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What is the Giants’ path to a quick turnaround?
Can a team go from three victories, which was the New York Giants’ total in 2024, to Super Bowl champions the next season. Theoretically, of course, it is possible. Oddsmakers, though, think a Super Bowl LX championship for the Giants is the unlikeliest outcome of the 2025 NFL season.
With the Philadelphia Eagles still celebrating their Super Bowl 59 victory over the Kansas City Chiefs, FanDuel Sportsbook has released its odds for the Super Bowl 60 winner. The Giants are one of three teams with odds of +15000. The others are the New Orleans Saints and Tennessee Titans.
FanDuel lists the Chiefs as Super Bowl LX favorites at +650. The Eagles, Buffalo Bills and Baltimore Ravens are +700.
Fast turnarounds are possible in the NFL, though not commonplace. The 2024 Washington Commanders proved that, going from 4-13 in 2023 to 12-5 and reaching the NFC Championship Game in 2024.
The Commanders, of course, landed a transformational quarterback in the 2024 NFL Draft as Jayden Daniels won AP Offensive Rookie of the Year.
The Giants find themselves hoping they can land a transformational quarterback of their own in the 2025 NFL Draft. If not, they are at least aiming to find a veteran quarterback who can improve the quality of play they have gotten from the position the past two seasons.
The championship the Eagles just won, though, shows clearly that the path to improvement for the Giants has to run through the trenches.
Ex-Giant Saquon Barkley just set the single-season rushing record (regular and postseason combined) with 2,504 yards. He did so not just because of his own considerable talent, but because one of the best offensive lines in football consistently delivered him untouched to the second level of opposing defenses. Once he gets there, Barkley is still magical.
Giants’ GM Joe Schoen signed three solid veteran starting offensive linemen in free agency last offseason, but his efforts to upgrade the offensive line in the draft have been a failure.
Schoen has selected four offensive linemen in his three drafts. Only John Michael Schmitz has been even moderately successful as an NFL player, and in his two seasons has been a bottom-tier starting center. He did not select a single lineman in the 2024 draft.
The Eagles’ defense was dominant Sunday evening against the Chiefs, led by a defensive line that sacked Kansas City quarterback Patrick Mahomes six times and hit him 11 more times. Per Pro Football Focus, Mahomes was pressured on 53.3% of his drop backs. The only time in his career he has been pressured more often was in a Super Bowl 55 loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, when he was pressured 59.5% of the time.
Philadelphia made the league’s best quarterback fidgety and uncomfortable, forcing two interceptions and a fumble from Mahomes.
The Eagles did all of that despite not blitzing a single time.
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