Game 3 Preview

The Giants play the Redskins this weekend at Met Life stadium.
 
It would have been a competitive game in DC, but in NY it should be no contest.  The skins are a mess having started 0-2 against a very good Steelers team, and a mediocre at best, Dallas team.  Cousins is likely regretting having turned down a long term contract and the Skins management is likely relieved that they chose not to offer top tier money off of such a small sample size.
 
The Giants defense will shut down the Redskins ground game and pressure Cousins into mistakes on long third down conversions.
 
On offense, the Giants will still struggle to run the ball but Eli will have much better luck this week converting yards into scores.  When an offense throws for 368 yards and only punts twice all day as happened against the Saints, you would expect a lot of points.  That conversion rate will revert to the mean, and the Giants will score 24 points in a 24-17 victory over the Redskins.
 
The interesting story of the day will of course be OBJ going up against Josh Norman.   Of course, as we learned last week, if a defense pays too much attention to OBJ, Sterling Shepard will run wild.  I can see them both eclipsing 100 yards this week.

​-Ari Glass