{"id":173259,"date":"2025-08-25T02:52:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T02:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/173259\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T02:52:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T02:52:11","slug":"giants-pass-rush-has-fearsome-throwback-feel-thanks-to-abdul-carter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/173259\/","title":{"rendered":"Giants pass rush has fearsome throwback feel thanks to Abdul Carter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eli Manning upset Tom Brady twice in the Super Bowl in part because he was backed by pass rushers who could kill the head of the snake.<\/p>\n<p>The Giants won\u2019t be sniffing their fifth Lombardi Trophy unless and until Jaxson Dart <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/08\/21\/sports\/jaxson-darts-giants-moment-about-to-give-way-to-bigger-picture\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">proves that he is the franchise quarterback who can win them a championship<\/a>, but in the meantime, the arrival of prized blue-chip rookie Abdul Carter has fueled a belief that the head of the snake will be in the crosshairs again.<\/p>\n<p>The trading of DT Leonard Williams as Dexter Lawrence\u2019s interior partner and the failure of injury-plagued OLB Azeez Ojulari to emerge as a mainstay were setbacks, but GM Joe Schoen has dug out of the hole with a D\u00e9j\u00e0 Blue philosophy that saw him orchestrate the trade with the Panthers for Brian Burns in 2024 and sack Carter with the third-overall draft pick in the spring \u2026 after using the fifth pick of the 2022 draft on Kayvon Thibodeaux.<\/p>\n<p>Carter \u2026 Burns \u2026 Thibodeaux.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eli Manning upset Tom Brady twice in the Super Bowl in part because he was backed by pass&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":173260,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[31600,5229,98692,86712,405,403,4716,5226,5225,1232,5228,5227,62,2632,2225,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-173259","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-abdul-carter","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-brian-burns","11":"tag-kayvon-thibodeaux","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-new-york-giants","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkcity","17":"tag-nfl","18":"tag-ny","19":"tag-nyc","20":"tag-sports","21":"tag-sports-columnists","22":"tag-sports-plus","23":"tag-united-states","24":"tag-united-states-of-america","25":"tag-unitedstates","26":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","27":"tag-us","28":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115087143259536301","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}