Giants hit road for opener at Titans; Jets face Ravens

NEW YORK — Brian Daboll makes his NFL head coaching debut on the road, as the Giants face the Titans in Tennessee on Sept. 11 to open the 2022 season. Daboll will coach in front of the Metlife Stadium crowd the following week in the team’s home opener against the Carolina Panthers on Sunday, Sept. 18.

The Giants will appear in the first of two nationally televised games in Week 3 at home against the Cowboys.

And there will be a game against the Packers in London on Oct. 9 at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, where the Giants play across the pond for the third time in franchise history and the first time since Oct. 23, 2016, when they beat the Rams, 17-10, at Twickenham Stadium. The Giants beat the Dolphins, 13-10, at Wembley Stadium in 2007 during their first Super Bowl season of the Tom Coughlin-eli Manning era. This will be the first game in London for the Packers, as they become the final NFL team to play there.

Daboll faces the meat of his divisional schedule late in the season, as the Giants play against NFC East opponents in five of their final seven games, including four in a row from Nov. 24 through the weekend of Dec. 17-18. That Nov. 24 game is Thanksgiving Day against the Cowboys at AT&T Stadium, the Giants’ first Thanksgiving Game since Nov. 23, 2017, when they lost 20-10 in Washington.

Thursday games in general haven’t gone well for the Giants, who are 15-13-3 overall but have lost their last six games played on that day or night. Their last Thursday win was on Sept. 24, 2015 against Washington at home, and their last Thursday road win came on Sept. 25, 2014 in Washington.

The Week 2 game against the Panthers is the first of three straight home games, followed by the Cowboys and Bears at Metlife Stadium.

There will be plenty of travel in the month of October, as the Giants will total 13,374 air miles, starting with their game against the Packers in London. The Giants elected not to take their bye week after the game and will host the Ravens on Oct. 16. They’ll then face the Jaguars in Jacksonville on Oct. 23 and the