There is only one way the Giants could have approached the games starting this week - that they were already in the playoffs where you lose and your season is over. They showed the world yesterday they aren't going anywhere in this year's playoffs - they aren't ready for prime time yet. They can find excuses - Antonio Pierce's replacement, Blackburn, going down and an offensive line that still was missing players and still bruised and battered. But, making excuses is exactly that - excuses. If this was a team ready to reach that next level, this team would have played with the kind of intensity and emotion that is needed at that next level - something totally absent yesterday.
This was a game that could have been won - and more importantly this game wasn't won because this team wasn't ready - wasn't capable - of playing smash mouth high intensity football.
Next week? I'm not ready to think about next week. Next week should have been about a bye or home field advantage, not about survival. I'm down about the lack of intensity and need to get past that before I can think about the Raiders.
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