NFL Odds: Underdog Giants try to repeat past, stun unbeaten Pats

“They’ve always played us pretty tough, so we’re expecting their best”, Brady added.

But those Super Bowls were then and this is now.

Win the Turnover Battle: This sounds innocuous enough and we state it every week but for the Giants winning the turnover battle is essential.

Giants fans will be hoping that Odell Beckham Jr. does his best David Tyree impression on Sunday.

“They have been in a few tight ball games”. His one-handed TD catch in a nationally televised night game against Dallas made him an Internet sensation and his statistics for 12 games on a bad team were phenomenal – 91 catches for 1,305 yards and 12 touchdowns.

Sitting at 5-4 Straight Up (SU) and 5-3-1 Against The Spread (ATS), the Giants will look to improve heading into Week 10.

The NY Giants denied New England a chance a history in Super Bowl XLII and will try to end another flawless season for the visiting Patriots when the teams meet on Sunday at New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium.

At 38, Tom Brady is outperforming players half his age. Drew Brees had a record game against them two weeks ago, throwing for seven touchdowns and 505 yards, completing 39-of-50 passes.

The most encouraging thing for Big Blue’s defense was the play of Jason Pierre-Paul last week in Tampa in his first game back after a July 4th fireworks accident kept him out of preseason and the first eight games. “As I study the tapes and see the different aspects at, you see why they are unbeaten”.

Brady has struggled against New York’s dynamic pass rush in the past.

MVP: Patriots TE Rob Gronkowski What Tom Coughlin said about Gronkowski: “He’s a rare athlete”. Coughlin said with a smile that he was going to listen to the media about the matchup.

Julian Edelman/ Brandon LaFell (Wide Receivers): These are the two main guys in this group of wide receivers.

Patriots 40, Giants 28 The sentimental side in me so badly wants to pick the Giants.

The Patriots are battered and bruised on their offensive line. Despite losing the Super Bowl to the upstart NY Giants, Tom Brady considers that 2007 New England Patriots franchise is the best to ever take the field. So to stop Manning and the Giants passing game, they’ll have to get after Manning. They are in the bottom 10 in league in total rushing yards, and have even had a game where Brady was the leading rusher with 15 yards.

“I’ve loved-hated the Patriots for a long time”, the Giants receiver said Thursday. The Giants acknowledged this week that the difficulty is in the Patriots’ ability to tweak their approach from game to game to attack a defensive weakness, rather than shove their strengths down an opponent’s throat. One area to watch will be the A-gap pressure from Dont’a Hightower. New England may have won more of the regular-season matchups in this series that dates back to the 1970 merger, but NY took the meetings that mattered most.