Are the Giants back? 'They can be playoff team!' — SkimNews
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- Giants opened John Harbaugh's head-coaching tenure with a 28-20 home win over the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday — their first Week 1 home victory since 2010 and first opening weekend win since 2022
- Jaxson Dart threw three touchdown passes, two to Isaiah Likely, and Cam Skattebo added a rushing score
- Jeff Reinebold said on the Inside the Huddle podcast that Harbaugh 'created a culture that's been lacking' and could steer the Giants into the playoffs, though he doesn't expect them to win the division
- Harbaugh joined after 18 seasons as Baltimore Ravens head coach and inherited a roster he didn't build, including Dart, Skattebo and Malik Nabers
- The Giants' last playoff run was 2022, when they beat the Vikings on Wild Card weekend before a 38-7 divisional-round loss to the Philadelphia Eagles
- Next up for New York is a road game against the Los Angeles Rams, who lost to the San Francisco 49ers in Melbourne in Week 1
Why it matters: A Week 1 win over a divisional rival gives Harbaugh's culture-first approach its first real validation, but Reinebold flagged the harder test ahead: keeping a young roster focused through 17 weeks of New York's intense media cycle. Two wins from this franchise's last ten seasons were playoff campaigns, so even a wild-card berth would mark the franchise's clearest turnaround in over a decade.
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