Giants 2025 NFL Schedule Released for Russell Wilson, Jaxson Dart, Malik Nabers Season

The New York Giants just endured a brutal 3-14 season that featured the team losing 10 straight games and scoring seven or fewer points in five contests overall.

However, Big Blue went to work in free agency, adding two veteran quarterbacks (Jameis Winston and then Russell Wilson), notably shoring up the secondary (cornerback Paulson Adebo and safety Jevon Holland) and acing the draft as they hope for a better 2025.

Analysis

The Giants' home schedule looks rough.

To start, the Giants face the reigning NFC Championship Game participants, the Philadelphia Eagles and Washington Commanders. Of course, the Eagles just demolished the Kansas City Chiefs 40-22 to win their second Super Bowl. They'll also play the Dallas Cowboys, who fell on hard times last year (7-10) but have beaten Big Blue eight straight times.

Four of the remaining five home opponents made the playoffs, with the Chiefs (three straight AFC titles, two Super Bowl wins) leading the way. The others are the 14-win Minnesota Vikings, 11-win Green Bay Packers and 11-win Los Angeles Chargers. Even the non-playoff team from this group, the San Francisco 49ers, could very well make a bounce back. San Francisco had made the NFC Championship from 2021-2023, winning it in 2023.

The road games are a bit more palatable, but there are still some concerns. To start, the Giants have one more road game than home game, a tough break for a team trying to bounce back from a 3-14 season. Second, the NFC East opponents, of course, will host the Giants, and those matchups could be issues for the reasons mentioned before.

A road matchup against the Detroit Lions, who went 15-2 last year and earned the NFC's No. 1 seed, certainly stands out as a challenge. The Denver Broncos are the only other non-NFC East team hosting the Giants who made the playoffs last year.

However, the Giants could face their challenges. The Chicago Bears and New England Patriots reloaded their talent pools this offseason and added accomplished coaches in former Detroit Lions offensive coordinator Ben Johnson and ex-Tennessee Titans head coach Mike Vrabel, respectively.

The Las Vegas Raiders and New Orleans Saints look to be a little behind in their rebuilds but could still get a boost from fresh changes in leadership via ex-Seattle Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll and former Philadelphia Eagles offensive coordinator Kellen Moore.

Overall, this won't be easy whatsoever, but the Giants do have a much-improved team that can take on the challenge.

Pivotal Matchups

This isn't complicated. If the Giants want to get out of the wreckage they've largely found themselves in since winning Super Bowl XLVI in Feb. 2012, then they need to do far better in the NFC East.

Since 2013, the Giants have played the Cowboys 23 times. They have gone 4-19. The Giants lost five straight in that span before embarking on a three-game winning streak from Oct. 2015 to Dec. 2016. Then the Giants lost seven straight before winning a Week 17 game against a Dak Prescott-less Cowboys squad that finished 6-10. New York has lost eight games to Dallas ever since.

Somehow, the Giants' performance is even more concerning against the Eagles. Since Dec. 7, 2008, New York has gone 7-35 against Philadelphia. That is not a typo. It includes losing streaks of six, four, eight and five. The latest stretch sees the Giants as losers of seven of eight.

New York has done far better over time against Washington, but the Giants did just lose a pair to the Commanders in year one of the new regime featuring owner Josh Harris, general manager Adam Peters, head coach Dan Quinn and quarterback Jayden Daniels. This team has clearly turned a new page as evidenced by a 12-win season, a pair of postseason victories and the franchise's first NFC Championship Game appearance since 1991.

So it's a daunting task for the Giants to turn their fortunes around against the NFC East, especially after Big Blue just went 0-6 against their rivals, but simply put, it has to be done for New York to pull itself out of the division (and league) basement.