Lions host Giants, hoping to rebound after loss to Eagles

NY Giants (2-9) at Detroit (6-4)

Sunday, 1 p.m. EST, Fox

BetMGM line: Lions by 10 1/2.

Against the spread: Giants 6-5; Lions 6-4.

Series record: Lions lead 25-21-1

Last meeting: Lions beat Giants 31-18 on Nov. 20, 2022, at the Meadowlands.

Last week: Giants lost to Packers 24-20; Lions lost to Eagles 16-9.

Giants offense: overall (15), rush (10), pass (19), scoring (23)

Giants defense: overall (29), rush (30), pass (22), scoring (29)

Lions offense: overall (5), rush (7), pass (9), scoring (t4)

Lions defense: overall (5), rush (8), pass (8), scoring (10)

Turnover differential: Giants was minus-6; Lions plus-5.

LB Abdul Carter was benched by Mike Kafka in his debut as interim coach for the first defensive series last week after the rookie missed a walk-through. The No. 3 overall pick had a half a sack in his debut and hasn't had one since despite playing 70.8% of his team's defensive snaps. The former Penn State star drew some criticism for being ringside at WWE “Monday Night Raw” and he’s in the spotlight because the Giants want to see improvement from week to week.

QB Jared Goff is coming off one of his worst games of the season. He completed a career-low 37.8% of passes against the Eagles, connecting on just 14 of 37 attempts for 255 yards with a TD and an INT. After his TD pass, Goff went 7 of 25 for 136 yards and was 1 for 11 in the fourth quarter. Seven of those passes went to Amon-Ra St. Brown, his favorite receiver, in the fourth and they were incomplete. Goff usually plays well at home and the Lions are hoping that trend continues in a game they need to win to improve their playoff positioning.

Detroit's running game against New York's defense. The Lions will be determined to establish their running game after Jahmyr Gibbs was held to 39 yards rushing on 12 carries and David Montgomery ran for 27 yards on six carries at Philadelphia. The Giants are among the league's worst against the run, allowing 150 yards rushing per game.

Giants: Rookie QB Jaxson Dart will miss a second consecutive game after getting concussed Nov. 9 at Chicago, putting Jameis Winston in line to start again. ... Edge rusher Kayvon Thibodeaux (shoulder) may miss a second straight game and CB Paulson Adebo (knee) might be out for the fifth game in a row.

Lions: TE Sam LaPorta (back) will miss his second game on IR. ... CB Terrion Arnold (concussion) and S Kerby Joseph (knee) may miss another game, but coach Dan Campbell is hopeful S Brian Branch (toe) can play through his injury. ... CB DJ Reed (hamstring), out since Week 4, is nearing his return.

The Lions have won four of the past five games against the Giants. ... Detroit won four NFL titles from 1935 through 1957, and the first one was with a 26-7 win over the Giants.

The Giants have dropped five games in a row, their longest losing streak since a franchise-record, 10-game skid last season. New York lost a one-point lead in the fourth quarter against Green Bay last week, blew a double-digit, fourth-quarter lead in the previous game at Chicago after becoming the first team since at least 1970 to lead by 18-plus points with six minutes remaining and lose in regulation against Denver last month. ... Winston was 19 of 29 for 201 yards passing with a rushing TD, a pick and a fumble. ... RB Devin Singletary rushed for a career-high two TDs against Green Bay. ... RB Tyrone Tracy had a season-high 139 yards from scrimmage last week. ... WR Isaiah Hodgins had a team-high five catches for 57 yards last week, days after being signed off Pittsburgh’s practice squad. ... New York has allowed 24 or more points in each of its past five games and an average of 31.2 points during its losing streak. ... Edge rusher Brian Burns has a career-high 13 sacks, second only to Cleveland’s Myles Garrett in the league. ... The Lions are out of the playoff picture for the first time since the end of the 2022 season, falling to third place in the NFC North and among teams in the hunt for a wild card. ... Detroit has played 54 games going back to October 2022, without losing two in a row in what is the NFL's longest streak of avoiding consecutive setbacks since New England's 56-game run from 2012-2015. ... The Lions went 0 for 5 on fourth down and 3 for 13 on third down against the Eagles. ... Gibbs had a career-high 107 yards receiving on five catches last week. ... WR Jameson Williams has scored in three straight games, and four of five games, and is averaging 38.1 yards on 17 career TDs. ... Detroit's defense hasn't allowed a player to throw for 300 yards or run for 100 yards through the first 10 games of a season for the first time since 1969. ... DE Aidan Hutchinson and Green Bay's Micah Parsons are the two NFL players with at least 15 QB hits, 7 1/2 sacks and 7 tackles for losses in each of their first four seasons since QB hits became an official stat in 2006. ... The Lions are playing their first of three straight home games in a 12-day span, including on Thanksgiving against Green Bay and the following Thursday against Dallas.

St. Brown will likely bounce back after a lackluster performance at Philadelphia. The two-time All-Pro WR caught a career-low 16.7% of passes as the targeted receiver, finishing with season lows in receptions (two) receptions and yards receiving (42) against the Eagles. The Giants are giving up an average of 27.3 points per game and 225.2 yards passing.

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Detroit Lions quarterback Jared Goff (16) throws during the second half of an NFL football game against the Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday, Nov. 16, 2025, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — At least 11 people were killed Sunday in an attack on a Hannukah celebration at a popular Sydney beach and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was quick to call it an act of antisemitic terrorism. Antisemitism has been on the rise in Australia, fueled in part by Israel's war in Gaza, even as local Jewish groups have decried the lack of support from authorities.

Worldwide, Australia and Italy experienced the biggest increase in antisemitic attacks in 2024, according to Uriya Shavit, who oversees an annual report about global antisemitism from Tel Aviv University.

The numbers in these two countries rose while worldwide there was a slight decline in antisemitic attacks. Australia recorded 1,713 antisemitic incidents.

Australia, a country of 28 million people, is home to about 117,000 Jews, according to official figures.

“This was really one of the safest communities for Jews in history, characterized by religious tolerance and coexistence, and now Australian Jews are seriously asking whether they have a future in the country,” said Shavit. He cited an increasing legitimization of expressions of hatred toward Jews in the public discourse and the government's lack of willingness to address the issue.

Rabbi Eli Schlanger, with Chabad of Bondi and a key organizer of the event where Sunday's shooting happened, was among the dead, according to Chabad, an international movement of Orthodox Judaism known for its public candle lightings in communities across the world.

The Executive Council of Australian Jewry, in a statement, called for government leaders to move beyond words.

“The time for talking is over. We need decisive leadership and action now to eradicate the scourge of antisemitism from Australia’s public life, for which the Jewish community has long been advocating. Government’s first duty is to keep its citizens safe,” the statement said.

Antisemitic episodes in Australia's two biggest cities, Sydney and Melbourne — home to 85% of the country's Jewish population — have drawn the highest profile because they’re severe, unusual and public.

In August, Albanese accused Iran of organizing two antisemitic attacks in Australia and said his country was cutting off diplomatic relations with Tehran in response. It was not immediately clear if Sunday's attack on the Hanukkah event had any connection to Iran.

The Australian Security Intelligence Organization concluded that Iran had directed arson attacks on the Lewis Continental Kitchen, a kosher food company in Sydney, in October 2024, and on Melbourne’s Adass Israel Synagogue two months later, Albanese said.

Sunday's shooting erupted during a ceremony marking the first night of the eight-day holiday of Hanukkah, which began this year on Dec. 14. In Hebrew, Hanukkah means “dedication,” and the holiday marks the rededication of the Temple in Jerusalem in the second century B.C. Traditionally, Jews light a ritual candelabra, or menorah, each night, in honor of the tiny supply of ritually pure oil that they found in the temple that lasted for eight nights instead of just one.

Chabad has often held a public candle lighting on Bondi Beach for Hanukkah that drew hundreds of people in past years. During Hanukkah, Chabad leaders traditionally place menorahs on car rooftops and host giant menorahs in public settings.

Chabad, originally based in Brooklyn, New York, focuses on expanding Jewish observance through dispatching emissaries throughout the world, often in places with little or no Jewish presence. Chabad spokesperson Motti Seligson said there are Chabad synagogues and outreach programs in more than 100 countries and Chabad has been in Australia for decades.

Husband-and-wife emissaries, known as shluchim, work around the world, especially in areas with a sparse Jewish presence. They are easily recognizable by the traditional dress, including black suits and hats for men and modest dress with head coverings or wigs for women.

There have been several attacks against Chabad rabbis and synagogues around the world. In 2008, nine people were killed in an attack against a Chabad house in Mumbai, India, and one person was killed and three injured in a 2019 shooting at a Chabad synagogue outside of San Diego.

The movement’s global headquarters are in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, the former office and synagogue of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, known simply as “the Rebbe,” who led the movement from 1951 until his death in 1994. Schneerson is still a revered religious figure in the movement, and his grave in Queens receives about 400,000 visitors per year, according to Chabad. President Donald Trump visited Schneerson’s grave during his second campaign in 2024.

Police cordon off an area at Bondi Beach after a reported shooting in Sydney, Sunday, Dec. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Baker)

A small Christmas tree is at the center of an abandoned holiday picnic at Bondi Beach after a reported shooting in Sydney, Sunday, Dec. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Baker)