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So I was thinking about games that turned around a season

Big Blue '56 : 5/23/2022 3:29 pm
and/or franchise and four clearly popped into my head, albeit discussed a bunch on here from time to time. Those are and in no particular order:

-2007 season, 0-2, fighting back from a 17-3 halftime deficit against the Skins to take the lead, 4th down for the Skins and their RB trips over his own guy and is stopped short of the goal. We win. Sitting at 1-2 instead of 0-3 and little to no chance to get to the SB and ultimately win it..


-11.19.78, “The Fumble” or miracle at the meadowlands. Change of regime months thereafter

-2010, up 31-10 with about 7 1/2 minutes to go in the 4th qtr with division clinching at stake. Dodge/Jackson, ultimately no playoff berth

-2011, down 12 against the Cowboys at their place, less than 5 minutes(?) to go in the game. A loss and we’re done. Eli leads us to 2 scores and then the JPP blocked FG gives us the win, eventual division and our SB run.


What are your game/season changes? ANY YEAR, but NFL ONLY.
2002 Playoff loss to SF  
BLUATHRT : 5/23/2022 3:36 pm : link
I felt like we were the best team in football and getting hot at the exact right time. I think that loss was the turning point for Fassel's entire career and the path the Giants took that led to Coughlin, Eli and that entire era. If they had won, chances are none of that would have followed just 2 years later.
December 2000...  
SFGFNCGiantsFan : 5/23/2022 3:39 pm : link
Beat Washington 9-7. I know we had beat AZ week earlier after losing to Rams & Lions, but that Washington game felt huge in the moment, especially against that star studded Washington team. I think Turner got fired after that game too?
RE: December 2000...  
Big Blue '56 : 5/23/2022 3:46 pm : link
In comment 15716492 SFGFNCGiantsFan said:
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Beat Washington 9-7. I know we had beat AZ week earlier after losing to Rams & Lions, but that Washington game felt huge in the moment, especially against that star studded Washington team. I think Turner got fired after that game too?


I remember that game very well..We were up 9-0, Johnson got hurt and George relieved him at QB. I thought at the time, that for the first 3 Quarters, that was the best defensive effort by us in a very long time
Might we possibly say that the Flipper tunnel exit  
Big Blue '56 : 5/23/2022 3:48 pm : link
spurred us on for ‘90? Just askin’
Rather than games 2 specific plays  
.McL. : 5/23/2022 3:50 pm : link
1986 4th and 17
2011 99 yard td reception against the jets

also as far as games
Buffalo 2007
Add incidents that turned the season around.  
Ivan15 : 5/23/2022 3:50 pm : link
Fassel pushing all his chips to the center of the table.
Burress shooting himself.
November 22, 2000  
TrueBlue56 : 5/23/2022 3:59 pm : link
Jim Fassel makes the infamous guarantee speech after 2 consecutive losses to the Rams and Lions. The following Sunday, the team backs up fassel and beat the Cardinals 31-7. They go on to beat Washington, Steelers, Cowboys and Jaguars to not only make the playoffs, but secure homefield advantage.
2016 vs Ravens  
Breeze_94 : 5/23/2022 4:37 pm : link
Odell houses a slant on 4th and 1 late in the 4th quarter propelling Giants to a victory

Giants move to 3-3 instead of 2-4 and start a 6 game winning streak, won 9 of their final 11

Week 2 against cowboys 2018 season  
Debaser : 5/23/2022 4:38 pm : link
And Eli’s last real game as the starting QB for the Giants. I bet $500 on the giants despite I think shep was out and even another key guy.

I guess it was too much Eli to over come and the defense was just JV all the way back then. I think that is the last time I bet on a game and aside from super bowl boxes last super bowl ; probably the last time I ever will
2007 Week 3 @ Skins, fourth down  
shyster : 5/23/2022 4:40 pm : link
it was rookie Aaron Ross, number 31, who submarined the FB Mike Sellers and blasted his legs backwards into the path of Ladell Betts.

Ross was not visible on the live shot of the play but the replay angle from the other side of the field at 2:13 of the linked clip shows him.

The 2010 PHI disaster doesn't bother me, in retrospect, because that NYG team was not good enough to win a SB, and so much would have been different if they had won that game that they probably would not have won the SB in 2011.

Everything after 2011 I mostly hate. For the one team that made the playoffs, 2016, it was the Week 6, 4th and 1, last gasp, short crossing pattern taken 70 yards to the house by OBJ vs Ravens that turned the season.

If Giants had lost that game, they would have been sitting at 2-4 with a four game losing streak. Instead, they went on to 11-5. A mirage, but fun while at lasted.




2007 goal line stand - ( New Window )
RE: 2007 Week 3 @ Skins, fourth down  
shyster : 5/23/2022 4:42 pm : link
In comment 15716557 shyster said:
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2007 goal line stand - ( New Window )


Breeze 94 was reading my mind while I was typing about Ravens 2016.
2021 Week 18 against the Football Team  
mikeinbloomfield : 5/23/2022 5:09 pm : link
5 minutes to go in the first have, and our HC decides to give up the football in the shadow of our own goal posts, costing him his job and cementing our GM being encouraged to retire.
RE: Add incidents that turned the season around.  
chick310 : 5/23/2022 5:59 pm : link
In comment 15716503 Ivan15 said:
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Fassel pushing all his chips to the center of the table.
Burress shooting himself.


Good call on Burress shooting. Argument can be made Giants were losing momentum anyway but this ensured it.

07 Week 17  
ChrisRick : 5/23/2022 6:33 pm : link
Patriots at Giants
This game convinced the team they were good enough to win it all! If the Patriots roll the Giants in that game I am not sure they even make it to the super bowl.
RE: 07 Week 17  
Big Blue '56 : 5/23/2022 7:05 pm : link
In comment 15716664 ChrisRick said:
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Patriots at Giants
This game convinced the team they were good enough to win it all! If the Patriots roll the Giants in that game I am not sure they even make it to the super bowl.


It can be argued that that was Eli’s best ever game to that point.
RE: RE: 07 Week 17  
ChrisRick : 5/23/2022 7:35 pm : link
In comment 15716698 Big Blue '56 said:
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In comment 15716664 ChrisRick said:


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Patriots at Giants
This game convinced the team they were good enough to win it all! If the Patriots roll the Giants in that game I am not sure they even make it to the super bowl.



It can be argued that that was Eli’s best ever game to that point.


Certainly. Although 06 week 2 at Philly down 24-7 in the 4th will always be high on my all-time Eli games list. However, from start to finish that Patriots regular season game was better.
Agreed  
Big Blue '56 : 5/23/2022 7:54 pm : link
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Per Ian O'Connor's book on BB...  
SFGFNCGiantsFan : 5/23/2022 7:57 pm : link
After that Giants Pats Week 17 game in '07, the Pats wanted no part of us in the playoffs. None.
RE: Per Ian O'Connor's book on BB...  
Big Blue '56 : 5/23/2022 8:10 pm : link
In comment 15716755 SFGFNCGiantsFan said:
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After that Giants Pats Week 17 game in '07, the Pats wanted no part of us in the playoffs. None.


Call me what you want, but I personally feared Dallas more than I did facing the Pats in the SB..
Jesus- how about last year’s  
Dave on the UWS : 5/23/2022 8:22 pm : link
doublée QB sneaks that led to the Judge meltdown
that’s brought all this change and new hope for this year going forward. That’s a pretty big deal.
This game  
gtt350 : 5/23/2022 8:29 pm : link
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQfECOLL2Zo - ( New Window )
RE: Jesus- how about last year’s  
Big Blue '56 : 5/23/2022 8:43 pm : link
In comment 15716782 Dave on the UWS said:
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doublée QB sneaks that led to the Judge meltdown
that’s brought all this change and new hope for this year going forward. That’s a pretty big deal.


Excellent Dave
Going back to the OP  
ray in arlington : 5/23/2022 9:00 pm : link
There was (literally speaking) no division clinch at stake in the NYG-PHI game. Neither team could clinch the division by winning that game.

In fact, if the Giants had beaten PHI and beaten GB the next week, they still would not have clinched the division.

The Giants had a opportunity to clinch a playoff spot a week
later vs GB but got crushed.

The PHI loss was devastating enough.

RE: Going back to the OP  
Big Blue '56 : 5/23/2022 9:36 pm : link
In comment 15716841 ray in arlington said:
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There was (literally speaking) no division clinch at stake in the NYG-PHI game. Neither team could clinch the division by winning that game.

In fact, if the Giants had beaten PHI and beaten GB the next week, they still would not have clinched the division.

The Giants had a opportunity to clinch a playoff spot a week
later vs GB but got crushed.


I’ll defer to you on this. That said, had we beaten Philly, that would have given us a playoff spot, no?
The PHI loss was devastating enough.
RE: Going back to the OP  
Big Blue '56 : 5/23/2022 9:37 pm : link
In comment 15716841 ray in arlington said:
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There was (literally speaking) no division clinch at stake in the NYG-PHI game. Neither team could clinch the division by winning that game.

In fact, if the Giants had beaten PHI and beaten GB the next week, they still would not have clinched the division.

The Giants had a opportunity to clinch a playoff spot a week
later vs GB but got crushed.

The PHI loss was devastating enough.


I’ll defer to you on this. That said, had we beaten Philly, that would have given us a playoff spot, no?
RE: RE: Going back to the OP  
ray in arlington : 5/23/2022 9:55 pm : link
In comment 15716867 Big Blue '56 said:
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In comment 15716841 ray in arlington said:


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There was (literally speaking) no division clinch at stake in the NYG-PHI game. Neither team could clinch the division by winning that game.

In fact, if the Giants had beaten PHI and beaten GB the next week, they still would not have clinched the division.

The Giants had a opportunity to clinch a playoff spot a week
later vs GB but got crushed.

The PHI loss was devastating enough.




I’ll defer to you on this. That said, had we beaten Philly, that would have given us a playoff spot, no?


No.
That 85 playoff loss to the Bears  
steve in ky : 5/23/2022 10:03 pm : link
Certainly showed them what level they had to play at in order to win it all, and instilled in them the determination needed for that great 86 championship season.
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