The Giants get a big stage game in Week 1 this season — a Sunday night showdown with the Cowboys, on Sept. 10 at MetLife Stadium.
Cris Collinsworth, of course, will be in the NBC broadcast booth for that the game. And on Wednesday — during a conference call with reporters — he weighed in on why he’s not fully sold on the 2023 Giants, even though he loves second-year coach Brian Daboll.
“I think that Daboll will prove that he is really one of the better coaches in the league,” Collinsworth said.
Daboll, as a rookie head coach, went 9-7-1 in 2022 and won a wild-card playoff game in Minnesota, before getting spanked by the Eagles in the divisional round.
Will he be able to avoid regressing in 2023?
“They surprised me last year,” Collinsworth said. “I’m really curious to see if the Giants can do it again.”
The Giants this season must perform better in NFC East. That would be a good starting point. Collinsworth on Wednesday marveled at what they accomplished last year “without being very good at all in their division.” The Giants got swept by the Cowboys and Eagles and went 1-0-1 against the Commanders. That’s not the only thing the Giants must improve this year.
“The thing that they lacked was explosive plays,” Collinsworth said. “They just couldn’t get easy yards or easy touchdowns. And they went out to fix that.”
Trading for Raiders tight end Darren Waller was a big part of that mission. He should be a huge factor in this offense, if he can stay healthy.
“He was not right last year,” Collinsworth said. “He had a bad hamstring and just could not make those big plays. But he can be ‘one of one,’ in many ways, in this league. Teams will leave him on the single receiver side, and if you choose to just put a corner or just a safety on him, they’ll just throw the ball up in the air all day and let him out-rebound whoever you want to put over there.”
Daboll hopes that adds up to more big plays.
The Giants last season had just 28…
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