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That’s the final time the Giants had been the house group for 2 “Monday Night time Soccer” video games in the identical season within the 51-year historical past of the prime-time occasion.
Joe Decide, the first-year head coach, makes his debut Sept. 14 and should wait by the primary weekend of the season earlier than taking the sphere at MetLife Stadium for a Monday night time opener in opposition to the Steelers. Seven weeks later, the Giants are once more house on a Monday night time, going through Tom Brady and the Buccaneers.
The Giants haven’t opened a season at house on a Monday night time since 1995. Coach Dan Reeves hoped that sport would present how a lot the Giants had closed the hole on the Cowboys, however Emmitt Smith ran wild and the Giants had been routed 35-0.
Decide will search for a greater end in his first sport.
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“For me, any sport goes to have the identical quantity of juice,” Decide mentioned. “I believe everybody goes to have lots of vitality for the opener, us and Pittsburgh. It’s going to be a scenario the place: Look, you get to play underneath the lights, you get to play at house. Nevertheless it’s the opening sport for each groups. Each groups will likely be popping out of coaching camp sick of beating up on one another and able to see an opponent.”
Decide spent the previous eight years with the Patriots, and his three Tremendous Bowl rings had been largely the handiwork of Brady, who after 20 years in New England has moved to the Bucs.
“I believe we’ll be very conscious of Tom being on the opposite group,” Decide mentioned. “At that time of the 12 months, I’m positive everybody goes to get used to him carrying a unique coloration jersey. I’m in a unique jersey myself.’’
Apparently Decide will change the best way the Giants method West Coast journeys. Ever since Tom Coughlin was the coach, the group took cross-country flights on Saturday. With the Patriots and Invoice Belichick, Decide made these journeys on Fridays, giving the group an additional day to acclimate. The Giants have video games this season on the Rams and Seahawks.
“That’s nothing that’s locked in concrete,’’ Decide mentioned of Friday departures. “We’ll discuss as a training employees and ensure we hammer what we expect is finest for this group. To be sincere with you, we’ll have a sport plan to go on the market early and be ready to cancel the additional day if we have to as we get a really feel for a way our group goes all through the season,” Decide mentioned of Friday departures.