Dexter Lawrence’s eyes and ears are open, because he is a Giants captain, as voted by his teammates, and that vigilance is part of the responsibility.
So Lawrence searched for clues that would alert him that the Giants might not be in the right headspace. “I think the guys in here, we just take every week seriously,’’ Lawrence told The Post. “I haven’t had to address, ‘OK, come on, let’s get rolling.’ We just take every game serious and the same, so there’s not a lot of, ‘Get serious, get serious, lock in.’ We know what we got to do and want to do it.
At 6-2, they are full of possibilities, though they are technically in third place in the NFC East behind the Eagles and Cowboys , because they lost to Dallas. The Giants do have a cushion in the NFC wild-card race. First-year head coach Brian Daboll thus far has been able to shield from his team from such projections.
“We just live in the moment,’’ Daboll said. “Each week is its own week in the NFL, and you try to stack as many [wins] as you can together. And at the end of the year, wherever you’re at, you’re at. Daboll has not yet experienced a truly low moment to lift his team out of — the two losses were closely contested, frustrating but not anguish-inducing. Losing this week or the next would qualify as a step back.
The Texans do not do anything particularly well. They are 29th in total offense — 26th in passing offense, 25th in rushing and 25th in scoring, averaging 16.6 points a game. They are 30th in total defense — 19th in passing defense, dead last at 32nd in run defense and 19th in scoring defense, allowing 22.9 points a game.
Davis Mills has been intercepted eight times, tied for second in the league, behind only the benched Matt Ryan of the Colts with nine. The Texans are poor against the run, allowing 180.6 yards per game, and the Giants have every intention of furthering that misery, with Saquon Barkley and also Daniel Jones, who was stymied as a running threat in the loss at Seattle before the bye.“You look on tape, I think they’re a good team,’’ Jones said.
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