{"id":3978,"date":"2008-02-03T14:32:23","date_gmt":"2008-02-03T14:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3978"},"modified":"2025-09-30T01:35:35","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T01:35:35","slug":"how-the-giants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3978","title":{"rendered":"How the Giants got to where they’re at"},"content":{"rendered":"

And with the third youngest roster in the NFL – And on the verge of winning the Super Bowl Tom Faranda’s Folly: Countdown to Giants vs. Patriots – who will win?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

They may be at the top for awhile.<\/p>\n

Anatomy of Success Starts With Brains and Heart – New York Times<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cJerry, he\u2019s always confident,\u201d the Giants\u2019 president and co-owner, John Mara, said of Reese, whose vision seems more rose-tinted and clear than most. \u201cAnd he tried to assure me all along: We\u2019re going to be O.K., we\u2019ll be in the playoffs, and once we get in the playoffs anything can happen. And I would listen to him, and I\u2019m not sure I was buying it 100 percent.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yet the Giants crystallized into one of the league\u2019s best teams. <\/p>\n

\u201cI wouldn\u2019t say we\u2019re an elite team,\u201d Reese said. \u201cI think we\u2019re a very good team. We\u2019re trying to get to elite status. We have more to get to for people to call us an elite team.\u201d<\/p>\n

A victory over the Patriots would do the trick. But regardless of Sunday\u2019s outcome, the Giants \u2014 with the league\u2019s third-youngest roster, a coach expected to sign a long-term contract extension and a quarterback no longer battered by comparisons to his own potential \u2014will probably be considered a favorite to contend again. And again. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And with the third youngest roster in the NFL – And on the verge of winning the Super Bowl Tom Faranda’s Folly: Countdown to Giants vs. Patriots – who will win? They may be at the top for awhile. Anatomy of Success Starts With Brains and Heart – New York Times \u201cJerry, he\u2019s always confident,\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9331,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3978\/revisions\/9331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}