The summer of New York is gaining strength in its late stages.<\/p>\n
The New York Giants<\/a> and New York Jets<\/a> both won their Week 1 matchups Sunday. The Giants defeated the Dallas Cowboys<\/a> 28-20<\/a> on “Sunday Night Football,” and the Jets beat the Tennessee Titans<\/a> 23-10<\/a> earlier in the day.<\/p>\n Victories for both of New York’s NFL teams in Week 1 are a rare sight. This is the first time the Giants and Jets have each started a campaign 1-0 since 2009, according to ESPN Research. It’s also the first time they’ve both been above .500 at any point of a season since Week 14 in 2022.<\/p>\n The other team in New York, the Buffalo Bills<\/a>, won its opener as well, defeating the Houston Texans<\/a> 36-31<\/a>. That makes all three teams undefeated in Week 1 for the first time since 2008.<\/p>\n A hot start for the two current MetLife Stadium tenants brought opposite outcomes in 2009.<\/p>\n Two seasons after a Super Bowl victory, the Giants began 5-0 in their final season at Giant Stadium. They then lost four straight games and split wins and losses from Week 11 to 16. The final defeat coincided with a Cowboys win that eliminated the Giants from playoff contention for the first time since 2004.<\/p>\n Rex Ryan began his first season as Jets head coach in 2009, and two months in, it looked like the Jets might have to find a new leader. They had a 4-6 record after a 3-0 start to the year. It would mark their worst stretch of the season as the Jets won five of their next six games to reach the playoffs.<\/p>\n New York would beat the Cincinnati Bengals<\/a> in the AFC wild-card round. The Jets then took down No. 2-seeded Los Angeles Chargers<\/a> in the divisional round to reach the conference championship game for the first time since 1998. The No. 1-seeded Indianapolis Colts<\/a> ended the Jets’ run, but New York would be back in the conference final the following season. It hasn’t made the playoffs since.<\/p>\n Week 2 pits the Jets and Giants against two NFC teams. The Jets host the Green Bay Packers<\/a>, while the Giants visit the Los Angeles Rams<\/a> on “Monday Night Football” (8:15 ET on ABC\/ESPN).<\/p>\n Regardless of the outcomes, Jets and Giants fans will always be able to brag about Week 1.br\/]<\/p>\n Copyright \u00a9 2026 ESPN Internet Ventures. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The summer of New York is gaining strength in its late stages. The New York Giants and New…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346803,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[129793,3080,9,2683,11,430,10,22],"class_list":["post-346802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-129793","tag-espn","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-giants","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-jets","tag-new-york-news","tag-nfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346802","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=346802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}