Giants open at Titans, visit Cowboys on Thanksgiving Day

Brian Daboll makes his NFL head coaching debut on the road, as the Giants face the Titans in Tennessee on Sept. 11 to open the 2022 season. Daboll will coach in front of the MetLife Stadium crowd the following Sunday in the team’s home opener against the Carolina Panthers.

The Giants will appear in the first of two nationally televised games in Week 3 at home against the Cowboys on Monday Night Football. 

And there will be a game against the Packers in London on Oct. 9 at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, where the Giants play across the pond for the third time in franchise history and the first time since Oct. 23, 2016, when they beat the Rams at Twickenham Stadium. The Giants beat the Dolphins at Wembley Stadium in 2007 during their first Super Bowl season of the Tom Coughlin-Eli Manning era. This will be the first game in London for the Packers, as they become the final NFL team to play there.

Daboll faces the meat of his divisional schedule late in the season, as the Giants play against NFC East opponents in five of their final seven games, including four in a row from Nov. 24 through the weekend of Dec. 17-18. That Nov. 24 game is Thanksgiving Day against the Cowboys at AT&T Stadium, the Giants’ first Thanksgiving Game since Nov. 23, 2017, when they lost in Washington.

Thursday games in general haven’t gone well for the Giants, who are 15-13-3 overall but have lost their last six games played on that day or night. Their last Thursday win was on Sept. 24, 2015 against Washington at home, and their last Thursday road win came on Sept. 25, 2014 in Washington.

The Week 2 game against the Panthers is the first of three straight home games, followed by the Cowboys and Bears at MetLife Stadium.

There will be plenty of travel in the month of October, as the Giants will total 13,374 air miles, starting with their game against the Packers in London. The Giants elected not to take their bye week after the game and will host the Ravens on Oct. 16. They’ll then face the Jaguars in Jacksonville on Oct. 23 and the Seahawks in Seattle on Oct. 30.

The Giants’ final four games include three on the road, including games in Washington (Dec. 17 or 18) and Minnesota (Dec. 24). After a home game against the Colts on New Year’s Day, they conclude the regular season on Jan. 7 or 8 against the Eagles in Philadelphia.

By Bob Glauber

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Bob Glauber retired in 2022 after covering the NFL for nearly 40 years. He was selected in 2021 for the Bill Nunn Career Achievement Award by the Pro Football Writers of America, and is a three-time winner of the New York State Sportswriter of the Year by the National Sports Media Association. President of the PFWA for the 2018-20 seasons, he is the author of “The Forgotten First” and “Guts and Genius.”