Giants vs. Kansas City Week 8 preview: Everything you need to know for Monday Night Football
Kansas City wide receiver Tyreek Hill catches a pass ahead of Bills safety Jordan Poyer, right, during the first half of the AFC Championship Game on Jan. 24 in Kansas City, Mo. Credit: AP/Jeff Roberson
VITALS
Line: Kansas City by 10; O/U 52
TV: ESPN, WPIX (Steve Levy, Brian Griese)
Radio: WFAN-660 AM (Bob Papa, Carl Banks, Howard Cross); Westwood One (Kevin Harlan, Kurt Warner); Sirius 81; XM 226.
INJURY UPDATE
Giants: Out: RB Saquon Barkley, LB Lorenzo Carter, LB Carter Coughlin, DB Nate Ebner (ankle), WR Kenny Golladay (knee); Questionable: WR Sterling Shepard (hamstring), TE Kaden Smith (knee), WR Kadarius Toney (ankle).
Kansas City: Out: LB Anthony Hitchens (tricep), DT Khalen Saunders (knee); Questionable: OT Mike Remmers (knee), CB Charvarius Ward (foot).
QUOTABLE
"They could probably put a 4x100 team together and beat half of the college teams around." — Special teams coordinator Thomas McGaughey on Kansas City’s overall speed.
FANTASY PLAY
Darrel Williams, Kansas City RB: The Giants are averaging 26.76 points allowed to opposing running backs, mostly because they have given up the fourth-most rushing yards (788) in the NFL. Williams, in place of the injured Clyde Edwards-Helaire, had 21 carries for 62 yards and two touchdowns in Week 6, and if the game script goes Kansas City’s way, he could see similar numbers on Monday night. —Nick Klopsis
INTANGIBLES
The Giants have scored 13 first-quarter points, the league’s second-lowest total behind the Jets (seven after Sunday’s game). But the Giants have allowed only six points in the first 15 minutes, which is also the second-lowest figure (Buffalo, three). The 19 combined first-quarter points are easily the NFL’s lowest total (Steelers and opponents have 33). Kanas City has allowed an NFL-high 49 first-quarter points.
NUMBER, PLEASE
14: Years since the Giants have beaten a team that lost the previous year’s Super Bowl. That was a 2007 victory over the Bears. Of course they have only played (and lost) three such games since, the last coming last year against the 49ers. In their history they are 6-20 in the regular season against Super Bowl losers.
Tom Rock began covering sports for Newsday in 1996 and became its NFL columnist in 2022. He previously was Newsday's Giants beat writer beginning in 2008.
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