The 2018 NFL regular-season schedules dropped April 19, and so Monday marked the 124th straight day the Jaguars have been “the first game” on Olivier Vernon’s mind.
The Giants still have two more preseason games to go until then, including this Friday against the Jets, when they will again show flashes of the revamped defense they’ve spent months working on.
But that hasn’t kept Vernon from dreaming about what it can look like come 1 p.m. Sept. 9, and the Sundays after that when they finally get to unleash the entirety of defensive coordinator James Bettcher’s playbook.