Who knows what was said to turn things around at halftime of this big Giants win? Justin Tuck, because he said it: “I told ‘em that I was playing like c**p, I told ‘em that we was playing like c**p, and that, you know, in the second half, we gotta pick it up.” Good to  Read More

Magnificent. As badly, as listlessly as the Giants moped through a horrible first half against Jacksonville, they played a second half that was as crisp, as emotional, as thrilling as any in recent memory. It took a little bit of luck, in the form of a tipped David Gerrard pass that turned into a Terrell  Read More

When Tom Coughlin is off to a slightly premature retirement in 2011, he might look back on this game and wonder “what if?” What if his defense had decided to show up and actually play the Jaguars? Right now, it’s a 30-minute playoff game for the Giants. Let’s see if they rise to the challenge.

Is it too early to call today’s game against the Jacksonville Jaguars a must win? Probably not, seeing as your Giants Talk blogger pointed to this one as such six weeks ago. A loss today could put the Giants two games behind the division lead and three games away from the top seed in the  Read More

Two straight losses. The second-half swoon, a disturbing constant in the Tom Coughlin era, seemingly in full swing. Once again, the New York Giants enter the home stretch of the season asking: what do we do now? This year, it’s not on the coaching staff. After the two-game losing streak early in the season, including  Read More

After all that, after all that brutally sweet NFC smashmouth bashfest, after all that, we’re left wondering why Eli Manning can’t slide on a scramble like every other quarterback in the league, which set of errors was worse  – Michael Boley and Antrel Rolle (Cris Collinsworth, NBC) vs. Eli Manning and Jean-Pierre Paul (Your Giants  Read More

It was a lovely week for Michael Vick and the dirty Philadelphia Eagles in the wake of their 59-28 thrashing of the Redskins Monday night. Vick’s 400-plus yard, six-TD performance against the Redskins in the rain put the football world on notice that he and the dirty Eagles are a force to be reckoned with,  Read More

Your Giants Talk Blogger recently estimated that the New York Giants would need to finish with a record of 10-6 or better to reach the playoffs. Given the action since then, how well is that estimate holding up? Let’s take the NFC West out of the mix for the time being. Chances are Seattle, St.  Read More