Team’s Twitter account seemingly predicts Week 1 opponent
The New York Giants official Twitter account seemingly predicts the team’s 2020 Week 1 opponent, but is it the right guess?
With the 2020 NFL typical-season agenda launch approaching, followers of all 32 organizations are starting to be anxious, impatiently waiting to see when every workforce will enjoy who. Supporters of the New York Giants, and any ballclub for that make any difference, have recognized their team’s 2020 opponents due to the fact the conclusion of the 2019 typical season. Even so, it’s even now fascinating to discover out the Week 1 matchups.
For lots of of the yearly agenda releases in current several years, Giants followers have experienced a “could’ve observed that just one coming” minute when finding out who Large Blue plays Week 1. In the prior 10 years alone, the Giants faced the Dallas Cowboys 6 distinct situations for the typical-season opener. Four of these matchups have come in the final five seasons.
And on Wednesday, the Giants official Twitter account weighed in on the possibility of that matchup landing on Week 1 all over again.
Screenshot to predict our Week 1 matchup 🤣 pic.twitter.com/KeQhRp94n9
— New York Giants (@Giants) May possibly 6, 2020
If you click the gif, it displays four distinct variations of the Cowboys emblem, primarily predicting that the Giants will be dealing with off from their division rivals in early September (at least for now).
The problem is, would it be a highway sport for the Giants?
Judging by the past, my guess is certainly. Of the 6 situations these two teams faced every other in the prior 10 years, five have been in Arlington, Texas. The only time out of the 6 in which the matchup was at MetLife Stadium was for the duration of the 2012 season when the Giants have been coming off a Super Bowl forty six victory and performed the traditional Thursday night sport for the duration of Week 1.
And what time would the sport be?
Which is also unsure. During the 2013, 2015, and 2017 seasons, the two teams performed on Sunday Night time Football for the duration of the opening weekend. But thinking about the Giants received just 12 games above the final 3 seasons, the league may possibly be unwilling to position them in that time slot. Very last yr, Large Blue gained zero Sunday Night time Football matchups.
For that reason, the sport would likely be nationally broadcasted on FOX for the duration of the four:25 p.m. ET slot with Joe Buck and Troy Aikman calling the sport. That would be my guess, so it’ll be interesting to see if I’m right.
Even though, on Wednesday, John Clayton of ESPN in fact explained to ninety three.7 The Supporter in Pittsburgh that the initial four months of the typical season will be AFC vs NFC matchups. Hence, is the Giants Twitter account’s prediction in fact incorrect?
New York plays each individual workforce in the AFC North this yr — the Cleveland Browns, Pittsburgh Steelers, Cincinnati Bengals, and Baltimore Ravens — so retain that in head prior to the actual launch.
.@JohnClaytonNFL tells @937theFan that the NFL agenda will be NFC vs AFC for the 1st four months of the season. Steelers enjoy the NFC East. So 1st four games would be Cowboys, Eagles, Redskins, and Giants.
— Andrew Fillipponi (@ThePoniExpress) May possibly 6, 2020
Time will only tell what the 2020 slate looks like, and the good thing is for followers, that time is just about listed here. The NFL will formally launch the new typical-season agenda at 8:00 p.m. ET on Thursday night.
NFL 2020 typical-season agenda formally will be released Thursday night at 8 PM ET.
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) May possibly four, 2020
