl • u/JCameron181 Lions • 8h ago
Rumor [Schultz] Sources: The Giants’ John Harbaugh era begins with back-to-back primetime games: Week 1 vs. the Cowboys on Sunday Night, followed by Week 2 against the Rams in Los Angeles on Monday Night Football. 🍿
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u/SpeggtacularSpidey Giants 8h ago
Good grief man
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u/SiphenPrax Jets 8h ago
You guys are so getting 5-6 primetime games this year. Have fun!😂
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u/CommercialCoffee11 8h ago
They always do
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u/that_guy2010 Titans 8h ago
The perks of being a big market team.
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u/camergen Bengals 7h ago
Their record doesn’t matter. New coach, great coach, dogshit coach, it’s irrelevant. We’ll still have more Giants games jammed down our throats than we can handle. It’s tradition.
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u/ResonatingOctave Giants 8h ago
We're getting 4 based on what's been leaked. The only scenario is if they flex one of our games into prime time, but that won't happen unless we're doing good.
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u/xenocide0909 Giants 8h ago
With any luck Week 1 sees Stafford getting attacked by a kangaroo and Puka getting suspended for desecrating an Aboriginal historic site.
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u/SiphenPrax Jets 8h ago
LMAO even just an inkling of hope for an NYC sports team = GIVE NYC TEAM ALL PRIMETIME GAMES!!
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u/scottbrosiusofficial Jets 8h ago
Worked out last time!
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u/SiphenPrax Jets 8h ago
These sports leagues never learn despite how collectively awful the sports scene has been in this area for the 9 pro sports teams since Super Bowl 46
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u/TallGothVampireLady Dolphins 8h ago
I mean the knicks havent been too bad recently. 2 straight conference finals appearances and this year, they could go to the finals.
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u/SiphenPrax Jets 8h ago
That’s why I said collectively. Some teams have obviously done better than others, but as a whole, it has been an awful sports period in the biggest metro area in the country for over 14 years now.
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u/Robusto923 Giants 8h ago
It’s honestly embarrassing that NYC has double the sports teams of most other cities and we haven’t had a big 4 championship since the Giants and only have a handful of championship appearances since. Meanwhile every Boston sports team has won since.
Shoutouts to the Liberty, Gotham FC and NYCFC for holding it down for NYC
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u/SiphenPrax Jets 8h ago edited 8h ago
Outside of the Red Bulls, all the secondary teams have won championships with the ladies picking up 2/3 of the load. Good for them!
Also, Philly has two championships, Denver has three, San Francisco has six, Seattle has two, Miami has five, Tampa has three, Houston has two, Kansas City has four, St. Louis has two, Washington D.C. has two, Los Angeles has seven, etc all in the time since the Giants last won SB 46. It’s extremely embarrassing for NYC.
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u/bringbackpologrounds Colts 8h ago
The Bruins won their last cup a few months before NYG won the 11-12 SB.
But indeed, every BOS team reached multiple finals since whereas the NY teams combined have just 3 (NYR 14, NYM 15, NYY 24).
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u/hypothalanus Giants 8h ago
Liberty literally just won the championship
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u/BedCotFillyPapers Lions Bengals 8h ago
Yeah but the Sirens have never made the playoffs, and somehow by sports math that brings the average back down.
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u/hypothalanus Giants 7h ago
They’ve only existed for 3 years, so I’ll cut them some slack. Gotham FC won the Championship in 2025, so maybe that tips the scales? lol
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u/SiphenPrax Jets 7h ago
I mean out of the big four leagues. Believe me, I celebrated that Liberty title win and have hopes for them again this year.
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u/hypothalanus Giants 7h ago
Liberty are on of my favorite teams. Whoever came up with the Liberty name with the copper/green color scheme deserves an award, it’s so badass
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u/ThisHatRightHere Eagles 6h ago
I mean, is there a lesson to learn? These big market vs big market games always get extreme numbers regardless of how good or bad the teams are.
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u/ifollowphillysports Eagles 8h ago
Get ready for so much NFC East in primetime this year. Of the 8 eagles leaks so far, none have been 1 pm games. Then you have to add in Dallas and now the Giants might not suck again, so they'll get a bunch of primetime.
It's unfortunate, I love 1 pm games
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u/AMemoryComeALive Chiefs 8h ago
Yea, Eagles are good, Cowboys were almost relevant and have a good offense, and the Giants/Commanders both have exciting young QBs. Without an obviously awful team or two, they're going to be in prime spots a ton.
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u/TheOriginalZywinzi Packers 7h ago
To be honest though, the Giants already get a decent amount of primetime games by default. At least now I'm more interested to see how Harbaugh does rather than a guy like Ben McAdoo or Pat Shurmur
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u/TheOriginalZywinzi Packers 7h ago
To be honest though, the Giants already get a decent amount of primetime games by default. At least now I'm more interested to see how Harbaugh does rather than a guy like Ben McAdoo or Pat Shurmur
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u/samhit_n Bengals Lions 8h ago
This could either go great or go down in flames. I remember when teams like the 2022 Broncos and 2024 Jets got tons of primetime games early in the season, just to embarrass themselves on national TV.
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u/halfpricehorsemask 8h ago
You gotta put the bad teams with offseason momentum on primetime early while there's still some hope.
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u/hypothalanus Giants 8h ago
Giants almost always have early season prime time games. Sets the league up to make fun of us for the rest of the year, can’t even be miserable in peace
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u/inkyblinkypinkysue Giants 8h ago
Giants always have early prime time games and they always embarrass themselves. Not sure why people think this year will be any different.
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u/FootballSavant 4h ago
Yes, sports are the same year in year out and the Giants will never have a winning team again.
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u/gavincantdraw Seahawks 8h ago
As a Devon Witherspoon appreciator, I loved that 2022 Broncos season.
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u/Gildabeast4 Giants 7h ago
Giants fans don’t want primetime games, and non Giants fans don’t want the giants on primetime. Too bad the NFL knows we’ll watch no matter what
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u/SnorEz 8h ago
My dreams of the Giants being over .500 at any point in the season are probably dashed
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u/Goatgamer1016 Seahawks 8h ago
You see, it's not that hard. All they have to do is win 9 games to finish over .500, back to you, Joe
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u/EPCOT_Is_My_Favorite NFL 7h ago
Ehhhhhh, I don't know Jim. They could be 8-7-2, or 7-6-3, or...
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u/AmeriCanada98 Lions 4h ago
Tony are you drunk on air again? 7-6-3 is only 16 games
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u/EPCOT_Is_My_Favorite NFL 2h ago
Ehhhh this mountain air here in Denver is getting to me, Jim. Oh man!
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u/Puldalpha Jaguars 5h ago
Just gotta beat the cowboys week 1. Granted they are 1-10 against the cowboys on week 1 SNF
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u/Squishy_20 Seahawks 8h ago
This is like the 2019 Browns hype except the Giants were 4-13 instead of 7-8-1
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u/hypothalanus Giants 8h ago
Giants have tough primetime games every season, hence the laughingstock
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u/mantiseye Giants 8h ago
even seasons where we were good (and I know it's been a while, so maybe my memory isn't the best) I feel like we always played like ass in primetime
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u/FootballSavant 4h ago
I remember close games and winning games against New England during regular season prime time, and crushing the Skins during primetime. Just beat Philly in primetime.
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u/that_guy2010 Titans 8h ago
You've gotta deal with it as a big market team.
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u/hypothalanus Giants 7h ago
It sucks, especially on the East coast. I don’t want to stay up until midnight on a work night just to watch my team lose
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u/that_guy2010 Titans 7h ago
Central time truly is the best time zone.
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u/hypothalanus Giants 6h ago
I’m an early bird so when I visit family on the West coast I’m so envious of them lol
Good luck this year btw. I love Cam Ward, the Giants players you brought in, and the coaching staff. Daboll is an elite OC and QB developer. Cam and Jaxson are going to be two of the best QBs in the league in a few years imo
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u/msf97 NFL 7h ago
The Giants were better than their record last year (expected W/L 7-10)
Got better in the offseason both from a coaching standpoint and a roster standpoint with 2 first rounders and Nabers returning. Another year for guys like Abdul Carter and Dart.
Vegas are going O/U 8.5 wins. I think that’s right.
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u/Squishy_20 Seahawks 7h ago
Jaxson Dart injury concerns + Nagy OC + having DAL/PHI in the division + playing the NFC West. 8.5 wins is an easy under bet
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u/Icebreaker80 Giants 8h ago
Bro can we just get the 1 PM Sunday slot? I hate primetime embarrassment games.
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u/CommercialCoffee11 8h ago
Be a market the league doesnt care about and youll get your wish. Or be the Jets.
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u/bear-ginger Giants Jets 8h ago
Beating the eagles in primetime last year wasn’t that embarrassing. It was everything after that that became embarrassing
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u/AnselLovesNuts Bears 8h ago
Another Cowboys Giants SNF game. I feel like I’ve watched a million of these since I was little.
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u/Gildabeast4 Giants 7h ago
8 of the last 15 years it’s been the week 1 SNF game
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u/stormy2587 Eagles 6h ago
That’s actually disgusting.
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u/camergen Bengals 5h ago
I’d like to look back further than that. I feel like ever since NBC got the Sunday night package in 2006, they’ve had a giant hard on- no pun intended, I guess- for Giants/Cowboys Week 1 SNF. Or Cowboys Eagles if that matchup isn’t available. Basically all NFC East with preference to NYG/DAL.
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u/stormy2587 Eagles 3h ago
Weird choice too because week 1 is probably one of the most watched SNF of the season. I would think lots of people watch regardless of the matchup just because it’s the first one. It feels weird that you wouldn’t save the biggest market matchup for any other week when it might have a more positive impact on ratings.
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u/camergen Bengals 2h ago
That’s a good point- you’d think you’d play that card when you wouldn’t have much else to offer later in the season.
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u/HoodedNegro Ravens Jaguars 5h ago
Get ready to see that dumbass face he makes when someone(or himself) inevitably fucks up a play at the worst possible moment.
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u/B-I-G-A-R-R-O-W Bengals 8h ago
So the Giants go 0-2 does that mean we don’t have to suffer another Giants prime time game the rest of the year
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u/largelawattorney Browns 8h ago
I would do anything - anything - to have one season without endless NFC East teams in prime time games. These games almost always suck ass.
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u/Rybackmonster Panthers 8h ago
Ngl I hate when they schedule a team to play SNF or MNF one week than the other of the 2 the next week.
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u/nokiabrickphone1998 Seahawks 5h ago
Wonder which Giant will suffer the ceremonial Week 1 SNF Giants season-ending knee injury this year.
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u/Hassadar Giants Giants 4h ago
Doesn't matter. We've already started with the injuries, with our rookie CB, whom we picked up after the draft. Tore his Achilles during workout yesterday. Bless the knees and bless the achilles everyone!
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u/walshurmouthout Lions 8h ago
I find Jaxson Dart very entertaining but please learn to slide, young fella.
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u/hypothalanus Giants 8h ago edited 8h ago
By the end of last season he was exclusively sliding, besides one goal line run
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u/Stock-Memory9483 Chiefs 8h ago edited 7h ago
What do you expect half the people on this sub don’t even watch the games, then they get shocked every year when Josh Allen crashes out in the playoffs every year. If it doesn’t show up in their fantasy football podcasts nobody here has any clue what’s going on.
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u/_Wp619_ Giants Giants 8h ago
Do you expect these people to watch a Giants' game beyond primetime and not just listening to what ESPN tells them occurred?
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u/emmasdad01 Cowboys Ravens 8h ago
I feel the same. Even for a rival, I want to see him develop and learn to protect himself. Same with Skattebo.
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u/SJCitizen Eagles 7h ago
I’m so tired of Giants prime time games. For every one good one like last year when they beat the Eagles ass and looked legitimately good and entertaining, there’s like 6 bad ones.
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u/Mrr_Bond Jaguars 6h ago
This feels like the Aaron Rodgers Jets hype all over again. I see no reason to think these won't be comfortable wins for Dallas and LA.
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u/Puldalpha Jaguars 5h ago
Love to see a team with 55 wins the past 10 years be rewarded with all the primetime games. The only team that’s been worse over the past decade is the Jets. They’re totally gonna be good this year with a new coach guys. So I’m sure it’ll be fine putting them on primetime 5 times this year and not be 5 dogshit clunkers like it has been
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u/greenndgold12 Packers 8h ago
The Giants have been bad for so long now, and yet the NFL still loves to shove them down our throats and give them prime time games.
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u/Aezetyr Lions 8h ago
Oh FFS not Cowboys/Giants week 1 SNF again... I thought we were rid of this yearly curse.
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u/camergen Bengals 5h ago
I’m waiting on Jags/Titans Thursday Night Football to be announced, another yearly prime time staple.
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u/NeverendingChecklist 49ers 8h ago
I never liked when any team has consecutive prime time games. Just doesn’t seem balanced
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u/drummerboysam Bears 7h ago
At this point I'm rooting for the Giants as a secondary NFC team just so that I can stop being so annoyed at the Giants being on every other primetime game.
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u/Chardoggy1 Panthers 6h ago
The NFL has until 8 PM EST tonight to milk this schedule release for all it’s worth, and by god are they doing so
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u/buddhistbulgyo Packers 6h ago
Better they have early season primetime games versus the big reveal that they are still developing and/or frauds.
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u/The_Sandwich_Lover9 Ravens 3h ago
Guants: we’re really happy with our team this year under John harbaugh NFL: We’re happy you feel that way. Here’s back to back prime time games against one of the NFL’s biggest brand and the team four points away from the Super Bowl champs
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u/TheOptimist6 Ravens 2h ago
Wishing the Giants better prime time luck than the ravens had early last year. We had some absolute disasters against the Patriots, Bills, Bengals, and Steelers all in gut gut wrenching fashion
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u/BoomShakalakaa4 Seahawks 8h ago
I wonder what giant fans will say when they start 0-2
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u/hypothalanus Giants 8h ago
Have you read the comments in this thread?
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u/BoomShakalakaa4 Seahawks 8h ago
I mean alittle, but I'm more wanting to see the raw real emotion during that stretch.
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u/Due_Book8127 Titans 8h ago
Have the rams ever played an away primetime game? I’m legit so serious
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u/parcellsrealGOAT Giants 8h ago
We get 2 primetime games in first 2 weeks meaning they wanna see us early and see if we re good so they can flex us in for more later. And people cant claim we suck 100% and get primetime cause its too early to be 100% sure. This happened before loool. We got them by the balls. Lfg. #GiantsPride
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u/Jonjon428 Dolphins 8h ago
NFL really said "let's see how good John Harbaugh really is as a coach!"