NY Giants Hope to Upset New England Patriots

Casillas said “it’s kinda comical” how much the Patriots change things on the fly, and how they expected him to learn the game plan each week without a playbook. Eli Manning passed for 213 yards – 105 of them to Odell Beckham Jr. – with TD passes to Rueben Randle and Shane Vereen. The Giants ran for 114 yards, cracking the 100-yard plateau for only the second time in 2015. Now two teams that actually win Super Bowls are set to meet in the same building a few days hence. NY lost by just a field goal to Brady and Co. that year in the regular-season finale.

To be fair, Tom Brady has looked more human in his past two games. Tom Brady now has a lifetime record of 168-47 as a starting QB in the NFL.

Meanwhile, Eli Manning is enjoying a strong bounce-back campaign.

Here are five bold predictions for the game between the Giants and the Patriots in MetLife Stadium. Coach Bill Belichick and Tom Coughlin are also probable Hall of Fame Coaches and two of football’s best. Coughlin is 5-1 against Belichick.

“It’s a great thing to be in the hunt and be relevant”, Coughlin said Monday.

Four years later, the Patriots had a chance for revenge in Week 9 of the 2011 season but, once again, the Gaints pulled off a narrow victory (24-20). Well, everyone remembers Super Bowl XLII when the Giants spoiled the Pats flawless season and Super Bowl XLVI when they pulled off the insane upset again, but here’s a fun fact for you-the Patriots haven’t beaten the Giants since the 2007 regular season.

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They are iconic moments from two of the most thrilling Super Bowls of all time, both won by the Giants. “So like I said, it’s a very good team and they’re tough on defence, so we’re going to have to play well”. “I just didn’t think we could lose”. New England is 5-1-1 against the spread in their last seven games, 4-1 against the spread following a game that they covered the point spread, and 3-1-1 against the spread against a team with a winning record.

Brady has lost four straight to an opponent once, against Denver between 2005-09.

-Patriots LT vs. Giants DE Jason Pierre-Paul. The last three times Manning has played the Patriots, he’s had a 98 QBR in the fourth quarter. New England also won last week, defeating the Redskins 27-10. Lewis had 622 combined yards rushing and receiving in seven games. New England appears to be the class of the league, but there’s no denying that the Giants have their number. Gronkowski leads all tight ends with 693 yards.

41-1: Patriots record when a member of the team rushes for more than 100 yards since the 2000 season.

The schedule does not favor NY.

– This will be the 12th meeting between the Patriots and the Giants.

“On one end, you respect everything they’ve done, and what they do year in and year out as far as being one of the top teams in the league and they get the job done and they win championships, the way they conduct themselves”, Beckham said this week. It’s just been one of those teams like you hate them, because nobody was really beating them. And we’re pretty familiar with them because we play them in the preseason every year.

The total has gone OVER in 4 of the NY Giants last 5 games at home.

The key to building a lead will be having Brady get rid of the ball quickly, to prevent a diminished Giants pass rush from getting through a makeshift Patriots offensive line.