directed by coordinator Shane Bowen<\/a>. <\/p>\nThe Chiefs arrive at MetLife Stadium for a nationally televised contest featuring two teams with 0-2 records.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Chiefs lost in the Super Bowl last February, and they have the look of a squad in possible decline. But they still have Patrick Mahomes at quarterback, Andy Reid calling the plays as the head coach and a championship pedigree. <\/p>\n
Shane Bowen speaks to the media before Giants practice on Sept. 18, 2025. Noah K. Murray-NY Post<\/p>\n
No one will be surprised if they leave New Jersey at 1-2 and talk of their demise is shelved for the time being.\u00a0<\/p>\n
If this Giants defense \u2014 led by Dexter Lawrence, Brian Burns, Kayvon Thibodeaux and rookie Abdul Carter up front and enough experience and skill on the back end \u2014 cannot make a stand and at least make Mahomes sweat this one out, it will be a grim sign for what is to come.\u00a0<\/p>\n
When Bowen earlier this week said, \u201cWe got things we got to fix,\u201d he wasn\u2019t kidding.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019d say I feel like in flashes we\u2019ve shown what we can do,\u201d Burns said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Flashes are not going to get it done.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Giants still cannot stop the run, allowing an NFL-worst 177.5 yards per game. They have six sacks in two games, tied with five other teams \u2014 the Patriots lead the league with nine, three teams have eight sacks and three have seven. Burns has collected three of his team\u2019s sacks.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Abdul Carter looks on at Giants practice on Sept. 18, 2025. Noah K. Murray-NY Post<\/p>\n
The Giants never had the lead in their 21-6 season-opening loss to the Commanders then competed at a decent enough level for three quarters in Dallas before giving up 20 points in the fourth quarter in a 40-37 overtime loss.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Chiefs have yet to erupt on offense in one-score losses to the Chargers (27-21) and Eagles (20-17) \u2014 overreliant on Mahomes, who has accounted for all four of his team\u2019s touchdowns (two passing, two running) and is the rushing leader, which is not a good sign.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThey know we have a big challenge with the Chiefs coming in,\u201d Bowen said of his defense. \u201cI mean, they\u2019re looking forward to the opportunity. They are. Again, we\u2019re two games in. We\u2019re not where we want to be defensively. We have to improve. We all understand that. But at the same time, we got a great opportunity this week on \u2018Sunday Night Football\u2019 to go out there and play against a really good offense, really good quarterback, and hopefully put our best foot forward.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
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It has taken until Week 3 for the Giants to get to their home opener, and maybe that will spark their defense into action.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re extremely excited for it,\u201d linebacker Bobby Okereke told The Post. \u201cWe know the environment it\u2019s going to be Sunday night with our fans, how excited they are and with this matchup, two 0-2 teams that I don\u2019t think the record is indicative of talent level and proposed production level.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
The production level with an offense orchestrated by Wilson was paltry in Week 1 and should have been more than enough in Week 2. A home crowd that was energized seeing rookie Jaxson Dart in the preseason gets its first look at Wilson with the Giants in a regular-season game.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Dexter Lawrence looks on at Giants practice on Sept. 19, 2025. Noah K. Murray-NY Post<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m excited about the challenge,\u201d Wilson said. \u201cA little bit of adversity is never a bad thing, it molds you.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is less about buzzkill and more about projection, mixed in with a sense of impending Giants reality.\u00a0…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384365,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,110,56,6,23741,9],"class_list":{"0":"post-384364","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-kansas-city-chiefs","10":"tag-new-york-giants","11":"tag-nfl","12":"tag-shane-bowen","13":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384364","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=384364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}