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Dexter Lawrence intercepts a pass against the Chargers. Vincent Carchietta-Imagn Images<\/p>\nNEW ORLEANS \u2014 Compared with what went down last season and early this season, what the Giants achieved last week in one particular area on defense represented a stark improvement.<\/p>\n
They intercepted two of Justin Herbert\u2019s passes in a 21-18 victory over the Chargers. <\/p>\n
Without those forced turnovers, it is highly likely the Giants would be 0-4 instead of 1-3 heading into Sunday\u2019s game at New Orleans.<\/p>\n
The two picks \u2014 the first by nose tackle Dexter Lawrence, the second by cornerback Dru Phillips \u2014 both put the offense at the Chargers\u2019 3-yard line, directly leading to 10 points for the Giants.<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah, absolutely I think that was really a key difference, last week compared to the first couple weeks,\u2019\u2019 cornerback Paulson Adebo said. \u201cWhere we had opportunities to maybe make some of those plays, and those types of game-changing plays definitely affect the outcome of the game, so the more we have those turnovers, it\u2019ll help us.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
Dexter Lawrence intercepts a pass against the Chargers. Vincent Carchietta-Imagn Images<\/p>\n
Adebo spent the first four years of his NFL career with the Saints, coming away with 10 interceptions in 52 games, with seven of the picks coming in 2023 and 2024. <\/p>\n
This will be his first game against the team that selected him in the third round of the 2021 draft.<\/p>\n
Last season, Adebo saw how rookie quarterback Spencer Rattler arrived as a fifth-round pick and ended up starting six games, going 0-6. <\/p>\n
This season, Rattler and the Saints are winless, but at least he is not throwing the ball up for grabs at an alarming rate. He has five touchdown passes and only one interception.<\/p>\n
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Spencer Rattler has yet to win a start for the Saints. AP<\/p>\n
\u201cI think going into his second year, he looks a little bit more comfortable,\u2019\u2019 Adebo said. \u201cSo, they\u2019re doing some good things with him, and I also got to see him every day in practice, so very familiar.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
The Giants have three interceptions this season, putting them tied with eight other teams for the eighth-most in the league. Last season, the Giants finished with five interceptions \u2014 only the Browns, with four, had fewer. The Giants also went an NFL-record 11 consecutive games without an interception.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Jaxson Dart in his first NFL start passed for one touchdown and ran for another. If he does that again in his second NFL start, he would become the sixth quarterback since 1950 to record both a touchdown pass and touchdown run in his first two starts. <\/p>\n
It is quite an eclectic list: Eric Hipple (1981), Jake Delhomme (1999), Tim Tebow (2010), Cam Newton (2011) and Sam Howell (2022-23).<\/p>\n
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Brian Burns leads the Giants with five sacks, tying him with Byron Young of the Rams for the league lead. It is the most sacks by a Giants player in the first four games of a season since Osi Umenyiora had six in the first four games in 2007. The most sacks in franchise history in the first four games of a season is eight, by Lawrence Taylor in 1984.<\/p>\n
The Giants activated LB Neville Hewitt and K Jude McAtamney from the practice squad.\u00a0 They opted not to activate any wide receivers for the game.<\/p>\n
WR Malik Nabers will have surgery this week to repair a torn ACL and torn meniscus in his right knee, the Post confirmed.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
He went down in last week\u2019s victory over the Chargers.\u00a0 The expectation is Nabers will be ready to play at the start of the 2026 season.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW ORLEANS \u2014 Compared with what went down last season and early this season, what the Giants achieved…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":278817,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[98692,38554,12949,4716,1232,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-278816","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-brian-burns","9":"tag-dexter-lawrence","10":"tag-jaxson-dart","11":"tag-new-york-giants","12":"tag-nfl","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115319899772680569","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278816","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=278816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}