The Giants have had 10 days to prepare for a tough matchup with the 4-2 Denver Broncos on Sunday, and optimism is high following New York’s best performance of the season in their 34-17 win over the Eagles on Thursday night. 

Can Big Blue take advantage of a Broncos team that just returned from a grueling transatlantic trip?

Here are the biggest stories to watch as the Giants go for their third win in four games...

Can Jaxson Dart keep the momentum going?

The Giants are 2-1 since Dart took over as the starting quarterback, and they’ve been reinvigorated with him at the helm as he has thrown four touchdown passes and rushed for two more.

The only other quarterbacks in NFL history to rush for 50 yards or more in each of their first three starts are Lamar Jackson and Jalen Hurts, and Dart will be looking to achieve this for a fourth straight game. He won’t just need his legs to rack up yardage, though. He’ll also need them to escape a dangerous Broncos pass rush that leads the league in sacks.

Did the Jets give the Giants a blueprint to slow down Denver's offense?

Despite losing 13-11 to the Broncos in London, the Jets defense played well, as they held Denver to fewer than 250 yards and fewer than 20 points for the first time all season. Can the Giants learn anything from how the Jets handled them?

The Broncos entered Sunday’s game with the league’s fourth-ranked offense, but the Jets held them to a season-low 78 rushing yards. One way they achieved this was by constantly bringing linebackers up to the edge to create an effective five-man front. Abdul Carter’s versatility makes this a viable option for Big Blue, too.

How do you mitigate the Broncos’ pass rush?

We’ve already talked about the challenge facing the Giants’ offensive line this week. After racking up nine sacks in London, Denver has 30 sacks, which is roughly 50 percent more than any other NFL team.

New York likely feels that Andrew Thomas has as much chance of being able to neutralize the current NFL sack leader, Nik Bonitto,as any other tackle in the league. However, the Broncos also have Jonathon Cooper, Zach Allen, and John Franklin-Myers, who combined for 26 sacks last season, and four on Sunday.

Dart will need to be alert, elusive, and decisive with the ball to keep the pressure to a minimum.

Will the Giants avoid throwing at Patrick Surtain II?

Surtain is one of the best in the league and is coming off a game where he helped hold Garrett Wilson to a season-low 13 yards.

For Dart, the approach to facing Surtain might be simply to avoid risking throwing the ball in his direction. In recent games, the Giants’ best pass catching options have been Theo Johnson and Wan’Dale Robinson, who can produce out of the slot. Surtain usually stays outside, so that may be where the Giants look to attack in the passing game.

Which version of Courtland Sutton will we see?

The Jets also stifled Bo Nix and the Denver passing game in Week 6. A big part of that was Sauce Gardner travelling with Sutton and holding him to one catch. The Giants could use Paulson Adebo in a similar fashion.

After the game, Gardner spent a time praising Sutton and noting that one game doesn’t define the entire season for a great player like him. He noted that Sutton had been playing well prior to Sunday, having averaged six catches and 99 yards over the previous three games.

Even if the Giants can limit the damage from Sutton, they’ll need to be wary of Troy Franklin and Evan Engram, who exploited some breakdowns in zone coverage by the Jets last week.