{"id":33426,"date":"2025-11-09T00:17:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T00:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/33426\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T00:17:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T00:17:17","slug":"the-giants-have-no-choice-but-to-rewrite-season-script-vs-bears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/33426\/","title":{"rendered":"The Giants have no choice but to rewrite season script vs. Bears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO \u2014 As Brian Burns listened intently to the question, his facial expression turned sour, as if he\u2019d just eaten something rotten.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Giants run defense owns the second-worst ranking in the NFL. The Bears rushing offense is ranked second in the league.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So, naturally, the question posted to Burns centered around the \u201cchallenge\u201d the run defense will face Sunday when they play the Bears at Soldier Field in what, statistically, looks like a gross mismatch based on the teams\u2019 respective strengths and weaknesses.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s when Burns, the Giants edge rusher who leads the NFL with 11 sacks and <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/11\/06\/sports\/brian-burns-is-tenacious-beast-no-matter-the-giants-record\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">has been their best player<\/a>, had a point to make.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO \u2014 As Brian Burns listened intently to the question, his facial expression turned sour, as if he\u2019d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4507,2086,9,2683,11,10,22,319,431,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-33426","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-brian-burns","9":"tag-chicago-bears","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-giants","12":"tag-new-york-headlines","13":"tag-new-york-news","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-sports-columnists","17":"tag-sports-plus"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}