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Jets and Giants Both Impressive in Opening Day victories

 It has been 17 years since the last time both the New York Football Giants and New York Jets opened a season winning their season openers. 

17-years. 

Rex Ryan and Tom Coughlin were the head coaches. The Giants were - at that time - two years removed from winning Super Bowl 42.  The Jets were beginning a new era under Rex Ryan that would take them to the first of back-to-back trips to the AFC Title game. 

It's truly been that long since both teams have been good in this town. And for the first time in seemingly forever both teams appear to finally be heading in the right direction. 

The Giants dominated the Dallas Cowboys 28-20 on Sunday night. It wasn't as close as the score indicated. The Giants had 396 yards of offense in the game, and Jaxson Dart absolutely ate the Cowboys lunch tossing for 250 yards and three touchdowns. He even added 54 yards on the ground on 11 carries. 


Cam Skateboo chipped in 81-yards and a score himself. 

The Giants looked like a different football team on Sunday night. The atmosphere was of course electric. A new coach in John Harbaugh, plus the 25th Anniversary of the 9-11 terror attacks, and you had momentum pointing right in the Giants favor. 

Harbaugh wanted to instill tough mindedness into this Giants, and it worked in a big way on Sunday as New York never trailed their arch rivals. 

Meanwhile the Jets took out the trash in Tennessee, as they slapped the Titans 23-10 behind a 102-yard effort from running back Breece Hall. 

The Jets as a team ran for 152 yards in the game. 

Geno Smith was efficient. He completed 19-of-24 passes for 215 and a score. He managed the offense incredibly well, and didn't make too many mistakes. 

Defensively the Jets dominated up front. They sacked quarterback Cam Ward three times and hurried him five times overall. 

It looked like a totally different Jets team than the one we saw a year ago under Head Coach Aaron Glenn.  

Instead the discombobulated team was run by ex-Jets coach Robert Saleh, now the head-man with the Titans. His team looked unfocused and unprepared, something that was too much of a trait when Saleh was the coach in New York.  

While the Jets face a gauntlet the next three weeks, they are 1-0 for the first time in three seasons. The win was also the franchises first on the road to start a season since 2018.  

Yes, it's one game, but for one game the Jets and Giants have done something nobody expected: they are giving their fans reason to believe!  

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