If you went through the Giants’ 2025 schedule “Mike and the Mad Dog”-style and felt yourself saying “loss” quite often, turns out, you had reason to be bearish on Big Blue’s outlook for the upcoming campaign.
The Giants, despite having a last-place schedule after finishing at the bottom of the NFC East, have the NFL’s hardest schedule for 2025 based on the team’s 2024 winning percentage of .547, according to Yahoo.
The 49ers, who finished last in the NFC West, have the league’s easiest 17-game slate with a .415 opposing winning percentage.
The Jets have the seventh-easiest schedule with their .460 mark.
The interesting tidbit in the projection for the 2025 schedule strength is that the eight toughest slates all belong to teams in the NFC East and NFC North, with the two last-place teams in the Giants and Bears (.571) having the two hardest gauntlets.
The reigning division-champion Lions’ opposing winning percentage is also tied with the Bears.
The Giants have six games against the Cowboys, Eagles and Commanders, who combined to go 33-18 last year and 6-0 against the Giants.
The Bears have six contests versus the Packers, Lions and Vikings, who combined for a 40-11 mark, while the Lions square off against the Vikings and Packers four times and also face a first-place schedule.
What pushes the Giants over the top is that they have 14 games against teams from the three divisions with the best percentages in 2024.
The NFC East matches up in 2025 against the two divisions that posted the best winning percentages in 2024 in the AFC West and the NFC North, respectively.
The NFC North had the best record of 45-23, while the AFC West posted a 40-28 record, thanks to three playoff teams in the Chargers, Chiefs and Broncos.
Add it all up, and you have a brutal schedule for a team with a general manager in Joe Schoen and a coach in Brian Daboll, who are coming off back-to-back awful seasons.
The great caveat with these schedule strengths, though, is that a previous season’s record doesn’t always translate into the next year.
Giants 2025 schedule
| Week | Opponent | 2024 record |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | at Commanders | 12-5 |
| 2 | at Cowboys | 7-10 |
| 3 | Chiefs (MNF) | 15-2 |
| 4 | Chargers | 11-6 |
| 5 | at Saints | 5-12 |
| 6 | Eagles (TNF) | 15-2 |
| 7 | at Broncos | 10-7 |
| 8 | Eagles | 15-2 |
| 9 | 49ers | 6-11 |
| 10 | at Bears | 5-12 |
| 11 | Packers | 11-6 |
| 12 | at Lions | 15-2 |
| 13 | at Patriots | 4-13 |
| 14 | BYE | |
| 15 | Commanders | 12-5 |
| 16 | Vikings | 16-3 |
| 17 | at Raiders | 4-13 |
| 18 | Cowboys | 7-10 |
Many teams surely expected the 49ers to be stout last year coming off a Super Bowl appearance, but injuries instead doomed San Francisco to the NFC West basement.
The Jets thought of themselves as contenders but had almost as many firings as wins.
The Vikings, meanwhile, had been considered by some as a potential No. 1 pick candidate but instead won 14 games.
