The Giants got into the win column Sunday with a 21-15 victory over the Browns in Cleveland.

It was a strong overall performance from both sides of the ball, as the offense once again scored three touchdowns while the defense limited Cleveland to 217 total yards.

"Competitive, showed a lot of resiliency on the road, particularly how the game started," coach Brian Daboll told the media after the game. "The guys competed. I was proud of the way they competed. That's a good football team. Defensively they are a good football team and I thought we got into a rhythm and made some plays early in the game. Stalled out a few in the second half, but at the end of the day, made a play there at the end to seal it."

The Giants have a short turnaround in Week 4 as they welcome the Dallas Cowboys to MetLife Stadium for a matchup on Thursday Night Football.

Here are five things we learned from Sunday:

1. Showing resiliency

Sunday's game could not have gotten off to a worse start for the Giants. Eric Gray fumbled the opening kickoff, which the Browns recovered. Then they scored on their first play from scrimmage, and 11 seconds into the game the Giants were already losing 7-0. But the Giants didn't let it snowball from there.

The Giants tied the game with an impressive 13-play, 81-yard drive later in the first quarter, and soon after, the offense put together a 14-play, 93-yard drive for a touchdown against a Cleveland defense that has been the best in the NFL at home dating back to last season. Meanwhile, the Giants' defense kept the Browns off the board for eight consecutive drives after their first-play touchdown.

"We talk about resilience and commitment to one another, teamwork and discipline, attitude," Daboll said Sunday. "There are going to be ebbs and flows to every game, there's ebbs and flows to every season. That's something we preach internally. You know, our guys have internal confidence, but it's good to get the result. The process has been right, I believe in our process and I've said that before. So their commitment to one-another, their next-play mentality – the things we preach for a long time. They have it come to fruition.

"Everyone wants to see the results and this is a results business. I believe in what we do and how we do things. That showed I think in terms of being on the road, it's cranking there, a touchdown right after the fumble, just to stay locked in and committed to the next-play mentality doesn't always turn out your way and today it did. I give our guys a lot of credit."

The Giants might need some of that same resiliency this week with a matchup against their division rival on the horizon. The Giants have won just one of their last 14 games against the Dallas Cowboys, dating back to the 2017 season. The Cowboys dropped their second consecutive game with a 28-25 loss to the Baltimore Ravens in Week 3, with both losses coming at AT&T Stadium.

2. Nabers' historic start

Malik Nabers broke out in a big way last week, catching 10 passes for 127 yards and his first NFL touchdown against the Commanders. The rookie wide receiver followed that up with yet another dominant performance, this time against an elite Browns defense. For the second consecutive week, Nabers led the Giants in targets (12), receptions (eight), and receiving yards (78), while also adding two touchdowns. The 21-year-old once again displayed strong hands as he came up with a couple of eye-opening grabs, including both his 28-yard catch over Martin Emerson and his first touchdown catch a few plays later.

"It was one hell of a catch," coach Brian Daboll said after the game about the rookie's grab over Emerson. "I'm going to go back and watch it on tape. I saw it and said, 'Oh', but then he came down with it. Again, when you have a guy like that, it doesn't really matter the matchup. Throw the ball up to him and trust he's going to get it. It takes a lot of trust between and a quarterback and a receiver to be able to do that."

"He's played really well to start and it hasn't surprised us with watching him in training camp and all the plays he's made," Jones added. "He's made a lot of big plays for us and I have a lot of trust in him going up and getting the ball. We need to continue to take advantage of his ability to make plays."

While you don't want to get too excited over the first three games of a player's career, it's hard not to with Nabers. For starters, the rookie ranks among the league leaders in just about every receiving category. His 23 receptions are the second-most in the NFL, his 271 receiving yards rank fifth, while his three receiving touchdown are tied for the league-lead. He also has the most 20+ yard receptions with six.

Nabers made history on Sunday while also joining some elite company with his performance over the first three weeks. He is now the first player in NFL history with at least 20 receptions and three touchdown catches in his first three career games. His 23 receptions are tied with Anquan Boldin for the second-most by a player in his first three games in NFL history, trailing only Puka Nacua's 30 last year. Nabers, at 21 years and 56 days old, is also the youngest wide receiver in NFL history with two touchdown receptions in a game, breaking Mike Evans' record (21 years and 73 days old).

"I mean I have a lot of great teammates behind my back pushing me for greatness," Nabers said in the locker room after Sunday's win. "This last week they kept pushing and pushing, and I am thankful to those guys who kept pushing me to try and be great, and hopefully we can keep the momentum into the next game and have another strong performance for these guys."

3. DJ leads offense

While Nabers deserves a lot of credit for the offense's success in Cleveland, the same goes for Daniel Jones. The sixth-year quarterback completed 70.6 percent of his passes for 236 yards, two touchdowns and no interceptions for a passer rating of 109.4. This was Jones' highest passer rating since the Week 17 matchup against the Colts in 2022 when he finished with a 125.2 passer rating. This marked the first time Jones has thrown multiple touchdown passes with no interceptions in consecutive games since his rookie season, and the first time he's done it with zero turnovers overall in his NFL career. He also finished the game eight of 13 for 62 yards and a touchdown, good for a 98.9 passer rating, when getting pressured.

The Giants' offense scored three touchdowns in the first half for just the second time since the start of the 2021 season (vs. Eagles in Week 18, 2023). Jones played a crucial role in this as he completed 17 of 19 passes for 178 yards and both touchdowns in the first half, which earned him a passer rating of 140.8. The fact that he did it against a Browns defense that entered this game as the best unit at home over the last two seasons makes it that much more impressive.

"Another good week," Daboll said about his QB. "He's had two good weeks in a row. I don't know, another hundred-plus quarterback rating, two touchdowns, no interceptions, handled the noise well. Did a great job of not turning the football over. Executing, I think we were 100% but took the knee at the end. He was locked in and he's been that way. We're going to need it from him this week – a short week. A lot of work to do."

Devin Singletary had another solid performance, as well. The veteran running back carried the ball 16 times for 65 yards and a touchdown, good for an average of 4.1 yards per carry, although he did lose a fumble for the second consecutive week. Outside of the turnover, Singletary has continued to run well out of the backfield. He registered two runs of 10+ yards and forced another five missed tackles, while also having his best game as a receiver with four receptions for an additional 43 yards.

"Yeah man I was sick," Singletary said about his fumble. "But my brothers, they had my back. They didn't let me put my head down, they told me to stay locked in. They said they were gonna need me, and I was glad I was able to help us get the win today."

4. Pass rush breaks out

The Giants' defense put together its most dominant outing of the season on Sunday. Cleveland finished with just 217 net offensive yards, the fewest by a Giants opponent in Brian Daboll's three seasons as head coach. Additionally, the 69 rushing yards allowed was the second-fewest in a regular-season game in that span.

A big reason for the unit's success was due to the pass rush. The Giants sacked Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson eight times, their highest sack total in nearly 10 years (they had eight sacks against the Titans on December 7, 2014) and tied for the most in the league in Week 3 heading into Monday Night Football. Their 36 total quarterback pressures were also the most of any team in the NFL this past week, according to Pro Football Focus.

The team's eight sacks were credited to nine different players, making it just the fourth time since sacks became an official statistic in 1982 that a team has had nine players register at least half a sack in the same game. Dexter Lawrence led the way with two, while Brian Burns, Azeez Ojulari, Elijah Chatman, and Jason Pinnock each had one. Bobby Okereke, Micah McFadden, Rakeem Nunez-Roches and Kayvon Thibodeaux each contributed a half-sack. Burns' sack, his first with the Giants, led to a Watson fumble which the Giants recovered. Burns had seven total pressures in the game, a new career-high, as he was one of nine different defenders with multiple pressures (Lawrence was second on the team with six).

Defensive coordinator Shane Bowen deserves a ton of credit. Bowen is not known for blitzing too often, but on Sunday, he had the defense blitz more times (27) than the first two games combined (19). This clearly confused the Browns offense for much of the game.

"Each week we go into the staff on Monday and Tuesday – we think this is what needs to be done," Daboll said about the game plan. "Played a little bit more man than we probably have in the past couple games. It can change each week - that's what I like about Shane and the defensive staff and the offensive staff, and (Michael Ghobrial) Goby, to be honest with you.. They exhaust all their resources, they spend a lot of time together, they work late, they're committed to one another, and then they come up with a plan that we think is best for our football team."

"I mean, they switched up the game plan," Watson told the media after the game. "I think you got to give their DC Shane (Bowen) a lot of credit for doing something different that we… of course we were expecting pressure, but as much as they brought it, you just got to prepare for the worst. And they did a good job of trying to create some mismatch and different confusion up front to get us off our timing in the passing game. So, for us to try to correct that, we got to win our matchups and try to figure out the right protection to figure out what pressures they were doing off the edge to create and, yeah."

5. Injury updates on short week

The Giants saw several players leave Sunday's game with injuries, some of which returned and some of which did not. Let's start with the former. Wide receiver Darius Slayton (thumb) and inside linebacker Micah McFadden (back) both left the game early but were able to return to action. However, the secondary took a few hits as cornerbacks Dru Phillips and Adoree' Jackson both suffered calf injuries and were unable to get back on the field. Cornerback Nick McCloud, who missed the game with a knee injury, was the only player ruled out on the final injury report Friday.

Of course, the Giants have a very quick turnaround this week with the Cowboys coming to town in just three days. When speaking to the media Monday morning, Daboll said he did not have any updates on the injured players yet.

"Don't have any update on any of the guys that were injured," the head coach said. "We'll do walkthroughs, have a lot of meeting time, some extra meeting time, extra walkthroughs to get prepared for this game."

The injuries, especially at cornerback, led to some lineup shuffling. Cor'Dale Flott moved from the outside to the slot when Phillips went down early in the game, before moving back outside after Jackson got injured. Isaiah Simmons ended up playing 26 of his 30 snaps in the slot, according to PFF, while Art Green, who was elevated from the practice squad on Saturday, made his NFL debut and played 11 total snaps, including nine at outside corner. In addition to Green, the other cornerbacks currently on the practice squad are undrafted rookie Alex Johnson and veteran Duke Shelley, who has experience both on the outside and in the slot.