In the Week 10 edition of "Thursday Night Football," the New York Giants play host to the division rival Washington Commanders. New York enters this game riding high atop the NFC East, having won each of its last two games sandwiching a Week 8 bye. The Giants are surprisingly in the playoff picture in the first year of the John Harbaugh era despite losing starting quarterback Jaxson Dart in Week 2.
They recently turned to J.J. McCarthy in place of Jameis Winston but kept on winning. Washington climbed out of last place in the NFC East thanks to a Week 8 win over the lowly Philadelphia Eagles but still has the second-worst record in the conference.
The Commanders missed an opportunity for a win the last time these two teams played by mismanaging the clock as poorly as any team ever has, and they will surely be looking to atone for that mistake here. Will the Giants keep rolling, or will the Commanders capture a rare victory? We'll find out soon enough.
Before we break down the matchup, here's a look at how you can watch the game. The Commanders are not particularly effective either passing or running the football. They rank 21st in the NFL in net yards per pass attempt (which accounts for yards lost to sacks), and they're 23rd in designed rushing yards per carry, which eliminates scrambling from the picture.
Their most effective form of offense is scrambling, where Jayden Daniels and Marcus Mariota have run 29 times for 274 yards — the most scramble yards in the NFL, per Tru Media. But that's not something that you can lean on down-to-down. Daniels has completed only 63.9% of his passes at an average of 6.9 yards per attempt.
While he has seven passing touchdowns and has yet to be intercepted, he has a low passing success rate (43.9%, according to Tru Media), has generated explosives at only an average rate (7.8%) and has struggled on third downs (30.9%). Again, his most effective way of moving the ball has been via the scramble. The Giants are actually second in the NFL in passing success rate allowed and third in explosives per dropback, according to Tru Media.
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