{"id":67255,"date":"2022-09-06T02:31:22","date_gmt":"2022-09-06T02:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/giants-week-1-rite-of-passage-can-end-with-new-regime\/"},"modified":"2022-09-06T02:31:22","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T02:31:22","slug":"giants-week-1-rite-of-passage-can-end-with-new-regime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/giants-week-1-rite-of-passage-can-end-with-new-regime\/","title":{"rendered":"Giants&#8217; Week 1 rite of passage can end with new regime"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--columnist inline-module--author\">\n<div class=\"inline-module--author__img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Joe Schoen is 1-0. <\/p>\n<p>This has nothing to do with evaluating the head coach he picked in Brian Daboll, the veterans he signed in free agency, the rookies he selected in the NFL draft or the manner in which he has tried to pull salary cap space out of an empty hat . <\/p>\n<p>There can be guesses and predictions as to how all these decisions will look a year from now.  Far too soon to tell.  There is, however, one forecast from Schoen that is unequivocally a sure-fire can&#8217;t miss. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s going to be overreaction, one way or the other, on Monday after our first game, win or lose,\u201d Schoen said.  \u201cYou know, [you] win, everybody&#8217;s going to say we&#8217;re better than we probably are.  If we lose, we&#8217;re not as bad as we were that day.  So, I think it&#8217;s going to take a few weeks to really figure out who we are.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>As a first-time general manager, of course Schoen&#8217;s assessment is on the money.  The first week of an NFL season is reserved for the most fiery hot takes.  Teams that are 1-0 are riding high, no matter what.  Teams that are 0-1 are winless, until proven otherwise. <\/p>\n<p>If Daboll can somehow push, shove and cajole the Giants to victory Sunday in Nashville \u2014 they are 5.5-point underdogs to the Titans \u2014 he will have done something that only one Giants head coach in the past 12 years has been able to accomplish: A winning record after one week. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/090122JetsBK07-1.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Joe Schoen, left, and Brian Daboll\" class=\"wp-image-23743654\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/090122JetsBK07-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/090122JetsBK07-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/090122JetsBK07-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/090122JetsBK07-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><figcaption>Joe Schoen, left, and Brian Daboll<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Bill Kostroun\/New York Post<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Tom Coughlin finished up his 12-year Giants run by losing the season opener each of his last five years, starting in the 2011 Super Bowl year.  Ben McAdoo stunned everyone in the organization \u2014 in a good way \u2014 by leaving Dallas victorious in Week 1 in 2016. The Giants were 1-0 after they hung on for a 20-19 triumph, prompting McAdoo to say: \u201cWe look through the windshield;  we&#8217;re not looking through the rearview mirror.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>McAdoo&#8217;s Giants lost their first five games in 2017. <\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n\t<\/aside>\n<p>Pat Shumur?  0-2 in 2018 and again in 2019. Sounds about right.  Joe Judge?  0-5 in 2020 and 0-3 in 2021. <\/p>\n<p>The feeling of waking up having lost the opener is so darn familiar to Giants fans that it is almost a life-cycle rite.  Labor Day has come and gone, the kids are back in school, traffic is once again slowed to a crawl and there is a slight hint of a cooling trend in the air at sundown.  Fall is coming.  The Giants are off to a rough start.  This has been the drumbeat for so long. <\/p>\n<p>For the fourth time in the last seven years, Opening day also means Giants Debut for the head coach.  McAdoo and Judge were first-timers, Shurmur was not.  Daboll at 47 is considerably more experienced than McAdoo and Judge \u2014 both were 38 when hired by the Giants.  He was in Buffalo to start the 2021 season as the offensive coordinator when the Bills lost to the Steelers 23-16 in the opener.  That certainly was not a harbinger. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere&#8217;s seasons where we&#8217;ve won the first game and seasons where we lost the first game,&#8221; Daboll said Monday.  \u201cEvery game is important, everybody&#8217;s excited about opening day, it&#8217;s a cool game.  There&#8217;s a lot of unknowns.  You&#8217;re figuring out what your team is, you&#8217;re trying to figure out what the team you&#8217;re playing is.&#8221; <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/083122JetsBK12.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Brian Daboll \" class=\"wp-image-23743660\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/083122JetsBK12.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/083122JetsBK12.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/083122JetsBK12.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/083122JetsBK12.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><figcaption>Brian Daboll <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Bill Kostroun\/New York Post<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The sins of the past cannot be assigned to those who are new to all this.  Shurmur and Judge both felt the immediate weight of losing early in the season, saddled with a \u201chere we go again&#8221; vibe not entirely of their making.  Returning players feel it as well.  Newcomers should be absolved of this. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI never really had to prepare for losing because I never really lost too much in the past,&#8221; rookie right tackle Evan Neal said.  \u201cI hate losing, I always have.  Losing here is not something I&#8217;m gonna focus on.  The goal is to win.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Neal won his first eight games as a freshman at Alabama.  He went 13-0 as a sophomore and won his first five games as a junior.  He said he never lost the first game of a season at any level.  He will try to keep his streak going and buck a Giants trend on Sunday. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe first game is the first game, it&#8217;s a long season,&#8221; Neal said.  \u201cWin, lose or draw, you want to go out there and compete, fight hard and know you got an opportunity to get better as well.  But 0-1, 1-0, there&#8217;s gonna be a Week 2, you know?&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>There is gonna be a Week 2. 1-0 or 0-1 awaits the Giants, who have specialized in getting off on the wrong foot.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>    .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Schoen is 1-0. This has nothing to do with evaluating the head coach he picked in Brian Daboll, the veterans he signed in free agency, the rookies he selected in the NFL draft or the manner in which he has tried to pull salary cap space out of an empty hat . There can &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/giants-week-1-rite-of-passage-can-end-with-new-regime\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Giants&#8217; Week 1 rite of passage can end with new regime<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[6],"tags":[10238,9025,9026,423,307],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":23057,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/synergy-with-brian-daboll-gives-giants-leg-up\/","url_meta":{"origin":67255,"position":0},"title":"&#8216;Synergy&#8217; with Brian Daboll gives Giants leg up","date":"July 23, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"The calls were made throughout this summer, Giants general manager Joe Schoen scrolling through his contacts and connecting with the GMs around the NFL he is closest to, some of whom he considers friends. \u201cHey, anything early on you would have done differently? 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