The New York Giants will face off against the Miami Dolphins on the road this Sunday in a meeting between two teams that could not be more different.
The Dolphins (3-1) are averaging 37.5 points per game this season, the most in the NFL. The Giants are averaging just 11.5, the lowest in the league.
The Giants have scored just three points in their first two home games, the lowest total by an NFL team in 40 years. Miami leads the NFL with 2,044 total yards of offense this season, the most by a team in their first four games in NFL history.
The Dolphins’ high-powered offense has to have Giants defensive coordinator Wink Martindale worried. He was asked on Thursday his reaction to the Miami offense, which pinned 70 points on Denver two weeks ago.
“My wife called me last night before she went to bed,” Martindale said. “She said she was worried about me. She said, ‘Are you getting any sleep?’ I said, ‘Yeah, I’m sleeping like a baby; every two hours, I wake up and cry and go to the bathroom and try to go back and get some more sleep.’
“It’s unbelievable. But that’s where this league’s heading with some of the other scores. The points have been up pretty high. I told our guys, not the players, I told our staff because we’re all old enough to remember, ‘The Greatest Show on Turf.’ This is like that, 2023 supersonic. I mean, they are fast. Faster than that. That’s the whole thing that in preparing a team going into this environment, that’s not even turf there. It’s grass and they’re still faster.”
The Giants spent this offseason trying to upgrade their total team speed. Sunday afternoon will put that plan to the test. Martindale has already addressed the subject with his team and hopes that he can slow the Dolphins down.
“In this game, I told the defense, there’s going to be plays made. You’ve got to just have that mentality that’s like, ‘Here we go again.’ Let’s just try to get a stop,” he said. “Every play, let’s just try to get a stop. The more we can get them in third downs, the better off it is for us.”
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