The New York FOOTBALL Giants Are 4-1

...and if I'm being totally honest, I don't know how to react to this.

As a life-long Giants fan, I've seen four Super Bowl championships with the latest title happening a decade ago. After that 2012 win, the team has been absolute dog-poo. And not just that kind of poo you can pick up with a poop bag. We're talking that mess that gets deep into the fibers of your carpets. (Sorry for that visual, but it's the best description I can think of.)

The team cleaned house this past offseason, bringing in new GM Joe Schoen from Buffalo as well as his Bills offensive coordinator Brian Daboll as their head coach. This was going to change the culture from the past decade of that dog-poo I spoke of above. It was expected that we'd need a few years to wash that stink off and really begin to form the franchise into this new vision. I can say now with confidence, after 5 weeks of this transition, that we just might be ahead of schedule.

The Giants went to London in week 5 of this 2022 season and beat the moderately heavy favored Green Bay Packers 27-22. But this wasn't about just beating Aaron Rodgers and a fully healthy team. It was HOW they beat them. Going into this game, the Giants were decimated at basically every position with injuries. It was basically a practice squad and a few starters, so no knowledgeable Giants fan expected them to win but we'd hoped they'd be competitive. Halfway through the second quarter, the Giants trailed 17-3 and the texts began with my friends. "This is about to get ugly." "Might as well turn this one off." "What a stinker."

They'd score a TD before halftime and go into the locker room down 20-10 after Green Bay tacked on a field goal and those would be the last offensive points the Packers would score in this game. The only scoring in the third quarter would be a Graham Gano field goal to make it 20-13, then in the fourth quarter Daniel Bellinger and Saquon Barkley would both score for a 27-20 lead with 6 minutes to go. The defense would hold on to give the Giants the win and improve to 4-1.

The Giants of old would have laid down and rolled over after being down 17-3. The fan reactions (reminder of the text conversations above) would reflect that. But Brian Daboll has this team playing for one another. Playing for their coach. Buying into the beliefs they're preaching as an organization. Do I expect them to compete for a Super Bowl this year? Probably not, but at least it's washing away the stink from the New York Mets blowing a 101-win season.