New York Giants won't meet their projected win total for 2025

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The New York Giants (3-13) play host to the Dallas Cowboys (7-8-1) in their 2025 season finale at MetLife Stadium this Sunday afternoon.

With a win, the Giants will best their 2024 win total by one, but will fall short of their preseason expectations.

Before the season, prognosticators predicted the Giants' 2025 win total to be 5.5 wins. The logic was that they would improve slightly over last year's pathetic 3-14 campaign.

The Giants' win ceiling was eight with a floor of four as per Cynthia Frelund of NFL.com, with an over/under of 5.5:

This defensive front is going to be fun to watch! Dexter Lawrence was double-teamed on 63.8 percent of his pass-rush snaps in 2024, which was the highest rate of any player with 200-plus pass rushes since at least 2018. Don't see that happening again in 2025 -- not with Abdul Carter now roaming off the edge. The Giants have an uphill climb in terms of their top-ranked strength of schedule, but this team forecasts to be much more competitive than its final record might indicate.

Yeah, that didn't happen. Lawrence never really got all the way back from the elbow injury that sidelined him for the final five games of 2024. He has been a shell of his former self this year. Carter didn't get fully going until the Giants dumped defensive coordinator Shane Bowen in late November.

The Giants faced the toughest schedule in the NFL this year, and with all the injuries to key players (Malik Nabers, Cam Skattebo, Micah McFadden) and a rookie quarterback, they could not get untracked.

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