New York Giants 2022 NFL Season Betting Preview (Daniel Jones Won’t Lead Giants Past Win Total Prediction)

The 2022 season will be a make or break campaign for several key players on the New York Giants, as quarterback Daniel Jones, running back Saquon Barkley and a few of the team’s weapons on the outside (I’m looking at you, Kenny Golladay) have a lot to prove in 2022. 

The Giants have a new head coach and general manager, and they’re hoping coach Brian Daboll can bring along some of the magic he used in Buffalo to help untap Josh Allen’s potential. 

Still, the Giants have been a bottom feeder in the NFC East for quite some time, and they’ll need to improve across the board to make a push for a playoff spot. Draft picks Kayvon Thibodeaux and Evan Neal are two elite talents, and they should help jumpstart what has been a long rebuild. 

Let’s break down how we expect the Giants to play in 2022, as well as some of the moves they made to improve in 2022: 

New York Giants 2022 Offseason Moves, Signings, Coaching Changes

• Drafted OT Evan Neal and EDGE Kayvon Thibodeaux in the first round of the 2022 NFL Draft
• Fired head coach Joe Judge. Hired head coach Brian Daboll
• Declined fifth-year option on QB Daniel Jones
• Named Joe Schoen the team’s general manager
• Signed TE Ricky Seals-Jones
• Signed WR Richie James
• Signed Guards Mark Glowinski and John Feliciano
• Signed QB Tyrod Taylor

New York Giants 2022 Schedule

The Giants, like the rest of the NFC East, have an easy strength of schedule in 2022. They rank 29th in terms of their opponent’s winning percentage from last season. 

New York has a Week 9 bye, and a few big primetime games including the Green Bay Packers in London in Week 5 and the Dallas Cowboys on Thanksgiving Day. 

New York Giants 2022 Win Total Prediction

• OVER 7 (+105)
• UNDER 7 (-125)

The last time the Giants won seven or more games in a season came back in 2016, when they went 11-5 and lost in the wild card round. Since the start of the 2013 season, New York has one season over seven wins and one season with exactly seven wins. 

And you mean to tell me they're set at 7 wins for the 2022 season? Yeah, I’m not buying. 

Daniel Jones has a major incentive to have a big year after the team declined his fifth-year option, but we’ve seen time and time again that he is plagued by turnovers. As much as Daboll should help, I don’t think he’s going to show us that Jones isn’t the player we’ve seen the last three seasons. 

New York’s defense should be even better than last year (11th in yards per play) with a star like Thibodeaux in the front seven, but I don’t see it being enough to carry this offense. The weapons are there, the offensive line should be better, but it’s going to be Jones or Taylor under center. 

That doesn’t give me any confidence. The Giants are averaging less than five wins a year over the last five seasons. They aren’t going 8-9 in the 2022 campaign. 

Lean: UNDER 7 Wins (-125)

New York Giants 2022 Odds to Win Division, NFC, Super Bowl

• To Make the Playoffs: +230
• Odds to Win NFC East: +800
• Odds to Win NFC: +6000
• Odds to Win Super Bowl 57: +13000

Listen, if I’m telling you to fade the Giants’ win total, I can’t tell you to bet on them at any of these prices in the futures market. 

However, if you want to fade me (all is fair), then taking New York to win the division gives you a little more bang for your buck than making the postseason. I think the NFC East has a chance to have two playoff teams, but if the Giants are in the conversation, it means something went terribly wrong for the Dallas Cowboys and Philadelphia Eagles. 

Daboll has his work cut out for him to rebuild a team that has been terrible offensively for several seasons now.

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