{"id":346050,"date":"2026-09-14T05:24:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T05:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/346050\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T05:24:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T05:24:15","slug":"ny-giants-at-rams-week-2-opening-odds-new-york-opens-as-big-underdogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/346050\/","title":{"rendered":"NY Giants at Rams Week 2 opening odds: New York opens as big underdogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The New York Giants open Week 2 as 8.5-point underdogs on the road against the Los Angeles Rams, per <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsbook.fanduel.com\/navigation\/nfl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FanDuel Sportsbook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Giants opened their season by stunning the Dallas Cowboys, but have an uphill battle ahead of them against the Rams in Week 2 on Monday Night Football.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">This game was widely expected to be a blowout win for the Rams, but it\u2019s significantly more complicated than it appeared when the schedule first came out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">First the Rams decision to travel to Australia shortly before their season opener rather than arrive early seemed to backfire. They appeared gassed from the start against the San Francisco 49ers and were outplayed by their division rival. Then the Rams learned earlier Sunday that star pass rusher Myles Garret would need knee surgery and will spend (at least) the next four weeks on the short-term injured reserve.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">It remains to be seen in what condition the Rams will be after travelling back from Australia to the<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Giants, meanwhile, are riding high after a dominating 28-20 victory over the Cowboys on Sunday Night Football. The Giants utterly controlled the line of scrimmage and time of possession, running the ball down the Cowboys\u2019 throat while Jaxson Dart was surgical with the football.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Can the Giants travel across the country and turn their Week 1 win into an actual winning streak?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York Giants open Week 2 as 8.5-point underdogs on the road against the Los Angeles Rams,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346051,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,24,55,54,33708,56],"class_list":["post-346050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-new-york-giants-odds","tag-ny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346050","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=346050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}