The Giants’ offense should be more explosive, but how much more?
The Fourth of July is Friday.
If you aren’t an American, that’s usually just the day between the third and fifth of July. But if you’re an American, the Fourth of July is Independence Day and usually celebrated with grilled meats, beer, and explosions.
And in that vein we wanted to know if the Big Blue View community believes that the Giants’ offense will be more explosive in 2025.
The answer was, generally speaking, “Yeah, at least a bit.”
The positive takeaway here is that 94 percent of fans think the Giants offense will be more explosive in 2025.
Of those, most believe the Giants would improve to “average” in explosiveness — a mark we set at 24 points per game and 60 passes of 20+ air yards. That would ultimately mean an offense that is slightly above average as compared to 2025, and an average of 22.9 points per game.
The next largest chunk of fans think the team will make a relatively slight improvement and settle at roughly 20 points per game and 45 passes over 20 yards downfield.
There are good reasons to think that the Giants’ offense will attack downfield more often and be more explosive overall. As Nick pointed out recently, Russell Wilson was one of the best deep ball passers in the NFL last year.
Russell Wilson had the highest completion percentage and yards per attempt on 20-plus yard throws while attempting deep throws at a 17.6% rate — second most in the NFL (PFF), and he converted them at a 53.3% rate.
The Giants are also counting on the development of players like Malik Nabers, Jalin Hyatt, and Theo Johnson to go with Darius Slayton and Daniel Bellinger. The Giants have the potential to field one of the most explosively athletic offenses in the NFL.
Likewise, the offensive line was league-average in pass protection last year — at least before being ravaged by injury.
The Giants coaches have been criticized in previous years over the lack of deep passes, with fans frequently complaining that they aren’t called. The fact of the matter is that their pass plays frequently had a vertical element, but it was only rarely exploited. Daniel Jones’ strengths as a quarterback lay in RPO and West Coast quick-game concepts. So, much of the Giants offense was read shallow to deep, so the ball usually went to receivers running underneath routes.
Taken as a whole, the Giants now have a quarterback who actively wants to throw deep, a maturing and explosive group of skill position players, and a coach who tries to scheme to his quarterback’s strengths and preferences.
The Giants’ offense should be more explosive this year. Whether that translates to “better” remains to be seen, though the evidence from their wins over the Cardinals (2023) and Colts (2024) suggest it should.
FanDuel Sportsbook still has the Giants over/under at 5.5 wins on the season. Hopefully an improved offense will land them in the “over”.
If the Giants aren’t more explosive, then we should be asking some very serious questions as to why.