{"id":347536,"date":"2026-09-15T18:14:44","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T18:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/347536\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T18:14:44","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T18:14:44","slug":"nfl-power-rankings-week-2-ny-giants-take-massive-jump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/347536\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL power rankings, Week 2: NY Giants take massive jump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g79 _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">So maybe hiring John Harbaugh was a pretty good idea.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g79 _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">Offensively Sunday night, New York was ruthlessly efficient. Jaxson Dart was poised and accurate. Cam Skattebo didn\u2019t have huge numbers, but he got the tough yards when he needed to. Tight end Isaiah Likely was a revelation in his first game with the team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g79 _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">New York was 9-of-11 on third down. That\u2019s nuts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g79 _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">The defense remains a work in progress, but it made just enough plays against one of the NFL\u2019s best offenses a year ago to win the day\u2014and a second straight contest with the Cowboys at Met Life Stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g79 _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">It\u2019s still too early to say the Giants are good\u2014the Dallas defense has been awful dating back to 2025. But they were in Week 1, and we\u2019ll find out soon enough how sustainable the improvement is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"So maybe hiring John Harbaugh was a pretty good idea. Offensively Sunday night, New York was ruthlessly efficient.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347537,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,130003,11,10],"class_list":["post-347536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-giants-power-rankings","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347536","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=347536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}