In This Season of Giving, Giants Don’t Give Fans Much to Cheer About

By Jon Wagner On the Sunday before Hanukkah and Christmas, the New York Giants inexplicably played flatter than potato pancakes and ginger bread cookies. Yet, even more incredibly, they still control their own playoff destiny after losing for the fifth time in six games during the second half of the regular season. Only now, there’s no more room for error, as New York (7-7) must win its final two regular season games to win the NFC East and reach the postseason after the seven-point underdog Washington Redskins (5-9) scored the first 17 points at MetLife Stadium, and cruised to an easy 23-10 victory over the uninspired Giants, who missed a golden opportunity to move back into a first-place tie with the Dallas Cowboys (8-6). New York, which entered the game tied for seventh in the NFL in scoring (24.9 points per game) and fourth in passing (304.1 yards per game), matched a season low for points and were held without a touchdown until the final minute while sleepwalking through yet an...