We are past the 8th week of the 2023-2024 NFL season. Some teams around the league have surprised us, but the New York teams may be the wackiest of them all. The New York Giants have had a bad first eight games. They are 2-6, and have lost a lot of players from injuries.
It all starts with their main quarterback, Daniel Jones. After suffering a neck injury, he was replaced by Tyrod Taylor, who then was injured during the game against the Jets and got replaced by the third-string quarterback, Tommy DeVito. If DeVito was injured, star Saquan Barkley would have been the emergency QB.
The next team might be the second-best team in New York, the Jets. In the first game, they lost their star QB, Aaron Rodgers, to a torn achilles. The backup QB is former starter Zach Wilson. They are now 4-3 after an overtime win over the Giants by a score of 13-10. The Jets’ defense is one of the best in the league but they didn’t play as well as they should have.
Zach Wilson’s rookie year was last 2021 and he entered this year with an 8-14 record as a starter. The team had an unbelievable game two weeks ago against the Philadelphia Eagles, with a shocking win.
The last New York team is the Buffalo Bills, and they are one of the league’s best, but they have not been playing like it. They lost to the Jets, then the Jacksonville Jaguars, and then in one of the biggest upsets of the year, they lost to the New England Patriots. They have been recovering and have a 5-3 record. In week nine, the Jets play the Los Angeles Chargers, the Giants play the Las Vegas Raiders, and the Bills play the Cincinnati Bengals.
