There’s one more game left to play of the 2025-2026 NFL Season, and the Seattle Seahawks will take on the New England Patriots in Super Bowl LX.
The NY Giants have connections to both of these teams. On the Seattle side, there are a couple recent former Giants in defensive lineman Leonard Williams, safety Julian Love, and quarterback Drew Lock. The Seahawks are also quarterbacked by Sam Darnold, who the Giants passed up at No. 2 overall in 2018 in favor of Saquon Barkley. The last time the Seahawks made the Super Bowl, they were quarterbacked by Giants’ 2025 starter Russell Wilson.
The history on the other side is readily apparent. Ther is, of course, the enduring New York – Boston rivalry that spans every sport in which the two cities have a presence. The Giants and Patriots aren’t regular opponents like the Yankees and Red Sox, though they do play eveery preseason. However, the regular season games between these two teams tend to be great and the championship throwdowns have been legendary. The Patriots are also the new home of former Giants’ quarterback Tommy DeVito, who is still a fan favorite.
But an affinity for DeVito isn’t enough to tilt Giants’ fans rooting interest the Patriots, and Giants fans are pulling for Seattle at an overwhelming rate.
Giants fans voted for the Seahawks at an even higher rate than the national average, though only just higher. At the national level, 83% of fans voted that they want the Seahawks to win.
That isn’t much of a surprise. Pretty much every Giants fan — every non-Patriots — fan I’ve talked to has said something along the lines of “It’s too soon for the Pats to win again. They need a couple decades of mediocrity after the 2000’s and 2010’s.”
The Vegas line is predicting a much closer game than one fans want to see. The Seahawks are just 4.5-point favorites on FanDuel.
The Giants, meanwhile, are more concerned with building a machine that can get consistently put them in contention for The Big Game. The foundation for that will be Jaxson Dart and John Harbaugh, but the cornerstones on top of them are the Giants’ coordinator hires. And since we finally have the hires — Matt Nagy at offensive coordinator, and Dennard Wilson at defensive coordinator — we can finally ask the community how you feel about them.
Overall, the feeling is one best described as “cautiously optimistic”.
Taken as a whole, 55% of fans are optimistic about the hires. They likely feel good about the fact that Nagy was able to get Mitchell Trubisky to the playoffs twice, and he could do far better with Dart and only having to worry about the offense.
On the defensive side, what Wilson wanted to do with the Tennessee Titans defense was promising and fits the Giants’ personnel better than Shane Bowen’s scheme. That makes sense, given that Wilson also comes from the “Baltimore” school of defensive philosophy and the Giants are still built in Wink Martindale’s image.
It’s encouraging, and a sign of renewed hope around the fanbase, that only 2% of respondents are actually down on the hires.
Of course, the announcement of both hires was met with immediate skepticism as neither were fans’ first choices. Many fans are also trusting Harbaugh’s track record of hiring good coaches and building a culture. And that’s where the “cautious” part comes in, and nearly half of fans want to see how things develop before passing judgement.
How this all comes together over the course of free agency, the draft, and the offseason program will be fascinating — and hopefully fun — to watch.
