The New York Giants' schedule might be easier on paper starting with this week’s game against the Jacksonville Jaguars, but please, oh please don’t tell that to quarterback Eli Manning.
“They have one win, and we have three wins,” Manning told reporters earlier this week. “I don’t think we are in a position to label anybody or to think we are better than anybody.”
He is right.
The Giants are once again one of the NFL’s most frustrating teams in that they could look like a playoff contender for part of a game only to suddenly revert into the bumbling, stumbling mess responsible for the team’s current six-game losing streak and their pre-Thanksgiving exit from postseason consideration for a second consecutive year.
That fact hasn’t been lost on head coach Tom Coughlin either, who told reporters, “At least two of the last three (games) have been extremely competitive for four quarters, one was for three quarters. That’s all fine and dandy, but the bottom line is what everybody seeks and that’s exactly where we are.”
In other words, he is still looking for his team to finish a game, to put 60 minutes of solid football together.
With that said, how does Coughlin get his team to finish a game for the first time since they “finished” against Atlanta, their last winning effort, on October 5?
“That’s the question, isn’t it? You work your tail off to get the game in a position where you can win it. Now let’s go win it. We haven’t done it. You keep working,” he said.
While the Giants keep working to get to that point of finally finishing a game, here is a look at five players whose performances can make the difference.
//from Bleacher Report http://ift.tt/15ID3IV
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