The set-up: The Giants will open the 2016 season without Tom Coughlin as their head coach for the first time since 2003. Former OC Bem McAdoo is the new coach and he inherits a team looking to get back to the playoffs for the first time since the Giants won the Super Bowl in the 2011 season. QB Eli Manning and WR Odell Beckham Jr. remain the key players for the Giants. Miami can feel the Giants' pain, as the Dolphins haven't been to the playoff since 2008 and haven't won a playoff game since the 2000 postseason. Miami will open 2016 with yet another new head coach, Adam Gase, who despite being the OC of a Chicago Bears team which was just 6-10 last year (finished 21st in total offense), was one of the or the ‘hottest' coaching candidates last off season.

The game: These two teams have met six times in the preseason in their histories with the Dolphins winning all six games (four of the six have been decided by six points or less). Both head coaches are making their respective debuts but for the Giants, McAdoo's debut will come at home. The pressure will surely be on him to make a good "first impression." I noted that Gase got the head coaching job at Miami despite coming off a 6-10 season as Chicago's OC in the set up but let me add this here. How many guys (meaning McAdoo) get promoted from OC to head coach after the team went 6-10 SU in each of the two seasons in which he was coordinator? As for Gase, he takes over a Miami team which was full of dissension on both sides of the ball in 2015. The recent coaching regimes weren't able to figure things out in "South Beach" and it stands to reason that Gase and his staff will need time.

The pick: My lean is to the Giants but what I like more here is the under, as both teams will struggle to put points on the board in this first contest, one in which the regulars will receive limited reps. top-rtaed 10* play on the UNDER!