In retrospect, the New York Giants might have been better off staying home on the couch and letting their divisional foes do one another in the rest of the way.
Unfortunately, it’s not that simple, and so the Giants—needing to play one of their best games of the year—came up woefully short in a 20-14 loss to Washington on Sunday. It was a game they needed to win in order to put some more distance between them and the rest of the NFC East.
According to theNew York Times' playoff simulator, the loss to Washington drops the Giants' playoff chances from85 percentto46 percent.