{"id":314837,"date":"2025-08-24T22:37:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T22:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/314837\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T22:37:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T22:37:10","slug":"giants-pass-rush-has-fearsome-throwback-feel-thanks-to-abdul-carter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/314837\/","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\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">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":2,"featured_media":314838,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2067],"tags":[291,1483,7,519,755,1917,56,2321,2469,6,9,2833,3248],"class_list":{"0":"post-314837","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-giants","8":"tag-abdul-carter","9":"tag-brian-burns","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-giants","12":"tag-kayvon-thibodeaux","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-giants","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkgiants","17":"tag-nfl","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-sports-columnists","20":"tag-sports-plus"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115086140865166615","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}