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For the Giants the final week of the regular season is all about questions. Will they start their regulars on Saturday night? Should they start their regulars? Does it even matter if they do start them? In any other year the answers would be clear; send the starters out for a quarter and then get everyone off the field and rested for next week’s playoff game. But, this is not an ordinary week, this is a chance to stop history by beating the undefeated Patriots scream some pundits.
But, while it would be great to beat New England, the game is of no consequence to the Giants. Win or lose, they still are in the playoffs and still play Tampa next weekend. So, the most important thing is to get injured players some rest and hope that no one else gets hurt.
Gothamist thinks the Giants make a go of it in the first quarter and send out the regulars. But, after the Patriots score a couple of touchdowns, the backups start to play and the game turns into an exhibition. Hopefully, Belichick will show enough class not to run up the score against second-stringers, but this one could be ugly either way. The prediction is New England wins big.
Photo of Tom Brady being interviewed (no doubt about the prospects of going 16-0) by AP/Michael Dwyer
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Fuck the pundits! The G-men should treat this as their bye week and rest everybody, including the waterboy. I'll suit up and play the Patriots if it means the real players can rest up and get ready for a playoff game in Tampa next week. Who gives a damn if the Pats go 16-0?
Oh no not again. If Boston beats up New York I think I will leave the city. It's absolutely horrible that they can do this to us. First baseball then this football thing. When will it all end?
Actually who could really give a shit about this?
wait till the celts win it all... at elast it wont be agains the knicks, being that they can barely win a game
If the city would only build bigger and better stadiums with taxpayer's dollars and subsidize these players, then New York could be back on the winners list. When can this be done?
On the other hand, if they go all out and beat the Patriots tomorrow night (a more realistic possibility than the above unlikely scenario, I think), they're REMEMBERED as the team that beat the 15-0 Patriots.
Look, I'd be fucking thrilled if the Giants won the Super Bowl, but there's really no chance that that's going to happen. Given that, I'd remember this season much more fondly if the Giants beat the Pats tomorrow and lost to Tampa, than if they lost to the Pats, beat Tampa, and lost to Dallas or Green Bay or whoever.
But that's just me, and anyone reading this should bear in mind that I think Boston sports fans are fucking intolerable at the moment and should be taught a lesson about all the boasting they're doing.
If the Giants went all out tomorrow and actually beat the Patriots and then lost the next week to the Bucs, my feelings would go like this:
- Starting at 8:20 PM Saturday I'd be supremely pissed that they aren't resting their starters.
- After the game, I'd be happy that they won but still pissed that they didn't rest their starters.
- After a loss to the Bucs I'd be pissed for the next seven months until opening day 2008 that they didn't rest their starters against the Patriots.
- Every time for the rest of my life that I heard about how the 2007 Giants beat the 15-0 Patriots I'd be pissed thinking about how they lost a playoff game the next week to the Bucs and should have rested their starters.
I do see your point somewhat, considering that the 1998 Giants (a shitty team if ever there was one) are still remembered for beating the 13-0 Broncos. But you have to go for the REAL gusto, and that's going as far as you can in the playoffs. A win over Dallass in the NFC Championship Game -- even if it's followed by a loss in the Superbowl -- would be immensely more satisfying for me than beating the Patriots in a totally meaningless game. And if you think the Giants have a chance to beat the Patriots tomorrow then you have to also think they'd have a chance to beat the Cows in Dallass.
Prediction:
Pats go up 21-0 in the 2nd Quarter, Giants sit everybody at halftime. Pats pile it on the Giants backups early in the 3rd. They lead 38-7 early in the 3rd, then decide to sit Brady & Co. midway through 3rd. 4th Quarter is a mess w/both teams playing their scrubs. Final Score Pats 44, Giants 21.
New England has to win Saturday in the NJ. Belichick is a master at manufacturing motivation and now he's in the position of having no need to make stuff up. I'd be stunned if the Pats didn't come to play Saturday and I bet they'd prefer to face the Giants at their best. They don't want to see the Giants go Brett Favre on them.
The Pats deserve to be clear favorites against the Giants and going into the playoffs. They'll prepare and play like they have all season. Anything else can't be said until the end of the season.
As for Dallas, they can be had. T.O. is probably mad about Crayton's new contract.
Tied 3-3 after one. The Giants sit everybody. Pats go up 24-3 in the 2nd Quarter. Pats pile it on the Giants backups early in the 3rd. They lead 38-10 early in the 3rd. 4th Quarter is a mess w/both teams playing their scrubs. Final Score Pats 44, Giants 20.