EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — The Giants, winless in their three previous games, fumbled the football on their first offensive play of Sunday’s game against the Baltimore Ravens. They did not have a first down in the first quarter, when they fell behind by 10 points, a development that had sellout crowd at MetLife Stadium booing early and often.
Then, in the second quarter, the Giants’ chief offensive weapon, wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr., jogged to the locker room with an injury.
But if the dispiriting opening sequences of Sunday’s contest were all too familiar to Giants fans, who have endured four successive seasons without a playoff appearance, the rest of the game revealed a new Giants resilience.