1982 New York Giants season

NFL team season

The 1982 New York Giants season was the franchise's 58th season in the National Football League, but was shortened to nine games due to the 1982 NFL Players Strike.

The season saw the Giants attempting to improve on a 9–7 record from 1981, a season in which they had made the playoffs for the first time since 1963 and also clinched their first winning record since 1972. However, the Giants stumbled out the gates early, starting 0–2 before the strike occurred. After the strike ended, the Giants won four of their last seven games, but missed the playoffs because of losing two tiebreakers against the Saints and the Lions (who both ended with identical 4–5 records). The Giants lost the tiebreakers based on best conference record. The Lions went 4–4 against NFC teams, while the Giants and Saints both went 3–5 against NFC teams. The Lions won the tiebreaker over the Saints, thus eliminating the Saints and Giants from playoff contention and putting the Lions into the playoffs as the final wild card spot in the NFC. This was the nineteenth season out of the last twenty that the Giants missed the playoffs.

Offseason

NFL Draft

Round Pick Player Position School
1 18 Butch Woolfolk Running back University of Michigan
2 45 Joe Morris Running back Syracuse University
3 – – – –
4 102 Gerry Raymond Guard Boston College
5 129 Rich Umphrey Center Colorado
6 156 Darrell Nicholson Linebacker North Carolina
7 186 Jeff Wiska Guard Michigan State
8 213 Robert Hubble Tight end Rice
9 240 John Higgins Defensive back UNLV
10 270 Rich Baldinger Tackle Wake Forest
11 – – – –
12 323 Mark Seale Defensive tackle Richmond

Personnel

Staff

1982 New York Giants staff

Front office

  • President – Wellington Mara
  • General Manager – George Young
  • Director of Pro Personnel – Ernie Adams

Head coaches

Offensive coaches

  • Offensive Coordinator – Ron Erhardt
  • Offensive Backfield – Bob Lord
  • Receivers – Pat Hodgson
  • Offensive Line – Bill Austin
 Defensive coaches

Special teams coaches


Roster

1982 New York Giants roster
Quarterbacks

Running backs

Wide receivers

Tight ends

Offensive linemen

Defensive linemen

Linebackers

Defensive backs

Special teams

Reserve lists


Practice squad



Rookies in italics

Regular season

Schedule

Week Date Opponent Result Record Venue Attendance Recap
1 September 12 Atlanta Falcons L 14–16 0–1 Giants Stadium 74,286 Recap
2 September 20 Green Bay Packers L 19–27 0–2 Giants Stadium 68,405 Recap
3 — at Pittsburgh Steelers Cancelled due to the 1982 NFL strike
4 — at Dallas Cowboys
5 — St. Louis Cardinals
6 — Cincinnati Bengals
7 — at Philadelphia Eagles Rescheduled to January 2
8 — Dallas Cowboys Cancelled due to the 1982 NFL strike
9 — at Cleveland Browns
10 — at Los Angeles Rams
11 November 21 Washington Redskins L 17–27 0–3 Giants Stadium 70,766 Recap
12 November 25 at Detroit Lions W 13–6 1–3 Pontiac Silverdome 64,348 Recap
13 December 5 Houston Oilers W 17–14 2–3 Giants Stadium 71,184 Recap
14 December 11 Philadelphia Eagles W 23–7 3–3 Giants Stadium 66,053 Recap
15 December 19 at Washington Redskins L 14–15 3–4 Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium 50,030 Recap
16 December 26 at St. Louis Cardinals L 21–24 3–5 Busch Stadium 39,824 Recap
17 January 2 at Philadelphia Eagles W 26–24 4–5 Veterans Stadium 55,797 Recap

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Note: Intra-division opponents are in bold text.

Standings

NFC East
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 W L T PCT DIV CONF PF PA STK
Washington Redskins(1) 8 1 0 .889 6–1 8–1 190 128 W4
Dallas Cowboys(2) 6 3 0 .667 2–1 4–2 226 145 L2
St. Louis Cardinals(6) 5 4 0 .556 3–1 5–4 135 170 L1
New York Giants 4 5 0 .444 2–3 3–5 164 160 W1
Philadelphia Eagles 3 6 0 .333 1–5 1–5 191 195 L1
NFC
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# Team W L T PCT PF PA STK
Seeded postseason qualifiers
1 Washington Redskins 8 1 0 .889 190 128 W4
2 Dallas Cowboys 6 3 0 .667 226 145 L2
3 Green Bay Packers 5 3 1 .611 226 169 L1
4[a] Minnesota Vikings 5 4 0 .556 187 198 W1
5[a] Atlanta Falcons 5 4 0 .556 183 199 L2
6[a] St. Louis Cardinals 5 4 0 .556 135 170 L1
7[a] Tampa Bay Buccaneers 5 4 0 .556 158 178 W3
8[b] Detroit Lions 4 5 0 .444 181 176 W1
Did not qualify for the postseason
9[b] New Orleans Saints 4 5 0 .444 129 160 W1
10[b] New York Giants 4 5 0 .444 164 160 W1
11[c] San Francisco 49ers 3 6 0 .333 209 206 L1
12[c] Chicago Bears 3 6 0 .333 141 174 L1
13[c] Philadelphia Eagles 3 6 0 .333 191 195 L1
14 Los Angeles Rams 2 7 0 .222 200 250 W1
Tiebreakers
  1. ^ a b c d Minnesota (4–1), Atlanta (4–3), St. Louis (5–4), Tampa Bay (3–3) seeds were determined by best won-lost record in conference games.
  2. ^ a b c Detroit finished ahead of New Orleans and the N.Y. Giants based on best conference record (4–4 to Saints’ 3–5 to Giants’ 3–5).
  3. ^ a b c San Francisco finished ahead of Chicago, and Chicago finished ahead of Philadelphia, based on conference record (49ers’ 2–3 to Bears’ 2–5 to Eagles’ 1–5).

Season summary

Week 12 at Lions

Week Twelve: New York Giants (0–3) at Detroit Lions (2–1)
Period 1 2 34Total
Giants 0 0 6713
Lions 3 3 006

at Pontiac Silverdome, Pontiac, Michigan

  • Date: November 25, 1982
  • Game time: 12:00 p.m. EST
  • Game weather: Indoors (dome)
  • TV announcers (CBS): Pat Summerall and John Madden
  • Pro-Football-Reference.com
Game information

First quarter

  • DET – Eddie Murray 46-yard field goal. Lions 3–0. Drive:

Second quarter

  • DET – Eddie Murray 44-yard field goal. Lions 6–0. Drive:

Third quarter

  • NYG – Joe Danelo 34-yard field goal. Lions 6–3. Drive:
  • NYG – Joe Danelo 40-yard field goal. Tie 6–6. Drive:

Fourth quarter

  • NYG – Lawrence Taylor 97-yard interception return (Joe Danelo kick). Giants 13–7.
Top passers
Top rushers
Top receivers
  • NYG – Johnny Perkins – 5 receptions, 80 yards
  • DET – Mark Nichols – 3 receptions, 49 yards

Week 14 vs Eagles

Week Fourteen: New York Giants (2–3) at Philadelphia Eagles (1–4)
Period 1 2 34Total
Eagles 7 0 007
Giants 3 14 3323

at Giants Stadium, East Rutherford, New Jersey

  • Date: December 11
  • Game time: 12:30 p.m.
  • Game weather: 35 °F (2 °C)
  • Game attendance: 66,053
  • Referee: Fred Silva
  • TV announcers (CBS): Jack Buck play-by-play, Hank Stram color commentator
  • Box Score
Game information

First quarter

Second quarter

Third quarter

  • NYG – Joe Danelo 34-yard field goal. Giants 20–7. Drive:

Fourth quarter

  • NYG – Joe Danelo 29-yard field goal. Giants 23–7. Drive:
Top passers
Top rushers
  • PHI – Wilbert Montgomery – 7 rushes, 23 yards
  • NYG – Rob Carpenter – 26 rushes, 58 yards
Top receivers

Week 17 at Eagles

Week Seventeen: New York Giants (3–5) at Philadelphia Eagles (3–5)
Period 1 2 34Total
Giants 3 10 10326
Eagles 7 7 01024

at Veterans Stadium, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

  • Date: January 2, 1983
  • Game time: 1:00 p.m.
  • Game weather: 44 °F (7 °C)
  • Referee: Red Cashion
  • TV announcers (CBS): Pat Summerall play-by-play, John Madden color commentator
  • Box Score

Ray Perkins last game as Giants head coach

See also

References

  1. ^ "1982 New York Giants".
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