The Giants and Jets need to show some rare staying power and deliver a football season that stays relevant long after the Yankees and Mets are done.
If you play professional baseball in New York City for a living, you might look at your football counterparts and shake your head. The Giants and Jets all but caused a ticker-tape parade to break out by going a combined 3-1 in their first two weeks.
Using the last New York football postseason victory of any kind as a marker — the Giants’ Super Bowl 46 triumph over the Patriots in February 2012 — the Giants and Jets were a combined 116-206 over the 10 regular seasons preceding 2022, with a grand total of one playoff game between them. Using that singular playoff appearance as a separate marker the Giants and Jets were a combined 74 games under .500 in the 162 games they played before this year’s openers.
Following three straight two-and-done head coaches, rookie Brian Daboll has given the Giants reason to believe he has a plan and a player-empowering style that could be keepers. Second-year man Robert Saleh hasn’t inspired the same level of faith, at least not yet. But when the Jets came from behind and recovered an onside kick in the closing minutes to win an NFL road game with a backup quarterback, they showed they are willing to fight for Saleh against forbidding odds.
Of course, the mission of just being competent is compromised by the fact that neither local team is set at quarterback., again, and nobody knows on return if he will be any better in Year 2 than he was in Year 1. Daniel Jones has made some winning plays — most notably his run for a first down Sunday that sunk Carolina — but has already felt Daboll’s wrath and, all in all, hasn’t yet played at a level that would dissuade GM Joe Schoen from scouring America’s campuses for a new quarterback.
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