Absolutely the Giants’ gamers have loved this week off, and can fortunately watch on tv as most of their fellow gamers beat one another up Sunday and Monday whereas they’re sinking into their La-Z-Boys or settling right into a sizzling tub to ease their aching bones.
Absolutely the Giants’ coaches will admire the comparatively gentle week; no opponent Sunday means no have to take to the workplace couches as a lot, no have to obsess about X’s and O’s and coverages and blocking patters and move routes, they usually’ll be having fun with a protracted weekend..
The bye week, eight video games in, got here at an ideal time for the Giants.
However, rattling, it got here at a awful time for the remainder of us.
As a result of the Giants have spent the primary eight weeks of the season reminding us of all the great things we are able to generally discover in sports activities when the celebs align and the coaches know what they’re doing and the gamers play with ferocity and the scoreboard principally complies with our fondest needs.
(The Jets, in equity, have finished their share of that, too, however the Jets have the Payments this weekend and, let’s face it, by 4 o’clock or so Sunday we could REALLY see what a staff in want of a bye week seems like.)
The final month has been a little bit of a firestorm round right here, possibly you’ve observed. The Mets and the Yankees ended seasons of intense promise and hope within the throes of bitter disappointment, and their followers have been force-fed an Astros-Phillies World Sequence straight out of the third circle of Hell. The Knicks have these days appeared like a replica copy from any of the disappointing seasons out of the final 22 or so.
The Nets?
Yeah. The Nets have been the anti-Giants, underachieving and all however daring their followers to remain whereas they merrily pour kerosene on the staff brand day after day after day after day.
However the Giants have been totally different. Oh, the Devils and Islanders are each on good profitable streaks now, and the Rangers are proficient sufficient that they’ll pile up loads of factors, however hockey season remains to be in its infancy. As Charles Barley as soon as famously mentioned: “Early within the season, groups that suck don’t know that they suck but.”
However that is eight video games with the Giants — historically the halfway level of an NFL season, and even in a 17-game schedule nonetheless far sufficient alongside to not be suckered in by small pattern sizes. The Giants are 6-2. Higher, they're one of the best sort of 6-2: few of their followers noticed this coming, little was anticipated of them, and but they’ve overperformed and overdelivered with a roster filled with gamers who're troublesome — if not inconceivable — to dislike.
And now, they've paused. Good for them. Not a lot for the remainder of us.
“At this time limit in the course of the season, I feel everybody’s drained, coaching-wise. Everyone’s sore, playing-wise,” Giants head coach Brian Daboll mentioned Monday. “It’s simply the character of this league, and also you simply carry on pushing by. I feel you might want to attempt to reap the benefits of slightly little bit of downtime to recuperate, to get some relaxation and to come back again contemporary and able to go for us this final half of the season the place we've our bye.”
Quickly sufficient, the enamel of the season will likely be upon them and we'll see with clear eyes how good the Giants actually are. However first there will likely be dwelling video games towards Houston and Detroit, and a real alternative to be 8-2 earlier than the schedule will get a tad meaner.
It is likely one of the extra endearing traits of this staff thus far that whereas we’re allowed to take a position about what’s to come back, they've all purchased into dwelling within the second, and understanding there’s extra to getting the place they’ve gotten than sheer happenstance.
“I feel we’re all excited,” quarterback Daniel Jones mentioned earlier this week. “It’s been enjoyable to win, it’s been enjoyable to play properly, and pull out a few of these video games down the stretch. We admire the place we’re in, we’re having fun with that however there’s lots of work to do.”
There's, and it is going to be enjoyable to see how that work pays off, and the place issues will shake out the following time the Giants earn a breather. That’ll both be the tip of the season or — if issues are actually destined to observe a storybook path — the week after the season ends, with a bye earned because the No. 1 seed within the East.
No, that isn’t probably and, no, it’s most likely not possible.
However 9 weeks in the past, would 6-2 appeared probably? Or possible?
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