Big Blue View
Looking at the schedule from 30,000 feet
The New York Giants’ 2025 schedule is now known.
We don’t know what the ultimate results of that schedule will be. We don’t know how many games the Giants will win, nor which games the Giants will win.
As we sit here now in May, the schedule does look daunting.
The Giants have two games against the two teams to face off in the NFC Championship in the Philadelphia Eagles and Washington Commanders, as well as the AFC Champions in the Kansas City Chiefs. Despite finishing with a 3-14 record and last in the NFC East, the Giants have 10 games against teams who won 10 or more games last year. They also have teams who were expected to be good but fell off badly due to injury in the Dallas Cowboys and San Francisco 49ers.
The Giants are unlikely to be favored in any game this year, at least not before the season starts. But there’s plenty of time to worry about all that between now and September.
For now, let’s just take a step back and see what we can take away from the Giants’ schedule as a whole.
We’ve known since the end of the 2024 season that the Giants will have a tough schedule, at least on paper. There are only two games on their schedule that appear to be “likely wins” as we sit here in May — the New Orleans Saints and Las Vegas Raiders.
The Giants start to the season — Washington Commanders, Dallas Cowboys, Kansas City Chiefs, and Los Angeles Chargers — has already garnered quite a bit of attention. It’s been called “brutal” and a “murderer’s row” to start the year.
In recent years we’ve gotten used to seeing tough stretches balanced against easier stretches over the course of the season.
Fans searching for the “breather” portion of the Giants’ schedule aren’t going to find one.
Looking at the schedule, the closest thing to an “easy” stretch the Giants have is their games against the San Francisco 49ers (Week 9) and the Chicago Bears (week 10). Other than that, perhaps their week 13 game against the New England Patriots and then their Week 14 bye week.
Of course, we don’t actually know what the year will look like for the Giants. Teams we think will be good could fall off, teams we don’t expect to be strong could take an unexpected step forward.
But for now, this season looks like one long marathon from September to January with no breaks in between.
One of the first things we do when we get a schedule is look for the bye week. Traditionally, a bye week somewhere between weeks 7 and 10 is preferable. Not too early, not so late that the players are inordinately beat up by the time the bye rolls around.
The Giants’ bye is in Week 14 (Dec. 8)...
