The Giants reconvened Monday after their bye week with two realities lingering. The first was their 1-6 record and dashed playoff hopes. The second was the accusation from general manager Jerry Reese that the team did not play hungry enough to avoid the first.
Reese made his remarks last week as the players were heading out the door, but they still were reverberating around the locker room Monday. Was the problem in the first half of the season, as Reese put it, that the Giants were too high on themselves? Had they gotten complacent? Did they lack the fire that it takes to win in the NFL?