The New York Giants will open the 2020 regular season against the Pittsburgh Steelers on Monday Night Football — a game now confirmed with the leak of their schedule on Thursday evening.
Other highlights include a Monday Night Football matchup with Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in Week 8 and a Week 15 game against the Cleveland Browns.
Here is the 2020 preseason schedule:
- Week 1: at New York Jets (Aug. 13-17)
- Week 2: at Tennessee Titans (Aug. 20-24)
- Week 3: vs. Green Bay Packers (Aug. 27-30)
- Week 4: vs New England Patriots (Sept. 3-4)
Here’s the full 2020 regular season schedule:
- Week 1: vs. Pittsburgh Steelers on Monday, Sept. 14 at 8:15 p.m.
- Week 2: at Chicago Bears on Sunday, Sept. 20 at 1:00 p.m.
- Week 3: vs. San Francisco 49ers, Sunday, Sept. 27 at 1:00 p.m.
- Week 4: at Los Angeles Rams, Sunday, Oct. 4 at 4:05 p.m.
- Week 5: at Dallas Cowboys, Sunday, Oct. 11 at 4:25 p.m.
- Week 6: vs. Washington Redskins, Sunday, Oct. 18 at 1:00 p.m.
- Week 7: at Philadelphia Eagles, Thursday, Oct. 22 at 8:20 p.m.
- Week 8: vs. Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Monday, Nov. 2 at 8:15 p.m.
- Week 9: at Washington Redskins, Sunday, Nov. 8 at 1:00 p.m.
- Week 10: vs Philadelphia Eagles, Sunday, Nov. 15 at 1:00 p.m.
- Week 11: BYE
- Week 12: at Cincinnati Bengals, Sunday, Nov. 29 at 1:00 p.m.
- Week 13: at Seattle Seahawks, Sunday, Dec. 6, 4:05 p.m.
- Week 14: vs. Arizona Cardinals, Sunday, Dec. 13 at 1:00 p.m.
- Week 15: vs. Cleveland Browns, Sunday, Dec. 20 at 1:00 p.m.
- Week 16: at Baltimore Ravens on Sunday, Dec. 27 at 1:00 p.m.
- Week 17: vs. Dallas Cowboys on Sunday, Jan. 3 at 1:00 p.m
“I’ll tell you what, when you get the schedule, it definitely does give you a little surge of energy,” first-year head coach Joe Judge said, via Giants.com. “It stimulates a lot of conversation between all areas of the organization – support staff, coaching staff — and you start preparing immediately for it.
“The number one positive is we’re getting ready to play football, so that’s the biggest thing. Once you get the schedule, it starts moving a little bit faster in your mind in terms of preparing for what’s in front of you. The thing we were waiting to see a little bit on was how some of the cross-country games played out. That ties in a little bit to how you plan out a lot of your travel for the year, which is tied to how you practice those weeks. You start mapping out how you’re going to go about each week by week through the season.
“We can start working on hotels and you start having more conversations that are going to tie into how you’re going to plan and prepare throughout the flow of the season. You look at the bye week, you look at how shortly before that is the Thursday night game, which leads into a Monday night game. How can you use some of the breaks in the season to help your players? How can we structure practice accordingly? You’re also tying in the new rules with our limited number of padded practices. You just start calculating as you look on down the list of opponents.”
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