To a person, Giants gamers are staying as far-off from the phrase as doable.
“You must keep humble,” Saquon Barkley insisted.
“We've to play our greatest each week,” Daniel Jones asserted.
“Each week you attempt to go 1-0,” Dexter Lawrence vowed.
To a person — to a girl — Giants coaches are staying even farther away from the phrase as doable.
“Staying centered on the job at hand,” head man Brian Daboll mentioned.
“We have to do what we do very effectively,” defensive coordinator Wink Martindale mentioned.
To a person — to a girl — Giants followers are attempting, very exhausting, to maintain the phrase out of their minds, not to mention their mouths, as exhausting because it may be.
As a result of for this week and this recreation, it's the worst of all doable phrases within the lexicon, save for maybe “demise” and “despair” and “pestilence” and some notable others.
Overconfidence.
Yeah. That’s the one. That’s the killer. That’s the phrase that swims within the waters of hopefulness like a shark that hasn’t eaten in three months, trying to devour complete anybody who would succumb to its temptations.
The Dallas Cowboys often is the said opponent Monday evening at MetLife Stadium, however Overconfidence is the foe. Overconfidence is the enemy. Overconfidence is the silent murderer, and you already know it as a Giants followers as a result of inevitably, invariably, you’ve been concerned in a dialog this week that featured one thing that appears like this:
“Look, we’re 2-0 and that’s nice! However we haven’t received something but. We haven’t finished something but. Positive, the Cowboys are the Cowboys, and so they’re scuffling, they don’t have Dak and so they don’t have a lot of an offensive line to talk of, and their coach at all times seems to be positively baffled on the sideline, like he’s attempting to determine trigonometry whereas additionally mismanaging the clock, and, certain, we COULD beat then, perhaps SHOULD beat them and that WOULD make us 3-0 and …
And inevitably, invariably, that's adopted by somebody both texting “Shut up jinx!!!” or just hanging up the cellphone, and perhaps (in excessive instances) calling a priest to see if there’s a solution to exorcise a phone name or a textual content message (save the decision: there isn’t).
See, there are many good issues to the Giants being 2-0. There have been two victories — one in enemy territory, one in entrance of a renewed and re-energized house crowd — and there have been simply sufficient good, successful performs executed by the lads in blue that, for the primary time in too lengthy a time, Giants followers are feeling blissful and hopeful as an alternative of turning their consideration to the draft. That's the good things, and also you wouldn’t commerce it for the world.
However it’s so … effectively, simple, to permit overconfidence to seep into the equation. The Cowboys are rattling fortunate to not be 0-2. Their opening-game loss to Tampa Bay was an entire fiasco. The Giants are literally favored to win in accordance with most betting traces. The Cowboys have Micah Parsons, which is a pleasant factor to have, however there’s solely a lot one participant can do, particularly when your QB1 is on the shelf for one more month. Cooper Rush is the Dallas QB, and he’s 2-0 lifetime as a starter. However … he’s Cooper Rush.
“I see a man that’s a beginning quarterback on this league. Actually, I do,” is what Martindale mentioned Thursday, and that’s about as superbly as a coach may presumably put it if he’s attempting to lock down the shutters for overconfidence.
“And I made the remark simply watching him and the choices that he makes, I feel he’ll have an extended profession as a quarterback on this league, after which he’ll be a type of cats that turn out to be an offensive coordinator and a head coach by the point he’s 38 or 39. That’s the way it normally works.”
Oh, yeah. The DC is an previous professional at this.
After all, nearly as good as 2-0 feels, 3-0 could be one thing else. And the reality is: 3-0 is inside attain. If the Giants play in addition to they did within the second half towards Tennessee, in addition to they did within the very starting and the very finish of the Carolina recreation, if …
And, effectively, that’s additionally it. The “if” half. You'll be able to’t simply dissect the nice elements of video games and splice them into the subsequent recreation. You must truly play effectively, have to truly win the sport. And the Giants, reality be instructed, actually ought to win this recreation …
However what does an previous jinx like me know? Name a priest.
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