Week 5 poll results: Most fans think the Giants will win 1 game in October

The New York Giants are faced with a potentially difficult, and likely consequential, run of games in October.

As we’re well aware, the Giants finished September with a 1-3 record and dropped two winnable games across that stretch. Looking ahead, the Giants have what — at least on paper — could be the toughest stretch of games on their schedule. This week they go on the road to play the Seattle Seahawks (3-1), then return home to host the Cincinnati Bengals (1-3) and Philadelphia Eagles (2-2), then travel to the Pittsburgh Steelers (3-1).

After this stretch of games, the Giants will face the Washington Commanders (3-1) at home, then travel to Germany to play the Carolina Panthers before their bye week.

Prior to the season, John Mara declined to define his expectations for the team, simply stating that he expected them to be “better” than they were a year ago. Last year, the Giants started with a 2-6 record after September and October.

With that in mind, we asked the Big Blue View community how many games they thought the Giants would win this month. Most of you believe that they’ll have the same record come November 1st, 2024 as they had on November 1st, 2023.

Another 30 percent of fans believe that the Giants won’t win any of their games this month, leaving them with a 1-7 record for the first half of the season.

With 71 percent of fans believing the Giants would win one (or no) games in October, and head into their bye week with at best a 4-6 record and at worst a 1-9 record, it’s tough to say that the team is “better”.

There would almost certainly be consequences for a start like that. We can’t say what those consequences would be at this point. Perhaps the Giants would position themselves as sellers at the trade deadline. Or perhaps we’d start to hear rumors of Brian Daboll or Joe Schoen being on the hot seat — followed by a vote of confidence from John Mara.

Of course, a lot can happen over the course of a month. Perhaps the Giants will shock the world and the 7 percent of fans who think the Giants will win 3 or 4 games will be right.

Interestingly, the 71 percent of fans who think the Giants will win 0 or 1 games is pretty close to the 62 percent of fans who think the team is headed in the wrong direction.

Fan confidence has been an absolute rollercoaster this year.

It started on a high note of 78 percent of fans believing that the team is headed in the right direction, before cratering at 22 percent following the loss to the Minnesota Vikings in Week 1. Then it climbed back up to 61 percent following the win over the Cleveland Browns before dropping after the Thursday Night loss to the Dallas Cowboys.

The Giants are currently 6.5-point underdogs per FanDuel and few fans are confident in a win, or even the Giants covering the spread.

And that was before we new for certain that the Giants would be without Malik Nabers (note: NABERS, not “Nabors”) and likely without RB Devin Singletary.