Giants have gotten used to losing with hope nearly nonexistent
NY Post
PITTSBURGH — Those who have been around might not think this way, precisely because they have been around and realize, sadly, that it does not always get any better.
The here and now for the Giants is the familiarity of more of the same.
They are 2-5 after seven games and the longest-tenured Giants players know the feeling all too well.
A team winning only two of its first seven games has made the playoffs only 15 percent of the time over the past five seasons — and that is not even front and center in the minds of the Giants.
They are trying to figure out how to go about winning one game and making an argument for them doing so Monday night against the Steelers at Acrisure Stadium is close to an open-and-shut case to the contrary.
“The message is, why not?’’ nose tackle Dexter Lawrence said. “Why can’t we not streak? Why can’t we not go on a run? That’s the belief factor that the leaders and the players have in here. I think we’re close. I think, in times like this, you got to grow even closer and that’s what we’re doing. We’re having good days at practice. We’re coming out here competing. Having good days in the meeting and meeting extra. I don’t think it’s pulling us apart.’’
It won’t take long for everyone to reacclimate. Fifteen years may seem like an eternity when discussing Yankees appearances in the World Series, but when you have muscle memory this strong, it all comes back pretty quickly. The sights. The sounds — especially the sounds. The energy.
The first person Karl-Anthony Towns brought up on Sunday when asked about his first home game as a Knick was his father, and that is nothing new.
PITTSBURGH — Those who have been around might not think this way, precisely because they have been around and realize, sadly, that it does not always get any better.
JJ Redick was discovered working overtime.
With Davante Adams, Amari Cooper and DeAndre Hopkins off the board, two other receivers are getting league-wide intrigue.
LOS ANGELES — Juan Soto was practically a one-man show for the Yankees on Saturday, with his solo shot off Yoshinobu Yamamoto the lone hit off the Dodgers starter.
It didn’t take long for Karl-Anthony Towns to impact his regular-season debut at the Garden, for Towns — the preseason blockbuster acquisition — to elevate toward the rim, slam the ball through the net, hang on for an extra second and then let out a roar.
FOXBOROUGH, Mass — From the day he walked into their lives, there wasn’t a soul among the Jets, from top to bottom, who couldn’t stop telling the world how Aaron Rodgers raised the standard of everyone in the building, and how he elevated everyone with his football wisdom and the kind of magical right arm none of them had ever seen.
The Rangers saw two ends to the NHL’s spectrum in three days, beginning with the defending Stanley Cup champions and ending with the third-to-last team in the league last season.
Aaron Boone blew it.
Evan Neal might have angered the football gods somewhere along the line.