The Giants nearly made Sunday look like one of those old familiar disasters.
They carried a 12-point lead into the fourth quarter against the Tennessee Titans at MetLife Stadium, and for a while it felt like the kind of game New York had been coughing up all last season. Instead, this one ended with Jevon Holland picking off a pass in the end zone to seal a 12-7 win and send the Giants to 2-1.
That finish mattered because the Giants have lived through the other version of this story. Last season, they blew double-digit fourth-quarter leads five times.
So when the Titans kept pushing and the rain kept coming down, it would have been easy to assume the worst. The Giants didn’t.
Cam Skattebo was right in the middle of a strange afternoon. He finished with 100 all-purpose yards, including 60 on the ground and 40 through the air, but he never got into the end zone. The offense moved the ball without ever fully clicking, repeatedly getting into scoring position and settling for field goals instead.
One of the rougher moments came early in the second quarter, when the Giants had worked the ball to the 5-yard line and tried a wildcat look with Skattebo taking the direct snap. The play got swallowed up for a seven-yard loss and ended up feeding into one of rookie kicker Dominic Zavda’s four field goals.
Even so, the mood around this team is different. A year ago, a sequence like that could have felt like the first crack in another collapse. This time, it was just part of a win.
“That was a great win, you know, a year ago we lost that game 100%, and this year we were able to pull through,” Skattebo said. “As [the Titans] kept driving and there was 15-seconds on the clock, the crowd was silent, and that is the biggest moment of the game.
I know you want to watch the game and see what's going to happen, but we need the crowd as loud as possible. If they can't even snap the ball, they have no chance of winning.
So I was just trying to give energy to the crowd, get them going a little bit, and I think this crowd has a lot more in them towards the end of the game. Especially in a rainy game like this, if we have energy and we make home-field advantage, home-field advanatge, we got a real shot at this.”
That’s the clearest difference the Giants are pointing to now: not just the result, but the belief underneath it. Last season was about damage control and bad endings. This season, even with a long road ahead and the loss of Skattebo’s best friend, quarterback Jaxson Dart, to season-ending knee surgery, the Giants look like a team that expects to finish the job.
And for players inside that locker room, that starts with one change at the top.
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