Game Time: 8:26 pm EST

Location: MetLife Stadium (GIANTS Stadium), East Rutherford, NJ

TV: Sunday Night Football National Telecast (ALL NBC Affiliates)

Announcers:  Al Michaels, Cris Collinsworth, and Michelle Tafoya

Radio: WFAN 660-AM (NY, NJ, PA, CT, MA), The Fan 103.5fm (TX), and Westwood One Radio.

Game Time Weather: Is it really January?

Kick Off: 46* Winds 7-9 mph from WNW

Half-Time: 44* Winds 9-10 mph from WNW

4th Quarter: 42* Winds from 5-7 mph from WNW

Current Line: Giants by 3 with Over/Under at 46.0 points

How good is he?

In 2010 just before the draft I was asked what I thought the Giants would do with the 15th overall pick.  With many needs, I knew the Giants and Jerry Reese usually stick to one philosophy. Best Available Athlete.  The Giants are not an organization that normally drafts for position alone.  They place all the picks in order and take the top guy that remains when their turn comes around.  So in a draft with names like Suh, Berry, McCoy, Haden, Spiller, Pouncey, and Ryan Matthews……The Giants selected with the 15th pick…Jason Pierre Paul, a defensive end out of South Florida.  Now this pick did seem odd to many at the time. Here was a team that had many talented players playing defensive lineman at the time, and clearly needed help at other positions.  JPP, as he has become known, was not the clear choice for the Giants, but surely one that fit their philosophy.

JPP was born in Deerfield Beach Florida.  At 6’5″ Paul lettered in basketball for four years and joined the football team during his junior year. In college he amassed 49 tackles, 14 sacks, 19 tackles for a loss, two forced fumbles, one interception and one fumble recovery as a freshman at College of the Canyons (California) and earned First-team All-WSC and All-American honors. In 2008 Pierre-Paul played at Fort Scott Community College (Kansas), where his 70 tackles, 10.5 sacks, three forced fumbles and two fumble recoveries earned him First-Team little All-American honors. (more…)