It has been a disappointing first three weeks for New York football fans. The Giants and Jets are a combined 0-6 to start the 2025 season. The Giants are accustomed to having poor starts to their seasons. Since 2013, the not-so-Giants of New York have started off 0-2 10 times. With a matchup against a hungry 0-2 Chiefs team, winning will be a tough task Sunday night.
However, the Jets have looked a bit more competitive to start off the season. In Weeks 1 and 3, they lost heartbreakers to Pittsburgh and Tampa Bay. In Week 2, they were dismantled by Buffalo, which was not much of a surprise.
Special teams for the Jets stepped up late in Week 3 as Will McDonald blocked a field goal and returned it for a touchdown. That would have put the Buccaneers up by two scores with under two minutes to play. However, New York let Tampa Bay drive down the field and bury a last-second field goal to win the game.
Week 3 for the Giants was the complete opposite of Week 2. Russell Wilson’s performance was lackluster, throwing for only 160 yards and tossing two interceptions that had almost no chance for a receiver to catch. At some point, you must feel bad for star receiver Malik Nabers. He finished the night with two catches for 13 yards. Coming off a 167-yard, two-touchdown performance, you would think that the Giants would feed him the ball for Week 3.
The Giants announced Tuesday afternoon that rookie quarterback Jaxson Dart will start Week 4 against the LA Chargers. New York traded up in the first round of this year’s draft to select the standout Ole Miss QB. Dart lit it up in the preseason, finishing with 372 passing yards, 3 passing touchdowns, zero interceptions on 32 of 47 completions.
Does this move give Giants fans a new set of hope? His first four matchups are a doozy: against the Los Angeles Chargers, the Saints, against Denver and against Philadelphia. The rookie will face some of the top defenses in the league to kick off his career.
Switching over to baseball, the New York Mets are on the outside looking in, losing 11 of their last 15 games. Not the ideal time for a slump, to say the least. ESPN has the Mets at a 25% chance to make the playoffs. As it stands, New York is tied with Cincinnati for the last Wild Card spot, with the Reds having the tiebreaker. The Mets finish the season against the Cubs and against Miami, while the Reds finish at home to the Pirates and against the Brewers. Since the Mets don’t have the tiebreaker, they can win every game and still miss the playoffs. Mets fans must root for the Pirates and Brewers if they want to see October baseball in Flushing.
As of Tuesday afternoon, the Yankees just need one more win to clinch the playoffs. As it stands, they will host the Boston Red Sox in the wild-card series at Yankee Stadium. Boston has had the Yanks’ number all season long, winning eight straight games against them at one point this season. This matchup will be cinema for the fans. The last time these two rivals faced off in the playoffs was in the 2021 wild-card game and the Red Sox took care of business, 6-2. This was the last time Boston made the playoffs. Boston fans are hoping for their Red Sox to make noise in October once again.
In basketball, the defending WNBA champion New York Liberty were knocked out in the first round of the playoffs by the Phoenix Mercury. UConn’s very own Breanna Stewart put up 30 points in the win-or-go-home game 3. However, it was not enough to take down the Mercury, as Alyssa Thomas put up a triple-double in front of the home crowd.
This past week was not pretty for New York fans. Let’s hope that the Big Apple can be buzzing next week.