{"id":127700,"date":"2020-12-07T04:47:12","date_gmt":"2020-12-07T01:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/the-giants-are-legit-after-beating-seahawks\/"},"modified":"2020-12-07T04:47:12","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T01:47:12","slug":"the-giants-are-legit-after-beating-seahawks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-giants-are-legit-after-beating-seahawks\/","title":{"rendered":"#The Giants are legit after beating Seahawks"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#The Giants are legit after beating Seahawks<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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No more qualifiers. Not now. Not after this. No more Mondays spent sheepishly apologizing for the rundown neighborhood in which they live. Not now. Not after this. No more jokes about being the best of the NFC Least. Nope. Not now. Not after this.<\/p>\n

The Giants made their bones Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n

They earned their bona fides.<\/p>\n

The Giants announced themselves as legit. Forget the fact the record is still unsightly, at 5-7. Forget the fact that there\u2019s still a quarter of a season left to go, that there\u2019s still so much that could happ<\/a>en, that there\u2019s still a string of difficult opponents lined up for them the next few weeks.<\/p>\n

After this? After walking into Seattle and not just beating the Seahawks 17-12, but dominating them? After spending most of the day making Russell Wilson \u2014 who not long ago was being mentioned alongside Patrick Mahomes and Aaron Rodgers as an MVP favorite \u2014 look so foolish, so inept, as if he\u2019d just discovered football a couple of days ago?<\/p>\n

Maybe the Giants got their sea legs the last few weeks by feasting on the dregs of the East and by simply refusing to lose to a terrible Bengals team in Cincinnati. How they got here doesn\u2019t matter. They are here now. They get another week, at least, in first place. They earn the East\u2019s first victory against a team with a winning record.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese guys,\u201d coach Joe Judge said, \u201cdeserve to be here. They deserve all of this.\u201d<\/p>\n

They announced themselves, and declared something else, too:<\/p>\n

If they can really finish this improbable tale off, if they can bull their way and will their way to the division title and into the NFC playoffs \u2014 no matter what the final numbers look like on either side of the hyphen \u2014 then good luck to whichever wild-card team with a gaudy record comes waltzing into MetLife Stadium on either Saturday, Jan. 9 or Sunday, Jan. 10.<\/p>\n

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The Giants celebrate an interception during their win over the Seahawks.<\/figcaption>
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That team can look at how the Seahawks looked Sunday, at how it felt like the Giants were playing 13-on-9 most of the day, both sides of the ball. It didn\u2019t matter that Daniel Jones was in street clothes, that his backup, Colt McCoy, was the one doing just enough to guide a couple of third-quarter touchdown drives.<\/p>\n

The Giants weren\u2019t bothered by that, same as they weren\u2019t bothered by losing Saquon Barkley in September, same as they weren\u2019t bothered by losing a string of heartache specials on the way to 1-7, same as they\u2019ve never been bothered by the abject disrespect aimed at all four members of the NFC East. If that hasn\u2019t quite amused them, necessarily, it\u2019s certainly fueled them.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe played sound, disciplined football,\u201d safety Jabrill Peppers said. \u201cWe played 60 minutes of our brand of football.\u201d<\/p>\n

And look at them now.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese guys do everything we\u2019ve asked them to do and they\u2019ve done it as well as they can and you see the results,\u201d Judge said. \u201cWe have a very special group of guys who have bought in. It\u2019s a tough group. We kept responding.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Seahawks came sprinting out of the gate but didn\u2019t quite sniff the end zone on that opening drive, and that was an early sign. The Seahawks came a couple of inches away from going up 10-0 just before the half when they blocked a punt but couldn\u2019t secure the ball before it bled over the end line, and you might notice that those missing five points turned out to be sort of important.<\/p>\n

The Giants? They didn\u2019t care. They scored those two touchdowns in the third quarter. They harassed Wilson all day, made him see pressure that wasn\u2019t there and ignore pressure that was \u2014 made him see a whole bunch of damned ghosts, truth be told. Then made one last stand with the ball in Wilson\u2019s hands, needing to keep him out of the end zone to make the day complete. He never got close.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s one of the best quarterbacks in the world over there,\u201d Judge said.<\/p>\n

Just not this week. Not this time. Not against this team. And the Giants could fly home to Jersey, airplane optional.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve got to keep stacking them,\u201d Peppers said. \u201cWe\u2019ve got another great team coming in next week. Have to have a good week of practice. Focus on Arizona. Go to work.\u201d<\/p>\n

No asterisks needed when they report to practice. No explanations. No rationalizations. The Giants are no longer the biggest midget in a bite-sized division. They are no longer defined merely by the company they keep. They\u2019re legit. They\u2019re good. They\u2019re in first place for another week, and you\u2019d better believe they deserve to be there.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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