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Inside the Numbers: Giants look to go 4-0 in Europe

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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. – In what has been an imperfect season, the Giants will attempt to extend one record of perfection when they play the Carolina Panthers Sunday in Allianz Arena in Munich, Germany.

It will be the NFL's fifth and final international game this season and the 55th regular-season game played on foreign soil since the league began exporting its product to different countries in 2005.

This will be the Giants' fourth trip to Europe and first to Germany for a regular-season game. They played a preseason game in Berlin in 1994. The Giants won all three of their games in London, in 2007, 2016, and 2022, and made the playoffs each year, including a Super Bowl victory in the first of those seasons. Their 3-0 record makes them one of six teams who are undefeated in international games, joining Minnesota (4-0), Kansas City (3-0), Philadelphia (3-0), Carolina (1-0), and Dallas (1-0). The Panthers defeated Tampa Bay in London in 2019.

Four teams are winless in international games; Green Bay and Tennessee are 0-2, and Cleveland and Pittsburgh are 0-1.

The Jacksonville Jaguars have played in London every season since 2013 and participated in a league-high 13 international games. Pittsburgh, Carolina, Cleveland, and Dallas are the only teams to play overseas just once.

The Giants and Panthers, who enter the game with matching 2-7 records, will play the fourth NFL regular-season game in Germany, and second in Munich, all in the last three years.

On Nov. 13, 2022, the Buccaneers defeated the Seattle Seahawks, 21-16, in front of 69,811 fans, the only previous NFL game played in Munich.

Last year, the NFL played games on consecutive Sundays in Deutsche Bank Park in Frankfurt. Kansas City defeated Miami, 21-14, on Nov. 5, and Indianapolis topped New England, 10-6, on Nov. 12. Each game drew slightly more than 50,000 fans.

The Giants will play their fourth regular-season game in Europe after winning three games in three different stadiums in London.

On Oct. 28, 2007, the Giants won the first NFL regular-season game played outside of North America when they defeated the Miami Dolphins, 13-10, before a crowd of 81,176 in Wembley Stadium.

The Giants next played in London on Oct. 23, 2016, when they earned a 17-10 victory against the Los Angeles Rams in the first NFL game played in Twickenham Stadium.

Their most recent visit to England was on Oct. 9, 2022. Their defense did not allow a point in the second half as the Giants held off the Green Bay Packers, 27-22, in Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.

The Giants first played in Germany on Aug. 13, 1994, when they defeated the San Diego Chargers in a preseason game in Berlin, 28-20. The game was played in Berlin Olympic Stadium, the primary outdoor venue for the 1936 Olympic Games.

The Seattle Seahawks set the international record for points scored in a 50-17 victory against Buffalo on Dec. 16, 2012, in the Rogers Centre in Toronto. The European record is 45 points by Kansas City vs. Detroit, which scored 10, in Wembley Stadium on Nov. 1, 2015.

Three international games ended in shutouts. Buffalo beat Washington, 23-0, in Toronto on Oct. 30, 2011. The other shutouts were played in London three weeks apart in 2015. New Orleans defeated Miami, 20-0, on Oct. 1, and the Rams routed Arizona, 33-0, on Oct. 22.

View photos from the New York Giants' previous regular-season trips to Europe, where they are 3-0.

*The Giants and Panthers are two of the nine teams that are 2-6 or 2-7, the highest number of 2-win teams at this juncture since 2006. There were five such teams in both 2022 and 2023.

*Tyrone Tracy leads the Giants and ranks fourth among NFL rookies with 558 scrimmage yards (442 rushing, 116 receiving). Malik Nabers, who has played two fewer games, is right behind him with 557 (all receiving). According to the Elias Sports Bureau, the Giants are the only NFL team whose top two players in scrimmage yards are rookies. Tracy and Nabers have combined for 1,115 yards, far more than the No. 2 rookie tandem, Buffalo's Ray Davis and Keon Coleman (828).

Nabers is the first player in NFL history with 55+ receptions, 550-plus receiving yards (557), and three touchdown catches in his first seven career games. He joins Cincinnati's Ja'Marr Chase and the Jets' Garrett Wilson as the only NFL players with that stat line this season. Both Chase and Wilson have played in nine games; Nabers has played in seven.

*Nabers caught nine passes Sunday against Washington and joined the Rams' Puka Nacua (58 in 2023) receptions) as the only players in NFL history with at least 50 receptions in their first seven career games. Nacua holds the record for most receptions in a player's first eight games with 61. Nabers certainly has a chance to top that on Sunday. The only other player with more than 55 is former Giants running back Saquon Barkley with 58. So, if Nabers does not catch a pass against the Panthers he will still be third.

*Nabers is averaging 7.9 catches game, the most in history by a rookie with at least five games played. The record for any player is 9.3 receptions a game and is held by New Orlean's Michael Thomas in 2019 (149 catches in 16 games).

If Nabers plays in the remaining eight games and maintains his per-game average, he will finish with 118 catches. That would obliterate Nacua's NFL rookie record of 105, set last year.

*With Nabers and Wan'Dale Robinson (51), the Giants are the only team with two players who have 50+ catches. They are tied for the NFL lead with 18 third-down receptions. Tampa Bay's Chris Godwin is third with 16.

*Nabers' 55 catches place him sixth on the Giants' rookie list. He trails Evan Engram by nine catches and Sterling Shepard by 10.

*Nabers caught 19 passes in two games vs. Washington, the most single-season receptions by a Giants player against their division rivals. Running back Tucker Frederickson caught 17 in 1970.

*Daniel Jones threw two touchdown passes and ran for a third score Sunday against the Commanders. It was his ninth game with both a passing and rushing touchdown.

*It was the 17th game in which Jones threw two touchdown passes. He has two four-touchdown-pass games and one with five scoring throws – but none with three.

*Jones' 14th rushing touchdown extended his franchise record for quarterbacks since 1950. Fran Tarkenton is second with 10. The Giants are 6-5 when Jones rushes for a touchdown.

*Jones had a team-long 24-yard run on Sunday, the 20th time has had the Giants' longest run in a game.

*Jones has 1,415 career completions and needs four to move past Charlie Conerly and into fourth place on the Giants' career list.

*Tight ends Chris Manhertz and Theo Johnson became the 22nd and 23rd different players to catch a regular-season touchdown pass from Jones. Darius Slayton tops the list with 12.

*Manhertz is the 54th different player to catch a Jones pass.

*The Giants didn't record a sack Sunday, but their 35 sacks this season still lead the league. The Broncos and Jets are second with 31. The 35 sacks are the Giants' highest total through nine games since they had since 40 in 1985.

*The Giants are the only NFL team with eight players who have at least 2.0 sacks. The team record is nine players, which happened four times, most recently in 2004. In addition, the Giants join the Minnesota Vikings as the only teams to have three players with at least 5.0 sacks. Dexter Lawrence has 9.0, Azeez Ojulari has 6.0, and Brian Burns has 5.0.

*The Giants did not have a takeaway Sunday and have lost their last eight games in which they did not force a turnover. Their last victory was on Sept. 17, 2023, in Arizona.

*The game vs. Washington was the third in the last two years in which they had neither a sack nor a takeaway. That's proven to be a tough combination to overcome. The Giants are 1-5 in regular-season games (but 1-0 in the postseason) in such games under Brian Daboll, and 3-18 since 1990.

*The Giants will have their bye week after they return from Germany. Since regular-season byes were instituted in 1990, the Giants have been one of the NFL's most successful teams in games prior to a bye:

Seattle Seahawks: 28-8-0 (.778)

Minnesota Vikings: 25-11-0 (.694)

Dallas Cowboys: 24-12-0 (.667)

New Orleans Saints: 23-12-0 (.657)

New York Giants: 23-12-0 (.657)

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