A season that was lost before Halloween has not been found at Thanksgiving. It does not work that way. All prior sins cannot be absolved. The Giants are not very much alive, but that they are not quite buried as the holiday season kicks in is, well, better than nothing and more than they could have expected.
No one can inject the Giants into any sort of playoff chase, unless that chase is so expansive that it includes almost everyone. At 1-7 heading into their bye week, the buzz around the Giants was all negative, a swirl of talk about Eli Manning getting benched, players getting traded and projecting the No.