New York Giants-Cleveland Browns: Keys to victory, prediction

The (5-8) New York Giants are facing a in the vicinity of have to-get video game against the (nine-four) Cleveland Browns Sunday evening at MetLife Stadium. 

Jason Leach

With just 3 online games remaining in the season and trailing Washington by a video game for the division lead, Sunday night’s video game against the Cleveland Browns is fundamentally a have to-get video game for the New York Giants.

Defeating the Browns will be an uphill battle for Huge Blue as offensive coordinator Jason Garrett will skip the video game owing to tests favourable for COVID-19, they’ll be without the need of cornerback James Bradberry who is on the Reserve/COVID checklist, and Daniel Jones is inactive. In addition rookie Darnay Holmes will be out with a knee injury.

But head mentor Joe Judge has by no means been one particular to make excuses. He expects his crew to regulate to these troubles and engage in 4 quarters of solid soccer.

“Whatever it requires for us to have achievements, we’ll go forward and regulate in the video game to make absolutely sure that we’re moving in that way. We usually be expecting to have achievements. We perform for it the entire week through,” Judge informed reporters before this week.

Here’s what the Giants will want to do in get to get on Sunday.

Gradual down the Browns ground attack

Slowing down the Browns ground video game is one particular of the most important troubles the Giants defense will facial area all season. The Browns are third in the NFL in dashing at 156.2 yards for every video game, and they have two of the top rated eleven rushers in the league on their crew in Nick Chubb (881 yards) and Kareem Hunt (772 yards).

The Browns use their ground attack to established up their engage in-motion video game which is in which quarterback Baker Mayfield is at his greatest. So it will be crucial that the Giants and their seventh-rated operate defense slow down the Browns ground attack. Blake Martinez, Leonard Williams, and the rest of the Giants entrance seven will want to engage in their greatest video game of the year.

Win the turnover battle

The Giants can ill-manage to turn the ball over and their defense will want to pressure turnovers in get to get.

The 238 details the Giants have scored this season is second-fewest in the league only guiding the New York Jets, which is one particular of the reasons they are a household underdog to the Browns.

The offense are not able to manage to turn the ball over, and the defense will have to aid the offense out by forcing turnovers to create scoring alternatives for the offense.

Exclusive teams want to be unique

For regardless of what reason, the Giants unique teams device has slipped over the previous many months as they’ve authorized many extended returns. With critical starters out and facing an opponent that is extra proficient on paper, unique teams can even the harmony.

Whether or not it’s the Giants receiving a extended kick return, blocking a kick, or getting their kicking video game excel, it will be paramount that the Giants unique teams device is noticeably much better than the Browns.

Prediction: The Giants are desperate for a get. We be expecting to see the Giants just take probabilities and engage in boldly. But in the end, it’s difficult seeing the Giants being ready to set up ample details against a Browns offense that scored forty two details previous week. Huge Blue will set up a valiant exertion, but it will not be ample. Browns 24, Giants sixteen.