The 2021 NFL season will be unlike any other, as the league expands to a 17-game schedule for the first time.
According to a report from ESPN’s Adam Schefter, the league is expected to officially announce the change this week.
For the NY Giants, and every team in the NFC East, it means a road contest against an AFC East foe. This year, it will be the AFC East team that hosts, and the NY Giants will travel to take on the Miami Dolphins.
In one of the rarest-played series’ for the NY Giants, 2021 will mark just the 10th contest against the Dolphins. New York leads the all-time series 7-2 through the first nine meetings between the franchises.
The most recent clash between the NY Giants and Dolphins came in quarterback Eli Manning’s final career start, a 36-20 blowout Giants victory at MetLife Stadium.
The NY Giants enter this year’s meeting in the midst of a four-game winning streak against the Dolphins.
Miami, led by quarterback Tua Tagovailoa, will likely look like a different team than they could have, after orchestrating a pair of blockbuster trades to move back from the No. 3 overall pick in next month’s NFL Draft to No. 6 overall, a tacit commitment to Tagovailoa being behind center this upcoming season
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