5-5 doesn't mathematically knock us out, of course. But, this team needs a win badly, start with a home win over a team in the wild card battle with us.
The Falcons are one of the few teams in the mix right now for a Wild Card spot. We need the win if we want to get in. I don't want to count on someone else knocking the Falcons out if we lose this game. The Giants have had plenty of time to prepare, they know what needs to be done. Just fucking win.
losing this game isn't the end of the season as they would still be in the race, but it strongly lowers our chances. We have to right the ship soon and it really needs to start this week. A win this week goes very far for our chances. We won't be done as we still have divisional games to play and our rivals have been disappointing as well, but it certainly won't help.
don't believe the Jints have a chance at the playoffs if the lose to the Falcons. After watching the last 4 games the jints have been out coached and out played, there is nothing during those games to lead me to believe they are a playoff caliber team. Now, if they come out and play with fire and passion and dominate the Falcons perhaps they do have a chance.
Considering what we use to be like after the bye, Coughlin's record
of course we have a chance, a big chance of making the playoffs if we lose Sunday with 6 games left..History has proven that inumerable times..
However, we really need to get a win Sunday and right the ship..We're as healthy right now as we're probably going to get albeit how "game-healthy" we are(Canty, Boley, Ross)remains to be seen..
I want to win the division and not just make the playoffs(yes, I'd take any way of getting there)...I'm not very confident of going into Denver with 3 days rest and winning in a very tough venue(despite Denver's recent reeling), so Sunday is really important for us
this season and still have a chance but after all the shit this team has been through, to have a Bye, get back 6,000 wounded players and then we lose at Home to Atlanta?
We will be fucked.
If they don't win on Sunday, they're not making the playoffs
Not because they would be mathematically eliminated or because noone has done it before, but because if they can't win this one at home, they simply aren't good enough to win enough games against the remaining schedule. Their backs have been against the wall for weeks and they've yet to get it done. But they did look a lot better -at times- against SD, they are getting healthier, and the bye week has given them a chance to make some adjustments. They had some help a week ago and, at this stage, they couldn't ask to be in a better position.
However, my comment about being way too early to call the season if we tank Sunday, presupposes that teams have and do suddenly become "better" despite being dismissed by the media and fandom..
Could any team have been more "dead in the water" after 11 games than the 5-5-1 Eagles just last year? They benched DM for heaven's sake..
I hear you, but there are a few things I would like to point out. Philly was extremely lucky to make it last year -they required a TB loss to Oakland in the last game of the season to make it, otherwise would have been left home. They also did not face as difficult a schedule as the Giants do remaining. Perhaps my biggest concern is that the Giants are 1-4 against good teams with all their wins coming against opponents that are flat out awful. A loss this week would put them at 1-5 against good teams, most of them coming with their backs already against the wall (their backs weren';t against the wall with Arizona, but after getting humiliated the week prior and playing at home in prime time, it might as well have been).
So yes, its possible, but I see no reason to believe such a turnaround would happen. Philly had a couple wins against good teams at that point, I belive. And after the Baltimore loss, they crushed Arizona. The Giants have had several chances to take out their frustration on someone, and have failed each time to this point. Their time is now, at home against Atlanta, there are simply no more excuses.
Those saying it isn't must be pretty nervous that the Giants are going to lose.
Time for the coaching staff to stop making excuses and take responsibility for their poor decisions. That TC and KG both ludicrously claimed that they ran on third and five because the Chargers were "defending the goaline" was pathetic. Every team does that when it is goal to go. They should be ashamed of themselves for not taking responsibility for a faint-hearted decision.
Time for the players to start playing and hitting people. They have come out of the gate half asleep in each of these losses.
