2022 will not be a good season for the New York Giants.
New head coach Brian Daboll inherited a mess left behind from a series of failed regimes that won 22 games the last five seasons. His quarterback, Daniel Jones, is in the final year of his rookie contract. The lasting image he threatens to leave behind is an uncanny ability to trip over his own feet like a newborn giraffe. Running back Saquon Barkley, drafted ahead of players like Josh Allen, Denzel Ward and Minkah Fitzpatrick in 2018, has been unable to stay healthy, leaving the New York rushing attack stuck in slow motion each of the past two seasons.
That leaves 2022 as a reckoning — a chance for Daboll to parse his roster and figure out who stays and who is merely the means to providing a top five draft pick next spring. There aren’t going to be many football reasons to watch the Giants this fall.
Fortunately for the franchise, the team will at least look good while being trampled on RedZone. That’s because the Giants have brought back one of the NFL’s best throwback uniforms for ’22.
Legacy is timeless. Classic blue uniforms are BACK 🔥 pic.twitter.com/sqxtmUefZl
— New York Giants (@Giants) July 20, 2022
New York’s 1980s throwbacks aren’t just a nod to the team’s glory days; they’re a damn near perfect uniform. From a perfect blue-white-red color scheme to the paired stripes to the underlined “GIANTS” on the helmet, everything works. The team even got Lawrence Taylor for the unveiling hype video.
That means the Giants have started their 2022 season with a rare win. The question now is whether Barkley and Jones can play anything like their predecessors, or if they’ll merely look great in defeat.
