{"id":127368,"date":"2020-12-06T11:21:46","date_gmt":"2020-12-06T08:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/giants-playing-meaningful-december-games-finally\/"},"modified":"2020-12-06T11:21:46","modified_gmt":"2020-12-06T08:21:46","slug":"giants-playing-meaningful-december-games-finally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/giants-playing-meaningful-december-games-finally\/","title":{"rendered":"#Giants playing meaningful December games \u2014finally"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Giants playing meaningful December game<\/a>s \u2014finally<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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It is how the franchise patriarch, Wellington Mara, defined an acceptable, even successful season for the New York football Giants.<\/p>\n

Play meaningful games in December.<\/p>\n

The Giants in 2020 face the Seahawks on Sunday at Lumen Field in Seattle. Check the calendar. It is early December and both of these teams, in one way or another, are in first place in their respective divisions.<\/p>\n

It is a meaningful game for the Giants, even if it comes with backup Colt McCoy set to start at quarterback in place of injured Daniel Jones.<\/p>\n

Mara\u2019s son, John, now heads the franchise and he is painfully aware his Giants have not played a meaningful December game in five years and that the last month of the year, for nearly a decade, has been mostly a time of football dreariness and irrelevancy as the holiday season nears and the NFL season fades out.<\/p>\n

The Giants are only 4-7 in Joe Judge\u2019s first go-round as a head coach. They are on a three-game winning streak and lead the NFC East based on the tie-breaker advantage with Washington. The distance from first to last \u2014 the Cowboys are 3-8 and, in between, the Eagles are 3-7-1 \u2014 is not far. Anything can happ<\/a>en, and probably will. The Giants are in it and what comes next is \u2014 pause \u2014 meaningful.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019ve had a lot of conversations with John throughout the season,\u2019\u2019 Judge said. \u201cI\u2019ll keep that between us. I think everyone\u2019s goal at some point in the season is to make sure that you\u2019re relevant and meaningful down the stretch. That being said, we\u2019ve really kept the focus week by week this year. We\u2019re going to keep it right there right now.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

In almost any other year, the record the Giants took out of the first 11 games would have them fighting to stay out of the division basement. They do not necessarily need to upset the Seahawks (8-3) to stay in first place, as the three other teams in the NFC East are all hefty underdogs this week, as well.<\/p>\n

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