The Giants are in the only place you want to be in Week 17 of a football season.
They have the gift of crystal-clear clarity. They don’t have to look around the league, the way the Jets and a half-dozen other teams do, and figure out what help they need elsewhere; relying on the kindness of strangers is a terrible place to be this deep in the season.
Give Daboll this: The same kind of discipline and self-awareness he demands of his players? He expects that from himself, too. No fewer than four different times Monday afternoon, as he met reporters for the first time since his team’s heartbreaking 27-24 loss to the Vikings on Christmas Eve, he was eased by interrogators toward a path of discussing the playoffs.
The Giants and Colts aren’t exactly ancient rivals, and in the 72 years since their first encounter — Giants 55, Colts 20 at Baltimore’s old Memorial Stadium — they’ve faced each other only 19 times, the Colts winning 12. The most famous, of course, was one day less than 64 years ago, Dec. 28, 1958, when Alan Ameche’s touchdown won the first NFL overtime game ever played, delivering the NFL championship to Baltimore.
That final three weeks of the 2002 season are a bit more relevant than you’d think. The Giants were 8-6 and needing to win their final two regular-season games of the year — at Indianapolis, and home to Philadelphia — the same two teams they close the season against this year — and beat the Colts at RCA Dome 44-27 thanks to a career day from Amani Toomer, who caught 10 balls for 204 yards and touchdowns of 82, 21 and 27 yards from Kerry Collins.
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