Before the season started I said the Giants needed 10 wins to get into the playoffs and I thought that they would finish 10-6 on the season.
They met their quota in only 11 weeks of football, but now the question comes of how many wins can the Giants rack up this season? 10? 11? 12? 13? 14? 15?
Way back on September 22nd, the Giants were 4-0 and at the time I put a poll up on the site that asked how many wins will the Giants finish with. Here is how the people voted:
4-6 wins – 4%
7-9 wins – 2%
10-12 wins – 51%
13-14 wins – 40%
15-16 wins – 2%
Now obviously my prediction will be wrong because I don’t see how the Giants are going to finish the season 0-5 and wind up with a 10-6 record, but really how many wins can this team get?
15 is really not out of the question at this point given the way they have been playing, but that would mean another five perfect weeks, which in turn would mean 11 straight wins.
Washington, Philadelphia, Dallas, Carolina, and Minnesota remain on the schedule and all of those team are good football teams, though they are all in a tier underneath the Giants.
In the 16-game schedule era (1978-present) the Giants have had double digit win seasons 12 times including this year. But the most wins the franchise has had is 14 when they went 14-2 in 1986 and won the Super Bowl against the Denver Broncos. In 1990 they won 13 games and also won the Super Bowl, so in other words the two highest winning seasons for the Giants have resulted in Super Bowl wins and with a chance to match and possibly beat their previous best records, you have to like what history is telling us here.
Coolstandings.com has the Giants estimated wins total at 13.4 and their estimated loss total at 2.6, so rounding those numbers you have a 13-3 record and a 3-2 finish to the ’08 campaign. I’m not going to complain with a 13-3 finish from a team that lost their two most important defensive players, but I think there are more than three wins left with the current schedule.