Giants Head to Playoffs Against Eagles

It's pretty amazing to me that the Giants are set for a playoff matchup against the Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday after finishing the regular season with an extremely subpar, mediocre record of 8-8. The G-men took down the Skins on Saturday behind the career effort of Tiki Barber's 230+ yards rushing and 3 TDs. His performance definitely made me wonder where this Tiki Barber was earlier in the season when he was performing much worse than he did on Satursday against the Skins. It was definitely also a promising game of playcalling by the new offense playcaller Kevin Gilbride. Gilbride called some plays that you never would have seen called by the old offensive coordinator John Hufnagel. At a number of points in the game when the Giants were in a 3rd down situation with under 5 yards, Gilbride called runs for Tiki Barber. That's something you never would have seen with Hufnagel at the helm. Hufnagel would have definitely called passing plays for Eli and as we've seen on a number of occassions this regular season, there definitely is something wrong with Eli's confidence when the pocket breaks down and he gets under pressure. So after a superb game by Barber and some great play calls by Gilbride, you could say that I'm definitely in a positive mood this week with visions of going far in the playoffs. The one thing that still worries me is that our defense is still extremely suspect as shown by their subpar effort against the 5-11 Redskins on Saturday. But needless to say, I'm as positive as I have been in weeks. Can the Giants beat the Eagles? I think so....