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Giants investigating video of maskless Daniel Jones, Saquon Barkley at social gathering. According to multiple reports, a small group of Giants players gathered for a dinner with a few friends in a private room at a restaurant. They were then invited to drinks at the bar closed to the public.

Oct 24 The Giants didn't wait for the trade deadline to make their first in-season deal of the year. Eleven days before the Nov. 3 deadline, the team announced it has traded outside linebacker Markus Golden to the Arizona Cardinals for a sixth-round selection in the 2021 NFL Draft. Golden returns to the team for which he played his first four NFL seasons before joining the Giants as a free agent in 2019. He led the Giants with 10.5 sacks last year.

Oct 23 Giants lose to the Eagles 22-21

Game 7 Preview - Giants (1-5) Eagles (1-4-1)
The Philadelphia Eagles lost to the Baltimore Ravens 30-28, on Sunday at Lincoln Financial Field. They were down 17-0 at the end of the first half. At the two minute warning, they had a chance to tie the score with a two-point conversion, but failed.
At the same time the Eagles were playing, the Washington Football Team was staging their comeback attempt against the Giants at MetLife Stadium. With the score at 20-19, they could have tied the game, but chose instead to go for the win with a two-point conversion attempt that also failed for them.

Oct 22 The Eagles are barely holding onto a second-place standing in the division behind the Dallas Cowboys (2-4), and the Giants could leap Philadelphia in the standings with an upset win on the road. Will the Eagles pick up momentum in the NFC East race? Or, will the Giants take the second-place baton from their rivals?

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Odell Beckham told the media Wednesday why he was seen throwing a tamper tantrum on the sideline during Sunday's 38-7 loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers. According to cleveland.com, Beckham said he was angry about he and some of the other starters being pulled from the game with eight minutes remaining.

Oct 21 Backup struggles have Giants hoping for Sterling Shepard return. Shepard remains on IR (and off the official injury report) for now, and the Giants have a 21-day window to add him to the 53-man roster. His status for Thursday could be decided 90 minutes before kickoff.

Tae Crowder had a moment in the sun this week, but the Giants' rookie linebacker was placed on injured reserve with a hamstring injury suffered in a 20-19 victory against the Washington Football Team on Sunday. Crowder, the Mr. Irrelevant honoree from the 2020 NFL Draft, earned his first bit of professional fame by recovering a Kyle Allen fu.

Oct 20 Giants are must-watch with NFL madness making anything possible. We are 100 percent certain about three things: 1. The NFC East is, to put it nicely, awful. 2. The Eagles are banged up. The Cowboys lost their quarterback. Washington is just flat brutal, and seems intent on battling the Jets for the right to dream about Trevor Lawrence. 3. This would not be unprecedented. Twice in non-strike seasons, a team has finished with a losing record and won its division - meaning it didn't just qualify for the postseason, it actually got a home game out of it.f it.

Oct 19 Giants win over Washington 20-19

Game 6 Preview - Giants (0-5) Redskins (1-4)
For the first time this season Washington had allowed fans at the stadium. They unfortunately saw their starting quarterback leave the game early on due to an injury, and the Los Angeles Rams won 30-10.
Later on Sunday, the Giants held a three point lead late in the fourth quarter at AT&T Stadium. The Cowboys came back and scored two field goals to keep their fans happy with a 34-31 win.

Oct 18 The Giants lost an important part of their linebacker corps when Lorenzo Carter ruptured his Achilles last week against the Cowboys, ending his season. Now he joins Oshane Ximines as outside linebackers on injured reserve, though Ximines is expected to return at some point. At least there's good news - the Giants are appear to be getting back inside linebacker David Mayo this week after he missed five games due to a knee injury suffered in training camp.

Oct 17 Special Report - Enough about Daniel Jones. He is the current Giants' quarterback, for better or worse, unless you would be happier with Colt McCoy - and of course you wouldn't be. Should the Giants have taken him in the 2019 draft with the sixth overall pick? Yes, if their mind was made up to draft a quarterback. Could they have tried to convince Eli Manning to play one more year? No, that would have constituted elder abuse.
What about signing a veteran for a year or two until another draft rolled around? Yeah, that might have worked, and if they had not taken Jones with that sixth position, they could have wound up with defensive end Josh Allen, defensive tackle Ed Oliver, linebacker Devin Bush, offensive tackle Jonah Williams or defensive tackle Jeffery Simmons, all of whom were taken shortly after that sixth spot.

Oct 16 Six years in the NFL has taught Markus Golden that what happens in one game has no bearing on what might occur the next time a team takes the field. In the first quarter of this season, Golden became a part-time player. He was on the field for just seven defensive snaps in the Giants' loss to the Rams in Los Angeles on Oct. 4 and 67 in the first four games. In 2019, he led the Giants with 10.0 sacks and was third with 917 defensive snaps. Golden was the first Giants linebacker with double-digit sacks since Hall of Famer Lawrence Taylor in 1990.

Oct 15 Struggling Daniel Jones has the support that Dwayne Haskins doesn't. Two second-year quarterbacks, both drafted in the first round, both playing under their second head coach. One benched for too much losing. One with an unshakeable grip on starting despite too much losing. These are the divergent paths of the Giants' Daniel Jones and Washington's Dwayne Haskins, who were drafted No. 6 and No. 15, respectively.

Oct 14 Giants O-line coach explains why Andrew Thomas is struggling inside. According to PFF, Thomas has allowed 28 total pressures from the left tackle position, including a season-high nine last week against the Dallas Cowboys. And Through five weeks, Thomas leads all offensive tackles with 28 pressures.
Giants offensive line coach Marc Colombo said its simply a matter of staying on Thomas each day to get him to clean up some things, but also noted that there is one thing in particular that has shown up on tape that opponents have exploited in Thomas' game.

Oct 13 The Giants have lost one of their most promising defensive players for the remainder of the season. An examination revealed that the third-year outside linebacker Lorenzo Carter ruptured his left Achilles tendon. He will undergo surgery within the next few days to repair the injury. The Giants were counting on Carter and second-year pro Oshane Ximines to be two of their top pass rushers this season. Now both will be on injured reserve. Ximines was placed there Friday with a shoulder injury, though he will be eligible to return after missing two more games.

Game 5 Preview - Giants (0-4) Cowboys (1-3)
The Cowboys scored 38 points last Sunday in their game with the Cleveland browns. Still, it wasn't enough to keep up with the browns, who outscored them 49-38.
The Giants had a chance to catch up near the end of their game in Los Angeles. Things didn't work out for them, and they took a 17-9 loss to the Rams.

Oct 11 Giants' task is clear: Score some touchdowns, already. Before this 0-4 start, Daniel Jones was over the moon about directing Jason Garrett's quarterback-friendly offense. What we have witnessed so far is a kicker-friendly offense. Jones has thrown two TD passes, none since the opener against the Steelers. Over the past three games, Graham "The Toe" Gano has booted eight field goals.

Oct 10 Ryan Lewis emerging as force in Giants' secondary. By force of habit, Ryan Lewis is still living out of his suitcase. Playing for eight NFL teams in four seasons with stints lasting as short as two weeks offers a lesson, but Lewis can earn the right to unpack Sunday if he is able to stabilize a major weakness for the Giants. He likely will be the third different starter in five games at No. 2 cornerback - tested early and often by the Cowboys' top-ranked passing attack.

Oct 9 Jason Garrett might be the most popular person in the Giants' headquarters this week and it has nothing to do with his affable personality or engaging nature. The Giants Sunday will face the Dallas Cowboys, for whom Garrett coached the previous 13 seasons, including the last 9 1/2 as their head coach. Garrett knows the Cowboys, their personnel and is even familiar with their offensive scheme (coordinator Kellen Moore called Dallas' plays in 2019) and will face them for the first time since leaving the organization.

Oct 8 Giants are going to play in front of fans for first time in 2020. Normally, hitting the road means bracing for disruptive and, at times, abusive crowd noise directed at the visiting team. The Giants played games in Chicago and Inglewood, Calif., this season and there was not a fan in sight. The Giants' two home games were also fan-less, in accordance with COVID-19 restrictions. On Sunday, there are expected to be around 20,000 fans inside AT&T Stadium - capacity of 80,000 sitting and expandable to 100,000 with standing room - when the Giants face the Cowboys.

Oct 7 The first four weeks of the 2020 NFL season have been a case of what can go wrong, will go wrong for the New York Giants. At 0-4, the Giants officially sit at the bottom of the NFC thanks to their status as the lowest-scoring team in all of football. By all accounts, the Giants are at rock bottom, yet there's reason to believe that they can only go up from here.

Oct 6 Special Report - The general reaction to the Giants close-but-no-cigar loss to the Los Angeles Rams is not an old one, but it has surfaced in recent months: "Is Daniel Jones the answer at quarterback? Is he Phil Simms or Eli Manning, or is he Dave brown?" Head coach Joe Judge, whose resume currently says 0-4, was asked that question before the team left to fly home Monday morning.
He has been a rabid supporter of Jones and his response indicated only that. "Look, if you're asking if Daniel is our quarterback, then Daniel is our quarterback," he responded. "That's who we're playing. We support him, we have a lot of confidence in him, we have faith in him. Again, he's a young guy who's developing. We've seen a lot of progress from him day to day."

It might not look like it, but the coaches have made some subtle lineup changes to jumpstart this Giants team and get it into the win columns. The most notable is the decision to get rookie offensive tackle Matt Peart some more game snaps (yes, even though per PFF Cam Fleming is playing well). The other is at inside linebacker, where a struggling Deante Downs is losing snaps to a rising Tae Crowder. What are some of the other notable takeaways from this week's snap counts?

Game 4 Preview - Giants (0-3) Los Angeles Rams (2-1)
Last Sunday the Rams found themselves trailing the Buffalo Bills 28-3 in the third quarter. Then they scored on four consecutive drives, and took the lead by four points. The Bills needed a touchdown on their last drive of the game, and they managed to do that, giving them a 35-32 win over the Rams.
The Giants were holding their own in the first two losses against tougher competition. They took a big step backwards last week against a San Francisco 49ers team that was missing key players due to injuries. The Giants had their worst performance to date and took a 36-9 loss.

Oct 4 Giants' offense has been missing big plays. The word has been bandied about for a few weeks now: "explosive." The Giants don't have it. Their offense is missing it. Their longest run of the season is 23 yards, by quarterback Daniel Jones. Their longest run by a running back? Just 18 yards. The longest reception is a 41-yard touchdown pass from Jones to Darius Slayton. The second-longest reception is just 29 yards.

Oct 3 One of the Giants' brightest stars from this past summer is set to return home. Wide receiver Alex Bachman is currently undergoing COVID-19 testing and is expected to sign with the Giants' practice squad. Originally, Bachman was believed to be in the running to lock down a 53-man roster spot thanks to a stellar training camp showing. However, the former Wake Forest standout ultimately fell victim to a numbers game, as he was one of five receivers to be sent packing during final roster cuts.

Oct 2 Special Report - The Giants will fly off Saturday morning to Los Angeles, play the Rams Sunday and fly back Monday at noon. They will head west as 12-1/2 point underdogs and when they wing it home they will have probably proven that to be true. Bill Parcells used to say that the guys who make the point spreads don't play football, so what the hell do they know?
He is also the head coach who used to say: 'Don't call yourself a long-suffering fan. Nobody asked you to suffer. Try die-hard instead, makes you look stronger." While they are airborne, head coach Joe Judge and general manager Dave Gettleman might have thoughts rattling around in their heads only slightly connected to the game. For instance, is Daniel Jones really the right one to be the heir apparent to Eli Manning?

Oct 1 Markus Golden has gone from team MVP to mysteriously MIA. The most productive player on the Giants defense in 2019 has seen his playing time drastically reduced by the first-year coaching staff, meaning a strange road that began during free agency has spilled into the first three games. Asked to explain Golden's decreased role, Giants outside linebackers coach bret Bielema declined specifics.

Sep 30 The Giants continued to shuffle up their running back room on Tuesday by releasing uninspiring veteran running back Rod Smith and adding another veteran in the form of Alfred Morris. Morris has proven to be an effective between the tackles runner which is something the NY Giants are severely lacking at the moment as the rushing unit ranks dead last in rushing yards and yards-per-attempt.

Sep 29 Daniel Jones has led the Giants in rushing in two of the first three games, but his read-option-keeper ability is now on tape and no longer a surprise. Corrections must start with the run-blocking: The Giants are last in the league in rushing yards per carry (3.2) and per game (56.7). Production was poor with five quarters of the elusive back Saquon Barkley and it's bottomed out since he suffered a season-ending torn ACL and left the job to Devonta Freeman, Wayne Gallman and Dion Lewis.

Game 3 Preview - Giants (0-2) San Francisco (1-1)
Last Sunday the San Francisco 49ers played at MetLife Stadium against the Jets. They came away with a 31-13 win, but suffered a number of injuries in the process.
The Giants also were struck with injuries in their game with the Bears in Chicago. They fought back from a 17-0 first-half deficit, and had a chance to win on the last play of the game, but took a 17-13 loss.

Sep 27 San Francisco will be down its quarterback (Jimmy Garoppolo), tight end (George Kittle), No. 1 wide receiver (Deebo Samuel), top two running backs (Raheem Mostert, Tevin Coleman) and center (Weston Richburg). Despite that, this will be no cakewalk for the Giants, and the reason for that is two-fold. For one, the 49ers have some of the best depth in the NFL and are as well-equipped as anyone to stomach even this amount of roster decimation. Second, they have one of the most inventive and respected play-callers in coach Kyle Shanahan.

Sep 26 One year ago, an early-season injury to Saquon Barkley opened a door for Wayne Gallman, who answered the call at first, but strangely was buried on the bench for the final five games. Gallman could make the big leap from unexpected healthy inactive last week against the Bears to starter Sunday against the 49ers, with a final chance to make something promising of his Giants career before entering free agency.

Sep 25 When the Giants signed Blake Martinez in the offseason, they were hoping they would be getting the dominant, tackling machine that anchored the middle of the Packers defense for so many years. Through the first two weeks of the 2020 season, Martinez has lived up to the bill and then some.

Sep 24 The Giants are in a good news, bad news situation. The good: Wednesday, the Giants officially signed running back Devonta Freeman, a two-time Pro Bowler, to fill the void vacated by Saquon Barkley's season-ending injury. The bad: They also placed wide receiver Sterling Shepard on injured reserve. That means Shepard will be out for at least three weeks and now quarterback Daniel Jones will have to find ways to production without one of his favorite targets.

Sep 23 After losing Saquon Barkley for the season, the New York Giants signed running back Devonta Freeman to a one-year contract Wednesday. Financial terms were not disclosed, but agent Drew Rosenhaus told ESPN's Adam Schefter that the deal is worth up to $3 million. "Devonta turned down more money from other teams because he likes the opportunity with the Giants best," Rosenhaus told Schefter.

Sep 22 Saquon Barkley touched the football just 25 times before his 2020 season ended because of a torn right anterior cruciate ligament that will force him to undergo surgery and endure an arduous rehabilitation. Coach Joe Judge is confident his team will soldier on, remain focused and continue to improve. But he knows the offense will require some alteration without the running back who rushed for more than 1,000 yards in each of the previous two seasons.

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