National Football League

Coughlin: We will face a challenging schedule

Published Apr. 22, 2015 8:58 a.m. ET

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The New York Giants have released their 2015 schedule, and Tom Coughlin had the opportunity to sit down and briefly break it down. Thanks in part to the national emergence of Odell Beckham Jr., the team is saddled with a schedule that features four night games in the first six total games. Coughlin knows that this will make things a little more challenging for a Giants team that has gotten off to a slow start to the season two years in row.

“This is a difficult schedule that includes many formidable opponents,” head coach Tom Coughlin said according to Michael Eisen of Giants.com. “We will face a challenge every week, not only in who we play, but with the different elements of our schedule. In the first six weeks of the season, we play two Sunday night games, a Thursday night game and a Monday night game.

Coughlin did find a silver lining in the schedule.

"We have an unusually late bye this season, which we will hopefully use to our advantage.”

Having said that, he has also kept up to pace with the developments around the NFL, and he pinpointed some of the improvements made in the AFC division that the Giants will take on in 2015.

“We open the season in the NFC East at Dallas, which won the division last year. We’re playing some teams that are growing with new coaches. The AFC East includes the Super Bowl champions, a Miami team that just missed the playoffs last year and two teams, the Jets and Bills, which have new coaches.

The Giants will kick off the season in primetime in Dallas.

(h/t New York Giants)