Tom Coughlin regrets not signing Julian Edelman in 2013

No. 2: After Tom Brady was strip-sacked by Charles Woodson of the Oakland Raiders in the 2002 playoffs, officials overturned the fumble – and the Raiders’ recovery – ruling it as an incomplete pass. The Patriots would later go on to win the game and their first Super Bowl. Every other team in the National Football League had at least one losing season between 2001 and 2013, and the Giants have had five losing seasons since 2001.

Belichick, unsurprisingly, also refused to buy into the storyline of the two team’s history on his conference call with the NY media. Instead, he was given a new game plan each week crafted for the Patriots’ next opponent. That’s when things could get interesting for their suspect secondary. The adversity, the four Super Bowl rings, the controversy, all that shaped the young mind of a future National Football League star. With that being said the run game featured 4 backs and as long as that continues its hard to trust any of them besides Shane Vereen in PPR. TE Tyler Eifert leads the league with nine TD catches.

He re-signed with New England for one year, caught 105 passes in 2013 and is now signed through 2017 as an integral part of their offense.

“Our team always matched up very well with them”, former Giants wide receiver Amani Toomer said.

Defensive end Carlos Dunlap is tied for second in the league with 8.5 sacks.

When it comes to the Giants’ defense, the numbers don’t add up. Teams typically run the ball right at a defense’s premier pass rusher, but opposing teams are consistently running the ball away from Jones because of his great ability to stop the run. Back in 2012, the term was “ghost pressure”.

The Giants must again get creative on Sunday because Brady has a quick release and can still move well in the pocket even at the age of 38.

Linebackers Thomas Davis and Luke Kuechly pace the defense, which sits near the middle of the pack in yards allowed per game.

Brady and Gronk are likely the greatest QB-TE combination in history. Well, when the Giants beat the Patriots in New England during the regular season, NY was without Hakeem Nicks and Ahmad Bradshaw that day. Of his bond with Belichick, Coughlin would say, “I really do feel like the way in which we worked was something that became, for our entire team, a good example for the rest of our coaches and players in terms of cooperating so that we might be the best that we could be”.

On Sunday, Beckham will be looking to get the best of Tom Brady and the Patriots.

Gregory Hunt is a Boston native and a life-long fan of the Patriots, Red Sox, Bruins and Celtics. Blount gained 129 yards in the win over the Redskins. Bolden had three catches for 27 yards and a touchdown, making him a player to watch on Sunday.

Since everyone saw the giant oven mitt he had on his four-fingered hand, the only thing anyone will be talking about this weekend will be his play on the field.

Meanwhile, Eli Manning is enjoying a strong bounce-back campaign. Quarterback Tom Brady was almost flawless in the fourth quarter.

Sometimes in sports, the better team doesn’t win. “It all happens on Sundays”. The simple fact is that the Patriots are way too good, and the Giants have no answer for Rob Gronkowski. They just bear hug them and wait till the second or third guy can come in and poke the ball out. “It’s going to be a big difference without them having Dion Lewis in there”. They have a half-game lead in the NFC East, but face a tough final six games. So Patriots head coach Bill Belichick was asked about star Giants wideout Odell Beckham by reporters this week.

Rams safety Lamarcus Joyner was fined more than ,000 for a hit against Vikings quarterback Teddy Bridgewater that knocked him out of the game with a concussion.