The NFL schedule makers don’t expect much from the 2025 Giants.

They buried Commanders top five MVP candidate Jayden Daniels in a 1 p.m. ET time slot in Week 1 coming off an NFC Championship Game appearance in his rookie year because he’s playing the Giants. Washington is nearly a full touchdown favorite over New York.

And the league kept the Giants’ Week 1 visit to Dallas in the crowded early Sunday window, too, knowing that the Giants were 0-6 in the NFC East last season and haven’t beaten the Cowboys in Arlington, Tex., since 2016.

But Dallas’ trade of star pass rusher Micah Parsons to the Green Bay Packers suddenly has cast this early Giants schedule in a new light, as an opportunity with a potential reward on the other side:

Relevance.

That is something the Giants haven’t h

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