NJ.com · Oct 31, 2016
Did Giants learn post-bye week lesson from 2015? Time to find out
A little under a year ago, the Giants came out of their bye week with the whole world in front of them.
They were 5-5, and held all the cards. If they beat the Redskins, the NFC East was all but clinched. The Giants could have lost their final five games, according to playoff simulators, and they still would have had a strong chance to win the division. Their odds would only go up with each extra victory they could scrape together.
All the Giants had to do was win. Instead, they came out flat, Rueben Randle ran the wrong way a few times, and Washington won 20-14 in Landover, Md., holding off a late Giants rally.
