New York Giants

Tom Coughlin Boasts of the "Superior Preparation" of His 9-7 Team

Hope you caught Tom Coughlin on The Daily Show last night, plugging his new book, Earn the Right to Win: How Success in Any Field Starts with Superior Preparation before a beaming Jon Stewart (obviously a Big Blue fan). The clip is at the bottom of the post. One particular comment intrigued me: Coa ... More >>

Giants Fans: Start Planning That Super Bowl Party Now

You may think that the Giants hit a new low yesterday with a 34-0 thrashing at the hands of the Atlanta Falcons. But not so, I think. I think the Giants are testing a new strategy, one they worked to perfection at the end of last season. You'll recall that at the end of the 2011 regular season Bi ... More >>

Giants Problems: Defense First

What's wrong with the Giants? This is only two consecutive losses, which is no reason to panic, but when you consider that the two previous games were won by miracles - Dez Bryant's finger out of the end zone against Dallas and Eli's spectacular TD pass to Cruz late in the Washington game. Either ... More >>

Putting A Finger On the Giants Win Over the Cowboys

There's nothing wrong with the Dallas Cowboys that gutting the entire coaching staff and starting over from scratch with a course in football fundamentals wouldn't cure. The headline for recaps of the Giants' 29-24 victory over Dallas yesterday mostly deal with Eli Manning's 25th come-from-behind 4 ... More >>

Jets Need Sympathy; Giants Need To Wake Up

Watching the Giants 19-17 loss to the Eagles in Philadelphia last night, two things stood out for me. The first was how extraordinary the Giants have been in two championship postseasons. The second is how utterly ordinary they have been otherwise in the Tom Coughlin era. Late in the 4th quarter, ... More >>

Big Blue's Path To Two-Peat Starts With Dallas

The Giants take the field tonight in the season opener against the Dallas Cowboys as a four-point pick, and the fans and local press seem to pretty much agree that Big Blue has an excellent chance of repeating as Super Bowl champions. Las Vegas doesn't exactly agree, at least on the latter point: ... More >>

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Will The Giants Miss Mario Manningham?

By the time you read this, you'll already know that the Giants let free agent Mario Manningham go to the San Francisco 49ers for a still undisclosed sum.  Amazingly, it's the second time in four years the Giants showed the door to a receiver who made an unbelievable catch in a Super Bowl against th ... More >>

Don't Care About Football? Care About New York.

This blogger doesn't like football. If she's going to watch a sport it's going to be baseball and she's going to root for the Yankees. Therefore, this Super Bowl Sunday, this blogger is not going to tell you which players to watch. In fact, the only ones she really feels qualified to even mention ar ... More >>

Giants Beat 49ers in One of Most Improbable Games in Recent History

In addition to being one of the greatest wins in Giants history, last night's 20-17 overtime win over the San Francisco '49ers was also one of the most improbable games in recent memory. Let's look at some stats: -- The Giants had no running game at all and were outrushed by San Francisco 150 to 85 ... More >>

See Alex Run, See Vernon Catch: Giants vs. the '49ers

​Desperate times call for desperate measures. The San Francisco '49ers don't have any flashy wideouts or MVP candidate passers to throw against the New York Giants this Sunday. Instead, in key situations they rely on what some would call trick plays but which are just bread and butter to San F ... More >>

Giants-Packers Review: The Most Important Play of the Game

Pick a play -- just one play, that defines the Giants' 37-20 upset of the Green Bay Packers on Sunday. What did you choose? The Hail Mary with six seconds left before halftime, right? I'd call it the most important play of the game for two reasons. First, because it is a perfect illustration of the ... More >>

The Giants' Chances Against the Pack: Get Rodgers in Three Seconds or Die

If you're casting around for a reason to hope for the Giants against the Packers Sunday afternoon, look to today's Newark Star-Ledger. Mike Garafolo, one of the best pro football writers around, nails it down: "The Giants have to get to Green Bay quarterback Aaron Rodgers in 3.00 seconds or less. If ... More >>

Memo to Tom Coughlin: Win Sunday or Pack It In

​How important is Sunday's Giants-Cowboys game to New York's immediate future? Let's lead with one truly eye-popping fact: If the Giants lose to Dallas, they'll have lost, in the space of five weeks, to all four NFC division leaders. I don't know if that has ever happened in team history; if i ... More >>

Tom Coughlin and the Giants: Doomed to Repeat History?

"It's not going to be the history, believe me. I know that this is something fanatically involved with all of you but each team is a new team and each team is a new year." So Tom Coughlin told meddlesome sportswriters at a press conference yesterday. Coughlin left out one thing: Every year in the la ... More >>

Tom Couglin on the Giants' Loss to the Eagles: "Why?"

According to ESPN last night, Tom Coughlin's first word to his team after the Giants' baffling and humiliating 17-10 loss to the Eagles on Sunday Night Football was, "Why?" I translate that as "Man, you'd think somebody could do something about this, don't you?" The reasons why can be seen in the ... More >>

Giants Fans Are Getting That Sinking Feeling

​If you're a Giants fan and all you care about is going to the Super Bowl -- and what else would you care about? -- yesterday began the most important four-week stretch of the year. And it hasn't started well with Sunday's 27-20 loss to San Francisco. Why was this stretch so important? Very ... More >>

Tom Coughlin Will Sort of Remain in Control of the Giants

​With about five minutes to go in the Giants 17-14 victory over the Redskins in Washington yesterday, the bad news was flashed across our TV screens: the Green Bay Packers had defeated the Chicago Bears, shutting the Giants out of the playoffs and ending their season. Immediately, I'm betting, ... More >>

Tom Coughlin Forgot, and Now Giants Fans Never Will

Coughlin: Without his thinking capI've been scrambling — oops, sorry, Giants fans, I'll try to find a word not easily associated with Michael Vick. Let's say I've been searching hard to find an angle on Sunday's debacle that hasn't been written about a dozen times by everyone one else. I don't ... More >>

Metrodome Roof Collapses Under Snow, Leaving NY Giants, Vikings Stranded (VIDEO)

Via​The football game between the New York Giants and the Minnesota Vikings, scheduled for today, has been moved to Monday after heavy snow caused the collapse of the Metrodome roof. On Saturday, the Giants were stuck at the Kansas City International Airport. And they wonder why we mock the Mi ... More >>

Baseball Disappointment Tempered by Football Riches: New York's Teams Are the Best

​Since it now appears the Yankees' chances to get Cliff Lee aren't worth a bucket of warm spit, the number one sports topic now turns to "Who's the best football team in New Jersey?" We like Gary Myers's assessment in today's Daily News: "Right now, the Jets are 5-1 on a five-game winning s ... More >>

Do the New York Jets Hate Their Fans More Than Any Other NFL Franchise (Especially the Giants)?

​A few days ago, sports blog Deadspin ran a piece by Katie Baker entitled "Tell Me How My Class Tastes: Scenes From The Worst NFL Draft Party Ever" that's ostensibly about one generations-long New York Jets fan's trip to a draft party he was invited to out in the Meadowlands. Naturally, this d ... More >>

Jockbeat: So How Bad Were the 2009 Giants?

​Somehow it was fitting that Tom Coughlin's Giants picked their last game in their old stadium to give us their most memorable performance. No one who saw their 41-9 slaughter by the Carolina Panthers -- a 6-8 team going into the game -- will ever forget it. The lingering question about their ... More >>

Jockbeat: Giants at a Crucial Juncture

​As the Giants get ready for a crucial four games that will probably seal their fate for the 2009 season -- the Falcons this Sunday in the Meadowlands, the Broncos at Denver, then the Cowboys and Eagles back in New Jersey -- they have two major puzzles to solve. Everyone knows about the defen ... More >>

Jockbeat: Giants or Jets? Whose Loss Sucked More?

​Who had the worst day on Sunday? The Giants or the Jets? Let's review: -- The Giants played perhaps the best team in the conference, the surprising New Orleans Saints, gave up 48 points and lost by three touchdowns on the Saints' home field. -- The Jets, playing at home against a terrible ... More >>

CRUNCH TIME

Score a good seat for the Giants versus the Raiders

Jockbeat: Are the Giants the NFC's Best?

​How good are the 2009 Giants? Are they the best team in their conference? Let's answer the second question first. Pending the outcome of tonight's game between the Green Bay Packers and the 3-0 Minnesota Vikings, the Giants and the New Orleans Saints are the only 4-0 teams in the conference. ... More >>

Rockettes Preview Christmas Show Today, Sans Heavy Clothing

​Radio City Music Hall's Christmas Spectacular is a big draw, but the competition is fierce -- White Christmas is returning to Broadway this winter, despite its parlous original reviews -- so RCMH has taken steps, so to speak, to steal a March of the Wooden Soldiers on wannabes: they've launc ... More >>

Jockbeat: David Diehl Does Comedy

Everyone associates New York Giants football with comedy, and the funniest Giant of all - with the possible exception of Tom "Take My Wife Please" Coughlin -- is David Diehl. David recently put it a stint at Manhattan's Comix Comedy Club on West 14th Street, and the laughs flew thicker and faster ... More >>

Plaxico Burress Cut by the Giants

After his trial got going (and was delayed) it was expected the Giants would cut wide receiver Plaxico Burress, who shot himself in the leg at a club last year and whom the Mayor wants put in prison. Today the Giants confirmed they have released him. Our own Allen Barra thought Burress' strengths o ... More >>

Plaxico Fill-In Also Shot, But By Others

In November Giants wide receiver Plaxico Burress went to a nightclub and shot himself in the leg (accidentally -- or so we were told), causing Mayor Bloomberg to demand a lengthy prison term for Burress and the Giants to suspend him. Burress was replaced in the waning days of the Giants season by Ta ... More >>

Jockbeat: The Answer to Favre and Manning? Kurt Warner.

Jockbeat: Giants Choke? Don't Fall For That Football Fantasy

The Giants and a Rush to Judgment

Plaxico Going to Prison? Bloomberg's Gun Law Says So

SADDLE UP

The Giants face off against the Cowboys

Giants Huddle with Mt. Sinai, Announce Game Plan, Play to Win Etc.

Why the Giants Shouldn't Be in the Super Bowl and Ways They Can Win It

If the Favre treatment doesn't stop Brady, maybe Jessica Simpson could?

Unmanning the Flock

The Giants win by a goal post while intimidating no one

They Might Be Giants

Let's hope Coughlin's crew leaves the bad ball in foggy London

1957

One Up, One Down

Both the Jets and Giants Turn Out to Be Giant Killers

NFL Swamp Guess

Neither Team May Be Giants

Big Blue Blunders

How the Giants Got Cut Down to Size

That Giant Sucking Sound

Feats of Super Bowls Past Echo Through Big Blue’s Sunday Performance

Sports

Big Blue 'Dogs' Continue to Buck the Odds

Super Bowl Trip Scrubs a Team's Image

Giuliani and Sports Celebrations, Perfect Together

Who Loves a Parade?

Faceless Wonders

Giants’ Lesser Lights Lead the Way