The Season is Long, But…

I've got a lot on my mind grapes, so hopefully we'll have a productive week here. We'll start with some fertile blogging ground, a three-game skid by the hometown 53. Or 45. Whatever. As I said in the original (and more optimistic) version of this post, I was relatively fine with the bloodbath in New Orleans. It's just one of those games you see every year where a good team plays a great game. They even built that capability into Tecmo Super Bowl, so it should be something that NFL fans can process. One would expect an elite team to bounce back with ferocity in the subsequent home night game against Arizona. One would be wrong. Twice. Not only did the Giants not bounce back, one might have developed some concerns that the Giants are not actually an elite team. Still – it's two games, the Giants have built up a substantial reservoir of goodwill and oddly enough each of those games were kind of "prove it" games for their opponents. It's st...