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Rashad Jennings’ take explains why the 5-5 Giants are so giddy

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Rashad Jennings

It did not take Rashad Jennings long to come up with an answer and when he did, he needed only one word to make his point.

“Never,’’ Jennings said Wednesday inside a Giants locker room brimming with a sense of opportunity.

Never before has Jennings entered the home stretch of an NFL season in first place. He never has played for a team that had control of its playoff fate this late, with November about to expire. At this time last year, the Giants were an afterthought, five games into a seven-game losing streak, irrelevant at 3-7.