They're alive. The Giants (1-2) beat the Washington Redskins on Thursday night to save their season.
Starting 0-2 is bad. The odds of making the playoffs are 12 percent. Starting 0-3 would have been a death sentence.
Thankfully, the Giants avoided that fate. It would have been a long three-plus months if they had fallen to the Redskins.
Instead, there are 10 days to bask in some optimism. The Giants don't play again until Sunday, Oct. 4, in Buffalo.
"I think we're very, very much in the thick of things with it being just Week 3," starting middle linebacker Jon Beason said.