Giant Football Blog

Giants' quest to repeat as Super Bowl champs ends with 23-11 loss to Eagles

The Giants' run to the Super Bowl last season produced enough memories to last forever. At the very least, those memories will have to be enough to last the Giants for the next six months.

The defending champions ran out of miracles Sunday as they meekly fell to the Eagles, 23-11, in an NFC Divisional playoff game, ending their quest to become the first Giants team in history to win back-to-back championships. It was a disappointing end to a remarkable season in which they entered the playoffs looking like the best team in the NFC. Continue

Eagles defeat Giants, 23-11

Eagles shut down Giants O, Eli Manning 15-29 169 2 ints. Wherefore art thou Plaxico?

Resting Eli Manning & many others, Giants lose to Vikings on late field goal

It could have been heartbreaking for the Giants to lose the way they did Sunday. Watching the game-winning field goal sail through the uprights as time expired just a few minutes after a missed field goal of their own could have been a devastating blow.

Instead, it was nothing but a bump in a road the Giants still hope will lead to bigger and better things. They know there are far more important things than a 20-19 loss to the Minnesota Vikings in a meaningless regular-season finale

"I'm pretty sure we came out healthy," said linebacker Antonio Pierce. "We got out of here and we're excited to go on to the next round.

"Now the real fun begins." Continue

Giants top dogs rally past Panthers for NFC's no. 1 seed

The game was slipping away and with it perhaps the Giants' season. They were going the wrong way. They had fallen and it appeared they could not get up.But they did. One step at a time, they got back into a game that tested their resolve, their mental and physical toughness and their ability to take and deliver a punch."One word," running back Derrick Ward said. "Resilient."

That defined the Giants. They trailed the Panthers 21-10 in the first half and 28-20 in the fourth quarter. They tied the game up on a patented Eli Manning late-game drive, survived a missed John Kasay 50-yard field goal attempt at the end of regulation and then flexed their muscles in overtime.

Along the way a new star was born. Ward was breathtaking, rushing for a career-high 215 yards on only 15 carries, including 82 yards on runs of 51, 14 and 17 yards in overtime. His last rushing attempt got to the 2-yard line, and from there Brandon Jacobs powered in for his third touchdown - the game-winner - to send the Giants off with a brilliant 34-28 victory over the Panthers in a thrilling and chilling NFC showdown at Giants Stadium. Continue

Eli Manning sacked 8 times as Giants fall flat against Cowboys, 20-8

For the first time in 15 months, the Giants are on a losing streak. And it couldn't have come at a worse time.

Instead of rounding into championship form just in time for the playoffs, the defending Super Bowl champs are battered, bruised and suddenly falling apart after losing their second straight game Sunday night, 20-8, to the Dallas Cowboys. It's their first such skid since they opened the 2007 season 0-2, and it again kept them from locking up a first-round bye.

And now the Giants (11-3) must pick up the pieces before their winner-take-all showdown with the Carolina Panthers at Giants Stadium on Sunday night for the No.1 seed and home-field advantage in the NFC. Continue

Plaxico Burress no distraction as Giants roll past Redskins, 23-7

 Nothing is stopping the NY Giants these days. Not the latest distraction surrounding their star receiver. Not the rain on a dreary day in the mid-Atlantic. Not a Redskins team with the NFL's leading rusher and a usually stout defense.

Eli Manning had his first 300-yard game of the season, Clinton Portis was held to 22 yards rushing, and the Giants put aside the Plaxico Burress mess Sunday with another dominating performance, 23-7 over the Redskins. Continue

Giants beat Cardinals 37-29 to clear way for first-round bye in NFC

The Giants made a triumphant return to the site of their Super Bowl victory and showed that maybe nothing can stop them from making a run at another.

Because if the loss of Brandon Jacobs and Plaxico Burress can't slow this juggernaut down, what hope does the rest of the NFC really have? With both of their top two weapons sidelined, the Giants still were able to get the best of a shootout with the high-flying Arizona Cardinals Sunday.And none of the Giants was the least bit surprised when they headed home with a relatively easy 37-29 win. Continue

Giants improve to 9-1 after running all over the Ravens, 30-10

Brandon Jacobs was laughing on his way out of the locker room after he had helped steamroll another defense. Every week, it seems, the Giants are faced with another daunting challenge. Then every week they go out and bully another opponent out of their way.

The Giants have turned the most brutal stretch of their schedule into a cakewalk and they are running away with the division and possibly the conference. Yet the worst news for the rest of the NFL is that after Sunday's dominating, 30-10 win over the Baltimore Ravens at the Meadowlands, the defending Super Bowl champions might just be getting started. Continue

Giants prevail, pull out 36-31 win over Eagles in Philadelphia

Upon further review, maybe the NFC East isn't the most competitive division in football after all. What was supposed to be the toughest group in the NFL is beginning to look like a one-team show after the Giants put a little more distance between themselves and the rest of the division.

One week after the defending champs (8-1) buried the Dallas Cowboys, they did the same to the Philadelphia Eagles Sunday night, holding them off, 36-31. That left Philly (5-4) tied with Dallas, three games back. "We've got seven games left and a lot of things can change," linebacker Antonio Pierce said. "I don't see no asterisk by our names yet saying we're the division champs." Continue

Giants capitalize on four turnovers, plow Dallas Cowboys 35-14

The NFC East, in regard to the Dallas Cowboys, is all but over. The Giants buried them Sunday in a rare division rout. And deep inside they had to be thrilled to see their hated rivals sitting in last place, fading in the rearview mirror. But on the outside, they refused to kick the Cowboys while they're down."Ain't no rejoicing here," said defensive end Justin Tuck. "Nobody's popping no champagne. We've got a lot of football left."

Maybe that's true, but the Giants made their road to defending their Super Bowl championship much easier Sunday by hammering the Cowboys, 35-14, at Giants Stadium and putting a healthy 21/2-game gap between themselves and Dallas. Sure, they still have a half-a-season left, but it's now a two-team race in the NFC East between the Giants (7-1) and the Washington Redskins (6-2). Continue