New York Giants 2023 Schedule Takeaways
The 2023 New York Giants regular-season schedule is finally here, and it's certainly befitting of a team on the rise.
That's right, in head coach Brian Daboll's second year at the helm, the Giants, who last year had the third easiest strength of schedule (determined by the combined won-loss records of their opponents from the year prior), now are tied for the third-hardest schedule, with the Cowboys and the Patriots.
But it's not just the strength of schedule, which some will argue is a bogus measurement, that will be challenging for the Giants. Rather, it's the structure.
The Giants will play six of their first ten games on the road. That stretch includes back-to-back road games in Weeks 2-3 (Arizona and San Francisco), 5 and 6 (Miami and Buffalo), and 9 and 10 (Raiders and Cowboys).
The Giants also are scheduled to play in five primetime games, four of which come in the first six games. They're hosting two games on Monday night for the second time in four years (the last time being in 2020) and the second time in the 54-year history of Monday Night Football.
As with appearances on Sunday night, the Giants don't have a winning record in games played on Monday night. They are 25-46-1 on Monday night, including 9-14 at home, and have lost seven consecutive and nine of their last 10 Monday night games. They last won in 2018 in San Francisco.
Their Sunday night opener against Dallas is their first such opener since the 2017 season (also against Dallas) and their first Sunday night opener at home since September 10, 2006, when the Giants hosted Indianapolis in the first-ever "Manning Bowl" featuring quarterbacks (and brothers) Eli and Peyton Manning.
Yet the placement of the Giants, who are 23-31-1 on Sunday night, including 11-13 at home and 12-18-1 on the road, against the Cowboys is no surprise. New York is 6-8 vs. the Cowboys on Sunday night, including 3-2 at home, and their 14 meetings between the Giants and Cowboys are the most ever on Sunday Night Football.
The Sunday night opener is the first of five scheduled primetime games for the Giants this season.
The schedule makers did give the Giants a tiny break early in the season by planning back-to-back West Coast road games, with Week 2 being in Arizona on a Sunday and then Week 3 in San Francisco on Thursday night.
New York is looking to break a seven-game losing streak in games played on Thursday, including last Thanksgiving in Dallas. They are 15-14-3 overall in Thursday games, their last win coming on September 24, 2015, in a 32-21 triumph over Washington.
The Giants will almost certainly spend the days after their game against the Cardinals in the Phoenix area before moving on to the Bay area for their Thursday night game.
This arrangement will give the team, which no longer goes away for training camp, some extra time to bond with one another ahead of what's still to be a rough road ahead.
The Giants' bye week won't come until Week 13, which is the first week of December. This will be the latest the Giants have had their bye since 2001 when they also had the bye in Week 13.
The good news is that the Giants will gain an extra day of rest because their first game coming out of the bye is a Monday night affair at home against the Green Bay Packers.
As previously announced, the Giants will visit the Eagles in Week 16 on Christmas Day, the first time in the Giants' team history that they will play on the holiday since the league began scheduling games on the day back in 1971. The Giants will host the Eagles two weeks later in the regular-season finale, the second year in a row the Giants and Eagles will close out their respective seasons against one another.
In preseason scheduling news, the Giants will face the Lions, Panthers, and Jets on dates to be determined. This will mark the first summer that the Giants won't face the Patriots, whom they'll also see in the regular season since 2004.
New York Giants Regular Season Schedule
- Week 1: Sun, 9/10 vs Dallas, 8:20, NBC (SNF)
- Week 2: Sun, 9/17 at Arizona, 4:05, FOX
- Week 3:Thurs., 9/21 at San Francisco, 8:15, Prime Video (TNF)
- Week 4: Mon, 10/2 vs. Seattle, 8:15, ESPN (MNF)
- Week 5: Sun, 10/8 at Miami, 1:00, FOX
- Week 6: Mon, 10/15, at Buffalo, 8:20, NBC
- Week 7: Sun, 10/22 Washington, 1:00, CBS
- Week 8: Sun, 10/29 vs. Jets, 1:00. CBS
- Week 9: Sun, 11/5 at Las Vegas, 4:25, FOX
- Week 10: Sun, 11/12 at Dallas, 4:25, FOX
- Week 11: Sun, 11/19 at Washington, 1:00, FOX
- Week 12: Sun, 11/26 vs. New England, 1:00, FOX
- Week 13: BYE
- Week 14: Mon, 12/11 vs. Green Bay, 8:15, ABC (MNF)
- Week 15: Sun, 12/17 at New Orleans, 1:00, FOX
- Week 16: Mon., 12/25 at Philadelphia, 4:30 PM, FOX
- Week 17: Sun, 12/31 vs. Rams, 1:00, FOX
- Week 18: Date, Time & Network TBD, vs. Philadelphia
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