There wasn’t dejection in the home locker room or in the press conference room. Even in a disappointing season-opening defeat, the Giants stayed positive, talking up the reasons to feel good after a 20-15 loss to the Jaguars at MetLife Stadium on Sunday.
Atop the list was the play of the new-look defense.
“We played tough on defense,” safety Landon Collins said after the unit allowed just one touchdown despite the absence of star Olivier Vernon. “We were playing a good offense, their run game is very hard to [stop], and we were playing good against it.