The New York Giants offense is coming off a miserable performance against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. For the second time this season, the Giants will face the Dallas Cowboys.

The last time these two teams met this season was in week four and the Cowboys won 20-15, but both teams are very different.

In the last game, the Cowboys played more conservatively than usual, blitzing on 31.7% of passing snapsfifth lowest percentage of the season.

I expect that percentage to go up regardless of Tommy DeVito or Drew Lock starting this week.

The Giants haven’t done anything at quarterback to make a team fear the bird game and for the rest of the season, I expect teams to play more aggressively against them.

By stacking the box and playing aggressive, the defense will be in a better position to defend the run and essentially dare the Giants to throw the ball.

Last week, the Buccaneers continued 44% turnovers – up from their season average of 30.6%.

The reason for this is simple, the Giants can’t make you pay.

The last time these two teams played was the Giants worst rushing performance of the season by a wide margin with just 26 rushing yards on 24 carries, a 1.1-yard average.

This is still schematically a traditional Mike Zimmer defense stacks the box 29.7% of the time and plays mostly cover 3, cover 4 and cover 1 when playing man coverage.

A stacked box means the defense has eight or more players in the box, giving the defense more players available to defend the run and making it easier to disguise coverages and pressures.

Many defenses that stack the box dare opposing offenses to throw the ball, and with the athletes the Cowboys have in the box like Micah Parsons, DeMarvion Overshown, Jourdan Lewis and Donovan Wilson, it’s easy to get into space and play coverage. once the teams retire.

Parsons has become almost exclusively used as a pass rusher this year, but his presence and ability to occasionally drop back into coverage helps open up this defense.

The Giants offense has been pedestrian all season with avg just 14.8 points per game, lowest in the NFL by 1.6 points.

It must be a priority for the Giants to get the ball into the flats quickly and get easy yardage with the occasional deep six- or seven-block shot.

The Giants offensive line has been playing just plain bad football lately. He has to figure out how to deal with uber-aggressive defenses trying to get to the quarterback.

It’s not easy for this offense to do anything right now, but the Cowboys also have the second-worst scoring defense in the NFL, making this a battle of the NFL’s worst units.