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Boomer & Gio

Giants Defense Needs To Step It Up

Boomer & Gio

Audacy

News, Sports

4.2707 Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Andrew Thomas is trending toward playing for the Giants this weekend against the Chiefs. The Giants defense has to do much better than they did against the Cowboys. After the Chiefs, they have the Chargers, so they could be looking at 0-4.

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0:00.0

I really do believe, just like everybody, that there are a few guys on that roster that means so much of this team and could really be a factor in winning or losing.

0:09.3

And I actually think that, you know, a guy like Andrew Thomas could affect a point spread, in my opinion, when it comes to him starting at left tackle or not.

0:17.8

Now, the Giants offense looked pretty damn good without Andrew Thomas last

0:22.5

week, but you also had his replacement be a complete disaster mental case that cost them

0:30.6

a touchdown early on in the game on the first drive. So you could look back at that. But getting him back is such a huge deal this week.

0:42.2

And I just, if he can play and the Giants defense looks anything like it did in week one,

0:52.0

then at that point, I could start to believe that they could win more than

0:58.1

three games.

0:59.6

So that's the most positive thing I can say about the Giants right now.

1:03.3

It's actually not a bad thing to say, though.

1:05.0

But that's like if he's back and the offense could sort of just give you a little bit of that and then the defense looks

1:12.2

like it kind of did in week one then okay maybe I could see them win in six games the issue I would

1:16.8

have would be the if part of the defense like that's the one thing as we went through this summer and

1:21.7

I looked at this team that I was for lack of a better term or phrase hanging my hat on when I was

1:26.7

looking at this team,

1:27.5

I really thought, and I've seen a lot of the breakdowns that, you know, Kavon Thibodeau,

1:32.1

while the numbers aren't great, has been very active.

1:35.5

But I'm expecting like double-digit sacks from all these guys.

1:39.3

I'm expecting Dexter Lawrence to be a force that is going to be very difficult to run on.

1:45.6

I'm expecting quarterbacks to be harassed on every passing down.

1:49.8

And while they've been okay, they were brutal against the Cowboys in the second half last week.

1:54.1

The Cowboys went up and down the same way they went up in the infield on the Cowboys.

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