The reaction for New York Giants fans has to be somewhere between concern and euphoria. Granted that’s a wide spread, but let’s consider it’s the preseason under a new regime. In some respects, preseason games become the purest form of football. Teams work hard during practice, and then essentially run a bare bones playbook. In order to win, players must make plays from a vanilla script.
We definitely saw that with Saquon Barkley’s first play from scrimmage. Hopefully his 39-yard run becomes ordinary, for him, over the course of time. From the looks of things, and granted Odell Beckham was not in the line-up, the G-Men definitely appear to be trending to a run-first offense.