12 thoughts from the 2018 New York Giants season
By Curt Macysyn
No. 2 – Start winning meaningful NFC East games
Many NFL fans like to poke fun at the Dallas Cowboys, but at least Big D has an NFC East division title to their names in 2018. Face facts, with the quick demise of the Philadelphia Eagles this season, this division was up for grabs. If the New York Giants win on Sunday, the chatter will turn to momentum in 2019. The G-Men will have won two of the last three games against NFC East rivals. That’s the best case scenario, even though their two wins came in meaningless games. Plenty of Giants fans play the moral victory game, and that’s how a team stays stuck in neutral for a prolonged period. The New York Giants can’t beat the Eagles for love or money, and the Cowboys won an important Sept. contest in Texas. The way this franchise plays in important NFC East contests lately is an embarrassment, and it needs to change. It would behoove head coach Pat Shurmur to lose the rhetoric, and figure out a way to beat the Eagles and Cowboys next season, or we will be once again parsing out only the good things about the 2019 season, and ignoring the deficiencies yet again.