The New York Giants got the NFL’s attention with their well-deserved 28-20 victory over the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday. Matthew Stafford, quarterback of the Los Angeles Rams — who face the Giants on Monday Night Football in Week 2 — was among those who noticed what the Giants did to the Cowboys.
On “Let’s Go”, a SiriusXM NFL Radio show he co-hosts with Jim Gray, Stafford called the Giants a “dangerous” team.
“I watched the game,” Stafford said of Giants-Cowboys. “My brother-in-law [Chad Hall] is the receiver
coach for the Giants, so I’m always pulling for him and pulling for those guys, except for this week when we play them coming up. But I saw a young team with a bunch of talent.
“When you look at the defensive side of the ball, a bunch of pass rushers, I thought they did a really nice job in the pass game against the Dallas Cowboys who have as much talent as anybody in the pass game. I think Dak’s played at a high level for a long time now and with CeeDee [Lamb] and Pick [George Pickens] and all those guys, they’re really talented on the outside. So for them to get that win, 28-20, was a big start for their season.”
Stafford noted the timing of the game.
“Obviously, the young quarterback, Jaxson Dart, I thought played really well, played within himself, made some plays with his feet,” Stafford said. “They’re a dangerous team. I think every team in the NFL, it’s what people out there forget, year in and year out going through training camps and watching preseason, think they can pick who’s gonna win every game. And that’s why we play them. You put the ball down, you go play the games. And I thought the Giants did a heck of a job the other night. I thought it was cool on the weekend of September 11th, 25 years later, for the Giants in New York City to get a win, felt right and felt great to have the NFL have something like that happen and those guys play well.”
The Rams, of course, are 0-1 after losing to the San Francisco 49ers in Australia.
“It was tough. Obviously had a long journey and didn’t play the way that we wanted to play,” Stafford said. “There were some swing plays in that game where obviously the score was what it was at the end of the game and we thought we had some chances to make it a little bit closer. But didn’t happen. Always difficult to start the season that way, but learned from it, got an extra couple days of rest on the way back and coming into a Monday Night game. So [we’ll] figure out what we can do better, how we can go out there and execute at a higher clip and give ourselves a better chance to win a game.”
The Rams are currently 7.5-point favorites, per FanDuel Sportsbook.
