8/4/2023 0 Comments Post season mlb scheduleRosh Hashanah starts on a Friday night (Sept. This year is especially tricky for the NFL schedule-makers with both Jewish high holidays on or around weekends. “But this is on me, this is not on John Mara. “I acknowledge that,” Howard Katz, the NFL’s senior vice president of broadcasting and the leader of the group that puts together the schedule, told The Post last year. The Giants had to play a home game on Rosh Hashanah last year, and lost to the Cowboys despite a rushing touchdown by Saquon Barkley. Last year, the league dropped the ball, scheduling the Giants for a “Monday Night Football’’ game at MetLife Stadium on the first day of Rosh Hashanah. The Giants send in a request each year to have any games that may correspond with Rosh Hashanah or Yom Kippur to be scheduled for the road, so as to avoid inconveniencing their Jewish season-ticket holders who wish to observe the holiday and therefore would miss a Giants home game.The Jets, though, could be assigned five or the maximum six primetime games - have you heard they traded for Aaron Rodgers? But the more given to the Jets could mean fewer for the Giants because the appetite nationally for New York-area teams is not unlimited. This season, expectations are higher for the Giants, and they figure to be assigned two or three primetime games. (There was another national game, also against the Cowboys, on Thanksgiving afternoon.) Another Rodgers-related item: Does his presence with the Jets reduce the number of primetime games the Giants are assigned? Heading into the 2022 season, outside expectations for the Giants were extremely low, and the initial schedule reflected that with only one night game - a Week 3 “Monday Night Football’’ matchup with the Cowboys.The Jets bandwagon figures to fill up to capacity with the arrival of Aaron Rodgers. Depending on when this game appears on the schedule, it will be fascinating to gauge how much blue and green there is in the gray seats. Every four years, the Giants and Jets square off in the regular season at the stadium they share.Aaron Rodgers’ arrival may alter the balance between Jets and Giants fans when the two teams meet at MetLife Stadium this season. If it does, look for the Giants to try to stay in the Phoenix area, where they could practice at Arizona State, if the Cardinals game is a part of the back-to-backs. The Giants made a request to the league that two of these games be scheduled in back-to-back weeks, allowing for the opportunity for the team to stay out west between these games to avoid having three separate cross-country round trips. The Giants will have three long trips west - at Arizona, at San Francisco and their first-ever game in Las Vegas.The Giants (and all NFC teams) will play nine road games this season, an imbalance caused by the addition in 2021 of a 17th game.Here are a few other tidbits to keep in mind before the complete Giants schedule is announced: They will play on the road against the Cardinals, Saints, 49ers, Raiders, Bills and Dolphins. This season, outside of their own division, the Giants will play at MetLife Stadium against the Rams, Seahawks, Packers, Patriots and Jets. It was the Giants’ first perfect interconference record since 2011, when they went 4-0 and, as we all know, went on to win the Super Bowl. The flip side is how the Giants fared outside their conference in 2022: They went 5-0 with a clean sweep of the four teams in the AFC South - Texans, Colts, Jaguars and Titans - plus an impressive victory over the Ravens. The Giants were 1-5-1 against the NFC East last season, and have the Eagles to thank for three of those losses. Last year, despite the success story crafted by first-year head coach Brian Daboll, the Giants went 1-5-1 against their division opponents, a feeble record that included a dismal 38-7 playoff loss to the Eagles, a team that beat the Giants three times in a six-week span. A division that for years was labeled as weak is certainly not anymore. Suddenly, seeing the exact order of each team’s 17-game slate will allow fans and media members to proclaim, “This is an extremely difficult schedule,’’ or, “There’s no excuse for not making the playoffs with this soft schedule.’’įor the Giants, their annual six games against NFC East opponents - two each against the Eagles, Cowboys and Commanders - is already quite a gauntlet. None of this advance information dulls the reveal of the actual dates and times this Thursday. Heck, we have known for years that the Giants would be facing the AFC East and NFC West this season, meaning we knew the bulk of the 2023 opponents well in advance of this week’s release of the full NFL schedule. We have known for months every team the Giants will play in 2023.
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